Cucumber
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cucumber skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cucumber over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 646 416 344
Rank change year-on-year -230 -72 -43
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 275 733 1,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.75% 1.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.89% 5.29% 4.89%
Number of salaries quoted 199 506 917
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,555 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,911 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -0.87% +12.50%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £101,185 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.69% +12.38% +5.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Cucumber is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,512 13,867 38,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.27% 14.24% 23.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6,598 8,468 16,021
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,210 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cucumber.

Salary trend for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cucumber over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -194 236 £70,000 - 37
UK excluding London -137 154 £60,000 +1.69% 25
Work from Home -123 137 £68,750 +5.77% 18
London -77 123 £83,230 +10.97% 13
South East -20 36 £65,000 +1.56% 11
Scotland -51 28 £72,500 +20.83%
Midlands +7 27 £52,500 -11.02%
North of England -39 26 £57,500 +4.55% 4
South West -47 26 £71,250 +17.77% 7
West Midlands +23 20 £42,500 -23.77%
Yorkshire +12 13 £100,000 +122.22% 3
North West -13 9 £50,000 -16.67% 1
East Midlands -15 7 £57,500 -2.54%
Wales +6 6 £42,500 -11.46%
Northern Ireland +15 4 £57,500 - 2
North East -7 4 £55,000 -21.43%
East of England -40 2 £38,000 -39.20% 1

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (6.18%) Apache
2 15 (5.45%) Cloud Foundry
3 11 (4.00%) Confluence
4 2 (0.73%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.36%) CMS
5 1 (0.36%) Drupal
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
5 1 (0.36%) PrestaShop
5 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (4.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (2.55%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Magento
1 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 76 (27.64%) AWS
2 47 (17.09%) Azure
3 41 (14.91%) SaaS
4 16 (5.82%) GCP
5 11 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (3.64%) Serverless
7 9 (3.27%) BlazeMeter
8 8 (2.91%) GitHub
8 8 (2.91%) Slack
9 7 (2.55%) BrowserStack
10 6 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.82%) OpenShift
12 4 (1.45%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.45%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (1.09%) Amazon EMR
13 3 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.09%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.09%) HTTP
1 3 (1.09%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.91%) MongoDB
2 28 (10.18%) Elasticsearch
3 22 (8.00%) NoSQL
4 16 (5.82%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.91%) Data Lake
5 8 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.18%) MySQL
6 6 (2.18%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (1.45%) Big Data
7 4 (1.45%) MariaDB
7 4 (1.45%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.09%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.09%) Redis
8 3 (1.09%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.73%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.73%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.36%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 147 (53.45%) Selenium
2 103 (37.45%) Jenkins
3 71 (25.82%) Postman
4 68 (24.73%) Cypress.io
5 61 (22.18%) JIRA
6 59 (21.45%) JUnit
7 39 (14.18%) Git
8 33 (12.00%) SpecFlow
9 28 (10.18%) JMeter
9 28 (10.18%) REST Assured
10 26 (9.45%) WebDriver
11 22 (8.00%) Maven
11 22 (8.00%) TeamCity
11 22 (8.00%) TestNG
12 19 (6.91%) Appium
13 15 (5.45%) GitLab
14 11 (4.00%) JBehave
15 10 (3.64%) Gradle
16 9 (3.27%) Bitbucket
16 9 (3.27%) SoapUI
General
1 81 (29.45%) Finance
2 56 (20.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 53 (19.27%) Social Skills
4 44 (16.00%) Law
5 38 (13.82%) Banking
6 34 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (7.27%) Investment Banking
8 17 (6.18%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (5.82%) Marketing
10 13 (4.73%) Public Sector
11 10 (3.64%) Retail
12 4 (1.45%) Health Technology
13 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.73%) Fire and Rescue
14 2 (0.73%) Legal
14 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.73%) Social Housing
