Gherkin Job Trends in the Midlands

Gherkin
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Gherkin skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 255 223
Rank change year-on-year +29 -32 +127
Permanent jobs citing Gherkin 1 10 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.018% 0.11% 0.019%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.15% 0.73% 0.098%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,323 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,542 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +76.36% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £74,762 - £47,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £70,079 £77,500 £53,750
% change year-on-year -9.58% +44.19% -2.27%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 671 1,363 1,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.20% 15.39% 19.62%
Number of salaries quoted 458 755 864
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £44,388
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Gherkin job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Gherkin
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Gherkin.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Gherkin

Gherkin
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 October 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
West Midlands +36 1 £70,542 +76.36% 2
Gherkin
England

Gherkin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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