Gherkin Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Gherkin
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Gherkin skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Gherkin 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.20% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.04% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +47.62% -3.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 49 97 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 9.86% 22.88% 27.60%
Number of salaries quoted 29 30 68
10th Percentile £55,000 £46,291 £38,250
25th Percentile £68,813 £50,313 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.61% +6.52% +7.48%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,000 £90,250 £84,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Gherkin job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Gherkin
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Gherkin.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Gherkin

Gherkin
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
County Antrim - 1 - -
Gherkin
UK

Gherkin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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