The first table below looks at the demand for Cucumber skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 5 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.521% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 5.051% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £323 - -
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
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
99 120 90
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 10.32% 9.724% 8.629%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 64 49
Average daily rate £300 £290 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +5.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £261 £250 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £425 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 0
Average hourly rate £23.75 £32.90 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.81% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
Cucumber
North West

Cucumber
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

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

Manchester Cucumber Daily Rate Histogram

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 Manchester 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
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Job
Vacancies
Salford - 3 £300 -
Cucumber
North West

Cucumber
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 7 (63.64%) XML
1 7 (63.64%) Ruby
2 6 (54.55%) TDD
2 6 (54.55%) JSON
2 6 (54.55%) BDD
3 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
3 4 (36.36%) RESTful
3 4 (36.36%) SPARQL
3 4 (36.36%) REST
3 4 (36.36%) XPath
3 4 (36.36%) Android
3 4 (36.36%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (36.36%) Spring
3 4 (36.36%) XSLT
3 4 (36.36%) RDF
3 4 (36.36%) XQuery
3 4 (36.36%) HTML
3 4 (36.36%) Java
3 4 (36.36%) J2EE
3 4 (36.36%) CSS
3 4 (36.36%) Web Services
4 3 (27.27%) Mac OS X
4 3 (27.27%) Blackberry
4 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
4 3 (27.27%) Tomcat
4 3 (27.27%) LDAP
4 3 (27.27%) Windows
4 3 (27.27%) Pair Programming
4 3 (27.27%) Subversion

Cucumber
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 (63.64%) XML
2 6 (54.55%) JSON
3 4 (36.36%) RESTful
3 4 (36.36%) REST
3 4 (36.36%) Spring
3 4 (36.36%) XSLT
3 4 (36.36%) HTML
3 4 (36.36%) J2EE
3 4 (36.36%) CSS
3 4 (36.36%) Web Services
4 3 (27.27%) Ruby on Rails
4 3 (27.27%) JAX-RS
5 2 (18.18%) iOS SDK
5 2 (18.18%) iPhone SDK
5 2 (18.18%) Series 60
6 1 (9.091%) SOAP
6 1 (9.091%) Ajax
6 1 (9.091%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Tomcat
2 2 (18.18%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
1 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
2 2 (18.18%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Subversion
1 3 (27.27%) Selenium
1 3 (27.27%) Robotium
2 2 (18.18%) Hudson
2 2 (18.18%) Firebug
2 2 (18.18%) Xcode
3 1 (9.091%) Git (software)
3 1 (9.091%) JIRA
General
1 2 (18.18%) Publishing
2 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
2 1 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Programmer
2 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Test Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Tester
3 1 (9.091%) PHP Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Mobile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Blackberry
1 3 (27.27%) iPhone
1 3 (27.27%) Semantic Web
2 2 (18.18%) Interactive TV
2 2 (18.18%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Android
2 3 (27.27%) Mac OS X
2 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Mobile
2 3 (27.27%) bada
2 3 (27.27%) Maemo
2 3 (27.27%) Apple iOS
3 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) TDD
1 6 (54.55%) BDD
2 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
2 4 (36.36%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (36.36%) RDF
3 3 (27.27%) Pair Programming
3 3 (27.27%) MVC
3 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Content Management
4 2 (18.18%) Automated Testing
4 2 (18.18%) OO
4 2 (18.18%) Benchmarking
5 1 (9.091%) Mobile Commerce
5 1 (9.091%) Test Scripting
5 1 (9.091%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Ruby
2 4 (36.36%) SPARQL
2 4 (36.36%) XPath
2 4 (36.36%) XQuery
2 4 (36.36%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.091%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) ISTQB
1 2 (18.18%) ISEB
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Shibboleth
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Symbian
2 1 (9.091%) Apple
2 1 (9.091%) Zend
Manchester, North West
Symbian (S40, S60, 3), iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, OSE, SHP, Bada, Maemo.*Good knowledge of device and app architecture e.g. Android SDK, iPhone SDK, Symbian SDK,...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per annum
Posted: 6 June 2013