Gherkin Contracts in England

Gherkin
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Gherkin skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Gherkin over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 595 623
Rank change year-on-year +106 +28 -105
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 42 45 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.093% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.56% 0.41% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 37 121
10th Percentile £377 £285 £360
25th Percentile £413 £385 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +5.26% +9.57%
75th Percentile £575 £725 £560
90th Percentile £650 £855 £615
UK median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Gherkin is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,516 11,029 18,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.63% 22.89% 26.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,339 8,195 14,181
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £570
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -1.75% +14.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 127 212
10th Percentile £22.42 £25.75 £22.75
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.65 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £65.95 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £76.96
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in England

Gherkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Gherkin in England

Gherkin
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gherkin in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Gherkin in England

Gherkin
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Gherkin in England.

Hourly rate trend for Gherkin in England

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
London +101 26 £438 -30.00% 12
North of England +37 13 £550 +89.66% 4
Yorkshire +22 10 £550 +120.00% 2
North West +17 2 £413 +42.24% 2
South East +32 1 - - 7
North East - 1 £310 -
Gherkin
UK

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (7.14%) nginx
1 3 (7.14%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.76%) Apache
2 2 (4.76%) Confluence
3 1 (2.38%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 15 (35.71%) AWS
2 9 (21.43%) Azure
3 5 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (11.90%) Serverless
4 4 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (9.52%) OpenShift
5 3 (7.14%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 3 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.76%) Figma
6 2 (4.76%) SaaS
7 1 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.38%) IaaS
7 1 (2.38%) PaaS
7 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.38%) Big Data
3 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.38%) HDInsight
3 1 (2.38%) Looker
3 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.38%) Parquet
3 1 (2.38%) Power BI
3 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (54.76%) Cucumber
2 16 (38.10%) Selenium
3 14 (33.33%) JUnit
4 10 (23.81%) JMeter
4 10 (23.81%) Postman
5 7 (16.67%) JIRA
6 6 (14.29%) Jenkins
6 6 (14.29%) REST Assured
7 4 (9.52%) Cypress.io
7 4 (9.52%) Git
7 4 (9.52%) GitLab
8 3 (7.14%) Bitbucket
8 3 (7.14%) EasyMock
8 3 (7.14%) Maven
8 3 (7.14%) Mockito
8 3 (7.14%) SonarQube
8 3 (7.14%) TestNG
9 2 (4.76%) WebDriver
10 1 (2.38%) SoapUI
10 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (23.81%) Finance
2 3 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 3 (7.14%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.38%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) Tester
2 11 (26.19%) Test Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Automation Tester
3 6 (14.29%) Developer
3 6 (14.29%) QA Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) QA Test Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Manual Tester
5 4 (9.52%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Test Manager
5 4 (9.52%) Testing Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Backend Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Java Automation Tester
7 2 (4.76%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Lead
7 2 (4.76%) QA Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Test Automation Specialist
7 2 (4.76%) Test Leader
7 2 (4.76%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.19%) REST
2 8 (19.05%) Node.js
3 7 (16.67%) Jest
4 4 (9.52%) AWS CDK
4 4 (9.52%) Kafka
4 4 (9.52%) React
4 4 (9.52%) Spring
4 4 (9.52%) WireMock
5 3 (7.14%) .NET
5 3 (7.14%) ADO
5 3 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (7.14%) Guice
5 3 (7.14%) JAX-RS
5 3 (7.14%) Mustache
5 3 (7.14%) OpenAPI
5 3 (7.14%) Spring Boot
5 3 (7.14%) Swagger
6 2 (4.76%) FHIR
6 2 (4.76%) GraphQL
6 2 (4.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.76%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.38%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Linux
1 2 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (80.95%) Test Automation
2 21 (50.00%) Agile
3 15 (35.71%) Test Scripting
4 14 (33.33%) BDD
5 13 (30.95%) API Testing
5 13 (30.95%) DevOps
6 12 (28.57%) CI/CD
7 10 (23.81%) Analytics
7 10 (23.81%) Scenario Testing
7 10 (23.81%) Test Strategy
7 10 (23.81%) User Stories
8 8 (19.05%) Software Testing
8 8 (19.05%) TDD
9 7 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
9 7 (16.67%) Scrum
9 7 (16.67%) Unit Testing
10 6 (14.29%) Containerisation
10 6 (14.29%) Functional Testing
10 6 (14.29%) Software Delivery
10 6 (14.29%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 20 (47.62%) Java
2 8 (19.05%) TypeScript
3 7 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.14%) C#
4 3 (7.14%) SQL
5 2 (4.76%) Bash
6 1 (2.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (30.95%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.05%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (52.38%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.76%) HL7
3 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (19.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (26.19%) Kubernetes
2 8 (19.05%) Terraform
3 3 (7.14%) Ansible
3 3 (7.14%) Kustomize
3 3 (7.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) Red Hat
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.38%) Databricks