Cucumber Contracts in Central London

Cucumber
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 115 134
Rank change year-on-year -4 +19 -18
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 5 20 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.25% 0.82% 1.07%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.84% 6.97% 7.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 37
10th Percentile - £453 £428
25th Percentile £413 £463 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -28.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £506 £575 £775
90th Percentile £548 £688 £780
London median daily rate £430 £525 £638
% change year-on-year -18.05% -17.65% +14.35%

All Development Application Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 272 287 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 13.61% 11.76% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 194 382
10th Percentile £406 £397 £413
25th Percentile £431 £450 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £738
90th Percentile £728 £750 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £34.38 £35.00
25th Percentile - £36.44 £39.06
Median hourly rate - £40.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.91% -10.57%
75th Percentile - £45.94 £58.75
90th Percentile - £48.53 -
London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -17.81% -36.52% +29.21%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in Central London

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in Central London

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in Central London

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -8 5 £425 -15.00% 2
Cucumber
London

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (20.00%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JUnit
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (20.00%) Gatling
3 1 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (20.00%) Hamcrest
3 1 (20.00%) Jasmine
3 1 (20.00%) JBehave
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) JMeter
3 1 (20.00%) Postman
3 1 (20.00%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (20.00%) WebStorm
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer in Test
2 2 (40.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Batch
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Security
2 1 (20.00%) Swagger
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) BDD
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 2 (40.00%) SDET
3 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) OWASP
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) SOLID
4 1 (20.00%) Test Assurance
4 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk