The first table below looks at the demand for Cucumber skills in IT contracts advertised for the England 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 England 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 326 377 512
Rank change year-on-year
+51 +135
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 215 171 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.497% 0.323% 0.119%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.450% 3.334% 1.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 135 45
Average daily rate £383 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.37% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £291 £272
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £45.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - -
All Development Applications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
4831 5129 6204
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 11.16% 9.685% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3077 3099 3695
Average daily rate £394 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.06% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £558 £598
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 201 280
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.25 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.67% +6.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £25.00 £26.32
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
Cucumber
UK

Cucumber
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England Cucumber Daily Rate Histogram

Cucumber
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Cucumber across the England region.

England Cucumber Hourly 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 England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +50 178 £400 -3.03% 41
South East +41 20 £403 +23.84% 3
North West - 6 £323 - 3
East of England +21 4 £366 +33.18%
East Midlands - 4 £338 -
Yorkshire -10 3 - - 3
South West - - - - 4
West Midlands - - - -
Cucumber
UK

Cucumber
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 283 (61.12%) Selenium
2 274 (59.18%) BDD
3 253 (54.64%) Ruby
4 249 (53.78%) Java
5 233 (50.32%) TDD
6 231 (49.89%) Agile Software Development
7 175 (37.80%) WebDriver
8 173 (37.37%) QA
9 137 (29.59%) JavaScript
9 137 (29.59%) Scrum
10 115 (24.84%) HTML
11 105 (22.68%) CSS
12 96 (20.73%) Web Services
12 96 (20.73%) Continuous Integration
13 84 (18.14%) Test Automation
14 82 (17.71%) Git (software)
15 80 (17.28%) OO
16 74 (15.98%) E-Commerce
16 74 (15.98%) Automated Testing
17 70 (15.12%) XML
18 69 (14.90%) Automation Testing
19 68 (14.69%) Jenkins
20 65 (14.04%) Maven
21 63 (13.61%) Finance
22 61 (13.17%) SQL
22 61 (13.17%) Spring
23 60 (12.96%) Linux
24 59 (12.74%) Hibernate
24 59 (12.74%) WATIR
25 58 (12.53%) RESTful

