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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 496 588 650
Rank change year-on-year +92 +62 -158
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 46 51 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.11% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.60% 0.47% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 42 118
10th Percentile £357 £285 £360
25th Percentile £411 £389 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.47% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £725 £552
90th Percentile £650 £861 £604
UK median daily rate £519 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +9.21% - +5.56%

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 7,671 10,826 18,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.77% 22.68% 26.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,416 8,064 14,174
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £800 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 131 200
10th Percentile £22.53 £30.75 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.22% +11.94%
75th Percentile £66.94 £75.00 £67.63
90th Percentile £74.95 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +92 22 £438 -27.08% 7
North of England +36 16 £550 +89.66% 1
Yorkshire +31 13 £550 +120.00%
South East +13 5 £575 - 4
North West +12 2 £413 +42.24% 1
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 2 (4.35%) Apache
1 2 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) nginx
2 1 (2.17%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.17%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) Azure
2 13 (28.26%) AWS
3 4 (8.70%) Figma
3 4 (8.70%) OpenShift
4 3 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.52%) Serverless
5 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.35%) SaaS
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.17%) IaaS
6 1 (2.17%) PaaS
6 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.17%) Big Data
2 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.17%) HDInsight
2 1 (2.17%) Looker
2 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.17%) Parquet
2 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.17%) Power BI
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 19 (41.30%) Selenium
3 13 (28.26%) JUnit
4 12 (26.09%) JMeter
5 10 (21.74%) Postman
6 6 (13.04%) Cypress.io
6 6 (13.04%) Maven
7 5 (10.87%) JIRA
7 5 (10.87%) REST Assured
8 4 (8.70%) Jenkins
9 3 (6.52%) Git
10 2 (4.35%) GitLab
10 2 (4.35%) WebDriver
11 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
11 1 (2.17%) EasyMock
11 1 (2.17%) Mockito
11 1 (2.17%) SoapUI
11 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
11 1 (2.17%) TestNG
11 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (23.91%) Finance
2 4 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.17%) Banking
4 1 (2.17%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 15 (32.61%) Tester
2 10 (21.74%) Test Engineer
3 9 (19.57%) Automation Tester
4 5 (10.87%) Senior
5 4 (8.70%) Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) Developer
5 4 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Manual Tester
5 4 (8.70%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) QA Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Test Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) Test Automation Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Test Manager
5 4 (8.70%) Testing Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Java Automation Tester
6 3 (6.52%) QA Test Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Lead
7 2 (4.35%) Performance Consultant
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Performance Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.57%) REST
2 6 (13.04%) Node.js
3 4 (8.70%) AngularJS
3 4 (8.70%) AWS CDK
3 4 (8.70%) GraphQL
3 4 (8.70%) React
4 3 (6.52%) .NET
4 3 (6.52%) ADO
4 3 (6.52%) Jest
5 2 (4.35%) FHIR
5 2 (4.35%) JSON
5 2 (4.35%) Kafka
5 2 (4.35%) SOAP
5 2 (4.35%) Spring
5 2 (4.35%) WireMock
5 2 (4.35%) XML
6 1 (2.17%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.17%) gRPC
6 1 (2.17%) OpenAPI
6 1 (2.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.17%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Linux
1 2 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (82.61%) Test Automation
2 29 (63.04%) Agile
3 16 (34.78%) DevOps
4 15 (32.61%) Test Scripting
5 14 (30.43%) BDD
6 12 (26.09%) API Testing
7 11 (23.91%) Analytics
7 11 (23.91%) Functional Testing
7 11 (23.91%) Software Testing
7 11 (23.91%) Test Strategy
7 11 (23.91%) User Stories
8 10 (21.74%) Unit Testing
9 9 (19.57%) Scrum
9 9 (19.57%) System Testing
9 9 (19.57%) TDD
10 8 (17.39%) Acceptance Criteria
10 8 (17.39%) Event-Driven
10 8 (17.39%) Kanban
10 8 (17.39%) Scenario Testing
10 8 (17.39%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 26 (56.52%) Java
2 14 (30.43%) JavaScript
3 6 (13.04%) Python
3 6 (13.04%) TypeScript
4 3 (6.52%) C#
4 3 (6.52%) SQL
5 2 (4.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (41.30%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.35%) HL7
3 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (19.57%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.04%) Terraform
3 1 (2.17%) Ansible
3 1 (2.17%) Kustomize
3 1 (2.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.17%) Databricks
2 1 (2.17%) Red Hat