Gherkin Jobs
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Gherkin skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Gherkin over the 3 months to 22 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.

Location
 3 months to
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gherkin
Rank 779 855 860
Rank change year-on-year
+76 +5
Permanent jobs citing Gherkin 85 45 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.078% 0.037% 0.008%
As % of the Application Development category 0.193% 0.088% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 74 22 4
Average salary £52,500 £48,750 £67,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -27.77%
UK excluding London average salary £44,000 £37,500 -
% change year-on-year
+17.33% -
All Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 44030 51132 48922
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 40.48% 41.69% 40.02%
Number of salaries quoted 38280 45443 43240
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%

Gherkin
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gherkin Jobs Demand Trend

Gherkin
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Gherkin within the UK.

Gherkin Salary Trend

Gherkin
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Gherkin over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 within the UK.

Gherkin Salary Histogram

Gherkin
Top 14 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 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
England +70 80 £52,500 +5.00%
London +93 77 £55,000 -4.34%
City of London +27 9 £50,000 -16.66%
Docklands, London - 5 £92,500 -
Scotland -2 2 £55,000 +69.23%
Glasgow - 2 £55,000 -
South East 0 1 £50,000 +32.45%
Tyne and Wear - 1 £32,500 -
North West - 1 £35,000 -
North East - 1 £32,500 -
Hampshire - 1 £50,000 -
Cheshire - 1 £35,000 -
Sunderland - 1 £32,500 -
Portsmouth - 1 £50,000 -

Gherkin
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Gherkin.

1 132 (76.74%) Cucumber
2 110 (63.95%) BDD
3 88 (51.16%) Selenium
4 86 (50.00%) C#
4 86 (50.00%) .NET
5 85 (49.42%) E-Commerce
6 75 (43.60%) SQL
6 75 (43.60%) Scrum
7 74 (43.02%) Ruby
8 72 (41.86%) TDD
9 70 (40.70%) Agile Software Development
10 66 (38.37%) QA
11 63 (36.63%) SpecFlow
12 58 (33.72%) Automated Testing
13 57 (33.14%) Test Automation
14 52 (30.23%) Web Services
14 52 (30.23%) Integration Testing
15 51 (29.65%) SOAP
16 50 (29.07%) Unit Testing
16 50 (29.07%) User Stories
17 49 (28.49%) OO
18 47 (27.33%) Java
19 46 (26.74%) SQL Server
20 45 (26.16%) OOP
21 43 (25.00%) MVC
22 42 (24.42%) ASP.NET
23 41 (23.84%) ASP.NET MVC
24 40 (23.26%) Performance Testing
24 40 (23.26%) Internet
25 39 (22.67%) QuickTest Pro

