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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 822 794 822
Rank change year-on-year -28 +28 -195
Permanent jobs citing Gherkin 62 181 453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.18% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.29% 0.60% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 39 136 290
10th Percentile £36,500 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,033 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -26.61% +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 21,099 30,098 66,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.12% 30.26% 40.98%
Number of salaries quoted 15,738 18,568 30,087
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,853 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,939 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +15.91%
75th Percentile £78,750 £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 20 May 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 20 May 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 61 £51,250 -10.87% 28
UK excluding London -44 46 £44,033 -26.61% 16
Work from Home +27 32 £63,112 +14.75% 19
London +34 18 £75,000 +36.36% 14
North of England +10 16 £47,500 -20.83% 4
South West -13 15 £44,516 +11.29% 3
North West -4 9 £47,500 -13.64% 2
South East -3 8 - - 8
Yorkshire +60 7 £35,000 -42.62% 2
Midlands -3 5 £40,000 -20.00% 1
West Midlands - 4 £40,000 - 1
Wales +9 3 £65,000 +22.66%
East of England +6 1 £42,500 +8.97%
East Midlands -18 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 3 (4.84%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Apache
2 1 (1.61%) CMS
2 1 (1.61%) Drupal
2 1 (1.61%) nginx
2 1 (1.61%) PrestaShop
2 1 (1.61%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (19.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.61%) Magento
1 1 (1.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.13%) Azure
2 7 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (8.06%) AWS
4 4 (6.45%) GitHub
4 4 (6.45%) SaaS
5 2 (3.23%) BrowserStack
5 2 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.61%) DigitalOcean
6 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.61%) Wix.com
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) Internet
2 2 (3.23%) DSL
2 2 (3.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.61%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.61%) MySQL
2 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 46 (74.19%) Cucumber
2 33 (53.23%) Selenium
3 23 (37.10%) TeamCity
4 19 (30.65%) JIRA
5 17 (27.42%) Jenkins
6 15 (24.19%) Postman
6 15 (24.19%) SpecFlow
7 6 (9.68%) Git
7 6 (9.68%) JBehave
8 5 (8.06%) JUnit
9 4 (6.45%) JMeter
9 4 (6.45%) Katalon Studio
9 4 (6.45%) SoapUI
9 4 (6.45%) TestNG
9 4 (6.45%) WebDriver
10 3 (4.84%) Appium
10 3 (4.84%) Bitbucket
10 3 (4.84%) Cypress.io
10 3 (4.84%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (3.23%) TestRail
General
1 18 (29.03%) Finance
2 17 (27.42%) Social Skills
3 12 (19.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (19.35%) Law
4 10 (16.13%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (11.29%) Banking
6 6 (9.68%) Retail
7 5 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (6.45%) Investment Banking
8 4 (6.45%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
9 2 (3.23%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (3.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (20.97%) QA Engineer
1 13 (20.97%) Test Engineer
2 12 (19.35%) Senior
3 7 (11.29%) Developer
3 7 (11.29%) Tester
4 6 (9.68%) Automation Tester
4 6 (9.68%) Software Test Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Analyst
6 4 (6.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 4 (6.45%) Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Test Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) Development Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Tester
7 3 (4.84%) Software Development Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Test Development Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) C# Software Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) QA Tester
8 2 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (24.19%) .NET
2 12 (19.35%) REST
3 9 (14.52%) .NET Framework
4 8 (12.90%) Web Services
5 5 (8.06%) HTML
5 5 (8.06%) RESTful
5 5 (8.06%) XML
6 4 (6.45%) React Native
6 4 (6.45%) XSLT
7 3 (4.84%) JSON
7 3 (4.84%) Kafka
7 3 (4.84%) React
7 3 (4.84%) SOAP
7 3 (4.84%) Swagger
8 2 (3.23%) Celery
8 2 (3.23%) jQuery
8 2 (3.23%) JSON Schema
8 2 (3.23%) Playwright
8 2 (3.23%) WireMock
9 1 (1.61%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.68%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.68%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (6.45%) NHS
3 4 (6.45%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (4.84%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.23%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.61%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.23%) Android
1 2 (3.23%) Apple iOS
1 2 (3.23%) Linux
2 1 (1.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (72.58%) Agile
2 41 (66.13%) Test Automation
3 26 (41.94%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (38.71%) Scrum
4 24 (38.71%) Test Scripting
5 23 (37.10%) DevOps
6 16 (25.81%) BDD
6 16 (25.81%) End-to-End Testing
6 16 (25.81%) Test Management
6 16 (25.81%) User Stories
7 14 (22.58%) Mentoring
7 14 (22.58%) Process Improvement
7 14 (22.58%) User Acceptance Testing
8 13 (20.97%) API Testing
8 13 (20.97%) Coaching
8 13 (20.97%) Test Strategy
9 12 (19.35%) CI/CD
9 12 (19.35%) Defect Management
10 11 (17.74%) Software Testing
10 11 (17.74%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (38.71%) SQL
2 20 (32.26%) C#
3 16 (25.81%) JavaScript
4 8 (12.90%) Java
5 7 (11.29%) Python
6 4 (6.45%) Groovy
6 4 (6.45%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.23%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.61%) PHP
8 1 (1.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (20.97%) Degree
2 4 (6.45%) CIPD
2 4 (6.45%) DBS Check
3 3 (4.84%) ISTQB
3 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.84%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (51.61%) QA
2 10 (16.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (6.45%) VMware Server
2 3 (4.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.84%) Ansible
1 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.23%) Consul
3 1 (1.61%) Kustomize
3 1 (1.61%) Packer
3 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (27.42%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.45%) Google
2 4 (6.45%) VMware
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle
3 1 (1.61%) Red Hat