Cucumber Contracts in England

Cucumber
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 356 318 307
Rank change year-on-year -38 -11 -30
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 191 379 652
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.75% 0.92%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.48% 5.03% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 290 477
10th Percentile £355 £400 £363
25th Percentile £427 £475 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £688 £750 £625
90th Percentile £828 £820 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 11
10th Percentile - £70.00 £45.00
25th Percentile - £70.63 £54.03
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year - +14.43% +0.06%
75th Percentile - - £80.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year - +14.43% +31.08%

All Development Application Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,260 7,542 12,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.45% 14.95% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,905 5,319 9,060
10th Percentile £355 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £655
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 222 186
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.75
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.56 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.34 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.97% +21.46% +6.45%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.23
90th Percentile £82.75 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +12.22%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in England

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in England.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in England

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in England

Cucumber
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cucumber in England

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -12 124 £525 -19.23% 18
South East +13 27 £650 +33.33% 13
North of England +8 25 £400 -30.43% 5
North West +34 16 £399 -22.20% 2
Yorkshire +17 8 £400 -27.27% 2
Midlands +25 7 £400 -5.88% 3
West Midlands +26 4 £301 -29.12% 2
East Midlands +21 3 £440 +4.76% 1
South West +3 1 £550 +39.24% 6
North East -5 1 £310 -60.00% 1
Cucumber
UK

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (2.62%) Confluence
2 4 (2.09%) nginx
3 3 (1.57%) IIS
3 3 (1.57%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.52%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 7 (3.66%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (3.14%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.05%) Endur
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 63 (32.98%) AWS
2 22 (11.52%) Azure
3 11 (5.76%) GitHub
4 9 (4.71%) Amazon SQS
4 9 (4.71%) Serverless
5 8 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (2.62%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.62%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.09%) BrowserStack
8 4 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.09%) OpenShift
8 4 (2.09%) PaaS
9 3 (1.57%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (1.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (1.57%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.57%) Sauce Labs
10 2 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.05%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.62%) SSH
2 4 (2.09%) HTTP
2 4 (2.09%) Internet
3 1 (0.52%) MQTT
3 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.85%) NoSQL
2 9 (4.71%) MongoDB
3 8 (4.19%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.62%) MySQL
4 5 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.09%) Redis
6 3 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.05%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 107 (56.02%) Selenium
2 76 (39.79%) Jenkins
3 52 (27.23%) JIRA
3 52 (27.23%) JUnit
4 47 (24.61%) Git
5 46 (24.08%) REST Assured
6 38 (19.90%) GitLab
7 32 (16.75%) SonarQube
8 26 (13.61%) WebDriver
9 24 (12.57%) Postman
10 23 (12.04%) JMeter
11 20 (10.47%) Mockito
11 20 (10.47%) TestNG
12 18 (9.42%) Appium
13 16 (8.38%) SoapUI
14 15 (7.85%) SpecFlow
15 14 (7.33%) Maven
15 14 (7.33%) TeamCity
16 12 (6.28%) Moq
16 12 (6.28%) NUnit
General
1 59 (30.89%) Social Skills
2 52 (27.23%) Finance
3 37 (19.37%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (17.80%) Banking
5 33 (17.28%) Front Office
6 20 (10.47%) Law
7 13 (6.81%) Police
8 9 (4.71%) Back Office
9 8 (4.19%) Investment Banking
9 8 (4.19%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.09%) Wholesale Banking
11 3 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.57%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.52%) Aviation
12 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.52%) Retail
12 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (28.80%) Developer
2 38 (19.90%) Senior
3 32 (16.75%) Java Developer
4 28 (14.66%) Tester
5 24 (12.57%) Test Engineer
6 21 (10.99%) Java Engineer
7 17 (8.90%) Automation Tester
7 17 (8.90%) QA Engineer
7 17 (8.90%) Senior Developer
8 16 (8.38%) Senior Java Developer
9 12 (6.28%) C# Developer
9 12 (6.28%) Software Engineer
10 11 (5.76%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (5.24%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.71%) QA Tester
13 8 (4.19%) Senior Test Engineer
14 7 (3.66%) Java Software Engineer
14 7 (3.66%) Lead
14 7 (3.66%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 6 (3.14%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (30.37%) REST
2 25 (13.09%) .NET
2 25 (13.09%) Java EE
2 25 (13.09%) Spring Boot
3 23 (12.04%) Gherkin
4 20 (10.47%) Spring
5 17 (8.90%) RESTful
6 14 (7.33%) Middleware
6 14 (7.33%) Node.js
6 14 (7.33%) RabbitMQ
6 14 (7.33%) Web Services
7 13 (6.81%) JSON
8 12 (6.28%) .NET Core
8 12 (6.28%) ARM Templates
8 12 (6.28%) ASP.NET
8 12 (6.28%) ASP.NET Web API
8 12 (6.28%) Kafka
8 12 (6.28%) SignalR
9 11 (5.76%) .NET Framework
10 10 (5.24%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.81%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (6.28%) Credit Derivative
3 5 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.62%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.09%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.57%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.57%) Derivative
5 3 (1.57%) Equities
5 3 (1.57%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.57%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.05%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.05%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.05%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.52%) Machine to Machine
7 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.42%) Unix
2 12 (6.28%) Linux
3 4 (2.09%) Mac OS X
3 4 (2.09%) Windows
4 1 (0.52%) Android
4 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (70.16%) Test Automation
2 84 (43.98%) Agile
3 80 (41.88%) CI/CD
4 72 (37.70%) Continuous Integration
5 65 (34.03%) BDD
6 54 (28.27%) DevOps
7 47 (24.61%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (19.37%) Microservices
9 36 (18.85%) Containerisation
9 36 (18.85%) TDD
10 30 (15.71%) Software Architecture
10 30 (15.71%) Software Engineering
10 30 (15.71%) Software Testing
11 29 (15.18%) Test Strategy
12 26 (13.61%) SDLC
12 26 (13.61%) Technical Leadership
13 25 (13.09%) Decision-Making
14 23 (12.04%) API Testing
15 21 (10.99%) Scrum
15 21 (10.99%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 136 (71.20%) Java
2 33 (17.28%) SQL
3 27 (14.14%) C#
3 27 (14.14%) Python
4 25 (13.09%) JavaScript
5 19 (9.95%) TypeScript
6 6 (3.14%) Scala
7 5 (2.62%) Perl
7 5 (2.62%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.09%) Bash
8 4 (2.09%) Groovy
9 2 (1.05%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.05%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.05%) Ruby
10 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 69 (36.13%) Security Cleared
2 60 (31.41%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.71%) ISTQB
4 6 (3.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (2.09%) Degree
6 2 (1.05%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.05%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.52%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (27.75%) QA
2 6 (3.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 46 (24.08%) Docker
2 3 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) iptables
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (18.32%) Kubernetes
2 33 (17.28%) Ansible
3 26 (13.61%) Terraform
4 13 (6.81%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (6.28%) Podman
6 3 (1.57%) Grafana
6 3 (1.57%) Kustomize
6 3 (1.57%) Netcool
6 3 (1.57%) Packer
6 3 (1.57%) Puppet
7 2 (1.05%) HP ALM
7 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.52%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.52%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.52%) Istio
8 1 (0.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (8.38%) Oracle
2 12 (6.28%) TIBCO
3 7 (3.66%) IBM
3 7 (3.66%) Splunk
4 4 (2.09%) HP
4 4 (2.09%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.57%) Ab Initio
5 3 (1.57%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.57%) Perfecto Mobile
5 3 (1.57%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.05%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.52%) Confluent
7 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.52%) New Relic
7 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.52%) VMware