Cucumber Contracts in the City of London

Cucumber
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Cucumber skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cucumber over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 135 118
Rank change year-on-year +31 -17 +2
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 21 37 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.95% 1.02% 1.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.72% 6.68% 8.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 34 73
10th Percentile £453 £420 £419
25th Percentile £463 £514 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% +29.73%
75th Percentile £575 £775 £738
90th Percentile £688 £784 -
Central London median daily rate £500 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% +29.73%

All Development Application Skills
City of London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 272 554 888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.35% 15.23% 20.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 360 711
10th Percentile £413 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £605 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.94% +2.94% +11.90%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £49.20 £35.00 £51.85
25th Percentile £52.88 £39.06 £54.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 £55.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.57% +112.07%
75th Percentile £67.88 £58.75 £71.75
90th Percentile £71.40 - £75.95
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £55.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -11.82% -10.57% +112.07%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in the City of London

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in the City of London

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in the City of London

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (14.29%) nginx
2 2 (9.52%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (9.52%) Serverless
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.76%) BrowserStack
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub
4 1 (4.76%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) MQTT
1 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (95.24%) Selenium
2 9 (42.86%) Jenkins
3 7 (33.33%) REST Assured
3 7 (33.33%) WebDriver
4 6 (28.57%) JUnit
5 5 (23.81%) Postman
5 5 (23.81%) TestNG
6 4 (19.05%) Git
6 4 (19.05%) Maven
7 3 (14.29%) Appium
7 3 (14.29%) Bitbucket
7 3 (14.29%) JMeter
7 3 (14.29%) SoapUI
8 2 (9.52%) Cypress.io
8 2 (9.52%) EasyMock
8 2 (9.52%) eggPlant
8 2 (9.52%) GitLab
8 2 (9.52%) JIRA
8 2 (9.52%) Mockito
8 2 (9.52%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (23.81%) Banking
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Front Office
3 3 (14.29%) Prime Brokerage
3 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Finance
5 1 (4.76%) Aviation
5 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Test Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Developer
2 4 (19.05%) QA Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Automation Tester
3 3 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Tester
4 2 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Software Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Automation Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Backend Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Mobile Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) QA Test Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) REST
2 4 (19.05%) Gherkin
3 3 (14.29%) JAX-RS
3 3 (14.29%) Spring
3 3 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 2 (9.52%) .NET
4 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (9.52%) Guice
4 2 (9.52%) Jest
4 2 (9.52%) Kafka
4 2 (9.52%) Middleware
4 2 (9.52%) Mustache
4 2 (9.52%) OpenAPI
4 2 (9.52%) Swagger
4 2 (9.52%) WireMock
5 1 (4.76%) Chai
5 1 (4.76%) Node.js
5 1 (4.76%) React
5 1 (4.76%) React Native
5 1 (4.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Equities
2 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Machine to Machine
3 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Android
1 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (95.24%) Test Automation
2 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 7 (33.33%) SDET
2 7 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 5 (23.81%) Agile
3 5 (23.81%) BDD
4 4 (19.05%) Microservices
5 3 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (14.29%) ETL
5 3 (14.29%) Performance Testing
5 3 (14.29%) QA Automation
5 3 (14.29%) Test Scripting
6 2 (9.52%) API Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Auto-Scaling
6 2 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (9.52%) Dependency Injection
6 2 (9.52%) Migration
6 2 (9.52%) Multithreading
6 2 (9.52%) MVC
6 2 (9.52%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) Java
2 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
3 3 (14.29%) Python
4 2 (9.52%) C#
5 1 (4.76%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) SC Cleared
1 10 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) iptables
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Ansible
2 2 (9.52%) Kustomize
2 2 (9.52%) Packer
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Perfecto Mobile