The first table below looks at the demand for Cucumber skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Cucumber over the 3 months to 18 June 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.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cucumber
Rank 368 445 736
Rank change year-on-year
+77 +291
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 701 551 161
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.635% 0.459% 0.125%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.316% 3.280% 0.977%
Number of salaries quoted 627 490 143
Average salary £48,000 £47,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.05% +15.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £41,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-15.66% +10.66%
All Development Applications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
16243 16798 16479
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 14.72% 13.98% 12.80%
Number of salaries quoted 13896 14653 14519
Average salary £44,000 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.52% +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -

Cucumber
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cucumber Jobs Demand Trend

Cucumber
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Cucumber within the UK.

Cucumber Salary Trend

Cucumber
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Cucumber over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 within the UK.

Cucumber Salary Histogram

Cucumber
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +81 694 £47,500 - 55
London +100 503 £50,000 +5.26% 41
City of London +36 105 £50,000 - 13
South East -6 78 £40,000 - 3
Yorkshire +26 50 £35,000 - 4
Leeds +14 29 £34,000 +6.25% 3
West Yorkshire +8 29 £34,000 +6.25% 3
East Sussex +2 29 £35,000 -15.66%
Brighton +4 28 £35,000 -15.66%
North Yorkshire - 26 £35,000 - 1
Surrey +19 24 £45,000 -9.09% 1
North West +17 23 £32,500 +4.00% 3
Berkshire +17 22 £40,000 -11.11% 2
East of England -13 21 £37,500 -21.05%
Maidenhead - 12 £40,000 - 2
Harrogate - 12 £35,000 - 1
Norwich +3 10 £36,250 +3.57%
Norfolk +3 10 £36,250 +3.57%
South West - 9 £37,500 - 4
Whyteleafe - 9 £45,000 -
York - 9 £35,000 -
Bristol - 9 £37,500 - 4
Reading +8 8 £45,000 -
Liverpool - 8 £30,000 - 1
Merseyside - 8 £30,000 - 1
Sheffield +5 7 £25,000 -23.07%
South Yorkshire +2 7 £25,000 -47.36%
Lancashire +2 7 £35,000 +7.69%
Preston +1 7 £35,000 +7.69%
Bedfordshire -1 6 £37,500 -37.50%

Cucumber
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1 908 (66.67%) Selenium
2 744 (54.63%) BDD
3 691 (50.73%) TDD
4 575 (42.22%) QA
5 573 (42.07%) Java
6 554 (40.68%) Agile Software Development
7 549 (40.31%) Scrum
8 493 (36.20%) Ruby
9 394 (28.93%) .NET
10 385 (28.27%) C#
11 366 (26.87%) Test Automation
12 324 (23.79%) WebDriver
13 309 (22.69%) E-Commerce
14 304 (22.32%) JavaScript
15 295 (21.66%) SQL
16 260 (19.09%) Automated Testing
16 260 (19.09%) Open Source
17 256 (18.80%) SQL Server
18 254 (18.65%) OO
19 248 (18.21%) MVC
20 244 (17.91%) Continuous Integration
21 233 (17.11%) Kanban
22 229 (16.81%) Web Services
23 227 (16.67%) ASP.NET
24 216 (15.86%) Microsoft
25 209 (15.35%) ASP.NET MVC
26 200 (14.68%) Git (software)
27 195 (14.32%) SpecFlow
28 192 (14.10%) CSS
29 184 (13.51%) Finance

Cucumber
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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
1 394 (28.93%) .NET
2 229 (16.81%) Web Services
3 227 (16.67%) ASP.NET
4 209 (15.35%) ASP.NET MVC
5 192 (14.10%) CSS
6 182 (13.36%) HTML
7 176 (12.92%) NHibernate
8 163 (11.97%) WCF
9 156 (11.45%) Ruby on Rails
10 154 (11.31%) REST
11 143 (10.50%) XML
12 142 (10.43%) Gherkin
13 138 (10.13%) Castle Windsor
14 137 (10.06%) RESTful
15 129 (9.471%) LINQ
16 127 (9.325%) Spring
17 126 (9.251%) Lucene
18 118 (8.664%) ASP.NET MVC 4
19 108 (7.930%) jQuery
20 95 (6.975%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 91 (6.681%) Amazon AWS
2 64 (4.699%) Apache
3 50 (3.671%) Tomcat
4 38 (2.790%) nginx
5 34 (2.496%) IIS
6 23 (1.689%) Apache Solr
7 20 (1.468%) CMS
8 15 (1.101%) WebLogic
8 15 (1.101%) Confluence
8 15 (1.101%) Windows Azure
8 15 (1.101%) ElasticSearch
9 6 (0.441%) Oracle Coherence
9 6 (0.441%) Alfresco
10 5 (0.367%) WordPress
10 5 (0.367%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.294%) Magento
11 4 (0.294%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.220%) Shopify
12 3 (0.220%) LiveSite
12 3 (0.220%) Mule
Applications
1 18 (1.322%) MS Excel
2 15 (1.101%) Mingle
3 13 (0.954%) Photoshop
4 6 (0.441%) Fireworks
5 1 (0.073%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.441%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 157 (11.53%) Internet
2 75 (5.507%) HTTP
3 10 (0.734%) Wireshark
4 4 (0.294%) Intranet
5 3 (0.220%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.147%) DHCP
6 2 (0.147%) AMQP
6 2 (0.147%) Modbus
6 2 (0.147%) Broadband
6 2 (0.147%) Extranet
7 1 (0.073%) DVB
7 1 (0.073%) Wireless
7 1 (0.073%) VoIP
7 1 (0.073%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (18.80%) SQL Server
2 118 (8.664%) SQL Server 2008
3 109 (8.003%) MySQL
4 82 (6.021%) MongoDB
5 81 (5.947%) SQL Server 2012
6 61 (4.479%) PostgreSQL
7 59 (4.332%) NoSQL
8 35 (2.570%) Redis
9 32 (2.349%) Big Data
10 29 (2.129%) SQL Server 2005
11 26 (1.909%) Neo4j
12 21 (1.542%) CouchDB
13 20 (1.468%) RDBMS
14 13 (0.954%) Riak
14 13 (0.954%) MarkLogic
14 13 (0.954%) Oracle ODI
15 12 (0.881%) Hadoop
16 9 (0.661%) Apache Cassandra
17 5 (0.367%) DB2
18 4 (0.294%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 908 (66.67%) Selenium
2 324 (23.79%) WebDriver
3 200 (14.68%) Git (software)
4 195 (14.32%) SpecFlow
5 181 (13.29%) RSpec
6 178 (13.07%) Jenkins
7 169 (12.41%) FitNesse
8 166 (12.19%) JUnit
8 166 (12.19%) NUnit
9 153 (11.23%) QuickTest Pro
10 147 (10.79%) Rhino Mocks
11 106 (7.783%) Hudson
12 104 (7.636%) JIRA
13 99 (7.269%) Subversion
14 91 (6.681%) Maven
15 84 (6.167%) JBehave
16 83 (6.094%) JMeter
17 74 (5.433%) WATIR
18 61 (4.479%) Visual Studio
19 59 (4.332%) CruiseControl
General
1 184 (13.51%) Finance
2 75 (5.507%) Games
3 55 (4.038%) Marketing
4 38 (2.790%) Publishing
5 37 (2.717%) Advertising
6 36 (2.643%) Banking
7 29 (2.129%) Retail
8 22 (1.615%) Telecoms
9 20 (1.468%) Investment Banking
10 15 (1.101%) Law
11 13 (0.954%) Financial Institution
11 13 (0.954%) Front Office
12 11 (0.808%) Legal
13 9 (0.661%) Multimedia
14 8 (0.587%) Online Betting
15 7 (0.514%) Music Industry
16 6 (0.441%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.294%) Retail Banking
17 4 (0.294%) Arabic Language
17 4 (0.294%) Hindi Language
Job Titles
1 554 (40.68%) Developer
2 242 (17.77%) Analyst
3 220 (16.15%) Tester
4 189 (13.88%) Test Analyst
5 166 (12.19%) .NET Developer
6 146 (10.72%) QA Engineer
7 115 (8.443%) Test Engineer
8 109 (8.003%) Java Developer
9 89 (6.535%) Software Engineer
10 81 (5.947%) Senior Developer
11 76 (5.580%) QA Analyst
12 60 (4.405%) Automation Engineer
13 56 (4.112%) Automation Tester
14 54 (3.965%) Ruby on Rails Developer
15 53 (3.891%) QA Tester
16 52 (3.818%) Ruby Developer
17 43 (3.157%) Web Tester
17 43 (3.157%) Automated Tester
18 39 (2.863%) Lead Developer
19 38 (2.790%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 260 (19.09%) Open Source
2 116 (8.517%) Mobile App
3 79 (5.800%) Computer Science
4 65 (4.772%) Digital Media
5 64 (4.699%) Enterprise Software
6 57 (4.185%) Social Media
7 41 (3.010%) Blackberry
8 37 (2.717%) iPhone
9 33 (2.423%) iPad
10 27 (1.982%) BBC
11 23 (1.689%) Video on Demand
12 22 (1.615%) Social Network
13 17 (1.248%) Online Games
13 17 (1.248%) Client/Server
14 16 (1.175%) Blog
15 15 (1.101%) Hedge funds
16 14 (1.028%) Streaming Video
17 13 (0.954%) MHEG
17 13 (0.954%) Linked Data
18 11 (0.808%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 150 (11.01%) Linux
2 105 (7.709%) Android
3 98 (7.195%) Windows
4 88 (6.461%) UNIX
5 72 (5.286%) Apple iOS
6 25 (1.836%) CentOS
7 15 (1.101%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.808%) Mac OS X
9 8 (0.587%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.514%) Windows Phone
11 5 (0.367%) Gentoo
12 4 (0.294%) Windows Mobile
13 2 (0.147%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 744 (54.63%) BDD
2 691 (50.73%) TDD
3 554 (40.68%) Agile Software Development
4 549 (40.31%) Scrum
5 366 (26.87%) Test Automation
6 309 (22.69%) E-Commerce
