Gherkin
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 526 609 632
Rank change year-on-year +83 +23 -103
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 45 78 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.14% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.50% 0.59% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 64 171
10th Percentile £386 £327 £360
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £578
90th Percentile £650 £750 £615
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% +12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,924 13,173 23,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.96% 23.13% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,198 9,621 17,311
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £665
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 144 237
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £74.47 £80.25 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in the UK

Gherkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Gherkin in the UK

Gherkin
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Gherkin in the UK

Gherkin
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Gherkin in the UK

Gherkin
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the UK 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
England +106 42 £444 -11.25% 26
London +101 26 £438 -30.00% 12
UK excluding London +30 17 £550 +15.79% 15
Work from Home +90 16 £456 +1.39% 18
North of England +37 13 £550 +89.66% 4
Yorkshire +22 10 £550 +120.00% 2
Scotland +16 3 £498 +4.84%
North West +17 2 £413 +42.24% 2
South East +32 1 - - 7
North East - 1 £310 -

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (6.67%) nginx
1 3 (6.67%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.44%) Apache
2 2 (4.44%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.00%) AWS
2 9 (20.00%) Azure
3 5 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (11.11%) Serverless
4 4 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (8.89%) OpenShift
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.44%) Figma
6 2 (4.44%) SaaS
7 1 (2.22%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.22%) IaaS
7 1 (2.22%) PaaS
7 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (6.67%) MariaDB
1 3 (6.67%) MySQL
1 3 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.22%) Big Data
3 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.22%) HDInsight
3 1 (2.22%) Looker
3 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.22%) Parquet
3 1 (2.22%) Power BI
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (57.78%) Cucumber
2 19 (42.22%) Selenium
3 14 (31.11%) JUnit
4 11 (24.44%) JMeter
5 10 (22.22%) Postman
6 7 (15.56%) JIRA
7 6 (13.33%) Jenkins
7 6 (13.33%) REST Assured
8 5 (11.11%) WebDriver
9 4 (8.89%) Cypress.io
9 4 (8.89%) Git
9 4 (8.89%) GitLab
10 3 (6.67%) Bitbucket
10 3 (6.67%) EasyMock
10 3 (6.67%) Maven
10 3 (6.67%) Mockito
10 3 (6.67%) SonarQube
10 3 (6.67%) TestNG
11 1 (2.22%) SoapUI
11 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (22.22%) Finance
2 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (6.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Tester
2 11 (24.44%) Test Engineer
3 8 (17.78%) Developer
4 6 (13.33%) Automation Tester
4 6 (13.33%) QA Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) QA Test Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Manual Tester
6 4 (8.89%) Operations Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Test Manager
6 4 (8.89%) Testing Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Backend Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Lead
8 2 (4.44%) QA Automation Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Software Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Test Automation Specialist
8 2 (4.44%) Test Leader
8 2 (4.44%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (24.44%) REST
2 8 (17.78%) Node.js
3 7 (15.56%) Jest
4 4 (8.89%) AWS CDK
4 4 (8.89%) Kafka
4 4 (8.89%) React
4 4 (8.89%) Spring
4 4 (8.89%) WireMock
5 3 (6.67%) .NET
5 3 (6.67%) ADO
5 3 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (6.67%) Guice
5 3 (6.67%) JAX-RS
5 3 (6.67%) Mustache
5 3 (6.67%) OpenAPI
5 3 (6.67%) RESTful
5 3 (6.67%) Spring Boot
5 3 (6.67%) Swagger
6 2 (4.44%) FHIR
6 2 (4.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.44%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.22%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (82.22%) Test Automation
2 22 (48.89%) Agile
3 17 (37.78%) BDD
4 15 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 15 (33.33%) Test Scripting
5 13 (28.89%) API Testing
5 13 (28.89%) DevOps
6 11 (24.44%) Software Testing
7 10 (22.22%) Analytics
7 10 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
7 10 (22.22%) Test Strategy
7 10 (22.22%) User Stories
8 8 (17.78%) TDD
9 7 (15.56%) Acceptance Criteria
9 7 (15.56%) Scrum
9 7 (15.56%) Unit Testing
10 6 (13.33%) Containerisation
10 6 (13.33%) Kanban
10 6 (13.33%) Software Delivery
10 6 (13.33%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (51.11%) Java
2 10 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 8 (17.78%) TypeScript
4 3 (6.67%) C#
4 3 (6.67%) SQL
5 2 (4.44%) Bash
6 1 (2.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (31.11%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (48.89%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.44%) HL7
3 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.22%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (17.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (28.89%) Kubernetes
2 10 (22.22%) Terraform
3 3 (6.67%) Ansible
3 3 (6.67%) Kustomize
3 3 (6.67%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (6.67%) Oracle
1 3 (6.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.22%) Databricks