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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 113 127
Rank change year-on-year +1 +14 +1
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 12 13 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.67% 0.61% 0.67%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.11% 4.42% 6.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 17
10th Percentile - £315 £333
25th Percentile £413 £365 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £565 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.19% +18.95% -34.48%
75th Percentile £660 £638 £625
90th Percentile £676 £700 £695
Central London median daily rate £613 £565 £475
% change year-on-year +8.41% +18.95% -34.48%

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 292 294 295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.25% 13.80% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 171 205
10th Percentile £355 £348 £353
25th Percentile £425 £468 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -7.26%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £564 £572
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% -4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.09%
75th Percentile £82.50 - £73.75
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £75.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +26.09%

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 25 November 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Selenium
2 6 (50.00%) Git
3 4 (33.33%) Postman
4 3 (25.00%) Bitbucket
4 3 (25.00%) JMeter
4 3 (25.00%) WebDriver
5 2 (16.67%) REST Assured
5 2 (16.67%) SoapUI
6 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (8.33%) Gatling
6 1 (8.33%) GitLab
6 1 (8.33%) Hamcrest
6 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
6 1 (8.33%) JIRA
6 1 (8.33%) JUnit
6 1 (8.33%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (41.67%) Banking
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Back Office
2 3 (25.00%) Front Office
2 3 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Developer in Test
3 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Web Services
2 5 (41.67%) REST
3 3 (25.00%) .NET
3 3 (25.00%) CSS
3 3 (25.00%) Gherkin
3 3 (25.00%) HTML
3 3 (25.00%) JSON
3 3 (25.00%) ZK
4 2 (16.67%) Playwright
4 2 (16.67%) SOAP
5 1 (8.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (75.00%) Agile
2 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (58.33%) BDD
4 6 (50.00%) Scrum
4 6 (50.00%) Test Scripting
5 5 (41.67%) Performance Testing
5 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (41.67%) Scenario Testing
6 4 (33.33%) DevOps
6 4 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
6 4 (33.33%) SDET
6 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
6 4 (33.33%) TDD
7 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (25.00%) Kanban
7 3 (25.00%) Prototyping
7 3 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
7 3 (25.00%) Test Strategy
7 3 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) C#
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
1 3 (25.00%) UiPath
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk