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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 836 767 822
Rank change year-on-year -69 +55 -183
Permanent jobs citing Gherkin 68 152 475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.16% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.31% 0.57% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 36 117 298
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,100 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £58,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +0.87% +9.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -29.17% +14.29% +5.00%

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 22,074 26,882 71,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.09% 29.07% 41.19%
Number of salaries quoted 16,295 17,588 29,917
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -41 67 £52,500 -8.70% 8
UK excluding London -78 51 £42,500 -29.17% 5
Work from Home -3 38 £63,112 +14.75% 4
North of England -7 20 £47,500 -20.83%
London +45 19 £75,000 +36.36% 4
South West -33 12 - - 1
North West -24 11 £47,500 -13.64%
South East -39 10 £42,500 -39.29% 3
Yorkshire +50 9 £35,000 -42.62%
Midlands -31 7 £40,000 -20.00%
West Midlands - 6 £40,000 -
Wales +13 3 £65,000 +22.66% 1
East of England -10 1 £42,500 +8.97%
East Midlands -29 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 (5.88%) Confluence
2 3 (4.41%) nginx
2 3 (4.41%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.47%) Apache
3 1 (1.47%) CMS
3 1 (1.47%) Drupal
3 1 (1.47%) PrestaShop
3 1 (1.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (17.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.47%) Magento
1 1 (1.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.71%) Azure
2 8 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (8.82%) AWS
3 6 (8.82%) SaaS
4 3 (4.41%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.94%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (2.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.94%) GitHub
5 2 (2.94%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.47%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.47%) DigitalOcean
6 1 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.47%) Wix.com
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.88%) Internet
2 2 (2.94%) DSL
2 2 (2.94%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.41%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.47%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.47%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 42 (61.76%) Cucumber
2 35 (51.47%) Selenium
3 25 (36.76%) TeamCity
4 18 (26.47%) JIRA
4 18 (26.47%) SpecFlow
5 17 (25.00%) Postman
6 16 (23.53%) Jenkins
7 8 (11.76%) Git
8 7 (10.29%) WebDriver
9 6 (8.82%) JMeter
9 6 (8.82%) JUnit
10 5 (7.35%) JBehave
10 5 (7.35%) TestNG
11 4 (5.88%) Bitbucket
11 4 (5.88%) Katalon Studio
11 4 (5.88%) TestRail
12 3 (4.41%) Maven
12 3 (4.41%) SoapUI
13 2 (2.94%) LoadUI
13 2 (2.94%) Mockito
General
1 23 (33.82%) Social Skills
2 19 (27.94%) Finance
3 12 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (17.65%) Law
4 10 (14.71%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (8.82%) Public Sector
7 5 (7.35%) Banking
7 5 (7.35%) Retail
8 4 (5.88%) Investment Banking
8 4 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.94%) Automotive
9 2 (2.94%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (2.94%) Legal
9 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.47%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 15 (22.06%) Senior
2 13 (19.12%) Test Engineer
3 12 (17.65%) QA Engineer
4 11 (16.18%) Developer
5 9 (13.24%) Automation Tester
5 9 (13.24%) Tester
6 7 (10.29%) Software Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Analyst
7 6 (8.82%) Software Test Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Development Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) QA Analyst
8 5 (7.35%) QA Tester
8 5 (7.35%) Selenium Test Analyst
8 5 (7.35%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (7.35%) Senior Automation Tester
8 5 (7.35%) Senior QA Analyst
8 5 (7.35%) Senior QA Tester
8 5 (7.35%) Senior Tester
8 5 (7.35%) Software Development Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.06%) .NET
2 14 (20.59%) REST
3 10 (14.71%) .NET Framework
4 7 (10.29%) Web Services
5 5 (7.35%) HTML
5 5 (7.35%) RESTful
5 5 (7.35%) Swagger
5 5 (7.35%) XML
6 4 (5.88%) Kafka
6 4 (5.88%) React Native
6 4 (5.88%) XSLT
7 3 (4.41%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (4.41%) Guice
7 3 (4.41%) JSON
7 3 (4.41%) Mustache
7 3 (4.41%) OpenAPI
7 3 (4.41%) Playwright
7 3 (4.41%) React
7 3 (4.41%) Spring
7 3 (4.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.29%) Product Ownership
1 7 (10.29%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (7.35%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.88%) NHS
3 4 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (4.41%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (4.41%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.94%) Life Science
5 2 (2.94%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.88%) Linux
2 3 (4.41%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.47%) Android
3 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (69.12%) Test Automation
2 45 (66.18%) Agile
3 35 (51.47%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (38.24%) Scrum
5 25 (36.76%) Test Scripting
6 24 (35.29%) DevOps
7 20 (29.41%) BDD
7 20 (29.41%) User Stories
8 15 (22.06%) API Testing
8 15 (22.06%) End-to-End Testing
9 14 (20.59%) CI/CD
9 14 (20.59%) Process Improvement
9 14 (20.59%) Test Strategy
9 14 (20.59%) User Acceptance Testing
10 13 (19.12%) Mentoring
10 13 (19.12%) TDD
10 13 (19.12%) Test Management
11 12 (17.65%) Coaching
11 12 (17.65%) Software Testing
12 11 (16.18%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (41.18%) SQL
2 26 (38.24%) C#
3 18 (26.47%) JavaScript
4 12 (17.65%) Python
5 11 (16.18%) Java
6 5 (7.35%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.88%) Groovy
8 2 (2.94%) C++
9 1 (1.47%) PHP
9 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (23.53%) Degree
2 6 (8.82%) ISTQB
3 4 (5.88%) CIPD
3 4 (5.88%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.94%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.47%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (51.47%) QA
2 9 (13.24%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (8.82%) Docker
2 4 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.88%) VMware Server
3 2 (2.94%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (5.88%) Ansible
1 4 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.41%) Kustomize
2 3 (4.41%) Packer
2 3 (4.41%) Terraform
3 1 (1.47%) Consul
Vendors
1 20 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.88%) Google
2 4 (5.88%) VMware
3 3 (4.41%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.47%) Infragistics