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 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 585 407 358
Rank change year-on-year -178 -49 -58
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 326 804 1,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.77% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.41% 5.28% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 251 529 902
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,600 £40,125
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - +9.76%
75th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,237 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% +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 9,547 15,237 34,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 14.56% 22.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6,733 9,275 15,885
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £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 27 April 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 27 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -154 284 £71,250 +1.79% 45
UK excluding London -105 177 £57,500 -4.17% 26
Work from Home -81 172 £75,000 +12.09% 25
London -70 150 £90,000 +18.03% 18
South East -1 37 £67,500 +4.65% 12
South West -10 33 £60,000 -4.76% 4
Midlands +22 32 £50,000 -15.25% 3
North of England -43 32 £61,000 +10.91% 3
Scotland -52 32 £72,500 +20.83% 2
West Midlands +42 25 £40,000 -27.27% 2
Yorkshire +14 13 £100,000 +122.22% 2
North West -3 13 £54,169 -9.72% 1
East Midlands -15 7 £57,500 -2.54% 1
North East -3 6 £55,000 -15.38%
Wales +14 5 £42,500 -15.83% 1
Northern Ireland +26 4 £57,500 - 1
East of England -21 3 £38,000 -40.39%

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 (5.21%) Apache
2 14 (4.29%) Cloud Foundry
3 13 (3.99%) Confluence
4 1 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.31%) CMS
4 1 (0.31%) Drupal
4 1 (0.31%) JBoss
4 1 (0.31%) nginx
4 1 (0.31%) PrestaShop
4 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (3.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (2.76%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Magento
1 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 101 (30.98%) AWS
2 57 (17.48%) SaaS
3 56 (17.18%) Azure
4 16 (4.91%) GCP
4 16 (4.91%) GitHub
5 11 (3.37%) OpenShift
6 10 (3.07%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (3.07%) Serverless
7 9 (2.76%) BlazeMeter
7 9 (2.76%) BrowserStack
8 8 (2.45%) Slack
9 7 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.53%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (0.92%) Amazon EMR
11 3 (0.92%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.92%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.92%) HTTP
2 2 (0.61%) SSH
3 1 (0.31%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (10.74%) MongoDB
2 32 (9.82%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (6.13%) NoSQL
4 16 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.45%) Data Lake
5 8 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.53%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.23%) MySQL
7 4 (1.23%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.92%) Big Data
8 3 (0.92%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.92%) Redis
8 3 (0.92%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.31%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.31%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 181 (55.52%) Selenium
2 145 (44.48%) Jenkins
3 97 (29.75%) Postman
4 85 (26.07%) Cypress.io
5 74 (22.70%) JIRA
6 59 (18.10%) JUnit
7 44 (13.50%) Git
8 35 (10.74%) REST Assured
9 34 (10.43%) JMeter
10 31 (9.51%) SpecFlow
11 30 (9.20%) Maven
12 27 (8.28%) WebDriver
13 25 (7.67%) TestNG
14 22 (6.75%) Appium
14 22 (6.75%) TeamCity
15 17 (5.21%) GitLab
16 15 (4.60%) SoapUI
17 14 (4.29%) Bitbucket
18 12 (3.68%) JBehave
18 12 (3.68%) Serenity BDD
General
1 88 (26.99%) Finance
2 62 (19.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 54 (16.56%) Social Skills
4 43 (13.19%) Law
5 42 (12.88%) Banking
6 35 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (5.52%) Investment Banking
8 17 (5.21%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (4.60%) Marketing
10 12 (3.68%) Public Sector
11 10 (3.07%) Retail
12 7 (2.15%) Tech for Good
13 4 (1.23%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.92%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.61%) Social Housing
16 1 (0.31%) Advertising
16 1 (0.31%) Front Office
16 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 81 (24.85%) Lead
2 63 (19.33%) Senior
3 56 (17.18%) QA Engineer
4 54 (16.56%) Tester
5 47 (14.42%) Developer
6 38 (11.66%) Software Engineer
7 34 (10.43%) Automation Tester
8 33 (10.12%) Java Engineer
