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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 853 769 832
Rank change year-on-year -84 +63 -252
Permanent jobs citing Gherkin 61 198 418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.19% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.29% 0.64% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 40 146 285
10th Percentile £37,000 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £75,625 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,375 £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 21,033 31,146 63,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.35% 30.11% 40.40%
Number of salaries quoted 15,718 19,186 30,317
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,898 £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 £79,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 5 May 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 5 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -22 60 £52,500 -8.70% 20
UK excluding London -53 44 £44,033 -26.61% 7
Work from Home +8 31 £65,000 +18.18% 10
London +42 19 £75,000 +36.36% 12
South West -17 15 £44,516 +11.29% 1
North of England +7 13 £47,500 -20.83% 4
South East +15 9 £85,000 +21.43%
North West +8 7 £47,500 -13.64% 2
Yorkshire +53 6 £35,000 -44.44% 2
Midlands +21 5 £40,000 -20.00% 2
West Midlands - 4 £40,000 - 1
East of England +17 1 £42,500 +8.97%
Wales +11 1 £65,000 +22.66%
East Midlands -11 1 £50,000 - 1

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 1 (1.64%) Apache
1 1 (1.64%) CMS
1 1 (1.64%) Confluence
1 1 (1.64%) Drupal
1 1 (1.64%) nginx
1 1 (1.64%) PrestaShop
1 1 (1.64%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.64%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (19.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.64%) Magento
1 1 (1.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.39%) Azure
2 8 (13.11%) AWS
3 7 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (8.20%) GitHub
4 5 (8.20%) SaaS
5 4 (6.56%) BrowserStack
6 2 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.64%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.64%) DigitalOcean
7 1 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.64%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.64%) MySQL
3 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 48 (78.69%) Cucumber
2 33 (54.10%) Selenium
3 23 (37.70%) TeamCity
4 19 (31.15%) Jenkins
5 18 (29.51%) JIRA
6 15 (24.59%) SpecFlow
7 14 (22.95%) Postman
8 6 (9.84%) JBehave
9 5 (8.20%) JMeter
9 5 (8.20%) JUnit
10 4 (6.56%) Bitbucket
10 4 (6.56%) Git
10 4 (6.56%) Katalon Studio
10 4 (6.56%) Maven
10 4 (6.56%) Serenity BDD
10 4 (6.56%) SoapUI
10 4 (6.56%) TestNG
11 3 (4.92%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (4.92%) Cypress.io
12 2 (3.28%) REST Assured
General
1 18 (29.51%) Finance
2 16 (26.23%) Social Skills
3 12 (19.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (19.67%) Law
4 10 (16.39%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (14.75%) Banking
6 6 (9.84%) Retail
7 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (6.56%) Investment Banking
8 4 (6.56%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (24.59%) QA Engineer
2 13 (21.31%) Test Engineer
3 12 (19.67%) Senior
4 8 (13.11%) Developer
4 8 (13.11%) Tester
5 7 (11.48%) Automation Tester
6 6 (9.84%) Software Test Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Analyst
7 4 (6.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (6.56%) Software Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Senior Tester
9 2 (3.28%) Development Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) QA Analyst
9 2 (3.28%) QA Tester
9 2 (3.28%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (3.28%) Senior QA Analyst
9 2 (3.28%) Software Development Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Test Development Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.95%) .NET
2 11 (18.03%) REST
3 8 (13.11%) .NET Framework
3 8 (13.11%) Web Services
4 5 (8.20%) HTML
4 5 (8.20%) Kafka
4 5 (8.20%) RESTful
4 5 (8.20%) SOAP
4 5 (8.20%) XML
5 4 (6.56%) Celery
5 4 (6.56%) React
5 4 (6.56%) React Native
5 4 (6.56%) XSLT
6 3 (4.92%) WireMock
7 2 (3.28%) jQuery
7 2 (3.28%) Node.js
7 2 (3.28%) Playwright
7 2 (3.28%) Spring
8 1 (1.64%) Guice
8 1 (1.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) Data Centre
1 6 (9.84%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (6.56%) NHS
2 4 (6.56%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.56%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.64%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Android
1 4 (6.56%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.28%) Linux
3 1 (1.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (72.13%) Agile
2 40 (65.57%) Test Automation
3 24 (39.34%) Test Scripting
4 23 (37.70%) DevOps
5 22 (36.07%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (34.43%) Scrum
7 18 (29.51%) BDD
7 18 (29.51%) End-to-End Testing
8 15 (24.59%) Test Management
9 14 (22.95%) Process Improvement
9 14 (22.95%) User Stories
10 13 (21.31%) CI/CD
11 12 (19.67%) Mentoring
11 12 (19.67%) User Acceptance Testing
12 11 (18.03%) API Testing
12 11 (18.03%) Coaching
12 11 (18.03%) Software Testing
12 11 (18.03%) TDD
12 11 (18.03%) Test Strategy
12 11 (18.03%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (36.07%) SQL
2 19 (31.15%) C#
3 17 (27.87%) JavaScript
4 10 (16.39%) Java
5 7 (11.48%) Python
6 4 (6.56%) Groovy
6 4 (6.56%) PL/SQL
6 4 (6.56%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.64%) PHP
7 1 (1.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (21.31%) Degree
2 4 (6.56%) CIPD
2 4 (6.56%) DBS Check
2 4 (6.56%) SC Cleared
2 4 (6.56%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (49.18%) QA
2 8 (13.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (8.20%) Docker
2 4 (6.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.56%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 5 (8.20%) Ansible
1 5 (8.20%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.56%) Consul
3 1 (1.64%) Kustomize
3 1 (1.64%) Packer
3 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (27.87%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.56%) Google
2 4 (6.56%) VMware
3 2 (3.28%) Oracle
4 1 (1.64%) Red Hat