The first table below looks at the demand for Gherkin skills in IT jobs advertised for the 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gherkin
Rank 504 606 641
Rank change year-on-year
+102 +35
Permanent jobs citing Gherkin 80 30 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.183% 0.056% 0.016%
As % of the Application Development category 0.455% 0.137% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 69 8 4
Average salary £55,000 £56,250 £67,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.22% -16.66%
UK excluding London average salary £44,000 £37,500 -
% change year-on-year
+17.33% -
All Application Development
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
17599 21837 22966
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 40.24% 40.71% 39.60%
Number of salaries quoted 15254 19449 20169
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £33,250
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Gherkin
England

Gherkin
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT 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
Salary Trend

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

London Gherkin Salary Trend

Gherkin
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Gherkin across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Gherkin Salary Histogram

Gherkin
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +10 9 £50,000 -
Docklands, London - 5 £92,500 -
Gherkin
England

Gherkin
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 121 (80.67%) Cucumber
2 107 (71.33%) BDD
3 80 (53.33%) E-Commerce
4 73 (48.67%) Ruby
5 72 (48.00%) C#
6 70 (46.67%) .NET
7 68 (45.33%) TDD
8 67 (44.67%) Selenium
9 66 (44.00%) Agile Software Development
10 65 (43.33%) Scrum
11 63 (42.00%) SQL
12 56 (37.33%) SpecFlow
13 55 (36.67%) Test Automation
14 53 (35.33%) Web Services
14 53 (35.33%) QA
15 49 (32.67%) OO
16 48 (32.00%) Automated Testing
17 45 (30.00%) OOP
17 45 (30.00%) MVC
18 44 (29.33%) SOAP
19 43 (28.67%) Java
19 43 (28.67%) Integration Testing
20 42 (28.00%) User Stories
20 42 (28.00%) SQL Server
20 42 (28.00%) Internet
21 37 (24.67%) ASP.NET
21 37 (24.67%) Kanban
21 37 (24.67%) ASP.NET MVC
22 36 (24.00%) NUnit
23 35 (23.33%) Unit Testing

