The first table below looks at the demand for Gherkin skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Gherkin over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Bedfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gherkin
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
38 50 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 20.54% 17.73% 28.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 28 37
Average daily rate £350 £325 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +62.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £403
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Gherkin
East of England

Gherkin
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Gherkin across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Bedfordshire Gherkin Jobs Demand Trend

Gherkin
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Gherkin also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Gherkin.

1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver

Gherkin
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Gherkin also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Gherkin. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA