Cucumber Contracts in the South East

Cucumber
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 186 225
Rank change year-on-year +13 +39 -49
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 28 32 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.51% 0.56% 0.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.25% 4.40% 4.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 23
10th Percentile £553 £406 £331
25th Percentile £594 £450 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +21.88% -11.11%
75th Percentile £688 £544 £494
90th Percentile £719 £579 £540
England median daily rate £513 £591 £500
% change year-on-year -13.23% +18.13% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 4
10th Percentile - £67.00 £45.38
25th Percentile - £72.50 £45.94
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £56.52
Median % change year-on-year - +32.70% -13.74%
75th Percentile - - £66.22
90th Percentile - - £67.44
England median hourly rate - £75.00 £66.85
% change year-on-year - +12.19% +2.06%

All Development Application Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 533 728 997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 9.72% 12.79% 12.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 482 649
10th Percentile £311 £376 £356
25th Percentile £400 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £698 £675
England median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 36 23
10th Percentile £39.60 £22.16 £41.65
25th Percentile £51.81 £50.00 £48.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £56.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% +2.46% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.08
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +10.62%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in the South East

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in the South East

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in the South East over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in the South East

Cucumber
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Cucumber in the South East

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Thames Valley +19 26 £650 +32.65% 3
Berkshire +2 25 £650 +32.65% 3
Buckinghamshire +30 1 - - 1
Kent - 1 - -
West Sussex - 1 £400 - 3
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (3.57%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) AWS
1 13 (46.43%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (3.57%) Couchbase
1 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (96.43%) Jenkins
1 27 (96.43%) Selenium
2 24 (85.71%) REST Assured
2 24 (85.71%) SonarQube
3 14 (50.00%) JIRA
4 13 (46.43%) GitLab
5 2 (7.14%) Git
5 2 (7.14%) JMeter
5 2 (7.14%) JUnit
6 1 (3.57%) Appium
6 1 (3.57%) IntelliJ
6 1 (3.57%) TestNG
General
1 26 (92.86%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (89.29%) Social Skills
3 20 (71.43%) Law
4 13 (46.43%) Police
5 1 (3.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (60.71%) Java Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) Senior
3 6 (21.43%) Developer
3 6 (21.43%) Java Developer
3 6 (21.43%) Java Software Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Software Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Senior Java Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Architect
6 3 (10.71%) Java Architect
6 3 (10.71%) Java Technical Architect
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Technical Architect
7 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Lead
8 1 (3.57%) Automation Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (96.43%) REST
2 25 (89.29%) Java EE
3 12 (42.86%) ARM Templates
4 2 (7.14%) Spring
4 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.57%) JSON
5 1 (3.57%) Kafka
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (3.57%) SOAP
5 1 (3.57%) Vert.x
5 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 26 (92.86%) DevOps
2 26 (92.86%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (89.29%) Continuous Integration
3 25 (89.29%) Decision-Making
3 25 (89.29%) Software Architecture
3 25 (89.29%) Technical Leadership
4 23 (82.14%) Software Engineering
5 13 (46.43%) Configuration Management
5 13 (46.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (42.86%) Containerisation
7 9 (32.14%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 2 (7.14%) CI/CD
9 1 (3.57%) Event-Driven
9 1 (3.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 1 (3.57%) High Availability
9 1 (3.57%) Microservices
9 1 (3.57%) Scenario Testing
9 1 (3.57%) Test Strategy
9 1 (3.57%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 27 (96.43%) Java
2 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (89.29%) SC Cleared
1 25 (89.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
System Software
1 12 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (85.71%) Ansible
2 13 (46.43%) Terraform
3 12 (42.86%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 12 (42.86%) Podman
4 1 (3.57%) Grafana
4 1 (3.57%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.57%) Splunk