7 260 (19.09%) Automated Testing
8 254 (18.65%) OO
9 248 (18.21%) MVC
10 244 (17.91%) Continuous Integration
11 233 (17.11%) Kanban
12 181 (13.29%) Test Scripting
13 134 (9.838%) Web Application Development
14 127 (9.325%) Scrum-ban
15 117 (8.590%) User Stories
16 113 (8.297%) Automation Testing
17 103 (7.562%) Software Testing
18 92 (6.755%) OOP
19 89 (6.535%) Unit Testing
20 77 (5.653%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 573 (42.07%) Java
2 493 (36.20%) Ruby
3 385 (28.27%) C#
4 304 (22.32%) JavaScript
5 295 (21.66%) SQL
6 115 (8.443%) Python
7 76 (5.580%) PHP
8 72 (5.286%) Perl
9 63 (4.626%) C
10 52 (3.818%) Groovy
11 51 (3.744%) C++
12 38 (2.790%) Scala
13 29 (2.129%) Objective-C
14 25 (1.836%) ActionScript
15 24 (1.762%) PL/SQL
15 24 (1.762%) VB.NET
16 21 (1.542%) T-SQL
17 16 (1.175%) Erlang
18 14 (1.028%) Clojure
19 13 (0.954%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 131 (9.618%) Degree
2 108 (7.930%) ISEB
3 79 (5.800%) Microsoft Certification
3 79 (5.800%) MCP
3 79 (5.800%) MCAD
3 79 (5.800%) MCSD
3 79 (5.800%) MCTS
4 62 (4.552%) ISTQB
5 6 (0.441%) Sun Certification
6 4 (0.294%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.147%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.147%) HND
8 1 (0.073%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 575 (42.22%) QA
2 3 (0.220%) GxP
2 3 (0.220%) WAI
3 1 (0.073%) Section 508
System Software
1 12 (0.881%) Varnish
2 6 (0.441%) VirtualBox
2 6 (0.441%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (0.220%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (3.157%) HP Quality Center
2 38 (2.790%) Puppet
3 19 (1.395%) Vagrant
4 17 (1.248%) Nagios
5 1 (0.073%) YUM
Vendors
1 216 (15.86%) Microsoft
2 57 (4.185%) Oracle
3 36 (2.643%) HP
4 26 (1.909%) Facebook
5 18 (1.322%) Zend
6 14 (1.028%) Apple
7 13 (0.954%) Adobe
8 12 (0.881%) Google
9 10 (0.734%) Sitecore
10 9 (0.661%) JBoss
11 8 (0.587%) Mercator
12 4 (0.294%) Symbian
12 4 (0.294%) Terracotta
12 4 (0.294%) VMware
13 3 (0.220%) Twitter
13 3 (0.220%) IBM
13 3 (0.220%) Sun
13 3 (0.220%) Red Hat
14 2 (0.147%) SAP
14 2 (0.147%) Cognizant
City, London
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Vertical IT
Salary: £50000 - £67500 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
An exciting opportunity as arisen for a Senior Automation tester to join a successful global umbrella company based in central London-The ideal candidate will have the following...
OPUS
Salary: GBP45000 to GBP55000 per annum
Posted: 3 June 2013
London
Awareness of TDD and BDD is desirable. Knowledge of developing automation tests and harness using tools such as Cucumber, RSpec and Selenium-WebDriver is a plus... Working experience...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 4 June 2013
City, London
Enjoy writing Java?... The successful candidate will have a comprehensive understanding of Front to Back end development, very good Java skills and a history of working with Javascript,...
Aston Carter
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits + Games + Free Lunch
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
Requirements:Good communication skills is essentialStrong C#, .NET backgroundWeb application testing experienceAutomation experience with using Selenium, Cucumber, Fitnesse would be idealStrong Agile testing skills - TDD/BDD The role...
Real Staffing
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Harrogate, North Yorkshire
AMsource Technology
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Burns Sheehan
Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Thomson Keene Associates
Salary: £75000 - £95000 per annum + Excellent Banking Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £65000 per annum + Shares
Posted: 17 June 2013
Bristol, Avon
TRG
Salary: £35000 - 40000 Per Annum Benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
Bristol, South West
TRG
Salary: 35000-40000 Per Annum Benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
Maidenhead, Thames Valley
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Maidenhead, Berkshire
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Apollo Solutions
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Prism Digital
Salary: £15000 - £45000 per annum + bonus, health, training, free bar
Posted: 13 June 2013
North London
Verticality Ltd
Salary: £40000 to £45000 per annum - Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Surrey
Salt
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Marcus Donald People
Salary: £60000 to £75000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Noir Consulting
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
North London
Verticality Ltd
Salary: £25000 to £30000 per annum - Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
Noir Consulting
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Noir Consulting
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
E-Resourcing
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Package
Posted: 12 June 2013
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