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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 115 105
Rank change year-on-year -7 -10 +26
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 10 3 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.41% 0.17% 0.79%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.12% 1.21% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 13
10th Percentile £372 £424 £451
25th Percentile £387 £441 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £488 £510
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -4.41% -16.77%
75th Percentile £457 £541 £575
90th Percentile £471 £561 £688
Central London median daily rate £423 £488 £510
% change year-on-year -13.33% -4.41% -21.54%

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 243 247 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.05% 14.29% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 147 207
10th Percentile £368 £392 £400
25th Percentile £443 £431 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £738 £765
Central London median daily rate £550 £543 £550
% change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 1
10th Percentile £18.56 - -
25th Percentile £18.75 £86.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 £87.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.71% +80.41% +10.86%
75th Percentile £20.25 £88.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £25.90 - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £87.50 £40.75
% change year-on-year -77.71% +114.72% -6.86%

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
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 5 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 5 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (50.00%) GitHub
1 5 (50.00%) Serverless
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 5 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (50.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Git
2 6 (60.00%) GitLab
2 6 (60.00%) JUnit
2 6 (60.00%) Mockito
3 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (50.00%) JIRA
3 5 (50.00%) Postman
4 1 (10.00%) Gatling
4 1 (10.00%) REST Assured
General
1 6 (60.00%) Banking
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Kafka
1 6 (60.00%) WireMock
2 5 (50.00%) Gherkin
2 5 (50.00%) SOAP
2 5 (50.00%) Spring
2 5 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (50.00%) YAML
3 3 (30.00%) Playwright
3 3 (30.00%) REST
4 2 (20.00%) Web Services
4 2 (20.00%) ZK
5 1 (10.00%) AssertJ
5 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) BDD
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (90.00%) Agile
3 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (60.00%) API Testing
5 5 (50.00%) Issue Tracking
5 5 (50.00%) OOP
5 5 (50.00%) Webhook
6 4 (40.00%) TDD
7 2 (20.00%) DevOps
7 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (20.00%) Kanban
7 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
7 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
7 2 (20.00%) Scrum
8 1 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 1 (10.00%) Observability
8 1 (10.00%) SBOM
8 1 (10.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle