The first table below looks at the demand for Cucumber skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hounslow 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 Hounslow 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 15 13 -
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 3 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 5.000% 2.597% -
As % of the Development Applications category 20.00% 13.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £306 £288
% change year-on-year
+14.28% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - -
All Development Applications
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
15 15 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 25.00% 19.48% 7.143%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 2
Average daily rate £400 £330 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.21% -
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
London

Cucumber
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hounslow 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 Hounslow region.

Hounslow Cucumber Daily Rate Trend

Cucumber
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 8 (100.00%) Scrum
1 8 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 8 (100.00%) BDD
2 7 (87.50%) TDD
2 7 (87.50%) HTML
2 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
3 6 (75.00%) Java
3 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 6 (75.00%) Web Services
3 6 (75.00%) Selenium
4 5 (62.50%) JSON
4 5 (62.50%) HTTP
4 5 (62.50%) Ruby
4 5 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
4 5 (62.50%) RESTful
4 5 (62.50%) XML
5 4 (50.00%) Pair Programming
5 4 (50.00%) Video on Demand
5 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
6 3 (37.50%) WATIR
6 3 (37.50%) WebDriver
6 3 (37.50%) ISTQB
6 3 (37.50%) Degree
6 3 (37.50%) TeamCity
6 3 (37.50%) Git (software)
6 3 (37.50%) CruiseControl
6 3 (37.50%) JIRA
6 3 (37.50%) ISEB
6 3 (37.50%) Shell Script

Cucumber
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 7 (87.50%) HTML
2 6 (75.00%) Web Services
3 5 (62.50%) JSON
3 5 (62.50%) RESTful
3 5 (62.50%) XML
4 3 (37.50%) XSLT
4 3 (37.50%) SOAP
5 2 (25.00%) CSS
5 2 (25.00%) Cocoa
5 2 (25.00%) jQuery
5 2 (25.00%) HTML5
5 2 (25.00%) Node.js
5 2 (25.00%) Cocoa Touch
6 1 (12.50%) REST
6 1 (12.50%) soapUI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) HTTP
2 2 (25.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) TOAD
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Selenium
2 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (37.50%) WATIR
3 3 (37.50%) WebDriver
3 3 (37.50%) TeamCity
3 3 (37.50%) Git (software)
3 3 (37.50%) CruiseControl
3 3 (37.50%) JIRA
4 1 (12.50%) Maven
4 1 (12.50%) IntelliJ
General
1 2 (25.00%) Games
2 1 (12.50%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Tester
2 3 (37.50%) Automation Tester
2 3 (37.50%) Agile Tester
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Tester
3 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Agile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Video on Demand
2 2 (25.00%) STB
2 2 (25.00%) IPTV
2 2 (25.00%) Open Source
2 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Android
1 2 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (12.50%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Scrum
1 8 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 8 (100.00%) BDD
2 7 (87.50%) TDD
3 5 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
4 4 (50.00%) Pair Programming
5 2 (25.00%) OOP
5 2 (25.00%) OO
5 2 (25.00%) DRM
5 2 (25.00%) Regression Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Release Management
5 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
5 2 (25.00%) Manual Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Kanban
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Functional Testing
5 2 (25.00%) User Stories
5 2 (25.00%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 6 (75.00%) Java
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 5 (62.50%) Ruby
4 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
5 2 (25.00%) Perl
5 2 (25.00%) Python
5 2 (25.00%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) ISTQB
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
1 3 (37.50%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA