The first table below looks at the demand for Cucumber skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 55 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.122% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 1.493% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 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
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
67 68 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 8.161% 6.256% 5.762%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 29 41
Average daily rate £350 £325 £398
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -18.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £440 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
Average hourly rate - £27.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +30.95%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Cucumber
Scotland

Cucumber
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Cucumber Daily Rate Trend

Cucumber
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Automated Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) RSpec
1 1 (50.00%) JBehave
1 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) CoffeeScript
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Testing

Cucumber
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (50.00%) RSpec
1 1 (50.00%) JBehave
1 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Automated Testing
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
1 1 (50.00%) CoffeeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA