Gherkin
UK

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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 682 647 817
Rank change year-on-year -35 +170 -80
Permanent jobs citing Gherkin 71 30 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.073% 0.061% 0.061%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.70% 0.33% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 37 28 30
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £49,688 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £56,250 £63,112
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% -10.87% +9.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £115,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% +15.79% -17.39%

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 10,152 8,960 20,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.37% 18.31% 19.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7,577 5,929 15,418
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.13%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Gherkin job vacancy trend in the UK

Gherkin
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Gherkin.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Gherkin

Gherkin
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Gherkin over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Gherkin in the UK

Gherkin
Top 13 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 10 July 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
England -26 68 £70,000 +21.74% 8
UK excluding London -21 62 £62,500 +13.64% 7
North of England - 38 £80,000 - 4
Yorkshire - 36 £80,000 - 1
Work from Home +13 18 £62,500 +19.05% 6
South East -31 17 £58,750 +17.50% 1
London -30 9 £85,000 +9.68% 2
Midlands - 4 £63,789 - 1
North East - 2 £70,079 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £57,500 -
Wales - 2 £57,539 -
West Midlands - 2 £70,079 - 1
Scotland - 1 - - 1

Gherkin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (5.63%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.23%) JBoss
3 2 (2.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 47 (66.20%) AWS
2 39 (54.93%) Amazon ECS
2 39 (54.93%) Amazon S3
2 39 (54.93%) AWS CloudFormation
2 39 (54.93%) AWS Lambda
2 39 (54.93%) AWS Step Functions
2 39 (54.93%) Serverless
3 34 (47.89%) Amazon ECR
3 34 (47.89%) Apigee
4 28 (39.44%) Amazon SQS
5 13 (18.31%) Azure
6 6 (8.45%) GitHub
7 5 (7.04%) Datadog
7 5 (7.04%) dbt
7 5 (7.04%) PaaS
7 5 (7.04%) SaaS
8 4 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.23%) Azure Pipelines
10 2 (2.82%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (47.89%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.41%) Db2
2 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (56.34%) Jenkins
2 36 (50.70%) Cypress.io
3 35 (49.30%) GitLab
4 31 (43.66%) SonarQube
5 30 (42.25%) Maven
6 17 (23.94%) Cucumber
7 11 (15.49%) JIRA
8 7 (9.86%) JMeter
8 7 (9.86%) Selenium
9 6 (8.45%) SpecFlow
10 5 (7.04%) Locust
11 4 (5.63%) Git
11 4 (5.63%) Postman
12 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
12 1 (1.41%) Gatling
12 1 (1.41%) REST Assured
General
1 8 (11.27%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.45%) Finance
3 5 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Advertising
5 2 (2.82%) Retail
6 1 (1.41%) Banking
6 1 (1.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 38 (53.52%) Developer
2 33 (46.48%) Java Developer
3 20 (28.17%) Full-Stack Developer
4 16 (22.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 14 (19.72%) Lead
5 14 (19.72%) Senior
6 13 (18.31%) Analyst
7 10 (14.08%) Business Analyst
8 7 (9.86%) AWS Developer
8 7 (9.86%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (9.86%) Senior Business Analyst
9 5 (7.04%) Test Engineer
9 5 (7.04%) Test Leader
10 4 (5.63%) Quality Engineer
10 4 (5.63%) Test Automation Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) Automation Test Analyst
11 3 (4.23%) Lead Business Analyst
11 3 (4.23%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) Senior Test Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (54.93%) AngularJS
2 34 (47.89%) Spring Boot
3 30 (42.25%) Jest
4 6 (8.45%) Node.js
4 6 (8.45%) Playwright
4 6 (8.45%) Spring
5 5 (7.04%) React
6 4 (5.63%) .NET
6 4 (5.63%) .NET Framework
6 4 (5.63%) Razor View Engine
6 4 (5.63%) Swagger
7 3 (4.23%) Drools
7 3 (4.23%) XML
8 2 (2.82%) REST
9 1 (1.41%) CSS
9 1 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (1.41%) Hibernate
9 1 (1.41%) HTML
9 1 (1.41%) pytest
9 1 (1.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.94%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (77.46%) Agile
2 39 (54.93%) CI/CD
3 37 (52.11%) DevOps
4 28 (39.44%) SDLC
5 25 (35.21%) ITIL
5 25 (35.21%) Secure Coding
5 25 (35.21%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 23 (32.39%) BDD
7 22 (30.99%) Full-Stack Development
7 22 (30.99%) Test Automation
8 17 (23.94%) Clean Code
9 15 (21.13%) Prototyping
10 14 (19.72%) Mentoring
11 12 (16.90%) User Stories
12 11 (15.49%) Scrum
12 11 (15.49%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (12.68%) Software Engineering
15 8 (11.27%) Business Analysis
15 8 (11.27%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 47 (66.20%) Java
2 39 (54.93%) Groovy
3 35 (49.30%) TypeScript
4 30 (42.25%) Bash
5 8 (11.27%) Python
5 8 (11.27%) SQL
6 6 (8.45%) C#
7 5 (7.04%) C
8 4 (5.63%) JavaScript
9 3 (4.23%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (40.85%) AWS Certification
2 25 (35.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 25 (35.21%) ITIL Certification
3 9 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.68%) Security Cleared
4 6 (8.45%) Degree
5 4 (5.63%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (4.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.41%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (22.54%) QA
2 8 (11.27%) Accessibility
3 6 (8.45%) WCAG
4 1 (1.41%) GDPR
System Software
1 41 (57.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (42.25%) HP Fortify
2 8 (11.27%) Terraform
3 7 (9.86%) Kubernetes
4 6 (8.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft