Gherkin Contracts

Gherkin
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 533 621 640
Rank change year-on-year +88 +19 -110
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 51 76 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.14% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.55% 0.60% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 63 170
10th Percentile £361 £291 £359
25th Percentile £413 £407 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.47% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £591 £550 £575
90th Percentile £635 £750 £616
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 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
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 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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 12 June 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 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
England +87 48 £550 +23.60% 8
UK excluding London +17 26 £550 +15.79% 5
London +77 22 £438 -20.45% 4
Work from Home +106 21 £498 +17.18% 4
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
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 2 (3.92%) Apache
1 2 (3.92%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) nginx
2 1 (1.96%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.96%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 16 (31.37%) AWS
2 14 (27.45%) Azure
3 4 (7.84%) Figma
3 4 (7.84%) OpenShift
4 3 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.88%) Serverless
5 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.92%) SaaS
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.96%) IaaS
6 1 (1.96%) PaaS
6 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) MariaDB
1 3 (5.88%) MySQL
2 2 (3.92%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.96%) Big Data
3 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.96%) HDInsight
3 1 (1.96%) Looker
3 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.96%) Parquet
3 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.96%) Power BI
3 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (54.90%) Cucumber
2 22 (43.14%) Selenium
3 15 (29.41%) JUnit
4 13 (25.49%) JMeter
5 10 (19.61%) Postman
6 7 (13.73%) Cypress.io
7 6 (11.76%) Maven
8 5 (9.80%) JIRA
8 5 (9.80%) REST Assured
8 5 (9.80%) WebDriver
9 4 (7.84%) Jenkins
10 3 (5.88%) Git
11 2 (3.92%) GitLab
12 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
12 1 (1.96%) EasyMock
12 1 (1.96%) Gatling
12 1 (1.96%) Mockito
12 1 (1.96%) SoapUI
12 1 (1.96%) SonarQube
12 1 (1.96%) TestNG
General
1 11 (21.57%) Finance
2 5 (9.80%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.84%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.96%) Banking
5 1 (1.96%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 15 (29.41%) Tester
2 10 (19.61%) Test Engineer
3 9 (17.65%) Automation Tester
4 6 (11.76%) Developer
5 5 (9.80%) Senior
6 4 (7.84%) Analyst
6 4 (7.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Manual Tester
6 4 (7.84%) Operations Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) QA Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Test Analyst
6 4 (7.84%) Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Test Manager
6 4 (7.84%) Testing Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Java Automation Tester
7 3 (5.88%) QA Test Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Lead
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Test Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.65%) REST
2 6 (11.76%) Node.js
3 4 (7.84%) AngularJS
3 4 (7.84%) AWS CDK
3 4 (7.84%) GraphQL
3 4 (7.84%) React
4 3 (5.88%) .NET
4 3 (5.88%) ADO
4 3 (5.88%) Jest
4 3 (5.88%) RESTful
5 2 (3.92%) FHIR
5 2 (3.92%) JSON
5 2 (3.92%) Kafka
5 2 (3.92%) SOAP
5 2 (3.92%) Spring
5 2 (3.92%) WireMock
5 2 (3.92%) XML
6 1 (1.96%) Apache Camel
6 1 (1.96%) gRPC
6 1 (1.96%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.92%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.96%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.80%) Linux
2 2 (3.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (84.31%) Test Automation
2 32 (62.75%) Agile
3 17 (33.33%) BDD
3 17 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 16 (31.37%) DevOps
4 16 (31.37%) Software Testing
5 12 (23.53%) API Testing
5 12 (23.53%) Unit Testing
6 11 (21.57%) Analytics
6 11 (21.57%) CI/CD
6 11 (21.57%) Functional Testing
6 11 (21.57%) System Testing
6 11 (21.57%) Test Strategy
6 11 (21.57%) User Stories
7 9 (17.65%) Scrum
7 9 (17.65%) TDD
8 8 (15.69%) Acceptance Criteria
8 8 (15.69%) Kanban
8 8 (15.69%) Scenario Testing
8 8 (15.69%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 31 (60.78%) Java
2 17 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 7 (13.73%) TypeScript
4 6 (11.76%) Python
5 3 (5.88%) C#
5 3 (5.88%) SQL
6 2 (3.92%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (19.61%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (37.25%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.92%) HL7
3 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.96%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (21.57%) Kubernetes
2 8 (15.69%) Terraform
3 1 (1.96%) Ansible
3 1 (1.96%) Kustomize
3 1 (1.96%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (5.88%) Oracle
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.96%) Databricks
3 1 (1.96%) Red Hat