Cucumber
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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
1 115 (24.84%) HTML
2 105 (22.68%) CSS
3 96 (20.73%) Web Services
4 70 (15.12%) XML
5 61 (13.17%) Spring
6 59 (12.74%) Hibernate
7 58 (12.53%) RESTful
8 54 (11.66%) Ruby on Rails
9 47 (10.15%) .NET
10 46 (9.935%) jQuery
11 40 (8.639%) REST
12 39 (8.423%) Gherkin
12 39 (8.423%) SOAP
13 34 (7.343%) J2EE
14 33 (7.127%) HTML5
15 29 (6.263%) JSON
16 26 (5.616%) Ajax
17 25 (5.400%) Grails
18 20 (4.320%) CSS3
19 18 (3.888%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 24 (5.184%) CMS
1 24 (5.184%) Tomcat
2 9 (1.944%) Apache
2 9 (1.944%) Adobe CQ
3 8 (1.728%) Confluence
4 6 (1.296%) Apache Solr
4 6 (1.296%) Apache Pig
5 5 (1.080%) ElasticSearch
5 5 (1.080%) Umbraco
5 5 (1.080%) Sitecore CMS
6 4 (0.864%) Amazon AWS
7 2 (0.432%) GlassFish
7 2 (0.432%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.432%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.216%) TeamSite
8 1 (0.216%) nginx
8 1 (0.216%) Jetty
8 1 (0.216%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.864%) MS Office
2 2 (0.432%) Mingle
2 2 (0.432%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.432%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.216%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.184%) HTTP
2 11 (2.376%) Internet
3 7 (1.512%) DVB
3 7 (1.512%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.864%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.648%) LDAP
6 1 (0.216%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.216%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.752%) MySQL
2 15 (3.240%) Big Data
3 13 (2.808%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (2.592%) SQL Server
5 11 (2.376%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.728%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.080%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.080%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.864%) SQL Server 2008
8 4 (0.864%) Sqoop
9 3 (0.648%) Redis
9 3 (0.648%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.432%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.432%) DbVisualizer
10 2 (0.432%) MarkLogic
10 2 (0.432%) Oracle ODI
10 2 (0.432%) DB2
11 1 (0.216%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.216%) TOAD
11 1 (0.216%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 283 (61.12%) Selenium
2 175 (37.80%) WebDriver
3 82 (17.71%) Git (software)
4 68 (14.69%) Jenkins
5 65 (14.04%) Maven
6 59 (12.74%) WATIR
7 57 (12.31%) JUnit
8 54 (11.66%) FitNesse
9 48 (10.37%) RSpec
10 45 (9.719%) Subversion
11 43 (9.287%) Hudson
12 38 (8.207%) JIRA
12 38 (8.207%) SpecFlow
13 33 (7.127%) TeamCity
14 32 (6.911%) JBehave
15 19 (4.104%) Visual Studio
16 17 (3.672%) JMeter
17 15 (3.240%) Eclipse
17 15 (3.240%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 15 (3.240%) TestNG
General
1 63 (13.61%) Finance
2 21 (4.536%) Retail
3 16 (3.456%) Telecoms
3 16 (3.456%) Banking
4 15 (3.240%) Games
5 11 (2.376%) Marketing
6 9 (1.944%) Publishing
6 9 (1.944%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.080%) Law
8 2 (0.432%) Front Office
8 2 (0.432%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.216%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.216%) Advertising
9 1 (0.216%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 169 (36.50%) Developer
2 72 (15.55%) Tester
3 71 (15.33%) Analyst
4 62 (13.39%) Test Analyst
5 56 (12.10%) Java Developer
6 50 (10.80%) QA Engineer
7 35 (7.559%) Test Engineer
7 35 (7.559%) Software Engineer
8 29 (6.263%) Automation Tester
8 29 (6.263%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 22 (4.752%) Automation Engineer
10 21 (4.536%) Automation Analyst
10 21 (4.536%) Agile Java Developer
11 18 (3.888%) Automation Test Analyst
12 16 (3.456%) QA Analyst
13 15 (3.240%) Ruby Developer
14 14 (3.024%) QA Automation Engineer
15 12 (2.592%) Agile Tester
16 11 (2.376%) Senior Developer
17 10 (2.160%) QA Tester
Miscellaneous
1 55 (11.88%) Open Source
2 25 (5.400%) Digital Media
3 14 (3.024%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (2.808%) Mobile App
5 12 (2.592%) Computer Science
6 10 (2.160%) Video on Demand
7 9 (1.944%) Blackberry
8 8 (1.728%) iPhone
8 8 (1.728%) Heroku
8 8 (1.728%) DTV
8 8 (1.728%) Wiki
9 7 (1.512%) Derivative
9 7 (1.512%) IPTV
10 6 (1.296%) Social Media
11 4 (0.864%) Data Integration
11 4 (0.864%) Online Games
11 4 (0.864%) iPad
11 4 (0.864%) STB
12 3 (0.648%) Handset
12 3 (0.648%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 60 (12.96%) Linux
2 27 (5.832%) Android
3 24 (5.184%) UNIX
4 20 (4.320%) Apple iOS
5 15 (3.240%) Windows
6 7 (1.512%) CentOS
7 5 (1.080%) Mac OS X
8 3 (0.648%) Windows Mobile
8 3 (0.648%) bada
8 3 (0.648%) Maemo
9 2 (0.432%) Windows Phone
9 2 (0.432%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.216%) BlackBerry OS
10 1 (0.216%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (59.18%) BDD
2 233 (50.32%) TDD
3 231 (49.89%) Agile Software Development
4 137 (29.59%) Scrum
5 96 (20.73%) Continuous Integration
6 84 (18.14%) Test Automation
7 80 (17.28%) OO
8 74 (15.98%) E-Commerce
8 74 (15.98%) Automated Testing
9 69 (14.90%) Automation Testing
10 41 (8.855%) Test Scripting
11 34 (7.343%) Software Testing
12 29 (6.263%) Pair Programming
13 27 (5.832%) OOP
14 24 (5.184%) Manual Testing
14 24 (5.184%) Workflow
15 23 (4.968%) Regression Testing
16 22 (4.752%) Software Engineering
16 22 (4.752%) User Stories
17 21 (4.536%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 253 (54.64%) Ruby
2 249 (53.78%) Java
3 137 (29.59%) JavaScript
4 61 (13.17%) SQL
5 42 (9.071%) C#
6 31 (6.695%) PHP
7 28 (6.048%) Groovy
8 21 (4.536%) Python
9 15 (3.240%) XPath
10 11 (2.376%) C++
11 9 (1.944%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.512%) XQuery
13 6 (1.296%) Perl
13 6 (1.296%) Objective-C
14 5 (1.080%) Scala
15 4 (0.864%) SPARQL
15 4 (0.864%) Bash shell
15 4 (0.864%) C
15 4 (0.864%) VB
15 4 (0.864%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 20 (4.320%) ISEB
2 18 (3.888%) Degree
3 14 (3.024%) ISTQB
4 3 (0.648%) ISEB Practitioner
4 3 (0.648%) MCTS
4 3 (0.648%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (0.648%) Sun Certification
4 3 (0.648%) MCSD
4 3 (0.648%) MCSE
5 1 (0.216%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.216%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.216%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (37.37%) QA
2 6 (1.296%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.648%) Section 508
4 1 (0.216%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.216%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (0.864%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.432%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 4 (0.864%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (0.648%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (4.536%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.888%) Zend
3 17 (3.672%) Oracle
4 11 (2.376%) Adobe
5 8 (1.728%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.296%) Sitecore
7 5 (1.080%) VMware
8 3 (0.648%) HP
8 3 (0.648%) Apple
9 2 (0.432%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.432%) JBoss
9 2 (0.432%) Sun
9 2 (0.432%) Symbian
9 2 (0.432%) Google
10 1 (0.216%) Omniture
10 1 (0.216%) Endeca
10 1 (0.216%) SAP
10 1 (0.216%) Cognos
10 1 (0.216%) Facebook
10 1 (0.216%) Tableau
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Mortimer Spinks
Posted: 13 June 2013
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Rate: £400 - £450 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
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Rate: From £350 to £380 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
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Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
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Parallel Consulting
Rate: £325 - £375 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
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Rate: £350 - £500 per day + (dependant on experience) + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
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BBC Worldwide Ltd
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Testing Circle Ltd
Rate: Up to £500 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Personnel IT
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
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Touchpoint Resource
Rate: From £400 to £500 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
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Rate: £300 - £350 per annum
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