The first table below looks at the demand for Gherkin skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Gherkin over the 3 months to 24 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gherkin
Rank 312 322 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Permanent jobs citing Gherkin 9 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.077% 0.008% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.201% 0.020% -
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 0
Average salary £50,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £44,000 £37,500 -
% change year-on-year
+17.33% -
All Application Development
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
4488 4889 5623
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 38.47% 37.42% 36.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3945 4578 5183
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Gherkin
London

Gherkin
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Gherkin Jobs Demand Trend

Gherkin
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Gherkin across the City of London region.

City of London Gherkin Salary Trend

Gherkin
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Gherkin.

1 15 (93.75%) Selenium
2 11 (68.75%) Cucumber
3 10 (62.50%) Integration Testing
4 9 (56.25%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (50.00%) Performance Testing
5 8 (50.00%) QA
5 8 (50.00%) BDD
5 8 (50.00%) Test Strategy
5 8 (50.00%) User Stories
6 7 (43.75%) SQL
6 7 (43.75%) Open Source
6 7 (43.75%) Automated Testing
7 6 (37.50%) E-Commerce
7 6 (37.50%) Test Scripting
8 5 (31.25%) QuickTest Pro
8 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
8 5 (31.25%) Finance
9 4 (25.00%) JMeter
9 4 (25.00%) Regression Testing
9 4 (25.00%) Tomcat
9 4 (25.00%) SOAP
9 4 (25.00%) Linux
9 4 (25.00%) Visual Studio
9 4 (25.00%) Unit Testing
9 4 (25.00%) TDD
9 4 (25.00%) Subversion
9 4 (25.00%) Maven
9 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
9 4 (25.00%) Hudson
9 4 (25.00%) soapUI

Gherkin
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Gherkin. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (25.00%) SOAP
1 4 (25.00%) soapUI
2 3 (18.75%) .NET
3 2 (12.50%) Web Services
4 1 (6.250%) REST
4 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (6.250%) WCF
4 1 (6.250%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (6.250%) NHibernate
4 1 (6.250%) .NET Framework
4 1 (6.250%) HTML
4 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET
4 1 (6.250%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (6.250%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.250%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.250%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (93.75%) Selenium
2 11 (68.75%) Cucumber
3 5 (31.25%) QuickTest Pro
4 4 (25.00%) JMeter
4 4 (25.00%) Visual Studio
4 4 (25.00%) Subversion
4 4 (25.00%) Maven
4 4 (25.00%) Hudson
5 3 (18.75%) SpecFlow
5 3 (18.75%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (18.75%) JIRA
6 2 (12.50%) JBehave
7 1 (6.250%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Retail
3 1 (6.250%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 8 (50.00%) Tester
2 6 (37.50%) QA Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) QA Automation Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior QA Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Developer
4 1 (6.250%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (6.250%) .NET Developer
4 1 (6.250%) C# Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Test Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Open Source
2 3 (18.75%) Hedge funds
3 1 (6.250%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (6.250%) Social Gaming
3 1 (6.250%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (6.250%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Integration Testing
2 9 (56.25%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 8 (50.00%) BDD
3 8 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 8 (50.00%) User Stories
4 7 (43.75%) Automated Testing
5 6 (37.50%) E-Commerce
5 6 (37.50%) Test Scripting
6 4 (25.00%) Regression Testing
6 4 (25.00%) Unit Testing
6 4 (25.00%) TDD
6 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (12.50%) MVC
7 2 (12.50%) Scrum
7 2 (12.50%) Automation Testing
8 1 (6.250%) Manual Testing
8 1 (6.250%) Dependency Injection
8 1 (6.250%) Usability Testing
8 1 (6.250%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) Ruby
3 3 (18.75%) C#
4 1 (6.250%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
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