Gherkin Job Trends in Birmingham

Gherkin
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Gherkin skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 - 101
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Gherkin 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.058% - 0.082%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.45% - 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,323 - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,542 - £40,000
75th Percentile £74,762 - £42,500
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £70,542 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +76.36% - -11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Birmingham

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 224 360 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.02% 19.02% 22.25%
Number of salaries quoted 205 186 236
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,720 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.86% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,800 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -4.46%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Gherkin relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Gherkin job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Gherkin
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Gherkin.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Gherkin

Gherkin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Locust
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform