The first table below looks at the demand for Cucumber skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Cucumber over the 3 months to 21 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cucumber
Rank 234 238 230
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -8
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 20 7 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.277% 0.099% 0.030%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.797% 0.626% 0.213%
Number of salaries quoted 20 6 2
Average salary £35,000 £31,250 £35,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.00% -11.97%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £45,000 £38,750
% change year-on-year
-22.22% +16.12%
All Development Applications
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
1113 1119 937
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 15.43% 15.79% 13.84%
Number of salaries quoted 968 989 861
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West Cucumber Salary Trend

Cucumber
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Cucumber across the North West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

North West Cucumber Salary Histogram

Cucumber
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the North West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Lancashire +9 7 £35,000 +7.69%
Merseyside - 6 £30,000 -
Cheshire +13 5 £26,500 -
Manchester -14 2 £35,000 +16.66%
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 28 (71.79%) Selenium
2 27 (69.23%) Kanban
3 25 (64.10%) Scrum
4 21 (53.85%) Agile Software Development
5 20 (51.28%) TDD
6 18 (46.15%) BDD
7 15 (38.46%) Test Automation
7 15 (38.46%) .NET
8 13 (33.33%) C#
8 13 (33.33%) Ruby
9 11 (28.21%) Automated Testing
10 10 (25.64%) MVC
10 10 (25.64%) Lucene
10 10 (25.64%) NUnit
10 10 (25.64%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (25.64%) Ruby on Rails
10 10 (25.64%) NHibernate
10 10 (25.64%) OO
10 10 (25.64%) SQL Server
10 10 (25.64%) ASP.NET
10 10 (25.64%) Git (software)
10 10 (25.64%) WCF
10 10 (25.64%) LINQ
10 10 (25.64%) Web Development
10 10 (25.64%) MongoDB
10 10 (25.64%) Castle Windsor
10 10 (25.64%) Scrum-ban
10 10 (25.64%) ASP.NET MVC
10 10 (25.64%) Rhino Mocks
10 10 (25.64%) Riak

Cucumber
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 15 (38.46%) .NET
2 10 (25.64%) Lucene
2 10 (25.64%) Ruby on Rails
2 10 (25.64%) NHibernate
2 10 (25.64%) ASP.NET
2 10 (25.64%) WCF
2 10 (25.64%) LINQ
2 10 (25.64%) Castle Windsor
2 10 (25.64%) ASP.NET MVC
2 10 (25.64%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 3 (7.692%) jQuery
3 3 (7.692%) Silverlight
3 3 (7.692%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (5.128%) CSS3
4 2 (5.128%) HTML5
4 2 (5.128%) RESTful
4 2 (5.128%) JSON
4 2 (5.128%) CSS
5 1 (2.564%) Web Services
5 1 (2.564%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 8 (20.51%) nginx
2 6 (15.38%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.692%) HTTP
2 1 (2.564%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.64%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (25.64%) SQL Server
1 10 (25.64%) MongoDB
1 10 (25.64%) Riak
2 7 (17.95%) SQL Server 2012
3 3 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (2.564%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 28 (71.79%) Selenium
2 10 (25.64%) NUnit
2 10 (25.64%) Git (software)
2 10 (25.64%) Rhino Mocks
3 8 (20.51%) WebDriver
3 8 (20.51%) Hudson
4 7 (17.95%) JMeter
5 6 (15.38%) Jenkins
5 6 (15.38%) Behat
5 6 (15.38%) FitNesse
6 3 (7.692%) RSpec
7 2 (5.128%) Capybara
7 2 (5.128%) WATIR
8 1 (2.564%) JUnit
8 1 (2.564%) Eclipse
8 1 (2.564%) Xcode
8 1 (2.564%) JIRA
8 1 (2.564%) QUnit
8 1 (2.564%) Jasmine
General
1 7 (17.95%) Marketing
1 7 (17.95%) Advertising
2 1 (2.564%) Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Developer
2 13 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 11 (28.21%) .NET Developer
4 3 (7.692%) Analyst
4 3 (7.692%) Software Developer
4 3 (7.692%) Tester
4 3 (7.692%) Test Analyst
4 3 (7.692%) Test Engineer
4 3 (7.692%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 3 (7.692%) Agile Test Analyst
5 2 (5.128%) Senior Technical Tester
5 2 (5.128%) Senior Tester
5 2 (5.128%) Technical Tester
6 1 (2.564%) Test Manager
6 1 (2.564%) Web Developer
6 1 (2.564%) Agile .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Open Source
1 7 (17.95%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.692%) BBC
2 3 (7.692%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (7.692%) Social Media
2 3 (7.692%) Digital Media
3 2 (5.128%) New Media
3 2 (5.128%) Interactive TV
4 1 (2.564%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.564%) Smartphone
4 1 (2.564%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.564%) Linux
1 1 (2.564%) Android
1 1 (2.564%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (69.23%) Kanban
2 25 (64.10%) Scrum
3 21 (53.85%) Agile Software Development
4 20 (51.28%) TDD
5 18 (46.15%) BDD
6 15 (38.46%) Test Automation
7 11 (28.21%) Automated Testing
8 10 (25.64%) MVC
8 10 (25.64%) OO
8 10 (25.64%) Web Development
8 10 (25.64%) Scrum-ban
8 10 (25.64%) Web Application Development
9 8 (20.51%) User Stories
9 8 (20.51%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (17.95%) Online Marketing
10 7 (17.95%) Manual Testing
10 7 (17.95%) Digital Marketing
11 3 (7.692%) Configuration Management
11 3 (7.692%) Content Management
12 2 (5.128%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (33.33%) C#
1 13 (33.33%) Ruby
2 9 (23.08%) Java
3 7 (17.95%) PHP
4 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.692%) SQL
6 2 (5.128%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.564%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) ISEB
2 7 (17.95%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (17.95%) MCP
2 7 (17.95%) MCAD
2 7 (17.95%) MCSD
2 7 (17.95%) ISTQB
2 7 (17.95%) MCTS
3 1 (2.564%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.564%) HP
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