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 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 104 114
Rank change year-on-year -17 +10 +26
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 14 11 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.66% 0.63% 0.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.43% 4.17% 7.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 15
10th Percentile £359 £365 £452
25th Percentile £363 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -2.50% -29.82%
75th Percentile £676 £575 £625
90th Percentile - £638 £688
Central London median daily rate £425 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -12.82% -2.50% -31.03%

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 258 264 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.21% 15.13% 10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 155 164
10th Percentile £363 £409 £420
25th Percentile £453 £463 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £688
90th Percentile £753 £725 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £565
% change year-on-year +2.33% -4.87% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.20
25th Percentile £18.75 - £52.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.22%
75th Percentile £20.25 - £67.88
90th Percentile £48.50 - £71.40
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - £48.50
% change year-on-year - - -15.65%

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 March 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) GitHub
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
3 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (21.43%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (21.43%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Git
2 6 (42.86%) Postman
3 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 4 (28.57%) JIRA
3 4 (28.57%) Selenium
4 3 (21.43%) GitLab
4 3 (21.43%) JUnit
4 3 (21.43%) Mockito
5 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
5 2 (14.29%) REST Assured
5 2 (14.29%) SoapUI
6 1 (7.14%) JMeter
6 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
6 1 (7.14%) TestRail
6 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
6 1 (7.14%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Back Office
3 2 (14.29%) Front Office
3 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Automation Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Test Automation Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Developer in Test
4 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) REST
2 5 (35.71%) SOAP
2 5 (35.71%) Web Services
3 4 (28.57%) Gherkin
3 4 (28.57%) ZK
4 3 (21.43%) Kafka
4 3 (21.43%) Playwright
4 3 (21.43%) Spring
4 3 (21.43%) Spring Boot
4 3 (21.43%) WireMock
4 3 (21.43%) YAML
5 2 (14.29%) .NET
5 2 (14.29%) JSON
6 1 (7.14%) CSS
6 1 (7.14%) HTML
6 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (92.86%) Agile
3 10 (71.43%) BDD
3 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
4 6 (42.86%) Scrum
5 5 (35.71%) TDD
6 4 (28.57%) API Testing
6 4 (28.57%) DevOps
6 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (28.57%) Kanban
6 4 (28.57%) Performance Testing
6 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (28.57%) Project Delivery
6 4 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
7 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (21.43%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (21.43%) Issue Tracking
7 3 (21.43%) Software Testing
7 3 (21.43%) Test Scripting
7 3 (21.43%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Java
2 6 (42.86%) C#
3 5 (35.71%) Python
4 4 (28.57%) SQL
5 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 2 (14.29%) VB.NET
6 1 (7.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) QA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) UiPath
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Workday