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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 570 652 595
Rank change year-on-year +82 -57 +91
Permanent jobs citing Gherkin 39 23 72
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.075% 0.046% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.63% 0.21% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 27 8 46
10th Percentile £45,000 £62,750 £42,687
25th Percentile £63,670 £78,125 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £92,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.76% +75.24% -2.78%
75th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £110,500 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +47.62% -3.83%

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 6,238 10,701 11,379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.97% 21.58% 25.02%
Number of salaries quoted 4,806 6,365 9,536
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 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
North of England - 19 £77,500 - 44
Yorkshire - 17 £77,500 - 23
London +59 12 £105,000 +5.00% 14
South East +33 6 £45,000 - 43
Midlands +19 1 £70,542 +76.36% 30
West Midlands +18 1 £70,542 +76.36% 14
South West +14 1 £47,500 -38.71% 17
North East - 1 £70,079 - 3
North West - 1 £70,079 - 18
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 11 (28.21%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (23.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (23.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (53.85%) AWS
2 17 (43.59%) Amazon ECR
2 17 (43.59%) Amazon ECS
2 17 (43.59%) Amazon S3
2 17 (43.59%) Apigee
2 17 (43.59%) AWS Lambda
2 17 (43.59%) AWS Step Functions
2 17 (43.59%) Serverless
3 16 (41.03%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (10.26%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (10.26%) Datadog
4 4 (10.26%) dbt
4 4 (10.26%) PaaS
4 4 (10.26%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (43.59%) DynamoDB
2 11 (28.21%) DB2
2 11 (28.21%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (28.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (71.79%) Jenkins
2 17 (43.59%) Cucumber
2 17 (43.59%) Cypress.io
2 17 (43.59%) GitLab
2 17 (43.59%) Maven
2 17 (43.59%) SonarQube
3 16 (41.03%) Selenium
4 14 (35.90%) JIRA
5 11 (28.21%) Bitbucket
5 11 (28.21%) TeamCity
6 4 (10.26%) JMeter
6 4 (10.26%) Locust
6 4 (10.26%) SpecFlow
7 2 (5.13%) webpack
8 1 (2.56%) Android Studio
8 1 (2.56%) Appium
8 1 (2.56%) Xcode
General
1 15 (38.46%) Finance
2 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
3 11 (28.21%) Banking
4 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Developer
2 17 (43.59%) Java Developer
2 17 (43.59%) Lead
3 7 (17.95%) Agile Developer
3 7 (17.95%) Agile Java Developer
4 6 (15.38%) Technical Leader
5 5 (12.82%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Analyst
6 4 (10.26%) Automation Test Analyst
6 4 (10.26%) AWS Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Lead Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Test Analyst
6 4 (10.26%) Test Leader
7 2 (5.13%) Business Analysis Manager
7 2 (5.13%) Business Manager
7 2 (5.13%) Lead Java Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Mobile Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Technical Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (46.15%) AngularJS
2 17 (43.59%) Jest
2 17 (43.59%) Spring Boot
3 12 (30.77%) RESTful
4 11 (28.21%) CSS
4 11 (28.21%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (28.21%) HTML
4 11 (28.21%) React
5 10 (25.64%) Node.js
6 9 (23.08%) Spring
7 4 (10.26%) .NET
8 2 (5.13%) CSS3
8 2 (5.13%) HTML5
8 2 (5.13%) REST
8 2 (5.13%) Sass
9 1 (2.56%) Express.js
9 1 (2.56%) React Native
9 1 (2.56%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.21%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (10.26%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Android
1 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (82.05%) Agile
2 28 (71.79%) CI/CD
3 20 (51.28%) BDD
3 20 (51.28%) DevOps
3 20 (51.28%) Test Automation
4 17 (43.59%) Microservices
4 17 (43.59%) Scrum
5 13 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (28.21%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (28.21%) Design Patterns
6 11 (28.21%) Dynamic Code Analysis
6 11 (28.21%) Epics
6 11 (28.21%) Front End Development
6 11 (28.21%) Integration Testing
6 11 (28.21%) Static Code Analysis
6 11 (28.21%) Unit Testing
6 11 (28.21%) User Experience
7 9 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (23.08%) Functional Testing
7 9 (23.08%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (82.05%) Java
2 20 (51.28%) TypeScript
3 16 (41.03%) Bash
3 16 (41.03%) Groovy
4 12 (30.77%) JavaScript
5 11 (28.21%) SQL
6 4 (10.26%) C#
6 4 (10.26%) Python
7 3 (7.69%) RPG
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) AWS Certification
2 5 (12.82%) AWS Certified Developer
3 4 (10.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Degree
3 4 (10.26%) ISEB
3 4 (10.26%) ISTQB
3 4 (10.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 4 (10.26%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.08%) QA
2 4 (10.26%) Accessibility
2 4 (10.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (82.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (43.59%) HP Fortify
2 15 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.26%) Grafana
3 4 (10.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Atlassian
2 3 (7.69%) IBM