Cucumber Contract Job Trends in Central London

Cucumber
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Cucumber skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 123 139
Rank change year-on-year +1 +16 -5
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 4 12 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.20% 0.52% 0.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.38% 3.87% 6.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 23
10th Percentile - £444 £383
25th Percentile £413 £500 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -18.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £438 £575 £725
90th Percentile - £613 £750
London median daily rate £520 £525 £565
% change year-on-year -0.95% -7.08% -3.75%

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 289 310 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 14.66% 13.43% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 207 305
10th Percentile £355 £400 £400
25th Percentile £419 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £694 £700
90th Percentile £700 £785 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £33.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +127.27% - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
London median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +20.00% -44.44% +55.87%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cucumber.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cucumber

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 13 September 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 -2 4 £425 -17.07% 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (25.00%) JMeter
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (25.00%) Back Office
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Front Office
1 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Developer in Test
3 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) ZK
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (50.00%) Kanban
3 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
4 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (25.00%) SDET
4 1 (25.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) UiPath