Gherkin
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Gherkin skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Gherkin over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 846 791 815
Rank change year-on-year -55 +24 -245
Permanent jobs citing Gherkin 62 207 413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.19% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.30% 0.64% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 39 150 281
10th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,875 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,033 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -26.61% +14.29% +5.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 20,929 32,454 61,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.53% 30.47% 39.95%
Number of salaries quoted 15,703 19,819 30,667
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Gherkin.

Salary trend for Gherkin in the UK

Gherkin
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Gherkin over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Gherkin in the UK

Gherkin
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -4 61 £52,500 -4.55% 14
UK excluding London -32 43 £44,033 -26.61% 9
Work from Home +26 28 £58,750 +6.82% 6
London +66 21 £75,000 +36.36% 4
South West -1 16 £44,516 -10.97% 2
North of England +11 11 £47,500 -20.83% 2
South East -7 9 £85,000 +21.43% 1
North West +6 6 £47,500 -13.64% 1
Yorkshire +64 5 £35,000 -44.44%
Midlands +20 5 £40,000 -20.00% 3
West Midlands - 4 £40,000 - 1
East of England +33 1 £42,500 +8.97%
Wales +5 1 £65,000 +28.72%
East Midlands -15 1 £50,000 - 2

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 (3.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Apache
2 1 (1.61%) CMS
2 1 (1.61%) Drupal
2 1 (1.61%) nginx
2 1 (1.61%) PrestaShop
2 1 (1.61%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (19.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Magento
1 1 (1.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.52%) Azure
2 8 (12.90%) AWS
3 7 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.45%) BrowserStack
4 4 (6.45%) GitHub
4 4 (6.45%) SaaS
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.61%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.61%) DigitalOcean
6 1 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) Internet
2 1 (1.61%) DSL
2 1 (1.61%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.61%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.61%) MySQL
3 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 50 (80.65%) Cucumber
2 35 (56.45%) Selenium
3 22 (35.48%) TeamCity
4 19 (30.65%) Jenkins
4 19 (30.65%) JIRA
5 17 (27.42%) SpecFlow
6 15 (24.19%) Postman
7 6 (9.68%) Git
7 6 (9.68%) JBehave
8 5 (8.06%) JUnit
9 4 (6.45%) Bitbucket
9 4 (6.45%) JMeter
9 4 (6.45%) Katalon Studio
9 4 (6.45%) Maven
9 4 (6.45%) Serenity BDD
9 4 (6.45%) SoapUI
9 4 (6.45%) TestNG
10 3 (4.84%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (4.84%) Cypress.io
11 2 (3.23%) REST Assured
General
1 18 (29.03%) Finance
2 17 (27.42%) Social Skills
3 12 (19.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (19.35%) Law
4 10 (16.13%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (14.52%) Banking
6 6 (9.68%) Retail
7 5 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (6.45%) Investment Banking
8 4 (6.45%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (27.42%) QA Engineer
2 13 (20.97%) Test Engineer
3 12 (19.35%) Senior
4 8 (12.90%) Developer
4 8 (12.90%) Tester
5 7 (11.29%) Automation Tester
6 6 (9.68%) Software Test Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (6.45%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.23%) Developer in Test
8 2 (3.23%) Mobile Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) QA Test Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Senior QA Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Senior Tester
8 2 (3.23%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Test Manager
9 1 (1.61%) Architect
9 1 (1.61%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.58%) .NET
2 12 (19.35%) REST
3 11 (17.74%) Web Services
4 7 (11.29%) .NET Framework
5 6 (9.68%) RESTful
6 5 (8.06%) HTML
6 5 (8.06%) Kafka
6 5 (8.06%) SOAP
6 5 (8.06%) WireMock
6 5 (8.06%) XML
7 4 (6.45%) Celery
7 4 (6.45%) React
7 4 (6.45%) React Native
7 4 (6.45%) XSLT
8 2 (3.23%) jQuery
8 2 (3.23%) JSON
8 2 (3.23%) Node.js
8 2 (3.23%) Playwright
8 2 (3.23%) Spring
8 2 (3.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.68%) Data Centre
1 6 (9.68%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (6.45%) NHS
2 4 (6.45%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.45%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.23%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.61%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.45%) Android
1 4 (6.45%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.23%) Linux
3 1 (1.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (67.74%) Agile
1 42 (67.74%) Test Automation
2 25 (40.32%) Test Scripting
3 22 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (33.87%) DevOps
4 21 (33.87%) Scrum
5 20 (32.26%) BDD
6 18 (29.03%) End-to-End Testing
7 15 (24.19%) Test Management
8 14 (22.58%) Process Improvement
9 13 (20.97%) API Testing
9 13 (20.97%) TDD
9 13 (20.97%) User Stories
10 12 (19.35%) CI/CD
10 12 (19.35%) Mentoring
10 12 (19.35%) Software Testing
10 12 (19.35%) User Acceptance Testing
11 11 (17.74%) Coaching
11 11 (17.74%) Defect Management
11 11 (17.74%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 21 (33.87%) SQL
2 19 (30.65%) C#
3 16 (25.81%) JavaScript
4 10 (16.13%) Java
5 7 (11.29%) Python
6 4 (6.45%) Groovy
6 4 (6.45%) PL/SQL
6 4 (6.45%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.61%) PHP
7 1 (1.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (20.97%) Degree
2 5 (8.06%) SC Cleared
2 5 (8.06%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) CIPD
3 4 (6.45%) DBS Check
4 2 (3.23%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (51.61%) QA
2 8 (12.90%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (9.68%) Docker
2 4 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.45%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 6 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.06%) Ansible
3 4 (6.45%) Consul
4 1 (1.61%) Kustomize
4 1 (1.61%) Packer
4 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (27.42%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.45%) Google
2 4 (6.45%) VMware
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle
4 1 (1.61%) Red Hat