The first table below looks at the demand for Cucumber skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cucumber over the 3 months to 21 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 Cardiff 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cucumber
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff - - -
As % of the Development Applications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
12 20 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 6.557% 8.850% 3.965%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 5
Average daily rate £375 £275 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% +29.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £333 £206 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £373 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Cucumber
South Wales

Cucumber
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff Cucumber Daily Rate Trend

Cucumber
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Content Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Hudson

Cucumber
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Hudson
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Content Management
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby