Cucumber Contracts in Birmingham

Cucumber
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 65 73
Rank change year-on-year +20 +8 -
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.96% 0.26% 0.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.20% 3.51% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £442 £219 £414
25th Percentile £469 £245 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £301 £425
Median % change year-on-year +60.33% -29.12% -
75th Percentile £484 £370 £434
90th Percentile £484 £403 £436
West Midlands median daily rate £483 £301 £425
% change year-on-year +60.33% -29.12% +4.94%

All Development Application Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 49 57 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.39% 7.37% 9.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 45 68
10th Percentile £425 £259 £371
25th Percentile £463 £260 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £648 £475 £700
90th Percentile £689 £525 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £450 £538
% change year-on-year +11.11% -16.36% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £55.00 £31.69
Median hourly rate - £55.63 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year - +66.62% -
75th Percentile - £56.25 £35.08
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £57.50 £56.25 £33.39
% change year-on-year +2.22% +68.49% -14.40%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in Birmingham

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in Birmingham

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Gradle
1 3 (60.00%) JUnit
1 3 (60.00%) Maven
1 3 (60.00%) Mockito
2 2 (40.00%) JMeter
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
3 1 (20.00%) Ant
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) QA Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) QA Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) QA Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) Gherkin
3 1 (20.00%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (40.00%) Compatibility Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (40.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) Batch Processing
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Data Extraction
3 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Sybase