The first table below looks at the demand for Cucumber skills in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cucumber over the 3 months to 18 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 Southampton 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cucumber
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 0.601% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 7.407% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £330 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £45.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - -
All Development Applications
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
27 11 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 8.108% 4.382% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 3
Average daily rate £355 £350 £538
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.42% -34.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £259 £350 £324
10% offered a daily rate of more than £369 £425 £558
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
- +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
Average hourly rate £45.00 £37.00 £34.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.62% +6.47%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
Cucumber
Hampshire

Cucumber
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton Cucumber Jobs Demand Trend

Cucumber
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) HP
3 2 (50.00%) TeamSite
3 2 (50.00%) CMS
4 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (25.00%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (25.00%) DTV
4 1 (25.00%) DVB
4 1 (25.00%) HTML
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (25.00%) JDBC
4 1 (25.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) XSL
4 1 (25.00%) UNIX
4 1 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (25.00%) JMS
4 1 (25.00%) HTTP
4 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (25.00%) Lucene
4 1 (25.00%) Spring
4 1 (25.00%) Maven
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Ruby
4 1 (25.00%) XPath

Cucumber
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) JDBC
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) XSL
1 1 (25.00%) JMS
1 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (25.00%) Lucene
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) JPA
1 1 (25.00%) Drools
1 1 (25.00%) HTML5
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) TeamSite
1 2 (50.00%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) DVB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) DTV
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) Ruby
1 1 (25.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle