The first table below looks at the demand for Cucumber skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cucumber over the 3 months to 21 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 Surrey 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cucumber
Rank 79 95 101
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +6
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 1 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.086% 0.123% 0.110%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.806% 0.862% 0.995%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £450 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +12.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £313 £288
% change year-on-year
+12.00% +8.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - £30.00
All Development Applications
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
124 232 201
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 10.67% 14.29% 11.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 137 111
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 9
Average hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +5.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Cucumber
South East

Cucumber
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Cucumber Daily 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 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
Guildford - 1 - -
Cucumber
South East

Cucumber
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) Ruby
1 5 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 5 (100.00%) RSpec
1 5 (100.00%) BDD
2 4 (80.00%) Heroku
2 4 (80.00%) Digital Media
2 4 (80.00%) RESTful
2 4 (80.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) XHTML
3 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (20.00%) MySQL
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (20.00%) Jasmine
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) Capistrano
3 1 (20.00%) Hudson

Cucumber
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) XHTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 5 (100.00%) RSpec
2 1 (20.00%) Jasmine
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Capistrano
2 1 (20.00%) Hudson
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Heroku
1 4 (80.00%) Digital Media
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) BDD
2 4 (80.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Ruby
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
Guildford, Surrey
Key Skills - Modern RESTful approach to Ruby on Rails development - Using Git as part of the daily development workflow (or other distributed source control systems) - RSpec/Cucumber with...
Austin Fraser
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 16 May 2013