Gherkin Contracts in London
 
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 London 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 London 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 360 382 433
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +51
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 25 24 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.116% 0.090% 0.013%
As % of the Application Development category 0.399% 0.321% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 20 2
Average daily rate £325 £385 £316
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.58% +21.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £313 £279
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £430 £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
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 6267 7466 9557
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.02% 27.88% 30.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4542 4907 6404
Average daily rate £405 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £280 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 103 140
Average hourly rate £41.50 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.05% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.20 £17.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Gherkin
England

Gherkin
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London 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 London 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
City of London +23 16 £325 -5.45%
Gherkin
England

Gherkin
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 29 (90.63%) BDD
2 24 (75.00%) Selenium
3 22 (68.75%) Agile Software Development
4 21 (65.63%) TDD
5 19 (59.38%) Cucumber
6 16 (50.00%) QA
7 15 (46.88%) HTML
7 15 (46.88%) JavaScript
8 14 (43.75%) Scrum
9 12 (37.50%) C#
9 12 (37.50%) .NET
10 11 (34.38%) CSS
10 11 (34.38%) Microsoft
11 10 (31.25%) MVC
11 10 (31.25%) MS Excel
11 10 (31.25%) PhD
11 10 (31.25%) ASP.NET
11 10 (31.25%) WCF
11 10 (31.25%) Windows Azure
11 10 (31.25%) Rapid Prototyping
11 10 (31.25%) Razor View Engine
11 10 (31.25%) LESS
11 10 (31.25%) Analytics
12 9 (28.13%) Open Source
13 8 (25.00%) Test Automation
13 8 (25.00%) Linux
13 8 (25.00%) SQL
14 7 (21.88%) Web Services
14 7 (21.88%) Maven
14 7 (21.88%) WebDriver

Gherkin
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 15 (46.88%) HTML
2 12 (37.50%) .NET
3 11 (34.38%) CSS
4 10 (31.25%) ASP.NET
4 10 (31.25%) WCF
4 10 (31.25%) Razor View Engine
4 10 (31.25%) LESS
5 7 (21.88%) Web Services
6 5 (15.63%) XML
7 4 (12.50%) SOAP
8 2 (6.250%) Zend Framework
8 2 (6.250%) RESTful
9 1 (3.125%) REST
9 1 (3.125%) Grails
9 1 (3.125%) Hibernate
9 1 (3.125%) Spring
9 1 (3.125%) Ajax
9 1 (3.125%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 10 (31.25%) Windows Azure
2 3 (9.375%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.125%) CMS
3 1 (3.125%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (31.25%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.125%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (75.00%) Selenium
2 19 (59.38%) Cucumber
3 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
3 7 (21.88%) WebDriver
3 7 (21.88%) Maven
4 6 (18.75%) Git (software)
5 5 (15.63%) QuickTest Pro
5 5 (15.63%) JMeter
5 5 (15.63%) JUnit
5 5 (15.63%) Hudson
6 4 (12.50%) SpecFlow
6 4 (12.50%) Subversion
6 4 (12.50%) JIRA
7 3 (9.375%) Behat
8 2 (6.250%) Eclipse
8 2 (6.250%) IntelliJ
8 2 (6.250%) FitNesse
9 1 (3.125%) Firebug
9 1 (3.125%) Fiddler
9 1 (3.125%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 3 (9.375%) Finance
2 2 (6.250%) Publishing
3 1 (3.125%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Analyst
2 10 (31.25%) Test Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) QA Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Test Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (9.375%) Developer
6 2 (6.250%) Tester
6 2 (6.250%) PHP Developer
7 1 (3.125%) QA Tester
7 1 (3.125%) Senior PHP Developer
7 1 (3.125%) Web Analyst
7 1 (3.125%) Web Test Analyst
7 1 (3.125%) Agile Test Analyst
7 1 (3.125%) Agile Java Developer
7 1 (3.125%) Automation Tester
7 1 (3.125%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.125%) Business Analyst
7 1 (3.125%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.125%) Test Engineer
7 1 (3.125%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Open Source
2 3 (9.375%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.375%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.125%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (3.125%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (90.63%) BDD
2 22 (68.75%) Agile Software Development
3 21 (65.63%) TDD
4 14 (43.75%) Scrum
5 10 (31.25%) MVC
5 10 (31.25%) Analytics
5 10 (31.25%) Rapid Prototyping
6 8 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 5 (15.63%) Test Scripting
8 4 (12.50%) Software Testing
8 4 (12.50%) Pair Programming
9 3 (9.375%) Performance Testing
9 3 (9.375%) Regression Testing
9 3 (9.375%) User Stories
10 2 (6.250%) Test Strategy
10 2 (6.250%) Load Testing
10 2 (6.250%) Integration Testing
10 2 (6.250%) Manual Testing
10 2 (6.250%) OO
10 2 (6.250%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 15 (46.88%) JavaScript
2 12 (37.50%) C#
3 8 (25.00%) SQL
4 4 (12.50%) Ruby
4 4 (12.50%) Java
4 4 (12.50%) PHP
5 1 (3.125%) Groovy
5 1 (3.125%) Scala
5 1 (3.125%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) PhD
2 1 (3.125%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.250%) Zend
3 1 (3.125%) Sitecore
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