Cucumber Contracts in Berkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Cucumber skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cucumber over the 3 months to 23 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 Berkshire 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cucumber
Rank 116 131 -
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 5 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.208% 0.222% -
As % of the Development Applications category 1.923% 3.846% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 0
Average daily rate £475 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+46.15% -
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
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 260 182 316
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 10.83% 5.776% 10.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 65 104
Average daily rate £375 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £228 £211
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 18
Average hourly rate £15.00 £28.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.42% -37.77%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Cucumber
South East

Cucumber
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire Cucumber Daily Rate Trend

Cucumber
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading - 3 £475 -
Slough -8 2 - -
Cucumber
South East

Cucumber
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 7 (87.50%) Agile Software Development
1 7 (87.50%) Selenium
2 6 (75.00%) BDD
3 5 (62.50%) Java
4 4 (50.00%) TDD
4 4 (50.00%) Spring
4 4 (50.00%) Hibernate
4 4 (50.00%) QA
4 4 (50.00%) FitNesse
5 3 (37.50%) Gherkin
5 3 (37.50%) Automation Testing
5 3 (37.50%) WATIR
5 3 (37.50%) Maven
5 3 (37.50%) Automated Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Ant
6 2 (25.00%) Web Services
6 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
6 2 (25.00%) Grails
6 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
6 2 (25.00%) Groovy
6 2 (25.00%) REST
6 2 (25.00%) Scala
7 1 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (12.50%) JBehave
7 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
7 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
7 1 (12.50%) DbVisualizer
7 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
7 1 (12.50%) soapUI
7 1 (12.50%) Test Automation

Cucumber
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 (50.00%) Spring
1 4 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (37.50%) Gherkin
3 2 (25.00%) Web Services
3 2 (25.00%) Grails
3 2 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (12.50%) soapUI
4 1 (12.50%) RESTful
4 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) XML
4 1 (12.50%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) DbVisualizer
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Selenium
2 4 (50.00%) FitNesse
3 3 (37.50%) WATIR
3 3 (37.50%) Maven
3 3 (37.50%) Ant
4 1 (12.50%) JBehave
4 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
4 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
4 1 (12.50%) JUnit
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Test Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (75.00%) BDD
3 4 (50.00%) TDD
4 3 (37.50%) Automation Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Automated Testing
5 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
5 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
6 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
6 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
6 1 (12.50%) System Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Kanban
6 1 (12.50%) Web Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Scrum
6 1 (12.50%) Extreme Programming
6 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
6 1 (12.50%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Groovy
2 2 (25.00%) Scala
3 1 (12.50%) Ruby
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
1 1 (12.50%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
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