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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 106 109
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +25
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 14 13 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.75% 0.69% 0.78%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.30% 4.44% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 18
10th Percentile £384 £315 £343
25th Percentile £413 £365 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.06% -15.00% -31.03%
75th Percentile £660 £576 £613
90th Percentile £676 £626 £688
Central London median daily rate £613 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +44.12% -15.00% -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 264 293 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 14.08% 15.58% 10.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 169 183
10th Percentile £363 £396 £414
25th Percentile £425 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £688
90th Percentile £772 £738 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £544 £600
% change year-on-year +1.15% -9.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.20
25th Percentile - - £52.88
Median hourly rate - - £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.22%
75th Percentile - - £67.88
90th Percentile - - £71.40
Central London median hourly rate - - £60.50
% change year-on-year - - +5.22%

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 30 January 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:

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