The first table below looks at the demand for Cucumber skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cucumber over the 3 months to 17 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 Kent 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cucumber
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent - - -
As % of the Development Applications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
30 27 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 11.32% 11.20% 8.874%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 16 17
Average daily rate £294 £338 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.96% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £290 £242
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £550 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £36.64 £33.75 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.57% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
Cucumber
South East

Cucumber
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) JBehave
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) Mockito
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Hudson
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe CQ
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software

Cucumber
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe CQ
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) JBehave
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) Mockito
1 1 (100.00%) Hudson
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe