The first table below looks at the demand for Cucumber skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Cucumber over the 3 months to 24 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cucumber
Rank - 96 -
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 0 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham - 0.270% -
As % of the Development Applications category - 2.454% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 0
Average salary - £72,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £45,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-22.22% +20.00%
All Development Applications
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
207 163 118
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 12.18% 11.00% 8.780%
Number of salaries quoted 190 151 106
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £32,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +16.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £25,300 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Cucumber
West Midlands

Cucumber
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Cucumber Jobs Demand Trend

Cucumber
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Cucumber across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Cucumber Salary Trend

Cucumber
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Cucumber.

1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) nginx
1 2 (100.00%) RSpec
1 2 (100.00%) Capistrano
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Active Record
2 1 (50.00%) Redis
2 1 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Phing
2 1 (50.00%) PostGIS
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) PHPUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Haml
2 1 (50.00%) Memcached
2 1 (50.00%) Zend
2 1 (50.00%) Zend Framework
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management

Cucumber
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Cucumber. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (50.00%) PostGIS
2 1 (50.00%) Haml
2 1 (50.00%) Memcached
2 1 (50.00%) Zend Framework
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) nginx
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) RSpec
1 2 (100.00%) Capistrano
2 1 (50.00%) Phing
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) PHPUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Development
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (50.00%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Active Record
1 1 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Zend