9 25 (7.67%) Java Software Engineer
10 17 (5.21%) Lead Software Engineer
10 17 (5.21%) Test Engineer
11 16 (4.91%) QA Automation Engineer
12 15 (4.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 15 (4.60%) Full Stack Engineer
12 15 (4.60%) Java Developer
12 15 (4.60%) QA Tester
13 14 (4.29%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 14 (4.29%) Lead Java Engineer
14 13 (3.99%) Test Automation Engineer
15 9 (2.76%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (34.05%) REST
2 62 (19.02%) Spring
3 58 (17.79%) Spring Boot
4 49 (15.03%) Gherkin
5 40 (12.27%) React
6 34 (10.43%) Kafka
7 32 (9.82%) RESTful
8 30 (9.20%) CSS
9 28 (8.59%) HTML
10 26 (7.98%) WireMock
11 22 (6.75%) Web Services
12 21 (6.44%) SOAP
13 17 (5.21%) .NET
13 17 (5.21%) AngularJS
14 16 (4.91%) Apache Commons
14 16 (4.91%) Guava
14 16 (4.91%) Java Concurrency
15 14 (4.29%) JDBC
16 13 (3.99%) WebdriverIO
17 11 (3.37%) Material Design
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.59%) Product Ownership
2 17 (5.21%) Private Cloud
3 9 (2.76%) Market Risk
3 9 (2.76%) Mobile App
3 9 (2.76%) Onboarding
4 6 (1.84%) Cloud Native
4 6 (1.84%) Data Centre
4 6 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (0.61%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (0.61%) Hedge funds
6 2 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.61%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.61%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.31%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.31%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.31%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.15%) Linux
2 6 (1.84%) Android
2 6 (1.84%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.92%) Windows
4 2 (0.61%) Unix
5 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (57.36%) Agile
2 181 (55.52%) CI/CD
3 180 (55.21%) Test Automation
4 166 (50.92%) BDD
5 122 (37.42%) API Testing
6 98 (30.06%) SDET
7 84 (25.77%) Scrum
8 77 (23.62%) DevOps
9 76 (23.31%) Test Strategy
10 73 (22.39%) Software Engineering
11 72 (22.09%) Clean Code
11 72 (22.09%) Software Testing
12 68 (20.86%) Continuous Integration
13 64 (19.63%) Microservices
13 64 (19.63%) TDD
14 53 (16.26%) Fintech
15 45 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
16 44 (13.50%) Full Stack Development
17 39 (11.96%) Test Scripting
18 36 (11.04%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 230 (70.55%) Java
2 98 (30.06%) JavaScript
3 86 (26.38%) SQL
4 45 (13.80%) Python
5 38 (11.66%) C#
6 25 (7.67%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.37%) C++
8 9 (2.76%) Ruby
9 7 (2.15%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.53%) Swift
11 4 (1.23%) Perl
12 3 (0.92%) Go
12 3 (0.92%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.61%) Groovy
14 1 (0.31%) Bash
14 1 (0.31%) C
14 1 (0.31%) PHP
14 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.31%) Scala
14 1 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 39 (11.96%) Security Cleared
2 36 (11.04%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.13%) Degree
4 7 (2.15%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.84%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.92%) ISEB
8 2 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (0.61%) OCP
8 2 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (47.24%) QA
2 19 (5.83%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.45%) GDPR
3 8 (2.45%) PSD2
4 2 (0.61%) PMO
5 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
System Software
1 53 (16.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 51 (15.64%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.91%) Terraform
3 10 (3.07%) Ansible
4 7 (2.15%) Kibana
5 5 (1.53%) Consul
5 5 (1.53%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.23%) Grafana
6 4 (1.23%) Packer
7 2 (0.61%) Istio
7 2 (0.61%) Puppet
8 1 (0.31%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.31%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.31%) Nagios
8 1 (0.31%) Podman
Vendors
1 24 (7.36%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.75%) Google
3 12 (3.68%) Oracle
4 9 (2.76%) Adobe
4 9 (2.76%) TOWER Software
5 8 (2.45%) Duck Creek
6 5 (1.53%) Splunk
7 3 (0.92%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.61%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.61%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.61%) Databricks
8 2 (0.61%) IBM
8 2 (0.61%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.61%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.31%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.31%) HP
9 1 (0.31%) New Relic
9 1 (0.31%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.31%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.31%) Veracode