Cucumber Contracts in Manchester

Cucumber
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Cucumber skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cucumber over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 114 129
Rank change year-on-year +28 +15 -43
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 15 3 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.98% 0.16% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.39% 1.30% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 9
10th Percentile £368 £446 £381
25th Percentile £375 £467 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £399 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.13% +3.75% +13.64%
75th Percentile £466 £555 £550
90th Percentile £500 £567 £583
North West median daily rate £399 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -22.20% +2.50% +13.64%

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

Cucumber is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 203 231 435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 13.24% 12.18% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 178 362
10th Percentile £375 £320 £351
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +13.89%
75th Percentile £578 £635 £606
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £61.38 £40.68 -
25th Percentile £65.31 £42.30 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% - -
75th Percentile £81.38 - -
90th Percentile £82.05 - -
North West median hourly rate £52.94 £49.88 £42.50
% change year-on-year +6.15% +17.35% +25.00%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in Manchester

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in Manchester

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in Manchester

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Salford - 2 £375 -
Cucumber
North West

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (13.33%) BrowserStack
3 2 (13.33%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (6.67%) Azure
4 1 (6.67%) Datadog
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (73.33%) Jenkins
2 7 (46.67%) Git
3 5 (33.33%) Selenium
4 4 (26.67%) Gatling
4 4 (26.67%) GitLab
4 4 (26.67%) JIRA
5 3 (20.00%) JMeter
5 3 (20.00%) JUnit
5 3 (20.00%) Maven
5 3 (20.00%) Mockito
6 2 (13.33%) Appium
6 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
6 2 (13.33%) WebDriver
7 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
7 1 (6.67%) Gradle
7 1 (6.67%) Mercurial
7 1 (6.67%) Postman
7 1 (6.67%) SoapUI
7 1 (6.67%) SpecFlow
7 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Test Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) Senior Test Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) QA Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Automation Tester
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Java Automation Tester
4 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 2 (13.33%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Tester
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) RESTful
2 4 (26.67%) Playwright
2 4 (26.67%) Web Services
3 3 (20.00%) Kafka
3 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (13.33%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (13.33%) OAuth
4 2 (13.33%) OAuth2
4 2 (13.33%) OpenID
4 2 (13.33%) pytest
4 2 (13.33%) Spring
4 2 (13.33%) WebdriverIO
4 2 (13.33%) WireMock
5 1 (6.67%) Node.js
5 1 (6.67%) REST
5 1 (6.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Mac OS X
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) API Testing
2 8 (53.33%) Test Automation
3 6 (40.00%) BDD
3 6 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (26.67%) TDD
5 3 (20.00%) Microservices
6 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 2 (13.33%) Conversational AI
6 2 (13.33%) Conversational UI
6 2 (13.33%) Cross-Browser Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Manual Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) QA Automation
6 2 (13.33%) Scrum
6 2 (13.33%) Test Strategy
6 2 (13.33%) Time Management
7 1 (6.67%) ATDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) Scala
3 2 (13.33%) Groovy
3 2 (13.33%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.67%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (6.67%) Confluent
2 1 (6.67%) New Relic