15 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.36%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 70 (25.45%) Lead
2 49 (17.82%) QA Engineer
3 44 (16.00%) Senior
3 44 (16.00%) Tester
4 39 (14.18%) Developer
5 38 (13.82%) Java Engineer
6 35 (12.73%) Software Engineer
7 30 (10.91%) Java Software Engineer
8 26 (9.45%) Automation Tester
9 17 (6.18%) Test Engineer
10 16 (5.82%) Full Stack Engineer
11 15 (5.45%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 15 (5.45%) Lead Java Engineer
11 15 (5.45%) Lead Software Engineer
11 15 (5.45%) QA Automation Engineer
12 14 (5.09%) Test Automation Engineer
13 13 (4.73%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 12 (4.36%) Java Developer
14 12 (4.36%) QA Tester
15 10 (3.64%) QA Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (29.82%) REST
2 59 (21.45%) Spring
3 56 (20.36%) Spring Boot
4 44 (16.00%) Gherkin
5 37 (13.45%) React
6 34 (12.36%) Kafka
7 29 (10.55%) CSS
8 26 (9.45%) HTML
8 26 (9.45%) RESTful
9 23 (8.36%) WireMock
10 16 (5.82%) Apache Commons
10 16 (5.82%) Guava
10 16 (5.82%) Java Concurrency
11 15 (5.45%) .NET
11 15 (5.45%) JDBC
12 14 (5.09%) AngularJS
12 14 (5.09%) SOAP
12 14 (5.09%) Web Services
13 11 (4.00%) OpenAPI
13 11 (4.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.64%) Product Ownership
2 18 (6.55%) Private Cloud
3 11 (4.00%) Mobile App
4 9 (3.27%) Market Risk
5 7 (2.55%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.18%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.18%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.73%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.36%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.36%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.36%) Derivative
10 1 (0.36%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.36%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.36%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.36%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.18%) Linux
2 4 (1.45%) Android
2 4 (1.45%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.09%) Unix
3 3 (1.09%) Windows
4 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (58.55%) Test Automation
2 159 (57.82%) Agile
3 148 (53.82%) CI/CD
4 144 (52.36%) BDD
5 91 (33.09%) API Testing
6 75 (27.27%) SDET
7 71 (25.82%) Scrum
8 67 (24.36%) DevOps
8 67 (24.36%) Software Engineering
8 67 (24.36%) TDD
9 65 (23.64%) Software Testing
10 61 (22.18%) Microservices
11 60 (21.82%) Continuous Integration
12 57 (20.73%) Test Strategy
13 47 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
14 46 (16.73%) Clean Code
15 40 (14.55%) Fintech
15 40 (14.55%) Full Stack Development
15 40 (14.55%) Test Scripting
16 35 (12.73%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 190 (69.09%) Java
2 77 (28.00%) SQL
3 75 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 38 (13.82%) Python
5 34 (12.36%) C#
6 19 (6.91%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.91%) Ruby
8 5 (1.82%) C++
9 4 (1.45%) Perl
10 3 (1.09%) Go
10 3 (1.09%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.36%) Groovy
11 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.36%) PHP
11 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.36%) Swift
11 1 (0.36%) VB
11 1 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.91%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.00%) Degree
4 7 (2.55%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.09%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.73%) ISEB
8 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (47.27%) QA
2 16 (5.82%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.91%) GDPR
3 8 (2.91%) PSD2
4 2 (0.73%) PMO
System Software
1 38 (13.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (14.18%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.09%) Terraform
3 7 (2.55%) Ansible
3 7 (2.55%) Kibana
4 5 (1.82%) Grafana
5 4 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.73%) Istio
6 2 (0.73%) Packer
6 2 (0.73%) Podman
6 2 (0.73%) Puppet
7 1 (0.36%) Consul
7 1 (0.36%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.36%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 25 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.91%) Google
3 10 (3.64%) Oracle
4 9 (3.27%) TOWER Software
5 8 (2.91%) Duck Creek
6 7 (2.55%) Adobe
7 5 (1.82%) Splunk
8 3 (1.09%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.73%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.73%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.36%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.36%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.36%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.36%) Databricks
10 1 (0.36%) HP
10 1 (0.36%) IBM
10 1 (0.36%) OpenAI