Cucumber Contracts in the Thames Valley

Cucumber
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 137 156
Rank change year-on-year +35 +19 -25
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 30 13 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.14% 0.45% 0.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.54% 4.11% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 8
10th Percentile £555 £395 £329
25th Percentile £581 £481 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +21.88% +8.11%
75th Percentile £688 £573 £469
90th Percentile £716 £593 £489
South East median daily rate £650 £488 £425
% change year-on-year +33.33% +14.71% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.08
Median hourly rate - - £68.17
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £75.00 £56.52
% change year-on-year - +32.70% -13.74%

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 260 316 374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.84% 11.03% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 211 269
10th Percentile £307 £363 £350
25th Percentile £405 £428 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £650 £627 £570
90th Percentile £688 £725 £650
South East median daily rate £538 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -0.46% +8.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 4
10th Percentile - £23.25 £55.33
25th Percentile £46.25 £33.75 £58.81
Median hourly rate £56.75 £52.50 £64.43
Median % change year-on-year +8.09% -18.52% +28.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.88 £67.58
90th Percentile - £66.75 £67.98
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £56.24 £60.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -6.28% +6.19%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in the Thames Valley

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in the Thames Valley

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in the Thames Valley

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Berkshire +12 29 £650 +33.33% 5
Buckinghamshire +30 1 - - 1
Cucumber
South East

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 17 (56.67%) Azure
2 13 (43.33%) AWS
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.33%) GitHub
3 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 29 (96.67%) Selenium
2 26 (86.67%) Jenkins
3 24 (80.00%) REST Assured
3 24 (80.00%) SonarQube
4 13 (43.33%) GitLab
4 13 (43.33%) JIRA
5 4 (13.33%) JMeter
6 3 (10.00%) Maven
7 1 (3.33%) Appium
7 1 (3.33%) Git
7 1 (3.33%) JUnit
7 1 (3.33%) SpecFlow
7 1 (3.33%) TestNG
General
1 26 (86.67%) Social Skills
2 25 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (66.67%) Law
4 13 (43.33%) Police
5 1 (3.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (56.67%) Java Engineer
2 10 (33.33%) Senior
3 6 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Senior Java Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Java Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Java Technical Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Technical Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Consultant
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (6.67%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (86.67%) REST
2 25 (83.33%) Java EE
3 12 (40.00%) ARM Templates
4 3 (10.00%) Gherkin
5 1 (3.33%) JSON
5 1 (3.33%) Spring
5 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.33%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 26 (86.67%) DevOps
2 26 (86.67%) Software Architecture
3 25 (83.33%) Continuous Integration
3 25 (83.33%) Decision-Making
3 25 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (83.33%) Technical Leadership
4 22 (73.33%) Software Engineering
5 13 (43.33%) Configuration Management
5 13 (43.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (40.00%) Containerisation
7 9 (30.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 3 (10.00%) Agile
8 3 (10.00%) Event-Driven
8 3 (10.00%) Functional Testing
8 3 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 1 (3.33%) Manual Testing
9 1 (3.33%) Non-Functional Testing
9 1 (3.33%) Performance Engineering
9 1 (3.33%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (96.67%) Java
2 4 (13.33%) Python
3 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 25 (83.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 12 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (80.00%) Ansible
2 13 (43.33%) Terraform
3 12 (40.00%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (40.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (3.33%) Databricks
1 1 (3.33%) Salesforce