Gherkin
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 70 (46.67%) .NET
2 53 (35.33%) Web Services
3 44 (29.33%) SOAP
4 37 (24.67%) ASP.NET
4 37 (24.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 34 (22.67%) WCF
6 32 (21.33%) REST
7 24 (16.00%) RESTful
8 23 (15.33%) soapUI
9 22 (14.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 21 (14.00%) NHibernate
11 18 (12.00%) CSS
11 18 (12.00%) HTML
12 17 (11.33%) .NET Framework
13 15 (10.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 11 (7.333%) LINQ
14 11 (7.333%) LINQ to SQL
14 11 (7.333%) ASP.NET MVC 4
15 10 (6.667%) Ajax
15 10 (6.667%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 29 (19.33%) Amazon AWS
2 22 (14.67%) MSMQ
3 8 (5.333%) Tomcat
4 7 (4.667%) Confluence
5 6 (4.000%) IIS
6 5 (3.333%) Oracle Coherence
7 3 (2.000%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.000%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.333%) Drupal
9 1 (0.667%) Magento
Applications
1 3 (2.000%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.333%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 42 (28.00%) Internet
2 2 (1.333%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (28.00%) SQL Server
2 33 (22.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 22 (14.67%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (4.000%) SQL Server 2005
5 5 (3.333%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.000%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.333%) BigTable
7 2 (1.333%) Riak
7 2 (1.333%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.667%) KDB
Development Applications
1 121 (80.67%) Cucumber
2 67 (44.67%) Selenium
3 56 (37.33%) SpecFlow
4 36 (24.00%) NUnit
5 34 (22.67%) Subversion
6 33 (22.00%) TeamCity
7 28 (18.67%) QuickTest Pro
8 25 (16.67%) Rhino Mocks
8 25 (16.67%) Jenkins
9 24 (16.00%) WebDriver
9 24 (16.00%) JIRA
10 22 (14.67%) RSpec
10 22 (14.67%) Moq
10 22 (14.67%) Git (software)
10 22 (14.67%) CruiseControl
11 19 (12.67%) Visual Studio
12 18 (12.00%) JMeter
13 13 (8.667%) Team Foundation Server
14 12 (8.000%) Firebug
14 12 (8.000%) Fiddler
General
1 23 (15.33%) Finance
2 6 (4.000%) Front Office
2 6 (4.000%) Banking
3 5 (3.333%) Investment Banking
4 4 (2.667%) Financial Institution
4 4 (2.667%) Retail
5 1 (0.667%) Games
Job Titles
1 50 (33.33%) Developer
2 39 (26.00%) Analyst
3 30 (20.00%) Test Analyst
4 28 (18.67%) Senior Developer
5 26 (17.33%) Tester
5 26 (17.33%) QA Engineer
6 19 (12.67%) Automation Tester
7 15 (10.00%) Senior QA Engineer
8 13 (8.667%) QA Analyst
9 11 (7.333%) .NET Developer
10 10 (6.667%) Senior .NET Developer
11 8 (5.333%) Lead Developer
11 8 (5.333%) Java Developer
11 8 (5.333%) Test Engineer
12 7 (4.667%) Senior Quality Engineer
12 7 (4.667%) Senior Test Engineer
12 7 (4.667%) Quality Engineer
13 6 (4.000%) Automation Engineer
14 5 (3.333%) Java Software Architect
14 5 (3.333%) Software Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 29 (19.33%) Mobile App
2 16 (10.67%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (10.00%) Open Source
4 11 (7.333%) Client/Server
5 7 (4.667%) Blog
5 7 (4.667%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.333%) Hedge funds
6 5 (3.333%) Clustering
7 4 (2.667%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.667%) Equities
7 4 (2.667%) Derivative
7 4 (2.667%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (1.333%) Mathematics
8 2 (1.333%) Physics
8 2 (1.333%) Computer Science
8 2 (1.333%) iPhone
9 1 (0.667%) Inversion of Control
9 1 (0.667%) Social Gaming
9 1 (0.667%) EPoS
9 1 (0.667%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.00%) Linux
2 12 (8.000%) Android
2 12 (8.000%) Apple iOS
3 6 (4.000%) Windows
4 2 (1.333%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (71.33%) BDD
2 80 (53.33%) E-Commerce
3 68 (45.33%) TDD
4 66 (44.00%) Agile Software Development
5 65 (43.33%) Scrum
6 55 (36.67%) Test Automation
7 49 (32.67%) OO
8 48 (32.00%) Automated Testing
9 45 (30.00%) OOP
9 45 (30.00%) MVC
10 43 (28.67%) Integration Testing
11 42 (28.00%) User Stories
12 37 (24.67%) Kanban
13 35 (23.33%) Unit Testing
14 31 (20.67%) Performance Testing
15 27 (18.00%) Test Scripting
16 25 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
17 22 (14.67%) OOD
17 22 (14.67%) OOA/OOD
18 21 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 73 (48.67%) Ruby
2 72 (48.00%) C#
3 63 (42.00%) SQL
4 43 (28.67%) Java
5 22 (14.67%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.667%) T-SQL
7 8 (5.333%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.000%) Python
8 3 (2.000%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (14.00%) Degree
2 6 (4.000%) ISEB
3 4 (2.667%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (35.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.333%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 11 (7.333%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.333%) Oracle
2 5 (3.333%) JBoss
3 2 (1.333%) Zend
London
Senior C# Developer (.NET, C#.NET, dot NET, ASP.NET MVC, BDD, Behaviour Driven Development, SpecFlow, Cucumber, Gherkin, ORM, NHibernate, Entity Framework, OO, TDD, Unit Testing, Integration Testing,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
City, London
Enjoy writing Java?... The successful candidate will have a comprehensive understanding of Front to Back end development, very good Java skills and a history of working with Javascript,...
Aston Carter
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits + Games + Free Lunch
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Our client can provide you with exposure to, and industry recognised training in: .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 3 / 4, SQL Server 2008 / 2012, Web APIs (...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
Our client can provide you with exposure to, and industry recognised training in: .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 3 / 4, SQL Server 2008 / 2012, Web APIs (...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
Essential skills J2EE. Multiple components of Spring - MVC, Security, Batch, Integration, IOC. RESTful web services. Knowledge of testing frameworks/mocking - Selenium, jUnit, Cucumber, Gherkin... Knowledge of NoSQL... Knowledge...
Oliver Bernard
Salary: £65,000 per annum plus bonus and benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013