Cucumber Contracts in Reading

Cucumber
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 74 93
Rank change year-on-year +8 +19 -25
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 26 11 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.25% 1.08% 0.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.57% 7.14% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 4
10th Percentile £553 £400 £327
25th Percentile £594 £458 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +21.88% -
75th Percentile £688 £534 £469
90th Percentile £719 £563 -
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £490 £338
% change year-on-year +32.65% +45.19% -8.78%

All Development Application Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 140 154 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 12.12% 15.13% 11.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 110 116
10th Percentile £410 £374 £247
25th Percentile £500 £470 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £447
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% +23.05% -2.08%
75th Percentile £663 £630 £542
90th Percentile £688 £706 £638
Berkshire median daily rate £563 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £70.00 £60.58
% change year-on-year - +15.54% -2.29%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in Reading

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in Reading

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in Reading over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in Reading

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) Azure
2 13 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 25 (96.15%) Jenkins
1 25 (96.15%) Selenium
2 24 (92.31%) REST Assured
2 24 (92.31%) SonarQube
3 13 (50.00%) GitLab
3 13 (50.00%) JIRA
4 1 (3.85%) SpecFlow
General
1 25 (96.15%) Analytical Skills
1 25 (96.15%) Social Skills
2 20 (76.92%) Law
3 13 (50.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 17 (65.38%) Java Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) Senior
3 6 (23.08%) Java Software Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Software Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Developer
4 5 (19.23%) Java Developer
4 5 (19.23%) Senior Java Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Architect
6 3 (11.54%) Java Architect
6 3 (11.54%) Java Technical Architect
6 3 (11.54%) Senior Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Technical Architect
7 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (96.15%) Java EE
1 25 (96.15%) REST
2 12 (46.15%) ARM Templates
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 25 (96.15%) Continuous Integration
2 25 (96.15%) Decision-Making
2 25 (96.15%) DevOps
2 25 (96.15%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (96.15%) Software Architecture
2 25 (96.15%) Technical Leadership
3 22 (84.62%) Software Engineering
4 13 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 13 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (46.15%) Containerisation
6 9 (34.62%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 1 (3.85%) ETL
7 1 (3.85%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 25 (96.15%) Java
2 1 (3.85%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (96.15%) SC Cleared
1 25 (96.15%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 12 (46.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (92.31%) Ansible
2 13 (50.00%) Terraform
3 12 (46.15%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (46.15%) Kubernetes
3 12 (46.15%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (3.85%) Databricks
1 1 (3.85%) Salesforce