The first table below looks at the demand for Cucumber skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cucumber over the 3 months to 19 June 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 City of London 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cucumber
Rank 163 185 235
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +50
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 47 27 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.693% 0.349% 0.160%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.003% 3.644% 1.570%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 21 13
Average daily rate £400 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £270 £271
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - -
All Development Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
783 741 1019
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 11.55% 9.572% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 569 787
Average daily rate £400 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.11% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £300 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 6
Average hourly rate £42.50 £34.00 £33.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.99% +2.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £23.80 £17.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £59.30 £39.20 £81.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
Cucumber
London

Cucumber
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Cucumber Daily Rate Trend

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cucumber across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London Cucumber Daily Rate Histogram

Cucumber
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 74 (67.89%) Selenium
2 70 (64.22%) Ruby
3 62 (56.88%) Agile Software Development
4 60 (55.05%) BDD
5 58 (53.21%) TDD
6 53 (48.62%) Java
7 47 (43.12%) QA
8 37 (33.94%) JavaScript
9 33 (30.28%) CSS
10 29 (26.61%) Scrum
11 28 (25.69%) Finance
12 27 (24.77%) WebDriver
13 26 (23.85%) HTML
14 24 (22.02%) Web Services
15 23 (21.10%) Continuous Integration
16 22 (20.18%) Hibernate
17 21 (19.27%) OO
17 21 (19.27%) E-Commerce
17 21 (19.27%) Test Automation
18 20 (18.35%) .NET
19 18 (16.51%) FitNesse
19 18 (16.51%) C#
19 18 (16.51%) Git (software)
19 18 (16.51%) Jenkins
20 17 (15.60%) Automation Testing
20 17 (15.60%) J2EE
21 16 (14.68%) Spring
22 15 (13.76%) WATIR
22 15 (13.76%) Groovy
23 14 (12.84%) Grails

Cucumber
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 33 (30.28%) CSS
2 26 (23.85%) HTML
3 24 (22.02%) Web Services
4 22 (20.18%) Hibernate
5 20 (18.35%) .NET
6 17 (15.60%) J2EE
7 16 (14.68%) Spring
8 14 (12.84%) Grails
8 14 (12.84%) Ruby on Rails
9 12 (11.01%) RESTful
10 11 (10.09%) jQuery
11 10 (9.174%) SOAP
12 9 (8.257%) Ajax
12 9 (8.257%) HTML5
13 8 (7.339%) CSS3
13 8 (7.339%) XML
14 6 (5.505%) Gherkin
14 6 (5.505%) REST
15 5 (4.587%) JSON
15 5 (4.587%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (1.835%) Apache
1 2 (1.835%) WebLogic
1 2 (1.835%) CMS
2 1 (0.917%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.917%) nginx
2 1 (0.917%) Umbraco
2 1 (0.917%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.917%) Adobe CQ
2 1 (0.917%) ElasticSearch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.917%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.752%) HTTP
2 2 (1.835%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.670%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.752%) MySQL
3 2 (1.835%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (0.917%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.917%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.917%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (0.917%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.917%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.917%) Redis
4 1 (0.917%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.917%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 74 (67.89%) Selenium
2 27 (24.77%) WebDriver
3 18 (16.51%) FitNesse
3 18 (16.51%) Git (software)
3 18 (16.51%) Jenkins
4 15 (13.76%) WATIR
5 13 (11.93%) JUnit
6 12 (11.01%) Maven
7 11 (10.09%) SpecFlow
8 10 (9.174%) Visual Studio
9 9 (8.257%) Subversion
9 9 (8.257%) Concordion
10 8 (7.339%) Hudson
11 7 (6.422%) JIRA
11 7 (6.422%) RSpec
12 5 (4.587%) JMeter
12 5 (4.587%) QuickTest Pro
12 5 (4.587%) JBehave
13 4 (3.670%) TeamCity
13 4 (3.670%) Ant
General
1 28 (25.69%) Finance
2 9 (8.257%) Retail
3 6 (5.505%) Banking
4 5 (4.587%) Marketing
4 5 (4.587%) Investment Banking
4 5 (4.587%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.670%) Games
6 1 (0.917%) Electronics
6 1 (0.917%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 47 (43.12%) Developer
2 19 (17.43%) QA Engineer
3 18 (16.51%) Java Developer
4 17 (15.60%) Analyst
5 14 (12.84%) Agile Java Developer
5 14 (12.84%) Test Analyst
6 12 (11.01%) Tester
7 10 (9.174%) Automation Analyst
8 9 (8.257%) Automation Test Analyst
9 8 (7.339%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (7.339%) Test Engineer
10 7 (6.422%) Automation Tester
10 7 (6.422%) Ruby on Rails Developer
11 6 (5.505%) QA Automation Engineer
12 5 (4.587%) JavaScript Developer
12 5 (4.587%) QA Tester
12 5 (4.587%) Front-End Developer
12 5 (4.587%) Ruby Developer
13 4 (3.670%) C# Developer
13 4 (3.670%) QA Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.174%) Open Source
2 7 (6.422%) Derivative
3 2 (1.835%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.835%) Hedge funds
3 2 (1.835%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.835%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.835%) Wiki
4 1 (0.917%) Equities
4 1 (0.917%) Spread Betting
4 1 (0.917%) IPTV
4 1 (0.917%) Blackberry
4 1 (0.917%) DTV
4 1 (0.917%) Digital Media
4 1 (0.917%) Video on Demand
4 1 (0.917%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.339%) Linux
2 3 (2.752%) Android
3 2 (1.835%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (56.88%) Agile Software Development
2 60 (55.05%) BDD
3 58 (53.21%) TDD
4 29 (26.61%) Scrum
5 23 (21.10%) Continuous Integration
6 21 (19.27%) OO
6 21 (19.27%) E-Commerce
6 21 (19.27%) Test Automation
7 17 (15.60%) Automation Testing
8 12 (11.01%) Refactoring
9 9 (8.257%) OOD
9 9 (8.257%) Automated Testing
9 9 (8.257%) Software Engineering
9 9 (8.257%) Web Testing
10 7 (6.422%) Test Scripting
11 6 (5.505%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (4.587%) Software Testing
12 5 (4.587%) OOP
12 5 (4.587%) Test Strategy
12 5 (4.587%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 70 (64.22%) Ruby
2 53 (48.62%) Java
3 37 (33.94%) JavaScript
4 18 (16.51%) C#
5 15 (13.76%) Groovy
6 13 (11.93%) SQL
7 8 (7.339%) C++
8 3 (2.752%) PHP
9 2 (1.835%) Python
9 2 (1.835%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.917%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.917%) Ada
10 1 (0.917%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (1.835%) Sun Certification
2 1 (0.917%) Degree
2 1 (0.917%) MCTS
2 1 (0.917%) MCSD
2 1 (0.917%) MCSE
2 1 (0.917%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (43.12%) QA
2 1 (0.917%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.917%) Section 508
Vendors
1 10 (9.174%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.752%) Oracle
3 2 (1.835%) Sun
4 1 (0.917%) Endeca
4 1 (0.917%) Google
4 1 (0.917%) SAP
4 1 (0.917%) Adobe
4 1 (0.917%) Sitecore
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