Gherkin Contracts in London

Gherkin
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 457 524
Rank change year-on-year +88 +67 -113
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 26 23 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.089% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.58% 0.33% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 67
10th Percentile £368 £400 £403
25th Percentile £411 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £545 £750 £600
90th Percentile £650 £863 £650
England median daily rate £444 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -8.97% +2.63% +9.57%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London 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 4,489 6,974 11,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.69% 26.99% 31.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,355 5,220 9,286
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £706
90th Percentile £825 £810 £795
England median daily rate £550 £560 £570
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.75% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 38 66
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.53 £31.88
25th Percentile £23.80 £39.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £68.75 £48.04
Median % change year-on-year -41.82% +43.11% -3.59%
75th Percentile £63.13 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.60 £82.48 £77.88
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in London

Gherkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Gherkin in London

Gherkin
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gherkin in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Gherkin in London

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Central London +52 6 £450 -35.71% 2
Gherkin
England

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (11.54%) nginx
1 3 (11.54%) Tomcat
2 2 (7.69%) Apache
2 2 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) Azure
3 5 (19.23%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (19.23%) Serverless
4 4 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (15.38%) OpenShift
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.85%) Figma
7 1 (3.85%) IaaS
7 1 (3.85%) PaaS
7 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (11.54%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.85%) Big Data
3 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.85%) HDInsight
3 1 (3.85%) Looker
3 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Parquet
3 1 (3.85%) Power BI
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (61.54%) Cucumber
2 11 (42.31%) Selenium
3 8 (30.77%) Postman
4 7 (26.92%) JUnit
5 6 (23.08%) JIRA
5 6 (23.08%) JMeter
6 5 (19.23%) Jenkins
7 3 (11.54%) Bitbucket
7 3 (11.54%) EasyMock
7 3 (11.54%) Maven
7 3 (11.54%) Mockito
7 3 (11.54%) REST Assured
7 3 (11.54%) SonarQube
7 3 (11.54%) TestNG
8 2 (7.69%) Cypress.io
8 2 (7.69%) Git
8 2 (7.69%) GitLab
8 2 (7.69%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
1 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Finance
2 1 (3.85%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Tester
2 6 (23.08%) Test Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Developer
3 5 (19.23%) QA Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) QA Test Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Manual Tester
4 4 (15.38%) Operations Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Testing Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Automation Tester
6 2 (7.69%) Backend Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Java Automation Tester
6 2 (7.69%) Java Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Test Automation Specialist
6 2 (7.69%) Test Manager
6 2 (7.69%) Test Specialist
7 1 (3.85%) Analytics Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) REST
2 8 (30.77%) Node.js
3 6 (23.08%) Jest
4 4 (15.38%) AWS CDK
4 4 (15.38%) Kafka
4 4 (15.38%) React
5 3 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (11.54%) Guice
5 3 (11.54%) JAX-RS
5 3 (11.54%) Mustache
5 3 (11.54%) OpenAPI
5 3 (11.54%) Spring
5 3 (11.54%) Spring Boot
5 3 (11.54%) Swagger
5 3 (11.54%) WireMock
6 2 (7.69%) .NET
6 2 (7.69%) ADO
6 2 (7.69%) FHIR
6 2 (7.69%) JSON
6 2 (7.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.85%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) Test Automation
2 11 (42.31%) BDD
3 10 (38.46%) DevOps
4 9 (34.62%) Agile
5 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
6 7 (26.92%) Test Scripting
7 6 (23.08%) API Testing
7 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
7 6 (23.08%) Scenario Testing
8 5 (19.23%) Event-Driven
8 5 (19.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 5 (19.23%) Functional Testing
9 4 (15.38%) Issue Tracking
9 4 (15.38%) Non-Functional Testing
9 4 (15.38%) Project Management
10 3 (11.54%) Multithreading
10 3 (11.54%) MVC
10 3 (11.54%) Performance Improvement
10 3 (11.54%) Regression Testing
10 3 (11.54%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) Java
2 8 (30.77%) TypeScript
3 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.69%) C#
4 2 (7.69%) SQL
5 1 (3.85%) Bash
5 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (38.46%) QA
2 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.69%) HL7
3 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 8 (30.77%) Terraform
3 3 (11.54%) Ansible
3 3 (11.54%) Kustomize
3 3 (11.54%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Red Hat
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks