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 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 680 848 776
Rank change year-on-year +168 -72 +64
Permanent jobs citing Gherkin 27 69 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.063% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.28% 0.31% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25 36 116
10th Percentile £46,250 £35,000 £43,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -11.02% +2.61%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,313
90th Percentile £115,000 £80,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £42,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +29.41% -29.17% +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 9,720 22,143 26,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.35% 20.09% 29.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5,840 16,322 17,536
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,711
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,254 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £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 14 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Gherkin in the UK

Gherkin
Top 7 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 14 June 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 +134 22 £57,500 +9.52% 42
London +111 14 £77,500 +3.33% 9
UK excluding London +149 13 £55,000 +29.41% 38
Work from Home +118 9 £47,500 -24.74% 32
South East +95 7 £47,500 +11.76% 1
Northern Ireland - 5 £55,000 - 2
South West +105 1 £62,500 - 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 (29.63%) nginx
1 8 (29.63%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) AWS
2 8 (29.63%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 8 (29.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 8 (29.63%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (14.81%) Azure
4 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (7.41%) GitHub
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.70%) BrowserStack
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) Amazon Aurora
1 8 (29.63%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (29.63%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (29.63%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (62.96%) Cucumber
2 12 (44.44%) JUnit
3 10 (37.04%) Selenium
4 9 (33.33%) Bitbucket
4 9 (33.33%) Postman
5 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
5 8 (29.63%) Maven
5 8 (29.63%) Mockito
5 8 (29.63%) SonarQube
5 8 (29.63%) TestNG
6 7 (25.93%) Appium
7 4 (14.81%) GitLab
8 3 (11.11%) JIRA
9 2 (7.41%) Git
9 2 (7.41%) SpecFlow
10 1 (3.70%) Android Studio
10 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
10 1 (3.70%) NeoLoad
10 1 (3.70%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (3.70%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (59.26%) Social Skills
2 12 (44.44%) Finance
3 8 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (29.63%) Manufacturing
3 8 (29.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Java Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Analyst
3 5 (18.52%) Lead
4 4 (14.81%) QA Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Consultant
5 3 (11.11%) Consultant
5 3 (11.11%) CRM Consultant
5 3 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 3 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
5 3 (11.11%) Functional Consultant
5 3 (11.11%) QA Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Scala Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Lead Business Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Test Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) QA Test Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Quality Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) Kafka
2 10 (37.04%) Swagger
3 9 (33.33%) REST
3 9 (33.33%) RESTful
4 8 (29.63%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (29.63%) Guice
4 8 (29.63%) JAX-RS
4 8 (29.63%) Mustache
4 8 (29.63%) OpenAPI
4 8 (29.63%) Spring
4 8 (29.63%) Spring Boot
4 8 (29.63%) WireMock
5 3 (11.11%) Akka
5 3 (11.11%) Play Framework
5 3 (11.11%) Scalaz
6 1 (3.70%) .NET
6 1 (3.70%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (3.70%) JSON
6 1 (3.70%) XML
6 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Life Science
2 7 (25.93%) Mobile App
3 3 (11.11%) Equities
3 3 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Android
1 6 (22.22%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) Test Automation
2 13 (48.15%) Agile
2 13 (48.15%) BDD
2 13 (48.15%) DevOps
3 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
4 9 (33.33%) OO
4 9 (33.33%) OOP
4 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 8 (29.63%) Auto-Scaling
5 8 (29.63%) Code Quality
5 8 (29.63%) Dependency Injection
5 8 (29.63%) Innovative Thinking
5 8 (29.63%) Multithreading
5 8 (29.63%) MVC
5 8 (29.63%) Regression Testing
6 7 (25.93%) Software Testing
6 7 (25.93%) User Experience
7 5 (18.52%) Business Analysis
7 5 (18.52%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Java
2 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.11%) Scala
4 2 (7.41%) C#
4 2 (7.41%) SQL
5 1 (3.70%) Python
5 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.70%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (29.63%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Kubernetes
2 9 (33.33%) Ansible
3 8 (29.63%) Kustomize
3 8 (29.63%) Packer
3 8 (29.63%) Terraform
4 1 (3.70%) Grafana
4 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft