Gherkin
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Gherkin skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Gherkin over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 791 766 791
Rank change year-on-year -25 +25 -120
Permanent jobs citing Gherkin 51 121 521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.056% 0.15% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.29% 0.54% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 23 87 317
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,600 £40,000
25th Percentile £43,125 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,112 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,875 £81,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £115,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.39% +9.52% +7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 17,601 22,313 69,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.48% 27.65% 39.40%
Number of salaries quoted 12,656 16,103 29,822
10th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,875 £83,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,289 £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 26 July 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 26 July 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 50 £56,556 -1.64% 3
UK excluding London -45 41 £47,500 -17.39% 4
Work from Home +18 26 £63,112 +22.56% 1
North of England +7 18 £47,500 -13.64%
South West -2 12 - -
London +40 11 £75,000 +30.43%
North West -7 11 £47,500 -13.64%
Yorkshire +55 7 £65,000 +8.33%
South East -5 5 £42,500 -33.33% 2
Midlands -17 4 £50,000 - 1
Wales +29 3 £65,000 +22.66%
West Midlands - 2 - - 1
East of England -4 1 £42,500 +8.97%
East Midlands -27 1 £50,000 -

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 4 (7.84%) Confluence
2 2 (3.92%) nginx
2 2 (3.92%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.96%) Apache
3 1 (1.96%) CMS
3 1 (1.96%) Drupal
3 1 (1.96%) PrestaShop
3 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.96%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (23.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.96%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.96%) Magento
1 1 (1.96%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (13.73%) Azure
2 5 (9.80%) AWS
2 5 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (9.80%) SaaS
3 2 (3.92%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (3.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (3.92%) GitHub
3 2 (3.92%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.96%) DigitalOcean
4 1 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.96%) GCP
4 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.96%) Wix.com
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) DSL
1 2 (3.92%) HTTP
1 2 (3.92%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.92%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.96%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.96%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 28 (54.90%) Cucumber
2 23 (45.10%) Selenium
3 17 (33.33%) TeamCity
4 13 (25.49%) JIRA
5 10 (19.61%) Postman
5 10 (19.61%) SpecFlow
6 9 (17.65%) Git
7 7 (13.73%) Jenkins
7 7 (13.73%) WebDriver
8 5 (9.80%) JMeter
8 5 (9.80%) TestRail
9 4 (7.84%) JUnit
9 4 (7.84%) TestNG
10 3 (5.88%) Bitbucket
11 2 (3.92%) Appium
11 2 (3.92%) Cypress.io
11 2 (3.92%) LoadUI
11 2 (3.92%) Mockito
11 2 (3.92%) SoapUI
11 2 (3.92%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 17 (33.33%) Finance
3 12 (23.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (23.53%) Law
4 10 (19.61%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (19.61%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (9.80%) Public Sector
6 4 (7.84%) Banking
6 4 (7.84%) Investment Banking
7 3 (5.88%) Automotive
8 2 (3.92%) Fire and Rescue
8 2 (3.92%) Legal
8 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.92%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.96%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 16 (31.37%) Senior
2 9 (17.65%) Automation Tester
2 9 (17.65%) Tester
3 7 (13.73%) Software Engineer
3 7 (13.73%) Test Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Analyst
4 5 (9.80%) Developer
4 5 (9.80%) Development Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) QA Analyst
4 5 (9.80%) QA Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) QA Tester
4 5 (9.80%) Selenium Test Analyst
4 5 (9.80%) Selenium Tester
4 5 (9.80%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (9.80%) Senior Automation Tester
4 5 (9.80%) Senior QA Analyst
4 5 (9.80%) Senior QA Tester
4 5 (9.80%) Senior Tester
4 5 (9.80%) Software Development Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.61%) .NET
2 9 (17.65%) REST
3 7 (13.73%) .NET Framework
4 4 (7.84%) RESTful
4 4 (7.84%) Swagger
4 4 (7.84%) Web Services
5 3 (5.88%) HTML
5 3 (5.88%) JSON
5 3 (5.88%) Playwright
5 3 (5.88%) XML
6 2 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.92%) Guice
6 2 (3.92%) JSON Schema
6 2 (3.92%) Mustache
6 2 (3.92%) OpenAPI
6 2 (3.92%) pytest
6 2 (3.92%) Spring
6 2 (3.92%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.92%) WireMock
6 2 (3.92%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.84%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.92%) Life Science
3 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.92%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.92%) NHS
3 2 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Linux
2 3 (5.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (72.55%) Test Automation
2 33 (64.71%) Agile
3 30 (58.82%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (50.98%) Scrum
5 19 (37.25%) User Stories
6 18 (35.29%) Test Scripting
7 15 (29.41%) DevOps
8 14 (27.45%) User Acceptance Testing
9 13 (25.49%) BDD
9 13 (25.49%) Mentoring
10 12 (23.53%) Coaching
10 12 (23.53%) End-to-End Testing
10 12 (23.53%) Process Improvement
10 12 (23.53%) TDD
10 12 (23.53%) Test Management
11 11 (21.57%) Software Engineering
11 11 (21.57%) Test Strategy
12 10 (19.61%) Change Management
12 10 (19.61%) Software Testing
12 10 (19.61%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (41.18%) C#
2 20 (39.22%) SQL
3 16 (31.37%) JavaScript
4 13 (25.49%) Python
5 10 (19.61%) Java
6 3 (5.88%) C++
6 3 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.92%) Groovy
8 1 (1.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (33.33%) Degree
2 5 (9.80%) ISTQB
3 2 (3.92%) CIPD
3 2 (3.92%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.96%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (52.94%) QA
2 6 (11.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (9.80%) Docker
2 3 (5.88%) Firmware
3 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.92%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Ansible
1 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.92%) Kustomize
1 2 (3.92%) Packer
1 2 (3.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (31.37%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.92%) Google
2 2 (3.92%) Red Hat
2 2 (3.92%) VMware
3 1 (1.96%) Infragistics
3 1 (1.96%) Wrike