The first table below looks at the demand for Cucumber skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Cucumber over the 3 months to 17 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cucumber
Rank 204 160 167
Rank change year-on-year
-44 +7
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 3 29 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.060% 0.644% 0.072%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.486% 4.754% 0.714%
Number of salaries quoted 3 27 3
Average salary £40,000 £60,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-33.33% +50.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-22.22% +12.50%
All Development Applications
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
617 610 420
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 12.43% 13.55% 10.12%
Number of salaries quoted 565 534 374
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.73%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands Cucumber Salary Trend

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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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
Coventry -10 3 £40,000 -
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 11 (78.57%) BDD
2 9 (64.29%) Selenium
3 8 (57.14%) TDD
3 8 (57.14%) Java
3 8 (57.14%) HTML5
4 6 (42.86%) RSpec
4 6 (42.86%) Web Services
4 6 (42.86%) Ruby
4 6 (42.86%) Scrum
5 5 (35.71%) MVC
5 5 (35.71%) Lucene
5 5 (35.71%) NUnit
5 5 (35.71%) WCF
5 5 (35.71%) Ruby on Rails
5 5 (35.71%) MCTS
5 5 (35.71%) NHibernate
5 5 (35.71%) MCP
5 5 (35.71%) MCAD
5 5 (35.71%) MCSD
5 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
5 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (35.71%) SQL
5 5 (35.71%) .NET
5 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
5 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET
5 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (35.71%) LINQ
5 5 (35.71%) Kanban
5 5 (35.71%) Rhino Mocks
5 5 (35.71%) Castle Windsor

Cucumber
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 8 (57.14%) HTML5
2 6 (42.86%) Web Services
3 5 (35.71%) Lucene
3 5 (35.71%) .NET
3 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET
3 5 (35.71%) Ruby on Rails
3 5 (35.71%) NHibernate
3 5 (35.71%) WCF
3 5 (35.71%) LINQ
3 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET MVC
3 5 (35.71%) Castle Windsor
3 5 (35.71%) Razor View Engine
3 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 4 (28.57%) jQuery
5 3 (21.43%) HTML
5 3 (21.43%) CSS
5 3 (21.43%) Struts
5 3 (21.43%) Ajax
5 3 (21.43%) LAMP
6 1 (7.143%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) Apache
2 2 (14.29%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) DHCP
1 3 (21.43%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (21.43%) DB2
4 1 (7.143%) MySQL
4 1 (7.143%) Redis
4 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Selenium
2 6 (42.86%) RSpec
3 5 (35.71%) NUnit
3 5 (35.71%) Rhino Mocks
4 4 (28.57%) WATIR
5 3 (21.43%) Subversion
5 3 (21.43%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
5 3 (21.43%) Eclipse
5 3 (21.43%) EasyMock
6 2 (14.29%) Capistrano
7 1 (7.143%) Phing
7 1 (7.143%) Jenkins
7 1 (7.143%) Git (software)
7 1 (7.143%) WebDriver
7 1 (7.143%) PHPUnit
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) .NET Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Applications Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Lead Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Web Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Team Leader
4 2 (14.29%) Lead Web Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Web Team Leader
4 2 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Head of Development
5 1 (7.143%) Test Leader
5 1 (7.143%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Applications Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (7.143%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Administrator
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Open Source
2 2 (14.29%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) UNIX
3 1 (7.143%) Mac OS X
3 1 (7.143%) Gentoo
3 1 (7.143%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) BDD
2 8 (57.14%) TDD
3 6 (42.86%) Scrum
4 5 (35.71%) Kanban
4 5 (35.71%) Scrum-ban
4 5 (35.71%) MVC
4 5 (35.71%) Web Application Development
5 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
5 3 (21.43%) Automated Testing
5 3 (21.43%) RAD
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (7.143%) DSDM
7 1 (7.143%) SOA
7 1 (7.143%) Configuration Management
7 1 (7.143%) Active Record
7 1 (7.143%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Java
2 6 (42.86%) Ruby
3 5 (35.71%) SQL
4 4 (28.57%) VB
4 4 (28.57%) VB.NET
4 4 (28.57%) PHP
5 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
5 3 (21.43%) ActionScript
5 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
5 3 (21.43%) Perl
5 3 (21.43%) C++
6 1 (7.143%) C#
6 1 (7.143%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) MCP
1 5 (35.71%) MCAD
1 5 (35.71%) MCSD
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (35.71%) MCTS
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.143%) Zend
2 1 (7.143%) JBoss