Gherkin Job Trends in England

Gherkin
UK > England

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 696 621 704
Rank change year-on-year -75 +83 -77
Permanent jobs citing Gherkin 64 15 47
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.062% 0.035% 0.072%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.60% 0.20% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 39 14 16
10th Percentile £51,000 £52,750 -
25th Percentile £55,625 £56,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £78,750 £64,056
Median % change year-on-year -20.63% +22.94% +13.88%
75th Percentile £80,000 £108,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £115,000 £98,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £64,056
% change year-on-year - -2.43% +11.40%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,622 7,378 14,216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.23% 17.12% 21.84%
Number of salaries quoted 7,675 4,865 8,820
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.88% +6.92% -3.70%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Gherkin job vacancy trend in England

Gherkin
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Gherkin.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Gherkin

Gherkin
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Gherkin in England over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Gherkin in England

Gherkin
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the England region over the 6 months to 10 October 2026. 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
North of England - 30 £75,000 - 7
Yorkshire - 22 £80,000 - 4
South East -38 19 £53,750 -14.00% 6
London -49 10 £80,000 -18.99% 18
Midlands - 5 £57,500 - 12
North East - 4 £75,000 - 2
North West - 4 - - 1
East Midlands - 3 £57,500 - 5
West Midlands - 2 - - 7
Gherkin
UK

Gherkin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (9.38%) Confluence
2 4 (6.25%) CMS
2 4 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 30 (46.88%) AWS
2 29 (45.31%) Amazon S3
3 25 (39.06%) AWS Lambda
3 25 (39.06%) Serverless
4 24 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
5 20 (31.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (31.25%) AWS Step Functions
6 17 (26.56%) Amazon SQS
7 15 (23.44%) Amazon ECR
7 15 (23.44%) Apigee
7 15 (23.44%) Azure
8 14 (21.88%) GitHub
9 10 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (14.06%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (7.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (7.81%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (6.25%) AWS KMS
12 4 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
13 1 (1.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.44%) DynamoDB
2 4 (6.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 29 (45.31%) Jenkins
2 24 (37.50%) GitLab
2 24 (37.50%) JIRA
3 20 (31.25%) Cypress.io
4 11 (17.19%) Maven
4 11 (17.19%) SonarQube
5 10 (15.63%) Postman
6 9 (14.06%) Cucumber
7 7 (10.94%) Claude Code
8 5 (7.81%) JMeter
9 4 (6.25%) Gatling
9 4 (6.25%) Git
10 3 (4.69%) Selenium
10 3 (4.69%) SpecFlow
General
1 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.81%) Finance
3 5 (7.81%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.13%) Advertising
5 2 (3.13%) Retail
6 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (35.94%) Developer
2 19 (29.69%) Java Developer
3 18 (28.13%) Analyst
3 18 (28.13%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (21.88%) Business Analyst
4 14 (21.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 11 (17.19%) Senior
6 9 (14.06%) Senior Analyst
6 9 (14.06%) Senior Business Analyst
7 7 (10.94%) Lead
8 6 (9.38%) Product Owner
9 5 (7.81%) Software Tester
9 5 (7.81%) Technical Product Owner
9 5 (7.81%) Test Engineer
9 5 (7.81%) Tester
10 4 (6.25%) Automation Test Analyst
10 4 (6.25%) Quality Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 4 (6.25%) Test Analyst
11 3 (4.69%) Junior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (31.25%) AngularJS
2 19 (29.69%) Spring Boot
3 11 (17.19%) Jest
3 11 (17.19%) Spring
4 9 (14.06%) Playwright
5 8 (12.50%) REST
6 5 (7.81%) Swagger
7 4 (6.25%) .NET
7 4 (6.25%) .NET Framework
7 4 (6.25%) Kafka
7 4 (6.25%) Razor View Engine
7 4 (6.25%) React
7 4 (6.25%) RESTful
8 2 (3.13%) Node.js
9 1 (1.56%) Hibernate
9 1 (1.56%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.94%) Life Science
3 4 (6.25%) Marketing Technology
3 4 (6.25%) Online Gambling
3 4 (6.25%) Video\Live Streaming
4 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (71.88%) Agile
2 25 (39.06%) BDD
2 25 (39.06%) DevOps
2 25 (39.06%) User Stories
3 24 (37.50%) Scrum
4 21 (32.81%) CI/CD
4 21 (32.81%) SDLC
5 20 (31.25%) Test Automation
6 19 (29.69%) Acceptance Criteria
6 19 (29.69%) Full-Stack Development
7 16 (25.00%) AI
7 16 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 16 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (23.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (23.44%) Kanban
8 15 (23.44%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 13 (20.31%) Backlog Management
9 13 (20.31%) Software Testing
9 13 (20.31%) TDD
10 11 (17.19%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 27 (42.19%) Java
2 21 (32.81%) TypeScript
3 20 (31.25%) Groovy
4 13 (20.31%) SQL
5 11 (17.19%) Bash
6 7 (10.94%) C#
7 6 (9.38%) JavaScript
8 4 (6.25%) C
8 4 (6.25%) Python
9 1 (1.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (15.63%) ITIL Certification
2 9 (14.06%) AWS Certification
2 9 (14.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 8 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 7 (10.94%) Degree
4 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared
5 5 (7.81%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (25.00%) QA
2 5 (7.81%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (29.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (17.19%) HP Fortify
2 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft