Cucumber Contracts in the North of England

Cucumber
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 173 188
Rank change year-on-year +7 +15 -41
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 20 39 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.43% 0.70% 0.86%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.91% 5.20% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 29 37
10th Percentile £368 £398 £358
25th Percentile £393 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.05% +10.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £499 £775 £550
90th Percentile £500 £848 £580
England median daily rate £519 £593 £500
% change year-on-year -12.45% +18.50% +8.11%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 511 750 1,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.01% 13.42% 15.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 574 834
10th Percentile £375 £350 £362
25th Percentile £425 £433 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £588
90th Percentile £645 £700 £650
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 32
10th Percentile £38.38 £37.80 £38.29
25th Percentile £45.88 £40.40 £43.82
Median hourly rate £53.09 £52.13 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.84% -19.80% +103.13%
75th Percentile £74.17 £56.29 £77.50
90th Percentile £80.82 £63.60 £80.65
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +10.53%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in the North of England

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in the North of England

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in the North of England

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
North West +22 11 £435 -13.00% 2
Yorkshire +11 8 £400 -27.27% 3
North East -8 1 £310 -60.00%
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (15.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) GitHub
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (10.00%) BrowserStack
3 2 (10.00%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (5.00%) Azure
4 1 (5.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) Git
1 11 (55.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (50.00%) Selenium
3 9 (45.00%) JIRA
3 9 (45.00%) JMeter
4 6 (30.00%) GitLab
5 5 (25.00%) WebDriver
6 4 (20.00%) Gatling
7 3 (15.00%) Bitbucket
7 3 (15.00%) JUnit
8 2 (10.00%) Appium
8 2 (10.00%) Maven
8 2 (10.00%) Mockito
8 2 (10.00%) Postman
9 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (5.00%) REST Assured
9 1 (5.00%) SoapUI
9 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (5.00%) SpecFlow
9 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Test Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Senior
2 7 (35.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) QA Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Automation Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Test Leader
4 2 (10.00%) Test Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Automation Test Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Gherkin
2 4 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (20.00%) Kafka
2 4 (20.00%) Web Services
3 3 (15.00%) WebdriverIO
4 2 (10.00%) Node.js
4 2 (10.00%) Playwright
4 2 (10.00%) pytest
4 2 (10.00%) RESTful
4 2 (10.00%) Spring
4 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (10.00%) WireMock
5 1 (5.00%) ADO
5 1 (5.00%) Jest
5 1 (5.00%) JSON
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (5.00%) REST
5 1 (5.00%) SOAP
5 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Mac OS X
1 4 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Agile
2 15 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 9 (45.00%) BDD
3 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (45.00%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (35.00%) Test Strategy
5 6 (30.00%) TDD
6 5 (25.00%) API Testing
6 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (20.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
7 4 (20.00%) Manual Testing
8 3 (15.00%) Analytics
8 3 (15.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 3 (15.00%) Defect Tracking
8 3 (15.00%) Scenario Testing
8 3 (15.00%) Test Planning
8 3 (15.00%) User Stories
9 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
9 2 (10.00%) Conversational UI
9 2 (10.00%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) Java
2 5 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 4 (20.00%) Groovy
3 4 (20.00%) Scala
4 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.00%) Python
5 1 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Splunk