Gherkin
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Gherkin. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 86 (50.00%) .NET
2 52 (30.23%) Web Services
3 51 (29.65%) SOAP
4 42 (24.42%) ASP.NET
5 41 (23.84%) ASP.NET MVC
6 37 (21.51%) WCF
7 32 (18.60%) soapUI
8 29 (16.86%) REST
9 26 (15.12%) NHibernate
10 25 (14.53%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 22 (12.79%) .NET Framework
12 21 (12.21%) RESTful
13 20 (11.63%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 18 (10.47%) HTML
14 18 (10.47%) CSS
15 11 (6.395%) LINQ
15 11 (6.395%) LINQ to SQL
15 11 (6.395%) ASP.NET MVC 4
15 11 (6.395%) XML
16 10 (5.814%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 27 (15.70%) Amazon AWS
2 25 (14.53%) MSMQ
3 8 (4.651%) Tomcat
4 7 (4.070%) Confluence
5 6 (3.488%) IIS
6 5 (2.907%) NServiceBus
6 5 (2.907%) Oracle Coherence
7 4 (2.326%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (2.326%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.581%) Drupal
8 1 (0.581%) Magento
Applications
1 7 (4.070%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.581%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 5 (2.907%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 40 (23.26%) Internet
2 2 (1.163%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (26.74%) SQL Server
2 31 (18.02%) SQL Server 2012
3 26 (15.12%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (3.488%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (1.744%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.163%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.581%) KDB
7 1 (0.581%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.581%) BigTable
7 1 (0.581%) Riak
Development Applications
1 132 (76.74%) Cucumber
2 88 (51.16%) Selenium
3 63 (36.63%) SpecFlow
4 39 (22.67%) QuickTest Pro
5 38 (22.09%) Subversion
6 35 (20.35%) NUnit
7 33 (19.19%) Visual Studio
8 32 (18.60%) TeamCity
9 31 (18.02%) Jenkins
10 29 (16.86%) JIRA
11 28 (16.28%) WebDriver
12 25 (14.53%) Git (software)
12 25 (14.53%) RSpec
13 24 (13.95%) Rhino Mocks
14 23 (13.37%) Team Foundation Server
15 20 (11.63%) Moq
15 20 (11.63%) CruiseControl
16 18 (10.47%) JMeter
17 12 (6.977%) Firebug
17 12 (6.977%) Fiddler
General
1 24 (13.95%) Finance
2 7 (4.070%) Banking
3 6 (3.488%) Front Office
3 6 (3.488%) Investment Banking
3 6 (3.488%) Retail
4 4 (2.326%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.581%) Retail Banking
5 1 (0.581%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (30.81%) Developer
2 48 (27.91%) Analyst
3 37 (21.51%) Test Analyst
4 35 (20.35%) QA Engineer
5 29 (16.86%) Senior Developer
6 27 (15.70%) Tester
7 20 (11.63%) Automation Tester
8 16 (9.302%) QA Analyst
8 16 (9.302%) .NET Developer
9 15 (8.721%) Senior QA Engineer
10 14 (8.140%) Quality Engineer
11 12 (6.977%) Lead Developer
11 12 (6.977%) Senior .NET Developer
12 8 (4.651%) Test Engineer
12 8 (4.651%) Java Developer
13 7 (4.070%) C# Developer
13 7 (4.070%) Senior Test Engineer
13 7 (4.070%) Senior Quality Engineer
14 6 (3.488%) Test Manager
14 6 (3.488%) QA Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 32 (18.60%) Mobile App
2 16 (9.302%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (9.302%) Open Source
3 11 (6.395%) Client/Server
4 7 (4.070%) Blog
4 7 (4.070%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.488%) Derivative
6 5 (2.907%) Hedge funds
6 5 (2.907%) Computer Science
6 5 (2.907%) Clustering
7 4 (2.326%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.326%) Equities
7 4 (2.326%) Credit Derivative
7 4 (2.326%) iPhone
8 2 (1.163%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.163%) Mathematics
8 2 (1.163%) Physics
9 1 (0.581%) Inversion of Control
9 1 (0.581%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.581%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.63%) Linux
2 15 (8.721%) Android
2 15 (8.721%) Apple iOS
3 6 (3.488%) Windows
4 4 (2.326%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (63.95%) BDD
2 85 (49.42%) E-Commerce
3 75 (43.60%) Scrum
4 72 (41.86%) TDD
5 70 (40.70%) Agile Software Development
6 58 (33.72%) Automated Testing
7 57 (33.14%) Test Automation
8 52 (30.23%) Integration Testing
9 50 (29.07%) Unit Testing
9 50 (29.07%) User Stories
10 49 (28.49%) OO
11 45 (26.16%) OOP
12 43 (25.00%) MVC
13 40 (23.26%) Performance Testing
14 37 (21.51%) Test Scripting
14 37 (21.51%) Kanban
15 31 (18.02%) Continuous Integration
16 28 (16.28%) Software Engineering
17 26 (15.12%) Manual Testing
18 24 (13.95%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 86 (50.00%) C#
2 75 (43.60%) SQL
3 74 (43.02%) Ruby
4 47 (27.33%) Java
5 26 (15.12%) JavaScript
6 18 (10.47%) T-SQL
7 8 (4.651%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.326%) Python
9 2 (1.163%) VBA
9 2 (1.163%) PHP
9 2 (1.163%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (15.12%) Degree
2 7 (4.070%) ISEB
3 4 (2.326%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (38.37%) QA
System Software
1 5 (2.907%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 23 (13.37%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.488%) JBoss
3 5 (2.907%) Oracle
4 1 (0.581%) Zend
4 1 (0.581%) HP
4 1 (0.581%) Red Hat
Senior Developer - C#, MVC, ORM - Global E-Commerce Brand
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
Developer in Test /Test Engineer, Social Gaming, Central London
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
Developer - Server-side C#, WCF REST - Global E-commerce Brand
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
Senior Developer - Server-side C#, WCF REST, Agile - E-commerce
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
Java Developer - Sunderland
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
This multi-team agile project makes extensive use of open source technologies and methods including Behaviour Driven Development, Ghekins, Selenium, Jenkins, Jira and kanban... Restful web service integration...
Sopra Group Ltd
Salary: Attractive, plus flexible benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Java Developer - Glasgow
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
This multi-team Agile project makes extensive use of open source technologies and methods including Behaviour Driven Development, Gherkins, Selenium, Jenkins, Jira and kanban... Restful web service integration...
Sopra Group Ltd
Salary: Attractive, plus flexible benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
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