Cucumber Contracts in the City of London

Cucumber
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Cucumber skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cucumber over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 107 133
Rank change year-on-year -9 +26 -16
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 4 16 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.76% 1.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.59% 5.33% 6.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 29
10th Percentile £424 £451 £436
25th Percentile £441 £489 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £505 £601
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% -15.90% -15.72%
75th Percentile £541 £603 £738
90th Percentile £561 £688 £755
Central London median daily rate £488 £505 £638
% change year-on-year -3.47% -20.78% -10.53%

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 251 300 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 14.24% 14.18% 14.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 205 329
10th Percentile £394 £400 £400
25th Percentile £435 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -8.17% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £738
90th Percentile £738 £772 £800
Central London median daily rate £548 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -0.45% -8.33% +1.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 £46.75 £51.25
Median hourly rate £87.50 £48.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +80.41% -7.62% -
75th Percentile £88.75 £50.25 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £87.50 £40.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +114.72% -22.38% -

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in the City of London

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 1 July 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) JUnit
2 2 (50.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (25.00%) Gatling
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Hamcrest
3 1 (25.00%) JBehave
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) JMeter
3 1 (25.00%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Back Office
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Front Office
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Developer in Test
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) BDD
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) QA Automation
3 1 (25.00%) SDET
3 1 (25.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk
1 1 (25.00%) UiPath