Cucumber Contracts in Scotland

Cucumber
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 104 118 128
Rank change year-on-year +14 +10 -21
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 21 42 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.98% 1.55% 1.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.43% 7.95% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 37 26
10th Percentile £400 £350 £420
25th Percentile £425 £410 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +21.95%
75th Percentile - £538 £561
90th Percentile - £550 £581
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 387 528 624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.99% 19.53% 18.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 401 444
10th Percentile £363 £388 £363
25th Percentile £417 £415 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £577 £538 £550
90th Percentile £641 £613 £617
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 7
10th Percentile £34.10 £59.49 £32.40
25th Percentile - £60.17 £45.00
Median hourly rate £40.94 £62.46 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +14.61% +36.25%
75th Percentile - £67.11 £56.63
90th Percentile - £68.09 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in Scotland

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in Scotland

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in Scotland

Cucumber
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Cucumber in Scotland

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +11 10 £500 +5.26% 1
West Lothian +6 8 £450 -10.00%
Edinburgh +5 3 £425 -10.53%
Cucumber
UK

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 8 (38.10%) Confluence
2 3 (14.29%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (9.52%) IaaS
2 2 (9.52%) PaaS
2 2 (9.52%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) MariaDB
1 5 (23.81%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (66.67%) JUnit
2 10 (47.62%) Git
2 10 (47.62%) Jenkins
2 10 (47.62%) JIRA
3 8 (38.10%) Postman
4 7 (33.33%) Selenium
5 5 (23.81%) Mockito
5 5 (23.81%) WebDriver
6 4 (19.05%) IntelliJ
7 2 (9.52%) Cypress.io
7 2 (9.52%) Subversion
7 2 (9.52%) TeamCity
8 1 (4.76%) Gatling
8 1 (4.76%) JMeter
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Developer
2 10 (47.62%) Java Developer
3 7 (33.33%) Senior
4 4 (19.05%) Java Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Senior Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Full Stack Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Lead
5 3 (14.29%) Lead Java Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Developer in Test
6 2 (9.52%) Functional Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Functional Test Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Manual Tester
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Software Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Test Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Tester
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) Kafka
1 9 (42.86%) REST
2 8 (38.10%) Apache Camel
2 8 (38.10%) Spring Boot
3 7 (33.33%) J2EE
3 7 (33.33%) Spring
4 3 (14.29%) Gherkin
5 2 (9.52%) .NET
5 2 (9.52%) RESTful
6 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.52%) Client/Server
2 2 (9.52%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) Agile
2 11 (52.38%) Test Automation
3 10 (47.62%) CI/CD
4 7 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
5 6 (28.57%) TDD
6 5 (23.81%) BDD
6 5 (23.81%) Coaching
6 5 (23.81%) Community of Practice
6 5 (23.81%) Data Protection
6 5 (23.81%) Full Stack Development
6 5 (23.81%) Software Engineering
6 5 (23.81%) Software Testing
6 5 (23.81%) Unit Testing
7 4 (19.05%) Component Testing
7 4 (19.05%) Scenario Testing
8 3 (14.29%) SDET
8 3 (14.29%) Service Management
8 3 (14.29%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (52.38%) SQL
3 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
4 4 (19.05%) PL/SQL
5 2 (9.52%) C#
5 2 (9.52%) C++
5 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
5 2 (9.52%) VBA
5 2 (9.52%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) ISEB
1 2 (9.52%) ISTQB
1 2 (9.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Kibana
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Oracle