Gherkin Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Gherkin skills in IT contracts advertised for the England 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 England 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 467 527 568
Rank change year-on-year
+60 +41
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 43 31 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.103% 0.058% 0.007%
As % of the Application Development category 0.379% 0.221% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 25 2
Average daily rate £325 £313 £316
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -1.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £279
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £425 £353
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
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 11360 14029 15876
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.33% 26.29% 28.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7272 8431 9356
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 351 353 555
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £35.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -7.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £15.00 £18.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Gherkin
UK

Gherkin
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Gherkin Jobs Demand Trend

Gherkin
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Gherkin across the England region.

England Gherkin Daily Rate Trend

Gherkin
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Gherkin across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Gherkin Daily Rate Histogram

Gherkin
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +22 25 £325 -15.58%
South East +32 13 £300 -
Yorkshire +1 3 - -
North West +15 1 - -
East of England - 1 £383 -
Gherkin
UK

Gherkin
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 43 (78.18%) Selenium
2 38 (69.09%) BDD
3 37 (67.27%) Agile Software Development
4 35 (63.64%) Cucumber
5 31 (56.36%) TDD
6 28 (50.91%) QA
7 25 (45.45%) Scrum
8 24 (43.64%) .NET
9 21 (38.18%) HTML
10 17 (30.91%) JavaScript
10 17 (30.91%) C#
11 16 (29.09%) CSS
12 15 (27.27%) SpecFlow
13 14 (25.45%) Microsoft
13 14 (25.45%) WebDriver
13 14 (25.45%) Test Scripting
14 12 (21.82%) MVC
14 12 (21.82%) ASP.NET
14 12 (21.82%) SQL
14 12 (21.82%) Web Services
15 11 (20.00%) Performance Testing
15 11 (20.00%) WCF
16 10 (18.18%) Windows Azure
16 10 (18.18%) Rapid Prototyping
16 10 (18.18%) Open Source
16 10 (18.18%) MS Excel
16 10 (18.18%) PhD
16 10 (18.18%) LESS
16 10 (18.18%) Razor View Engine
16 10 (18.18%) Analytics

Gherkin
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 24 (43.64%) .NET
2 21 (38.18%) HTML
3 16 (29.09%) CSS
4 12 (21.82%) ASP.NET
4 12 (21.82%) Web Services
5 11 (20.00%) WCF
6 10 (18.18%) Razor View Engine
6 10 (18.18%) LESS
7 9 (16.36%) XML
8 5 (9.091%) SOAP
9 3 (5.455%) ASP
9 3 (5.455%) RESTful
10 2 (3.636%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (3.636%) soapUI
10 2 (3.636%) REST
10 2 (3.636%) Zend Framework
10 2 (3.636%) Grails
10 2 (3.636%) jQuery
10 2 (3.636%) Hibernate
10 2 (3.636%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 10 (18.18%) Windows Azure
2 4 (7.273%) CMS
3 3 (5.455%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.818%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (18.18%) MS Excel
2 3 (5.455%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.818%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.818%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 43 (78.18%) Selenium
2 35 (63.64%) Cucumber
3 15 (27.27%) SpecFlow
4 14 (25.45%) WebDriver
5 8 (14.55%) Jenkins
6 7 (12.73%) Maven
7 6 (10.91%) JUnit
7 6 (10.91%) Hudson
7 6 (10.91%) Git (software)
8 5 (9.091%) QuickTest Pro
8 5 (9.091%) JMeter
8 5 (9.091%) JIRA
8 5 (9.091%) Subversion
9 4 (7.273%) TeamCity
9 4 (7.273%) FitNesse
9 4 (7.273%) Visual Studio
10 3 (5.455%) MSI
10 3 (5.455%) Behat
11 2 (3.636%) Eclipse
11 2 (3.636%) IntelliJ
General
1 4 (7.273%) Finance
2 2 (3.636%) Publishing
3 1 (1.818%) Banking
3 1 (1.818%) Billing
3 1 (1.818%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (43.64%) Analyst
2 21 (38.18%) Test Analyst
3 10 (18.18%) Tester
4 6 (10.91%) QA Engineer
5 5 (9.091%) Automated Tester
5 5 (9.091%) Developer
6 4 (7.273%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (7.273%) Senior Test Analyst
6 4 (7.273%) QA Analyst
7 3 (5.455%) Agile Tester
8 2 (3.636%) Automation Analyst
8 2 (3.636%) PHP Developer
8 2 (3.636%) Agile Java Developer
8 2 (3.636%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.636%) Test Engineer
8 2 (3.636%) Web Analyst
8 2 (3.636%) Web Test Analyst
8 2 (3.636%) Test Manager
9 1 (1.818%) Senior Developer
9 1 (1.818%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.18%) Open Source
2 3 (5.455%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.455%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.818%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (1.818%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.818%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.55%) Linux
2 3 (5.455%) Windows
3 1 (1.818%) UNIX
3 1 (1.818%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.818%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (69.09%) BDD
2 37 (67.27%) Agile Software Development
3 31 (56.36%) TDD
4 25 (45.45%) Scrum
5 14 (25.45%) Test Scripting
6 12 (21.82%) MVC
7 11 (20.00%) Performance Testing
8 10 (18.18%) Analytics
8 10 (18.18%) Rapid Prototyping
9 9 (16.36%) Test Automation
10 8 (14.55%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (14.55%) Manual Testing
10 8 (14.55%) Software Testing
11 7 (12.73%) Automated Testing
11 7 (12.73%) E-Commerce
12 5 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
13 4 (7.273%) User Stories
13 4 (7.273%) Automation Testing
13 4 (7.273%) Regression Testing
13 4 (7.273%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.91%) C#
1 17 (30.91%) JavaScript
2 12 (21.82%) SQL
3 8 (14.55%) Ruby
4 5 (9.091%) Java
5 4 (7.273%) PHP
6 3 (5.455%) VB
7 2 (3.636%) Groovy
7 2 (3.636%) Scala
8 1 (1.818%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (18.18%) PhD
2 1 (1.818%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.818%) Degree
2 1 (1.818%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.818%) BC Cleared
2 1 (1.818%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (50.91%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.455%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 14 (25.45%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.455%) VMware
2 3 (5.455%) Oracle
3 2 (3.636%) Zend
4 1 (1.818%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.818%) Apple
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