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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 662 835 786
Rank change year-on-year +173 -49 +26
Permanent jobs citing Gherkin 30 61 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.062% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.35% 0.29% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 25 39 147
10th Percentile £46,250 £36,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £98,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £43,266 £60,000
% change year-on-year +27.12% -27.89% +14.29%

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 8,460 21,099 31,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.26% 21.42% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,443 15,769 19,367
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £51,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Gherkin in the UK

Gherkin
Top 8 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 1 May 2025. 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 +133 19 £55,000 +7.32% 22
UK excluding London +180 15 £55,000 +27.12% 19
London +102 11 £57,500 -23.33% 5
Work from Home +174 8 £47,500 -9.52% 14
South East +107 7 £47,500 -44.12% 2
Northern Ireland - 5 £55,000 - 1
Wales +47 2 - -
South West +92 1 - - 4

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 8 (26.67%) nginx
1 8 (26.67%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 8 (26.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 8 (26.67%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (13.33%) Azure
4 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.33%) BrowserStack
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 8 (26.67%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (26.67%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (56.67%) Cucumber
2 16 (53.33%) Postman
3 12 (40.00%) Selenium
4 11 (36.67%) Maven
5 10 (33.33%) Appium
6 9 (30.00%) Bitbucket
7 8 (26.67%) Jenkins
7 8 (26.67%) JUnit
7 8 (26.67%) Mockito
7 8 (26.67%) SonarQube
7 8 (26.67%) TestNG
8 3 (10.00%) JIRA
8 3 (10.00%) JMeter
9 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
9 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
9 1 (3.33%) Git
9 1 (3.33%) NeoLoad
9 1 (3.33%) SpecFlow
9 1 (3.33%) TeamCity
9 1 (3.33%) Xcode
General
1 20 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 15 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (40.00%) Finance
4 8 (26.67%) Manufacturing
4 8 (26.67%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Analyst
2 8 (26.67%) Java Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Lead
4 5 (16.67%) Test Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Automation Test Lead
5 4 (13.33%) Lead Test Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) QA Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Azure Consultant
6 3 (10.00%) Consultant
6 3 (10.00%) CRM Consultant
6 3 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 3 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
6 3 (10.00%) Functional Consultant
6 3 (10.00%) QA Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Test Analyst
7 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
7 2 (6.67%) Lead Business Analyst
8 1 (3.33%) QA Test Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (33.33%) Swagger
2 9 (30.00%) REST
2 9 (30.00%) RESTful
3 8 (26.67%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (26.67%) Guice
3 8 (26.67%) JAX-RS
3 8 (26.67%) Kafka
3 8 (26.67%) Mustache
3 8 (26.67%) OpenAPI
3 8 (26.67%) Spring
3 8 (26.67%) Spring Boot
3 8 (26.67%) WireMock
4 3 (10.00%) Web Services
5 1 (3.33%) .NET
5 1 (3.33%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.33%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (3.33%) JSON
5 1 (3.33%) WebdriverIO
5 1 (3.33%) XML
5 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Life Science
2 7 (23.33%) Mobile App
3 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Android
1 6 (20.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 16 (53.33%) Agile
2 16 (53.33%) BDD
3 15 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 13 (43.33%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (43.33%) Unit Testing
5 12 (40.00%) Code Quality
6 10 (33.33%) DevOps
7 9 (30.00%) OO
7 9 (30.00%) OOP
8 8 (26.67%) Auto-Scaling
8 8 (26.67%) Dependency Injection
8 8 (26.67%) Innovative Thinking
8 8 (26.67%) Multithreading
8 8 (26.67%) MVC
8 8 (26.67%) Regression Testing
9 7 (23.33%) Software Testing
9 7 (23.33%) User Experience
10 6 (20.00%) Test Strategy
11 5 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) Java
2 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 5 (16.67%) Python
2 5 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (3.33%) C#
3 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) ISTQB
2 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 9 (30.00%) Ansible
3 8 (26.67%) Kustomize
3 8 (26.67%) Packer
3 8 (26.67%) Terraform
4 1 (3.33%) Grafana
4 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft