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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 118 121
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +3
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 6 11 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.34% 0.52% 0.86%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.28% 3.64% 6.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 21
10th Percentile - £425 £375
25th Percentile £413 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -12.50% -17.24%
75th Percentile £525 £576 £725
90th Percentile £578 £626 £750
Central London median daily rate £425 £525 £613
% change year-on-year -19.05% -14.32% -15.48%

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 263 302 402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 15.04% 14.30% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 198 272
10th Percentile £351 £375 £387
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £648 £675 £701
90th Percentile £711 £777 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £598
% change year-on-year - -7.95% -0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber 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 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in the City of London

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Selenium
2 3 (50.00%) Git
3 2 (33.33%) JMeter
3 2 (33.33%) Postman
3 2 (33.33%) WebDriver
4 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (16.67%) Gatling
4 1 (16.67%) GitLab
4 1 (16.67%) Hamcrest
4 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) JUnit
4 1 (16.67%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (16.67%) Back Office
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Front Office
1 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer in Test
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) Gherkin
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) JSON
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) ZK
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) Playwright
3 1 (16.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) BDD
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) SDET
3 3 (50.00%) TDD
3 3 (50.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (33.33%) Kanban
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) API Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
5 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
5 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (16.67%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) UiPath