Cucumber Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Cucumber
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Cucumber skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 118 109
Rank change year-on-year -7 -9 +29
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 12 5 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.51% 0.27% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.58% 1.87% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile £402 £424 £444
25th Percentile £460 £441 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -4.88% -14.65%
75th Percentile £550 £541 £575
90th Percentile £603 £561 £613
Central London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.88% -19.61%

All Development Application Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 262 267 283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.19% 14.61% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 176 190
10th Percentile £409 £345 £405
25th Percentile £463 £424 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +0.40%
75th Percentile £655 £650 £686
90th Percentile £738 £725 £776
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £557
% change year-on-year - -1.21% +1.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £18.17 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% - -
75th Percentile £20.25 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £37.20 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -74.00% +127.27% -

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Cucumber job vacancy trend in the City of London

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cucumber.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in the City of London over the 6 months to 22 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in the City of London

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 6 (50.00%) GitHub
2 4 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Serverless
3 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (41.67%) Git
2 5 (41.67%) GitLab
2 5 (41.67%) JUnit
2 5 (41.67%) Mockito
2 5 (41.67%) Postman
3 4 (33.33%) JIRA
4 3 (25.00%) Selenium
5 2 (16.67%) WebDriver
6 1 (8.33%) Appium
6 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (8.33%) Gatling
6 1 (8.33%) JMeter
6 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
6 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (50.00%) Banking
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer in Test
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Test Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Kafka
2 5 (41.67%) Gherkin
2 5 (41.67%) Playwright
2 5 (41.67%) WireMock
3 4 (33.33%) SOAP
3 4 (33.33%) Spring
3 4 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 4 (33.33%) YAML
4 2 (16.67%) HTML
4 2 (16.67%) REST
4 2 (16.67%) Web Services
5 1 (8.33%) AssertJ
5 1 (8.33%) CSS
5 1 (8.33%) JSON
5 1 (8.33%) Middleware
5 1 (8.33%) OpenAPI
5 1 (8.33%) React
5 1 (8.33%) XBRL
5 1 (8.33%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Android
1 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
3 10 (83.33%) BDD
4 9 (75.00%) Agile
5 6 (50.00%) API Testing
6 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (33.33%) DevOps
6 4 (33.33%) Issue Tracking
6 4 (33.33%) OOP
6 4 (33.33%) Performance Testing
6 4 (33.33%) Webhook
7 3 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (25.00%) Regression Testing
7 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
7 3 (25.00%) TDD
8 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
8 2 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
8 2 (16.67%) Exploratory Testing
8 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (16.67%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) C#
2 4 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) Python
5 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Guidewire
2 1 (8.33%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle