Gherkin Contracts in the UK excluding London

Gherkin
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Gherkin skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Gherkin over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 392 424
Rank change year-on-year +17 +32 -55
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 26 38 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.17% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.76% 0.92% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 28 70
10th Percentile £411 £285 £360
25th Percentile £519 £378 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £488 £566
90th Percentile - £491 £613
UK median daily rate £544 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +14.47% - +5.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Gherkin falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,405 4,123 6,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.97% 18.17% 19.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,204 3,067 4,324
10th Percentile £325 £350 £362
25th Percentile £410 £418 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £688 £652
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 90 140
10th Percentile £22.75 £22.47 £19.41
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.47 £78.12 £77.03
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in the UK excluding London

Gherkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Gherkin in the UK excluding London

Gherkin
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gherkin in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Gherkin in the UK excluding London

Gherkin
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Gherkin in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Gherkin in the UK excluding London

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +25 18 £550 +89.66%
Yorkshire +26 15 £550 +120.00%
South East - 5 £575 - 3
Scotland +30 3 £498 +4.84%
North West +10 2 £413 +42.24%
North East - 1 £310 -
Gherkin
UK

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) AWS
3 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.85%) Figma
3 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) MariaDB
1 3 (11.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (57.69%) Cucumber
2 12 (46.15%) JUnit
3 11 (42.31%) Selenium
4 7 (26.92%) JMeter
5 4 (15.38%) Maven
6 3 (11.54%) Cypress.io
6 3 (11.54%) REST Assured
6 3 (11.54%) WebDriver
7 2 (7.69%) Postman
8 1 (3.85%) Gatling
8 1 (3.85%) Git
8 1 (3.85%) GitLab
8 1 (3.85%) JIRA
8 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (38.46%) Finance
2 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Test Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Tester
3 4 (15.38%) Automation Tester
4 3 (11.54%) Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) Test Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Developer in Test
5 2 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Performance Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Performance Test Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Performance Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Test Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Software Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Test Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Test Leader
5 2 (7.69%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) REST
1 2 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (3.85%) ADO
2 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.85%) Jest
2 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 22 (84.62%) Agile
3 15 (57.69%) Software Testing
4 12 (46.15%) Test Scripting
5 11 (42.31%) System Testing
5 11 (42.31%) Unit Testing
6 9 (34.62%) Analytics
6 9 (34.62%) Test Strategy
6 9 (34.62%) User Stories
7 8 (30.77%) API Testing
7 8 (30.77%) Kanban
7 8 (30.77%) Scrum
7 8 (30.77%) Software Delivery
8 7 (26.92%) Acceptance Criteria
8 7 (26.92%) TDD
9 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
9 6 (23.08%) Collaborative Culture
9 6 (23.08%) SDET
10 5 (19.23%) BDD
10 5 (19.23%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (76.92%) Java
2 9 (34.62%) JavaScript
3 4 (15.38%) Python
4 1 (3.85%) SQL
4 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle