Gherkin Contracts in London

Gherkin
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 378 455 517
Rank change year-on-year +77 +62 -97
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 22 27 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.11% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.47% 0.40% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 25 68
10th Percentile £354 £391 £400
25th Percentile £400 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £514
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +6.95% +2.85%
75th Percentile £550 £750 £591
90th Percentile £650 £863 £653
England median daily rate £550 £445 £475
% change year-on-year +23.60% -6.32% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,671 6,684 11,881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.42% 26.58% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,456 5,027 9,240
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £458 £488 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £713
90th Percentile £846 £813 £800
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 42 60
10th Percentile £16.25 £31.18 £30.75
25th Percentile £23.80 £47.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £67.25 £44.88
Median % change year-on-year -36.80% +49.86% -9.94%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £86.20 £75.39
England median hourly rate £49.75 £65.00 £53.25
% change year-on-year -23.46% +22.07% +17.03%

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 12 June 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 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
Central London +37 4 £425 -39.29% 1
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 2 (9.09%) Apache
1 2 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) nginx
2 1 (4.55%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) OpenShift
4 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (13.64%) Figma
4 3 (13.64%) Serverless
5 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.55%) IaaS
6 1 (4.55%) PaaS
6 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.55%) Big Data
2 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.55%) HDInsight
2 1 (4.55%) Looker
2 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Parquet
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Power BI
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) Cucumber
2 9 (40.91%) Selenium
3 8 (36.36%) Postman
4 4 (18.18%) Cypress.io
4 4 (18.18%) JIRA
4 4 (18.18%) JMeter
5 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
5 3 (13.64%) JUnit
6 2 (9.09%) REST Assured
6 2 (9.09%) WebDriver
7 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
7 1 (4.55%) EasyMock
7 1 (4.55%) Git
7 1 (4.55%) Maven
7 1 (4.55%) Mockito
7 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
7 1 (4.55%) TestNG
General
1 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
1 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Banking
2 1 (4.55%) Finance
2 1 (4.55%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Tester
2 5 (22.73%) Automation Tester
3 4 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Manual Tester
3 4 (18.18%) Operations Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Test Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Testing Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Developer
4 3 (13.64%) QA Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) QA Test Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Java Automation Tester
5 2 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Test Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Front Office Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) REST
2 6 (27.27%) Node.js
3 4 (18.18%) AWS CDK
3 4 (18.18%) React
4 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
4 3 (13.64%) GraphQL
5 2 (9.09%) .NET
5 2 (9.09%) ADO
5 2 (9.09%) FHIR
5 2 (9.09%) Jest
5 2 (9.09%) JSON
5 2 (9.09%) Kafka
5 2 (9.09%) SOAP
5 2 (9.09%) XML
6 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (4.55%) Guice
6 1 (4.55%) RESTful
6 1 (4.55%) Spring
6 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
6 1 (4.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.55%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Test Automation
2 12 (54.55%) DevOps
3 11 (50.00%) BDD
4 9 (40.91%) Agile
5 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
5 5 (22.73%) Functional Testing
6 4 (18.18%) API Testing
6 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 4 (18.18%) Scenario Testing
6 4 (18.18%) Test Scripting
7 3 (13.64%) Event-Driven
7 3 (13.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (13.64%) Regression Testing
7 3 (13.64%) Test Management
8 2 (9.09%) Data Protection
8 2 (9.09%) Issue Tracking
8 2 (9.09%) Manual Testing
8 2 (9.09%) Performance Testing
8 2 (9.09%) Project Management
8 2 (9.09%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Java
2 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
3 6 (27.27%) TypeScript
4 2 (9.09%) C#
4 2 (9.09%) SQL
5 1 (4.55%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) QA
2 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.09%) HL7
3 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 6 (27.27%) Terraform
3 1 (4.55%) Ansible
3 1 (4.55%) Kustomize
3 1 (4.55%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Databricks
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat