The first table below looks at the demand for Cucumber skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cucumber 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 Development Applications category for the Bedfordshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cucumber
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.047% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 11.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £313 £288
% change year-on-year
+12.00% +8.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - £30.00
All Development Applications
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
17 12 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 8.901% 4.301% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 15
Average daily rate £350 £330 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% +22.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £348 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
Average hourly rate £34.13 £190.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-82.03% +1166.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Cucumber
East of England

Cucumber
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire Cucumber Jobs Demand Trend

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Cucumber across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Cucumber Daily Rate Trend

Cucumber
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Cucumber 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 Cucumber.

1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) BDD
1 4 (100.00%) SpecFlow
2 3 (75.00%) WebDriver
2 3 (75.00%) Ruby
2 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) MVC
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Kanban
3 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
3 2 (50.00%) Web Development
3 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (50.00%) Gherkin
3 2 (50.00%) Agile Testing
3 2 (50.00%) WATIR
4 1 (25.00%) QA
4 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (25.00%) SOA
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development

Cucumber
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Cucumber 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 Cucumber. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Gherkin
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) SpecFlow
2 3 (75.00%) WebDriver
2 3 (75.00%) Selenium
3 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
3 2 (50.00%) WATIR
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (25.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) MVC
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Kanban
3 2 (50.00%) Web Development
3 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (50.00%) Agile Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (25.00%) SOA
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (25.00%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Ruby
1 3 (75.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA