Cucumber Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

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 24 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 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cucumber
Rank 315 415 507
Rank change year-on-year
+100 +92
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 208 144 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.500% 0.270% 0.114%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.499% 2.895% 1.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 118 40
Average daily rate £388 £388 £333
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +16.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £288 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £483 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £306 £288
% change year-on-year
+14.28% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £45.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - -
Search 93 Cucumber jobs in England
All Development Applications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 4623 4974 6010
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 11.12% 9.325% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2946 3009 3467
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 205 309
Average hourly rate £37.80 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £23.88 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
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 24 May 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 24 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
London +82 174 £400 -2.43%
South East +19 17 £400 +28.00%
North West - 7 £323 -
East Midlands - 4 £325 -
East of England +20 3 £350 +27.27%
Yorkshire -8 3 - -
Cucumber
UK

Cucumber
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 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.

1 323 (65.12%) Selenium
2 294 (59.27%) BDD
3 280 (56.45%) Java
4 259 (52.22%) Ruby
5 252 (50.81%) TDD
6 236 (47.58%) Agile Software Development
7 203 (40.93%) WebDriver
8 187 (37.70%) QA
9 138 (27.82%) JavaScript
10 136 (27.42%) Scrum
11 121 (24.40%) HTML
12 110 (22.18%) Continuous Integration
13 106 (21.37%) CSS
14 96 (19.35%) OO
15 92 (18.55%) Git (software)
16 91 (18.35%) Web Services
17 84 (16.94%) Test Automation
18 77 (15.52%) E-Commerce
19 71 (14.31%) Linux
19 71 (14.31%) XML
19 71 (14.31%) Automated Testing
19 71 (14.31%) Jenkins
19 71 (14.31%) Automation Testing
20 66 (13.31%) RESTful
21 65 (13.10%) JUnit
22 64 (12.90%) Finance
23 62 (12.50%) Maven
24 60 (12.10%) WATIR
25 57 (11.49%) SQL
26 56 (11.29%) FitNesse

Cucumber
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 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
1 121 (24.40%) HTML
2 106 (21.37%) CSS
3 91 (18.35%) Web Services
4 71 (14.31%) XML
5 66 (13.31%) RESTful
6 55 (11.09%) Ruby on Rails
6 55 (11.09%) Spring
7 48 (9.677%) Hibernate
8 47 (9.476%) jQuery
9 45 (9.073%) .NET
10 37 (7.460%) REST
11 36 (7.258%) J2EE
12 35 (7.056%) SOAP
13 33 (6.653%) Gherkin
14 32 (6.452%) JSON
15 31 (6.250%) HTML5
16 23 (4.637%) Grails
17 19 (3.831%) CSS3
17 19 (3.831%) Ajax
18 16 (3.226%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 34 (6.855%) CMS
2 17 (3.427%) Tomcat
2 17 (3.427%) Adobe CQ
3 14 (2.823%) ActiveMQ
4 7 (1.411%) Confluence
5 6 (1.210%) Apache Pig
5 6 (1.210%) Apache
6 5 (1.008%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (1.008%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.403%) nginx
7 2 (0.403%) TeamSite
7 2 (0.403%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.403%) GlassFish
8 1 (0.202%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.202%) Jetty
8 1 (0.202%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.202%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.605%) MS Office
2 2 (0.403%) Mingle
2 2 (0.403%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.202%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.202%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.645%) HTTP
2 13 (2.621%) Internet
3 6 (1.210%) DVB
3 6 (1.210%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.605%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.605%) LDAP
5 1 (0.202%) 3G
5 1 (0.202%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.226%) Big Data
1 16 (3.226%) NoSQL
2 14 (2.823%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (2.823%) MySQL
3 8 (1.613%) MongoDB
3 8 (1.613%) Hadoop
3 8 (1.613%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.411%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (1.210%) Redis
6 5 (1.008%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.806%) Sqoop
8 2 (0.403%) Apache Hive
8 2 (0.403%) MarkLogic
8 2 (0.403%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.202%) SQLite
9 1 (0.202%) Oracle 8/8i
9 1 (0.202%) TOAD
9 1 (0.202%) DbVisualizer
9 1 (0.202%) SQL Server 2008
9 1 (0.202%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 323 (65.12%) Selenium
2 203 (40.93%) WebDriver
3 92 (18.55%) Git (software)
4 71 (14.31%) Jenkins
5 65 (13.10%) JUnit
6 62 (12.50%) Maven
7 60 (12.10%) WATIR
8 56 (11.29%) FitNesse
9 55 (11.09%) Hudson
10 52 (10.48%) RSpec
10 52 (10.48%) Subversion
11 46 (9.274%) JBehave
12 42 (8.468%) TeamCity
13 36 (7.258%) JIRA
14 35 (7.056%) SpecFlow
15 23 (4.637%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 17 (3.427%) QuickTest Pro
16 17 (3.427%) Mockito
17 16 (3.226%) JMeter
17 16 (3.226%) CruiseControl
General
1 64 (12.90%) Finance
2 19 (3.831%) Banking
2 19 (3.831%) Games
3 17 (3.427%) Telecoms
4 16 (3.226%) Retail
5 11 (2.218%) Publishing
6 10 (2.016%) Investment Banking
7 8 (1.613%) Marketing
8 5 (1.008%) Law
9 3 (0.605%) Multimedia
9 3 (0.605%) Front Office
10 2 (0.403%) Music
11 1 (0.202%) Music Industry
11 1 (0.202%) Electronics
11 1 (0.202%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.202%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 170 (34.27%) Developer
2 83 (16.73%) Analyst
3 76 (15.32%) Tester
4 72 (14.52%) Test Analyst
5 60 (12.10%) QA Engineer
6 52 (10.48%) Java Developer
7 37 (7.460%) Test Engineer
8 33 (6.653%) Software Engineer
8 33 (6.653%) Automation Tester
9 32 (6.452%) Ruby on Rails Developer
10 24 (4.839%) Automation Analyst
11 23 (4.637%) Automation Engineer
12 22 (4.435%) Agile Java Developer
13 21 (4.234%) Automation Test Analyst
14 19 (3.831%) QA Analyst
15 15 (3.024%) Ruby Developer
16 14 (2.823%) QA Automation Engineer
17 12 (2.419%) QA Tester
18 9 (1.815%) Software Developer
18 9 (1.815%) Agile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.274%) Open Source
2 26 (5.242%) Digital Media
3 22 (4.435%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (2.823%) Mobile App
5 11 (2.218%) Computer Science
5 11 (2.218%) Video on Demand
6 9 (1.815%) Wiki
6 9 (1.815%) Derivative
6 9 (1.815%) Blackberry
6 9 (1.815%) Heroku
7 8 (1.613%) Social Media
7 8 (1.613%) iPhone
8 7 (1.411%) DTV
9 6 (1.210%) Online Games
9 6 (1.210%) IPTV
10 4 (0.806%) iPad
10 4 (0.806%) Social Gaming
10 4 (0.806%) Data Integration
11 3 (0.605%) STB
11 3 (0.605%) Interactive TV
Operating Systems
1 71 (14.31%) Linux
2 28 (5.645%) Android
3 23 (4.637%) UNIX
4 20 (4.032%) Apple iOS
5 14 (2.823%) Windows
6 5 (1.008%) Mac OS X
7 3 (0.605%) Windows Mobile
7 3 (0.605%) Windows Phone
7 3 (0.605%) CentOS
7 3 (0.605%) bada
7 3 (0.605%) Maemo
8 2 (0.403%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.202%) BlackBerry OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (59.27%) BDD
2 252 (50.81%) TDD
3 236 (47.58%) Agile Software Development
4 136 (27.42%) Scrum
5 110 (22.18%) Continuous Integration
6 96 (19.35%) OO
7 84 (16.94%) Test Automation
8 77 (15.52%) E-Commerce
9 71 (14.31%) Automated Testing
9 71 (14.31%) Automation Testing
10 42 (8.468%) Test Scripting
11 33 (6.653%) Workflow
12 32 (6.452%) Software Testing
13 30 (6.048%) Pair Programming
14 25 (5.040%) Web Testing
14 25 (5.040%) SOA
15 24 (4.839%) Manual Testing
16 23 (4.637%) OOP
16 23 (4.637%) Regression Testing
17 21 (4.234%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 280 (56.45%) Java
2 259 (52.22%) Ruby
3 138 (27.82%) JavaScript
4 57 (11.49%) SQL
5 38 (7.661%) C#
6 30 (6.048%) Groovy
6 30 (6.048%) PHP
7 19 (3.831%) Python
8 14 (2.823%) XPath
9 12 (2.419%) C++
10 8 (1.613%) Scala
11 7 (1.411%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.411%) XQuery
12 6 (1.210%) Perl
12 6 (1.210%) Objective-C
13 5 (1.008%) C
13 5 (1.008%) ActionScript
14 4 (0.806%) Bash shell
14 4 (0.806%) SPARQL
14 4 (0.806%) CoffeeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (4.234%) ISEB
2 18 (3.629%) Degree
3 14 (2.823%) ISTQB
4 3 (0.605%) ISEB Practitioner
4 3 (0.605%) Sun Certification
5 1 (0.202%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.202%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.202%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (37.70%) QA
2 12 (2.419%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.202%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.202%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (0.605%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.403%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 4 (0.806%) Puppet
2 3 (0.605%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 19 (3.831%) Adobe
2 16 (3.226%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.621%) Oracle
4 7 (1.411%) Zend
5 6 (1.210%) Sitecore
6 5 (1.008%) VMware
7 3 (0.605%) Symbian
7 3 (0.605%) Apple
7 3 (0.605%) HP
7 3 (0.605%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.403%) Sun
8 2 (0.403%) JBoss
9 1 (0.202%) Omniture
9 1 (0.202%) Google
9 1 (0.202%) SAP
9 1 (0.202%) Cognos
9 1 (0.202%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.202%) Tableau
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