Cucumber Contracts in Berkshire

Cucumber
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Cucumber skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cucumber over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 94 104
Rank change year-on-year +17 +10 +14
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Cucumber 16 16 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.35% 0.95% 0.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.70% 7.92% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 6
10th Percentile - £563 £503
25th Percentile £500 £600 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £650 £565
Median % change year-on-year -23.00% +15.04% +67.41%
75th Percentile £568 £688 £584
90th Percentile £690 - £601
South East median daily rate £475 £638 £575
% change year-on-year -25.49% +10.87% +15.00%

All Development Application Skills
Berkshire

Cucumber falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Berkshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 126 202 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 10.61% 12.05% 11.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 122 135
10th Percentile £365 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +19.24%
75th Percentile £563 £642 £634
90th Percentile £613 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £545
% change year-on-year - -8.26% +4.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £54.08 £60.74 -
25th Percentile £58.69 £64.12 -
Median hourly rate £66.75 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.42% - -
75th Percentile £73.63 £92.50 -
90th Percentile £77.45 £97.00 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -8.00%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in Berkshire

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Cucumber.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in Berkshire over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in Berkshire

Cucumber
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 23 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +18 13 £748 +15.00%
Cucumber
South East

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (6.25%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 15 (93.75%) Azure
2 13 (81.25%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 14 (87.50%) GitLab
1 14 (87.50%) Selenium
2 13 (81.25%) Jenkins
2 13 (81.25%) JIRA
2 13 (81.25%) REST Assured
3 10 (62.50%) SonarQube
4 2 (12.50%) Git
4 2 (12.50%) SpecFlow
5 1 (6.25%) Robot Framework
General
1 11 (68.75%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
3 8 (50.00%) Law
4 4 (25.00%) Police
5 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Java Engineer
1 9 (56.25%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (56.25%) Software Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Head of Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (81.25%) Java EE
1 13 (81.25%) REST
2 9 (56.25%) ARM Templates
3 2 (12.50%) CSS
3 2 (12.50%) HTML
3 2 (12.50%) Playwright
4 1 (6.25%) Jinja
4 1 (6.25%) JSON
4 1 (6.25%) NETCONF
4 1 (6.25%) XML
4 1 (6.25%) YANG
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) DevOps
1 15 (93.75%) Test Automation
2 13 (81.25%) Configuration Management
2 13 (81.25%) Continuous Integration
2 13 (81.25%) Software Architecture
2 13 (81.25%) Software Engineering
2 13 (81.25%) Technical Leadership
3 10 (62.50%) Decision-Making
4 9 (56.25%) Containerisation
4 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Agile
6 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
6 3 (18.75%) Scrum
7 2 (12.50%) API Testing
7 2 (12.50%) BDD
7 2 (12.50%) Load Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Test Scripting
8 1 (6.25%) Open Source
8 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) C#
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (81.25%) SC Cleared
1 13 (81.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Ansible
2 9 (56.25%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (56.25%) Kubernetes
2 9 (56.25%) Podman
2 9 (56.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco
1 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
1 1 (6.25%) Veracode