Gherkin Job Trends in Durham

Gherkin
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Durham requiring Gherkin skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Gherkin 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 0.39% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.85% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,091 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 - -
75th Percentile £74,066 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median annual salary £70,079 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Durham

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 Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 26 68 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 10.08% 24.37% 24.81%
Number of salaries quoted 22 48 27
10th Percentile £28,208 £46,713 £39,200
25th Percentile £32,500 £51,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,375 £69,308 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.42% +38.62% +19.05%
75th Percentile £73,112 £74,144 £58,750
90th Percentile £78,661 £80,000 £69,800
North East median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -20.83% +14.29% -

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Gherkin job vacancy trend in Durham

Gherkin
Salary Trend in Durham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Gherkin.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Gherkin

Gherkin
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the Durham region over the 6 months to 25 October 2025. 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
Darlington - 1 £70,079 -
Gherkin
North East

Gherkin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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