The first table below looks at the demand for Cucumber skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cucumber over the 3 months to 23 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 South East 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cucumber
Rank 206 229 257
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +28
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 17 13 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.218% 0.128% 0.019%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.036% 1.435% 0.185%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 1
Average daily rate £400 £313 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -21.87%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £313 £288
% change year-on-year
+12.00% +8.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £45.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - £30.00
All Development Applications
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
835 906 1080
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 10.73% 8.909% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 469 447
Average daily rate £350 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £272 £250 £221
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 54 117
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £31.00 £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £45.00
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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South East Cucumber Daily Rate Histogram

Cucumber
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Cucumber across the South East region.

South East Cucumber Hourly Rate Trend

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 South East region over the 3 months to 23 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
Hampshire - 10 £325 -
Berkshire +15 5 £475 +46.15%
Surrey +17 1 - -
East Sussex +5 1 - -
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 15 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
1 15 (42.86%) BDD
2 14 (40.00%) Selenium
2 14 (40.00%) Java
3 12 (34.29%) Git (software)
4 11 (31.43%) TDD
5 10 (28.57%) Hibernate
5 10 (28.57%) HTML
5 10 (28.57%) Spring
5 10 (28.57%) Ruby
6 9 (25.71%) Maven
6 9 (25.71%) FitNesse
6 9 (25.71%) QA
6 9 (25.71%) CSS
6 9 (25.71%) Scrum
6 9 (25.71%) Workflow
7 8 (22.86%) JavaScript
7 8 (22.86%) Test Scripting
7 8 (22.86%) REST
7 8 (22.86%) Gherkin
8 7 (20.00%) jQuery
8 7 (20.00%) Linux
8 7 (20.00%) XML
9 6 (17.14%) UNIX
9 6 (17.14%) Web Services
9 6 (17.14%) Ruby on Rails
9 6 (17.14%) RESTful
9 6 (17.14%) RSpec
10 5 (14.29%) Groovy
10 5 (14.29%) JPA

Cucumber
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 10 (28.57%) Hibernate
1 10 (28.57%) HTML
1 10 (28.57%) Spring
2 9 (25.71%) CSS
3 8 (22.86%) REST
3 8 (22.86%) Gherkin
4 7 (20.00%) jQuery
4 7 (20.00%) XML
5 6 (17.14%) Web Services
5 6 (17.14%) Ruby on Rails
5 6 (17.14%) RESTful
6 5 (14.29%) JPA
6 5 (14.29%) Drools
6 5 (14.29%) HTML5
6 5 (14.29%) JDBC
6 5 (14.29%) JMS
6 5 (14.29%) XSL
6 5 (14.29%) Lucene
7 3 (8.571%) soapUI
7 3 (8.571%) Grails
Application Platforms
1 5 (14.29%) CMS
1 5 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (8.571%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (5.714%) TeamSite
4 1 (2.857%) Adobe CQ
4 1 (2.857%) Apache
4 1 (2.857%) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) HTTP
1 5 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 5 (14.29%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.857%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.857%) DbVisualizer
2 1 (2.857%) MySQL
2 1 (2.857%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (40.00%) Selenium
2 12 (34.29%) Git (software)
3 9 (25.71%) Maven
3 9 (25.71%) FitNesse
4 6 (17.14%) RSpec
5 5 (14.29%) WebDriver
6 3 (8.571%) WATIR
6 3 (8.571%) Ant
6 3 (8.571%) JUnit
7 2 (5.714%) NUnit
7 2 (5.714%) JMeter
7 2 (5.714%) Firebug
7 2 (5.714%) Fiddler
7 2 (5.714%) Hudson
7 2 (5.714%) JBehave
7 2 (5.714%) Jenkins
8 1 (2.857%) SpecFlow
8 1 (2.857%) Jasmine
8 1 (2.857%) Gradle
8 1 (2.857%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (14.29%) Telecoms
2 2 (5.714%) Finance
3 1 (2.857%) Games
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Analyst
2 8 (22.86%) Test Analyst
3 7 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Developer
5 3 (8.571%) Java Developer
5 3 (8.571%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (5.714%) Team Leader
6 2 (5.714%) Test Specialist
6 2 (5.714%) QA Engineer
6 2 (5.714%) Test Manager
6 2 (5.714%) Test Team Leader
6 2 (5.714%) Automation Specialist
6 2 (5.714%) Test Leader
7 1 (2.857%) Agile Java Developer
7 1 (2.857%) Automation Analyst
7 1 (2.857%) Ruby on Rails Developer
7 1 (2.857%) Web Test Analyst
7 1 (2.857%) Automation Test Analyst
7 1 (2.857%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 1 (2.857%) Web Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Heroku
1 5 (14.29%) Computer Science
1 5 (14.29%) DTV
2 4 (11.43%) Data Integration
2 4 (11.43%) Digital Media
3 1 (2.857%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.857%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.857%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Linux
2 6 (17.14%) UNIX
3 1 (2.857%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.857%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
1 15 (42.86%) BDD
2 11 (31.43%) TDD
3 9 (25.71%) Scrum
3 9 (25.71%) Workflow
4 8 (22.86%) Test Scripting
5 5 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 5 (14.29%) Multithreading
6 4 (11.43%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (11.43%) E-Commerce
6 4 (11.43%) Web Testing
6 4 (11.43%) Performance Testing
7 3 (8.571%) User Stories
7 3 (8.571%) Automation Testing
7 3 (8.571%) Automated Testing
7 3 (8.571%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (8.571%) Content Management
8 2 (5.714%) Software Testing
8 2 (5.714%) System Testing
8 2 (5.714%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) Java
2 10 (28.57%) Ruby
3 8 (22.86%) JavaScript
4 5 (14.29%) Groovy
4 5 (14.29%) XPath
4 5 (14.29%) SQL
5 2 (5.714%) Scala
6 1 (2.857%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Degree
2 4 (11.43%) ISEB
3 3 (8.571%) ISEB Practitioner
4 2 (5.714%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.71%) QA
2 1 (2.857%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 1 (2.857%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Oracle
2 3 (8.571%) Sitecore
3 2 (5.714%) HP
4 1 (2.857%) Apple
4 1 (2.857%) Adobe
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