Cucumber Contracts in the North West

Cucumber
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 154 161
Rank change year-on-year +33 +7 -36
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 16 6 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.58% 0.19% 0.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.32% 1.44% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 16
10th Percentile £368 £455 £386
25th Percentile £375 £490 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £399 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +2.50% +13.64%
75th Percentile £466 £519 £525
90th Percentile £500 £553 £572
England median daily rate £500 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% +8.11%

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 301 417 589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 10.89% 13.05% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 322 461
10th Percentile £375 £325 £350
25th Percentile £430 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +1.30% +13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £594
90th Percentile £673 £656 £650
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 19
10th Percentile £40.52 £38.16 £37.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £42.81 £38.68
Median hourly rate £52.94 £49.88 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% +17.35% +25.00%
75th Percentile £74.63 £53.44 £49.09
90th Percentile £81.45 £56.38 £61.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.34 £50.35
% change year-on-year +5.97% +21.82% +6.07%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in the North West

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in the North West

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in the North West

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Manchester +27 15 £399 -23.13%
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) GitHub
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (12.50%) BrowserStack
3 2 (12.50%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (6.25%) Azure
4 1 (6.25%) Datadog
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) MongoDB
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) Jenkins
2 7 (43.75%) Git
3 5 (31.25%) GitLab
3 5 (31.25%) Selenium
4 4 (25.00%) Gatling
4 4 (25.00%) JIRA
5 3 (18.75%) JMeter
5 3 (18.75%) JUnit
5 3 (18.75%) Maven
5 3 (18.75%) Mockito
5 3 (18.75%) WebDriver
6 2 (12.50%) Appium
6 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
7 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
7 1 (6.25%) Gradle
7 1 (6.25%) Mercurial
7 1 (6.25%) Postman
7 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
7 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
7 1 (6.25%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
2 4 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) QA Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Automation Tester
4 2 (12.50%) Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Java Automation Tester
4 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 2 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Tester
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) RESTful
2 4 (25.00%) Playwright
2 4 (25.00%) Web Services
3 3 (18.75%) Kafka
3 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
3 3 (18.75%) WebdriverIO
4 2 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (12.50%) Node.js
4 2 (12.50%) OAuth
4 2 (12.50%) OAuth2
4 2 (12.50%) OpenID
4 2 (12.50%) pytest
4 2 (12.50%) Spring
4 2 (12.50%) WireMock
5 1 (6.25%) REST
5 1 (6.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Mac OS X
1 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) Test Automation
3 8 (50.00%) API Testing
4 6 (37.50%) BDD
4 6 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
6 4 (25.00%) TDD
7 3 (18.75%) Microservices
8 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 2 (12.50%) Conversational AI
8 2 (12.50%) Conversational UI
8 2 (12.50%) Cross-Browser Testing
8 2 (12.50%) Manual Testing
8 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (12.50%) QA Automation
8 2 (12.50%) Scrum
8 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy
8 2 (12.50%) Time Management
9 1 (6.25%) ATDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) Scala
3 2 (12.50%) Groovy
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (6.25%) Confluent
2 1 (6.25%) New Relic