Cucumber Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Cucumber
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Cucumber skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 31 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 1.81% 0.81% -
As % of the Development Applications category 14.29% 5.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £375 -
75th Percentile £439 - -
90th Percentile £477 - -
South Wales median daily rate £375 £375 £638
% change year-on-year - -41.18% +6.25%

All Development Application Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 28 37 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 12.67% 15.04% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 27 26
10th Percentile £217 £162 £160
25th Percentile £292 £313 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +14.71% -22.02%
75th Percentile £514 £544 £538
90th Percentile £574 £550 £625
South Wales median daily rate £375 £489 £525
% change year-on-year -23.27% -6.90% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
South Wales median hourly rate - £20.24 £26.00
% change year-on-year - -22.17% -

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cucumber relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Cucumber job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) BrowserStack
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) Zephyr
2 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) JMeter
2 2 (50.00%) Postman
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (50.00%) OO
3 2 (50.00%) OOP
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Test Management
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle