The first table below looks at the demand for Gherkin skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Gherkin over the 3 months to 20 June 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.

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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gherkin
Rank 498 537 586
Rank change year-on-year
+39 +49
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 43 42 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.088% 0.073% 0.006%
As % of the Application Development category 0.316% 0.285% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 27 2
Average daily rate £325 £413 £316
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.21% +30.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £313 £279
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £475 £353
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
13589 14731 17307
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.79% 25.77% 27.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 8537 8800 10282
Average daily rate £375 £353 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% -11.87%
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 351 379 533
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.50 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%

Gherkin
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Gherkin Daily Rate Trend

Gherkin
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Gherkin within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Gherkin Daily Rate Histogram

Gherkin
Top 17 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 UK over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +31 42 £325 -21.21% 4
London +3 20 £325 -21.21% 3
City of London +7 14 £325 -23.52%
Yorkshire +6 3 - -
West Yorkshire +5 3 - -
Leeds +1 3 - -
Scotland - 1 £350 -
North West - 1 - - 1
Tyne and Wear - - - -
Docklands, London - - - -
North East - - - -
Bradford - - - -
Glasgow - - - -
Sheffield - - - -
Sunderland - - - -
Cheshire - - - - 1
South Yorkshire - - - -

Gherkin
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 49 (75.38%) Selenium
2 45 (69.23%) Agile Software Development
3 42 (64.62%) BDD
4 41 (63.08%) Cucumber
5 36 (55.38%) TDD
6 35 (53.85%) QA
7 31 (47.69%) Scrum
8 29 (44.62%) .NET
9 22 (33.85%) HTML
10 20 (30.77%) SpecFlow
11 19 (29.23%) WebDriver
12 18 (27.69%) C#
13 16 (24.62%) JavaScript
14 15 (23.08%) SQL
14 15 (23.08%) Microsoft
15 14 (21.54%) Web Services
15 14 (21.54%) CSS
16 13 (20.00%) Test Scripting
16 13 (20.00%) Automated Testing
17 12 (18.46%) Performance Testing
17 12 (18.46%) Software Testing
17 12 (18.46%) Test Automation
17 12 (18.46%) Open Source
17 12 (18.46%) ASP.NET
17 12 (18.46%) MVC
18 11 (16.92%) XML
18 11 (16.92%) WCF
19 10 (15.38%) Windows Azure
19 10 (15.38%) Rapid Prototyping
19 10 (15.38%) Continuous Integration

Gherkin
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 29 (44.62%) .NET
2 22 (33.85%) HTML
3 14 (21.54%) Web Services
3 14 (21.54%) CSS
4 12 (18.46%) ASP.NET
5 11 (16.92%) XML
5 11 (16.92%) WCF
6 10 (15.38%) LESS
6 10 (15.38%) Razor View Engine
7 8 (12.31%) SOAP
8 4 (6.154%) ASP
9 3 (4.615%) Hibernate
9 3 (4.615%) RESTful
9 3 (4.615%) Spring
9 3 (4.615%) Zend Framework
9 3 (4.615%) REST
10 2 (3.077%) soapUI
10 2 (3.077%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 2 (3.077%) Grails
10 2 (3.077%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 10 (15.38%) Windows Azure
2 4 (6.154%) CMS
3 3 (4.615%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.538%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (15.38%) MS Excel
2 4 (6.154%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.538%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.077%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 49 (75.38%) Selenium
2 41 (63.08%) Cucumber
3 20 (30.77%) SpecFlow
4 19 (29.23%) WebDriver
5 10 (15.38%) Jenkins
6 9 (13.85%) TeamCity
6 9 (13.85%) Maven
7 8 (12.31%) JUnit
8 7 (10.77%) QuickTest Pro
8 7 (10.77%) Git (software)
9 5 (7.692%) Eclipse
9 5 (7.692%) Visual Studio
9 5 (7.692%) JMeter
9 5 (7.692%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (7.692%) FitNesse
9 5 (7.692%) JIRA
9 5 (7.692%) Hudson
10 4 (6.154%) Behat
10 4 (6.154%) Subversion
10 4 (6.154%) MSI
General
1 5 (7.692%) Retail
2 4 (6.154%) Finance
3 3 (4.615%) Banking
4 2 (3.077%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.077%) Publishing
5 1 (1.538%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.538%) Billing
5 1 (1.538%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (35.38%) Analyst
2 21 (32.31%) Test Analyst
3 19 (29.23%) Tester
4 8 (12.31%) Agile Tester
5 7 (10.77%) Developer
6 6 (9.231%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (9.231%) Senior Test Analyst
6 6 (9.231%) QA Engineer
7 5 (7.692%) Automated Tester
8 4 (6.154%) Software Tester
9 3 (4.615%) Java Developer
9 3 (4.615%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.615%) Automation Tester
9 3 (4.615%) QA Analyst
9 3 (4.615%) PHP Developer
10 2 (3.077%) Senior PHP Developer
10 2 (3.077%) Automation Analyst
10 2 (3.077%) Agile Java Developer
10 2 (3.077%) Test Manager
10 2 (3.077%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.46%) Open Source
2 2 (3.077%) Digital Media
2 2 (3.077%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.077%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.538%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (1.538%) Streaming Music
3 1 (1.538%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.85%) Linux
2 4 (6.154%) Windows
3 1 (1.538%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.538%) Android
3 1 (1.538%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (69.23%) Agile Software Development
2 42 (64.62%) BDD
3 36 (55.38%) TDD
4 31 (47.69%) Scrum
5 13 (20.00%) Test Scripting
5 13 (20.00%) Automated Testing
6 12 (18.46%) Performance Testing
6 12 (18.46%) Software Testing
6 12 (18.46%) Test Automation
6 12 (18.46%) MVC
7 10 (15.38%) Rapid Prototyping
7 10 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (15.38%) Analytics
8 9 (13.85%) Manual Testing
8 9 (13.85%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (12.31%) User Stories
9 8 (12.31%) Agile Testing
10 7 (10.77%) Automation Testing
11 6 (9.231%) Pair Programming
11 6 (9.231%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 18 (27.69%) C#
2 16 (24.62%) JavaScript
3 15 (23.08%) SQL
4 9 (13.85%) Java
4 9 (13.85%) Ruby
5 5 (7.692%) PHP
6 4 (6.154%) VB
7 2 (3.077%) Scala
7 2 (3.077%) Groovy
8 1 (1.538%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (15.38%) PhD
2 1 (1.538%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.538%) BC Cleared
2 1 (1.538%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.538%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.538%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (53.85%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.154%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 15 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.154%) VMware
2 4 (6.154%) Oracle
3 3 (4.615%) Zend
4 1 (1.538%) Apple
4 1 (1.538%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.538%) Facebook
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