Gherkin Job Trends in Leeds

Gherkin
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Gherkin skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 - 106
Rank change year-on-year - - +48
Permanent jobs citing Gherkin 17 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.27% - 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.64% - 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £34,750
25th Percentile £73,750 - £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.64%
75th Percentile £81,250 - £58,125
90th Percentile - - £62,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £77,500 - £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -13.64%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 256 232 422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 19.15% 21.70% 32.24%
Number of salaries quoted 198 172 316
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,938 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £53,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.07% -18.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £85,625
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £54,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +15.74% -16.92% +8.33%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Gherkin job vacancy trend in Leeds

Gherkin
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Gherkin.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Gherkin

Gherkin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 17 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 17 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 17 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 17 (100.00%) Apigee
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
1 17 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 17 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 17 (100.00%) Serverless
2 16 (94.12%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 17 (100.00%) GitLab
1 17 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 17 (100.00%) Maven
1 17 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.88%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Lead
2 8 (47.06%) Developer
3 7 (41.18%) Java Developer
4 6 (35.29%) Technical Leader
5 4 (23.53%) AWS Developer
6 3 (17.65%) Lead Developer
7 2 (11.76%) Lead Java Developer
8 1 (5.88%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 17 (100.00%) Jest
1 17 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 9 (52.94%) Spring
3 1 (5.88%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
1 4 (23.53%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) DevOps
2 14 (82.35%) Agile
3 13 (76.47%) CI/CD
4 8 (47.06%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (47.06%) Secure Coding
5 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) Code Quality
6 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (23.53%) ITIL
6 4 (23.53%) Microservices
6 4 (23.53%) Scrum
6 4 (23.53%) SDLC
6 4 (23.53%) Software Delivery
6 4 (23.53%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 2 (11.76%) Clean Code
7 2 (11.76%) Prototyping
8 1 (5.88%) BDD
8 1 (5.88%) Collaborative Culture
8 1 (5.88%) Mentoring
8 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Java
1 17 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 16 (94.12%) Bash
2 16 (94.12%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) AWS Certification
2 5 (29.41%) AWS Certified Developer
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
System Software
1 17 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (100.00%) HP Fortify