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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 842 786 823
Rank change year-on-year -56 +37 -204
Permanent jobs citing Gherkin 65 162 472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.17% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.30% 0.59% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 39 124 296
10th Percentile £36,500 £45,375 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.43% +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,500 £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 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 21,541 27,618 70,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.52% 29.18% 41.54%
Number of salaries quoted 16,014 17,838 29,844
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +4.65% +17.27%
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 1 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 1 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 -50 64 £51,250 -10.87% 14
UK excluding London -62 48 £42,500 -29.17% 9
Work from Home +2 36 £63,112 +14.75% 7
London +56 19 £75,000 +36.36% 6
North of England +12 18 £47,500 -20.83% 1
South West -17 14 £45,000 +12.50% 1
North West -7 10 £47,500 -13.64% 1
South East -20 9 £42,500 -39.29% 4
Yorkshire +46 8 £35,000 -42.62%
Midlands -9 5 £40,000 -20.00% 2
West Midlands - 4 £40,000 - 2
Wales +9 3 £65,000 +22.66% 1
East of England -1 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 2 (3.08%) Confluence
1 2 (3.08%) nginx
1 2 (3.08%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.54%) Apache
2 1 (1.54%) CMS
2 1 (1.54%) Drupal
2 1 (1.54%) PrestaShop
2 1 (1.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (18.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.54%) Magento
1 1 (1.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.92%) Azure
2 9 (13.85%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.69%) AWS
4 4 (6.15%) SaaS
5 2 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (3.08%) BrowserStack
5 2 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.08%) GitHub
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (1.54%) DigitalOcean
6 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.54%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.54%) Wix.com
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.15%) Internet
2 2 (3.08%) DSL
2 2 (3.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.08%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.54%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 45 (69.23%) Cucumber
2 34 (52.31%) Selenium
3 24 (36.92%) TeamCity
4 17 (26.15%) JIRA
4 17 (26.15%) SpecFlow
5 16 (24.62%) Jenkins
5 16 (24.62%) Postman
6 6 (9.23%) Git
6 6 (9.23%) JBehave
7 5 (7.69%) JUnit
7 5 (7.69%) WebDriver
8 4 (6.15%) JMeter
8 4 (6.15%) Katalon Studio
8 4 (6.15%) TestNG
9 3 (4.62%) Appium
9 3 (4.62%) Bitbucket
9 3 (4.62%) Cypress.io
9 3 (4.62%) SoapUI
10 2 (3.08%) Maven
10 2 (3.08%) TestRail
General
1 19 (29.23%) Finance
1 19 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 12 (18.46%) Law
3 10 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.23%) Banking
4 6 (9.23%) Retail
5 5 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.15%) Investment Banking
6 4 (6.15%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.08%) Fire and Rescue
7 2 (3.08%) Legal
8 1 (1.54%) Back Office
8 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (20.00%) QA Engineer
1 13 (20.00%) Senior
1 13 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 8 (12.31%) Developer
2 8 (12.31%) Tester
3 7 (10.77%) Automation Tester
4 6 (9.23%) Software Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) Software Test Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Development Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 4 (6.15%) Senior Tester
6 4 (6.15%) Software Development Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Test Development Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Test Manager
7 3 (4.62%) QA Automation Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) Selenium Test Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) Selenium Tester
7 3 (4.62%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (24.62%) .NET
2 13 (20.00%) REST
3 10 (15.38%) .NET Framework
4 7 (10.77%) Web Services
5 5 (7.69%) HTML
5 5 (7.69%) RESTful
5 5 (7.69%) XML
6 4 (6.15%) React Native
6 4 (6.15%) Swagger
6 4 (6.15%) XSLT
7 3 (4.62%) JSON
7 3 (4.62%) Kafka
7 3 (4.62%) Playwright
7 3 (4.62%) React
8 2 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (3.08%) Guice
8 2 (3.08%) Mustache
8 2 (3.08%) OpenAPI
8 2 (3.08%) Spring Boot
8 2 (3.08%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.23%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.23%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (6.15%) NHS
3 4 (6.15%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (4.62%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.08%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Android
1 2 (3.08%) Apple iOS
1 2 (3.08%) Linux
2 1 (1.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (69.23%) Agile
2 44 (67.69%) Test Automation
3 29 (44.62%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (38.46%) DevOps
5 24 (36.92%) Test Scripting
6 23 (35.38%) Scrum
7 18 (27.69%) BDD
7 18 (27.69%) User Stories
8 16 (24.62%) End-to-End Testing
9 15 (23.08%) Test Management
10 14 (21.54%) API Testing
10 14 (21.54%) Process Improvement
10 14 (21.54%) Test Strategy
10 14 (21.54%) User Acceptance Testing
11 13 (20.00%) Mentoring
12 12 (18.46%) CI/CD
12 12 (18.46%) Coaching
12 12 (18.46%) Software Testing
13 11 (16.92%) Software Engineering
13 11 (16.92%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.00%) SQL
2 23 (35.38%) C#
3 15 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 8 (12.31%) Java
5 7 (10.77%) Python
6 4 (6.15%) Groovy
7 3 (4.62%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.54%) PHP
8 1 (1.54%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (21.54%) Degree
2 4 (6.15%) CIPD
2 4 (6.15%) DBS Check
2 4 (6.15%) ISTQB
3 2 (3.08%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.08%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.54%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (53.85%) QA
2 9 (13.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (6.15%) Docker
1 4 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (6.15%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 3 (4.62%) Ansible
1 3 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.08%) Kustomize
2 2 (3.08%) Packer
2 2 (3.08%) Terraform
3 1 (1.54%) Consul
Vendors
1 19 (29.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.15%) Google
2 4 (6.15%) VMware
3 2 (3.08%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.54%) Infragistics