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 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 112 131
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 -7
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 4 12 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.22% 0.57% 0.80%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.49% 4.07% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 20
10th Percentile - £444 £364
25th Percentile £413 £500 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -14.62% -17.21%
75th Percentile £438 £575 £725
90th Percentile - £613 £750
Central London median daily rate £425 £513 £625
% change year-on-year -17.07% -18.00% -13.79%

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 269 295 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 15.02% 14.13% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 195 286
10th Percentile £358 £402 £400
25th Percentile £425 £490 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.24%
75th Percentile £650 £706 £715
90th Percentile £713 £786 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -4.17%
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 £33.00 -
% change year-on-year +127.27% - -

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
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (25.00%) JMeter
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (25.00%) Back Office
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Front Office
1 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Developer in Test
3 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) ZK
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (50.00%) Kanban
3 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
4 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (25.00%) SDET
4 1 (25.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) UiPath