Gherkin Contracts in the North of England

Gherkin
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 162 198 234
Rank change year-on-year +36 +36 -48
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 16 9 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.34% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.76% 0.84% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 12
10th Percentile £403 £268 £300
25th Percentile £525 £285 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £290 £448
Median % change year-on-year +89.66% -35.20% +3.47%
75th Percentile £575 £295 £578
90th Percentile £600 £366 £588
England median daily rate £544 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +14.47% - +5.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of 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 910 1,072 1,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.17% 19.33% 22.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 838 1,213
10th Percentile £362 £363 £351
25th Percentile £425 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +15.91%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 7 36
10th Percentile £13.87 £37.78 £14.25
25th Percentile £37.63 £41.99 £32.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% -3.85% +132.14%
75th Percentile £70.81 £66.88 £77.50
90th Percentile £72.70 £74.00 £79.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.22% +11.94%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in the North of England

Gherkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Gherkin in the North of England

Gherkin
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gherkin in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Gherkin in the North of England

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
Yorkshire +31 13 £550 +120.00%
North West +12 2 £413 +42.24% 1
North East - 1 £310 -
Gherkin
England

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Figma
2 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) JUnit
2 6 (37.50%) Cucumber
3 4 (25.00%) Selenium
4 3 (18.75%) JMeter
4 3 (18.75%) REST Assured
5 2 (12.50%) Cypress.io
6 1 (6.25%) Git
6 1 (6.25%) GitLab
6 1 (6.25%) JIRA
6 1 (6.25%) Postman
General
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Test Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Tester
3 4 (25.00%) Automation Tester
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Test Leader
4 2 (12.50%) Test Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Automation Test Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Java Automation Tester
5 1 (6.25%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) QA Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Test Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) ADO
2 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.25%) GraphQL
2 1 (6.25%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 14 (87.50%) Agile
3 9 (56.25%) Analytics
3 9 (56.25%) Software Testing
3 9 (56.25%) System Testing
3 9 (56.25%) Test Scripting
3 9 (56.25%) Test Strategy
3 9 (56.25%) Unit Testing
3 9 (56.25%) User Stories
4 8 (50.00%) Kanban
4 8 (50.00%) Scrum
4 8 (50.00%) Software Delivery
5 7 (43.75%) Acceptance Criteria
5 7 (43.75%) API Testing
5 7 (43.75%) TDD
6 6 (37.50%) Collaborative Culture
7 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (25.00%) Test Planning
8 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
8 3 (18.75%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker