Cucumber Contracts in Edinburgh

Cucumber
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 68 83
Rank change year-on-year +4 +15 +24
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 3 4 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.48% 0.49% 2.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.73% 2.99% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 27
10th Percentile - - £346
25th Percentile - £413 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% -11.21%
75th Percentile - £438 £547
90th Percentile - - £550
Scotland median daily rate £400 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -20.00% +5.26% -5.00%

All Development Application Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 110 134 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 17.60% 16.44% 24.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 101 264
10th Percentile £344 £363 £403
25th Percentile £413 £415 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £483 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.68% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £523
90th Percentile £588 £634 £557
Scotland median daily rate £463 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £27.80 -
25th Percentile - £30.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -33.33% -1.87%
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £39.92 £40.94 £60.55
% change year-on-year -2.50% -32.39% +15.33%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in Edinburgh

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in Edinburgh

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) IaaS
1 3 (100.00%) PaaS
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (100.00%) PowerApps
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) Subversion
1 3 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 3 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) ATDD
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Feature Driven Development
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
1 3 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
1 3 (100.00%) V-Model
1 3 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VBA
1 3 (100.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) ISEB
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA