Gherkin Job Trends in Edinburgh

Gherkin
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Gherkin skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 - 107
Rank change year-on-year - - +52
Permanent jobs citing Gherkin 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.095% - 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.48% - 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £67,750
25th Percentile £66,091 - £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 - £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.27%
75th Percentile £74,066 - £71,875
90th Percentile - - £72,250
Scotland median annual salary £70,079 - £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +27.27%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 209 334 365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.94% 29.40% 34.89%
Number of salaries quoted 62 188 296
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,278
25th Percentile £28,250 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -12.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £78,017 £81,952
90th Percentile £83,375 £93,778 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -10.57% +2.50%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Gherkin job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Gherkin
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Gherkin.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Gherkin

Gherkin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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