Gherkin Job Trends in London

Gherkin
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Gherkin skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 419 412
Rank change year-on-year +57 -7 +87
Permanent jobs citing Gherkin 12 9 31
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.085% 0.058% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.45% 0.22% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 12 5 23
10th Percentile £88,625 £84,600 £47,750
25th Percentile £98,750 £90,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £100,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +66.67% +9.91%
75th Percentile £110,313 £115,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £111,250 - £117,250
England median annual salary £78,750 £92,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.40% +75.24% -2.78%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,658 4,138 4,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.85% 26.67% 27.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,913 2,553 4,333
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Gherkin job vacancy trend in London

Gherkin
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Gherkin.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Gherkin

Gherkin
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Gherkin in London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Gherkin in London

Gherkin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (91.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (75.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Datadog
1 1 (8.33%) dbt
1 1 (8.33%) PaaS
1 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (91.67%) DB2
1 11 (91.67%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (91.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 11 (91.67%) Bitbucket
2 11 (91.67%) Jenkins
2 11 (91.67%) JIRA
2 11 (91.67%) Selenium
2 11 (91.67%) TeamCity
3 2 (16.67%) webpack
4 1 (8.33%) JMeter
4 1 (8.33%) Locust
General
1 11 (91.67%) Banking
1 11 (91.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (75.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Developer
2 10 (83.33%) Java Developer
3 7 (58.33%) Agile Developer
3 7 (58.33%) Agile Java Developer
4 5 (41.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (16.67%) Lead
7 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
7 1 (8.33%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) CSS
1 11 (91.67%) Elastic Stack
1 11 (91.67%) HTML
1 11 (91.67%) React
1 11 (91.67%) RESTful
2 9 (75.00%) Node.js
3 2 (16.67%) CSS3
3 2 (16.67%) HTML5
3 2 (16.67%) Sass
4 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (8.33%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (91.67%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
1 12 (100.00%) BDD
1 12 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 12 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 11 (91.67%) Continuous Integration
2 11 (91.67%) Design Patterns
2 11 (91.67%) Dynamic Code Analysis
2 11 (91.67%) Epics
2 11 (91.67%) Front End Development
2 11 (91.67%) Integration Testing
2 11 (91.67%) Microservices
2 11 (91.67%) Scrum
2 11 (91.67%) Static Code Analysis
2 11 (91.67%) Unit Testing
2 11 (91.67%) User Experience
3 9 (75.00%) Functional Testing
3 9 (75.00%) Kanban
3 9 (75.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 9 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 9 (75.00%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (91.67%) JavaScript
2 11 (91.67%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) RPG
4 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) QA
1 1 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (25.00%) IBM