The first table below looks at the demand for Cucumber skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West 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 North West 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 111 - 123
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 7 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.300% - 0.098%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.767% - 1.364%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
Average daily rate £323 - £275
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
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
253 251 220
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 10.85% 8.068% 7.213%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 130 115
Average daily rate £313 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £265 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £416 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 16 2
Average hourly rate £37.50 £25.93 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+44.62% -13.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.80 £16.15 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £128.00 £33.32 £31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West 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 North West 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
Manchester - 6 £323 -
Lancashire - 1 - -
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 (66.67%) Ruby
2 6 (50.00%) TDD
2 6 (50.00%) XML
3 5 (41.67%) HTML
3 5 (41.67%) CSS
3 5 (41.67%) JSON
4 4 (33.33%) Android
4 4 (33.33%) XPath
4 4 (33.33%) Spring
4 4 (33.33%) Web Services
4 4 (33.33%) Java
4 4 (33.33%) J2EE
4 4 (33.33%) XSLT
4 4 (33.33%) RDF
4 4 (33.33%) XQuery
4 4 (33.33%) RESTful
4 4 (33.33%) SPARQL
4 4 (33.33%) REST
4 4 (33.33%) BDD
5 3 (25.00%) JAX-RS
5 3 (25.00%) iOS SDK
5 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
5 3 (25.00%) Apple iOS
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (25.00%) iPhone SDK
5 3 (25.00%) bada
5 3 (25.00%) Maemo
5 3 (25.00%) Blackberry

Cucumber
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 6 (50.00%) XML
2 5 (41.67%) HTML
2 5 (41.67%) CSS
2 5 (41.67%) JSON
3 4 (33.33%) Spring
3 4 (33.33%) Web Services
3 4 (33.33%) J2EE
3 4 (33.33%) XSLT
3 4 (33.33%) RESTful
3 4 (33.33%) REST
4 3 (25.00%) JAX-RS
4 3 (25.00%) iOS SDK
4 3 (25.00%) iPhone SDK
4 3 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (8.333%) soapUI
5 1 (8.333%) CSS3
5 1 (8.333%) Gherkin
5 1 (8.333%) Series 60
5 1 (8.333%) SOAP
5 1 (8.333%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (16.67%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Subversion
2 2 (16.67%) Selenium
3 1 (8.333%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.333%) WebDriver
3 1 (8.333%) Hudson
3 1 (8.333%) Robotium
3 1 (8.333%) Xcode
3 1 (8.333%) Firebug
3 1 (8.333%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (8.333%) JIRA
3 1 (8.333%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (16.67%) Publishing
2 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
2 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Programmer
4 1 (8.333%) Automation Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Tester
4 1 (8.333%) Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) PHP Developer
4 1 (8.333%) QA Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Web Tester
4 1 (8.333%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Blackberry
1 3 (25.00%) Interactive TV
1 3 (25.00%) iPhone
1 3 (25.00%) Semantic Web
2 2 (16.67%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Android
2 3 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (25.00%) bada
2 3 (25.00%) Maemo
2 3 (25.00%) Mac OS X
2 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) TDD
2 4 (33.33%) RDF
2 4 (33.33%) BDD
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (25.00%) MVC
3 3 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (25.00%) Pair Programming
4 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 2 (16.67%) Content Management
4 2 (16.67%) OO
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Benchmarking
4 2 (16.67%) Automation Testing
5 1 (8.333%) E-Commerce
5 1 (8.333%) Mobile Commerce
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Ruby
2 4 (33.33%) XPath
2 4 (33.33%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) XQuery
2 4 (33.33%) SPARQL
3 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (8.333%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) ISEB
1 3 (25.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Shibboleth
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Symbian
2 1 (8.333%) Apple
2 1 (8.333%) Zend