Gherkin Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Gherkin
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Gherkin skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 537 609
Rank change year-on-year -74 +72 -55
Permanent jobs citing Gherkin 55 11 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.066% 0.032% 0.077%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.75% 0.23% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 31 11 10
10th Percentile £45,000 - -
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +12.82% -11.36%
75th Percentile £74,066 £63,750 £69,688
90th Percentile £80,000 - £70,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £63,112
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.93% +9.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,339 4,725 10,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.87% 13.67% 19.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5,735 2,867 6,556
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,075 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £86,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Gherkin job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Gherkin
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Gherkin.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Gherkin

Gherkin
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Gherkin in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Gherkin in the UK excluding London

Gherkin
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
North of England - 27 £80,000 - 7
Yorkshire - 22 £80,000 - 3
South East -7 19 £53,750 -14.00% 3
Midlands - 5 £57,500 - 5
Wales - 3 £45,000 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £70,079 - 3
North West - 3 - - 3
North East - 2 £70,079 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £57,500 - 2
Scotland - 1 - - 1
Gherkin
UK

Gherkin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (7.27%) CMS
1 4 (7.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.82%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 28 (50.91%) AWS
2 24 (43.64%) Amazon ECS
2 24 (43.64%) Amazon S3
2 24 (43.64%) AWS CloudFormation
2 24 (43.64%) AWS Lambda
2 24 (43.64%) AWS Step Functions
2 24 (43.64%) Serverless
3 19 (34.55%) Amazon ECR
3 19 (34.55%) Apigee
4 16 (29.09%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (14.55%) Azure
6 5 (9.09%) GitHub
7 4 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.64%) Datadog
8 2 (3.64%) dbt
8 2 (3.64%) GCP
8 2 (3.64%) PaaS
8 2 (3.64%) SaaS
9 1 (1.82%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (34.55%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 21 (38.18%) Cypress.io
3 20 (36.36%) GitLab
4 16 (29.09%) SonarQube
5 15 (27.27%) Maven
6 14 (25.45%) JIRA
7 13 (23.64%) Cucumber
8 5 (9.09%) Selenium
9 4 (7.27%) Git
9 4 (7.27%) JMeter
9 4 (7.27%) Postman
10 3 (5.45%) SpecFlow
11 2 (3.64%) Locust
12 1 (1.82%) Gatling
12 1 (1.82%) REST Assured
General
1 6 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (10.91%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.45%) Finance
3 2 (3.64%) Advertising
3 2 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (3.64%) Retail
4 1 (1.82%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 23 (41.82%) Developer
2 18 (32.73%) Java Developer
3 17 (30.91%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (25.45%) Analyst
5 13 (23.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 11 (20.00%) Lead
7 10 (18.18%) Business Analyst
8 7 (12.73%) Senior
8 7 (12.73%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (12.73%) Senior Business Analyst
9 5 (9.09%) Software Tester
9 5 (9.09%) Tester
10 4 (7.27%) Automation Test Analyst
10 4 (7.27%) Development Engineer
10 4 (7.27%) Quality Engineer
10 4 (7.27%) Software Development Engineer
10 4 (7.27%) Software Engineer
10 4 (7.27%) Test Analyst
10 4 (7.27%) Test Development Engineer
11 3 (5.45%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (43.64%) AngularJS
2 19 (34.55%) Spring Boot
3 15 (27.27%) Jest
4 6 (10.91%) Playwright
4 6 (10.91%) Spring
5 4 (7.27%) .NET
5 4 (7.27%) .NET Framework
5 4 (7.27%) Razor View Engine
5 4 (7.27%) React
5 4 (7.27%) Swagger
6 3 (5.45%) Node.js
6 3 (5.45%) Terraform
7 2 (3.64%) REST
8 1 (1.82%) Drools
8 1 (1.82%) Hibernate
8 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (30.91%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.27%) Marketing Technology
2 4 (7.27%) Online Gambling
2 4 (7.27%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (67.27%) Agile
2 22 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 21 (38.18%) BDD
4 20 (36.36%) DevOps
5 18 (32.73%) Full-Stack Development
5 18 (32.73%) SDLC
6 17 (30.91%) Test Automation
7 14 (25.45%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 13 (23.64%) ITIL
8 13 (23.64%) Scrum
8 13 (23.64%) Secure Coding
8 13 (23.64%) Software Testing
9 12 (21.82%) Clean Code
9 12 (21.82%) Mentoring
9 12 (21.82%) Test Strategy
10 10 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
10 10 (18.18%) Software Engineering
10 10 (18.18%) User Stories
11 9 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (14.55%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 29 (52.73%) Java
2 24 (43.64%) Groovy
3 20 (36.36%) TypeScript
4 15 (27.27%) Bash
5 7 (12.73%) C#
6 5 (9.09%) C
6 5 (9.09%) Python
7 4 (7.27%) Ruby
8 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.64%) SQL
9 1 (1.82%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 14 (25.45%) AWS Certification
2 13 (23.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 13 (23.64%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (12.73%) Degree
4 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared
4 6 (10.91%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.82%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (29.09%) QA
2 12 (21.82%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.45%) WCAG
4 1 (1.82%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (27.27%) HP Fortify
2 3 (5.45%) Grafana
3 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (7.27%) Microsoft