Gherkin
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Gherkin skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Gherkin over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 833 784 810
Rank change year-on-year -49 +26 -240
Permanent jobs citing Gherkin 61 208 409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.20% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.29% 0.65% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 39 151 277
10th Percentile £36,500 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,266 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.89% +14.29% +5.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Gherkin is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,055 31,925 61,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.45% 30.36% 40.24%
Number of salaries quoted 15,740 19,553 30,311
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,227 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Gherkin as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in the UK

Gherkin
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Gherkin.

Salary trend for Gherkin in the UK

Gherkin
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Gherkin over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Gherkin in the UK

Gherkin
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
England -23 60 £51,250 -6.82% 14
UK excluding London -48 44 £43,266 -27.89% 7
Work from Home +30 29 £52,500 -4.55% 7
London +39 19 £75,000 +36.36% 6
South West -13 16 £44,516 -10.97% 1
North of England -4 12 £45,000 -25.00% 2
South East +9 9 £85,000 +21.43% 1
North West +3 7 £47,500 -13.64% 1
Yorkshire +52 5 £35,000 -44.44% 1
Midlands +12 5 £40,000 -20.00% 2
West Midlands - 4 £40,000 - 1
East of England +28 1 £42,500 +8.97%
Wales +3 1 £65,000 +22.66%
East Midlands -15 1 £50,000 - 1

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.64%) Apache
1 1 (1.64%) CMS
1 1 (1.64%) Confluence
1 1 (1.64%) Drupal
1 1 (1.64%) nginx
1 1 (1.64%) PrestaShop
1 1 (1.64%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.64%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (19.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Magento
1 1 (1.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.75%) Azure
2 8 (13.11%) AWS
3 7 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (8.20%) SaaS
5 4 (6.56%) BrowserStack
5 4 (6.56%) GitHub
6 2 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.64%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.64%) DigitalOcean
7 1 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.64%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.64%) MySQL
3 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 49 (80.33%) Cucumber
2 35 (57.38%) Selenium
3 23 (37.70%) TeamCity
4 19 (31.15%) Jenkins
5 18 (29.51%) JIRA
6 17 (27.87%) SpecFlow
7 14 (22.95%) Postman
8 6 (9.84%) JBehave
9 5 (8.20%) JMeter
9 5 (8.20%) JUnit
10 4 (6.56%) Bitbucket
10 4 (6.56%) Git
10 4 (6.56%) Katalon Studio
10 4 (6.56%) Maven
10 4 (6.56%) Serenity BDD
10 4 (6.56%) SoapUI
10 4 (6.56%) TestNG
11 3 (4.92%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (4.92%) Cypress.io
12 2 (3.28%) REST Assured
General
1 18 (29.51%) Finance
2 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
3 12 (19.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (19.67%) Law
4 10 (16.39%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (14.75%) Banking
6 6 (9.84%) Retail
7 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (6.56%) Investment Banking
8 4 (6.56%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (26.23%) QA Engineer
2 13 (21.31%) Test Engineer
3 12 (19.67%) Senior
4 9 (14.75%) Tester
5 8 (13.11%) Automation Tester
5 8 (13.11%) Developer
6 6 (9.84%) Software Test Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Analyst
7 4 (6.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (6.56%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Senior Tester
9 2 (3.28%) Developer in Test
9 2 (3.28%) QA Analyst
9 2 (3.28%) QA Tester
9 2 (3.28%) Selenium Test Analyst
9 2 (3.28%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (3.28%) Senior Automation Tester
9 2 (3.28%) Senior QA Analyst
9 2 (3.28%) Senior QA Tester
9 2 (3.28%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (21.31%) .NET
2 11 (18.03%) REST
3 9 (14.75%) Web Services
4 7 (11.48%) .NET Framework
5 5 (8.20%) HTML
5 5 (8.20%) Kafka
5 5 (8.20%) RESTful
5 5 (8.20%) SOAP
5 5 (8.20%) XML
6 4 (6.56%) Celery
6 4 (6.56%) React
6 4 (6.56%) React Native
6 4 (6.56%) WireMock
6 4 (6.56%) XSLT
7 2 (3.28%) jQuery
7 2 (3.28%) Node.js
7 2 (3.28%) Playwright
7 2 (3.28%) Spring
8 1 (1.64%) OpenAPI
8 1 (1.64%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) Data Centre
1 6 (9.84%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (6.56%) NHS
2 4 (6.56%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.64%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.64%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Android
1 4 (6.56%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.28%) Linux
3 1 (1.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (68.85%) Agile
1 42 (68.85%) Test Automation
2 25 (40.98%) Test Scripting
3 22 (36.07%) DevOps
3 22 (36.07%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (34.43%) Scrum
5 20 (32.79%) BDD
6 18 (29.51%) End-to-End Testing
7 15 (24.59%) Test Management
8 14 (22.95%) Process Improvement
9 13 (21.31%) User Stories
10 12 (19.67%) CI/CD
10 12 (19.67%) Mentoring
10 12 (19.67%) TDD
10 12 (19.67%) User Acceptance Testing
11 11 (18.03%) API Testing
11 11 (18.03%) Coaching
11 11 (18.03%) Defect Management
11 11 (18.03%) Software Testing
11 11 (18.03%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 21 (34.43%) SQL
2 19 (31.15%) C#
3 17 (27.87%) JavaScript
4 10 (16.39%) Java
5 7 (11.48%) Python
6 4 (6.56%) Groovy
6 4 (6.56%) PL/SQL
6 4 (6.56%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.64%) PHP
7 1 (1.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (21.31%) Degree
2 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared
2 5 (8.20%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.56%) CIPD
3 4 (6.56%) DBS Check
4 3 (4.92%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (50.82%) QA
2 8 (13.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (9.84%) Docker
2 4 (6.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.56%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 6 (9.84%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.20%) Ansible
3 4 (6.56%) Consul
4 1 (1.64%) Kustomize
4 1 (1.64%) Packer
4 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (27.87%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.56%) Google
2 4 (6.56%) VMware
3 2 (3.28%) Oracle
4 1 (1.64%) Red Hat