Gherkin Contracts in Yorkshire

Gherkin
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Gherkin skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Gherkin over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 93 122
Rank change year-on-year +10 +29 -
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 9 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.88% 0.41% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.76% 2.02% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £358 - £300
25th Percentile £372 £525 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £509 £575 -
90th Percentile £605 - -
England median daily rate £463 £438 £445
% change year-on-year +5.71% -1.69% -6.32%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Yorkshire

Gherkin falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 189 347 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 18.58% 20.54% 18.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 229 319
10th Percentile £360 £348 £413
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £731 £675 £690
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 6
10th Percentile £84.38 £13.37 £61.25
25th Percentile £84.67 £13.87 £63.44
Median hourly rate £96.85 £22.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +330.42% -67.86% +106.86%
75th Percentile £102.00 £43.75 -
90th Percentile - £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Gherkin as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in Yorkshire

Gherkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Gherkin in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Gherkin in Yorkshire

Gherkin
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gherkin in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Gherkin in Yorkshire

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Yorkshire - 7 £389 - 3
West Yorkshire +10 2 £438 -20.45% 1
Gherkin
England

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Cucumber
2 7 (77.78%) Visual Studio
3 6 (66.67%) JIRA
4 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
5 3 (33.33%) Git
5 3 (33.33%) Vagrant
6 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 7 (77.78%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Financial Institution
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Change Management
4 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Application Security
6 1 (11.11%) BDD
6 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
6 1 (11.11%) Front End Development
6 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Splunk