The first table below looks at the demand for Cucumber skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cucumber over the 3 months to 22 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 West Yorkshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cucumber
Rank 88 81 -
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 3 9 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.236% 0.556% -
As % of the Development Applications category 2.609% 7.692% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Average daily rate - £313 -
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
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
115 117 128
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 9.034% 7.231% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 69 53
Average daily rate £280 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £375 £392
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
Average hourly rate £38.00 - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Cucumber
Yorkshire

Cucumber
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Leeds -2 3 - -
Cucumber
Yorkshire

Cucumber
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VB
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) MS Office
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (100.00%) ASP
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) MSI
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 3 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 3 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 3 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing

Cucumber
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) Gherkin
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) MS Office
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (100.00%) MSI
1 3 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 3 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 3 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Tester
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Tester
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Automation Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) BC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware