Cucumber Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Cucumber
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh 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 64 76 83
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 +42
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 3 4 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.47% 0.49% 1.49%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.13% 4.60% 7.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 12
10th Percentile - - £347
25th Percentile - £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £390 £438
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -10.86% -4.37%
75th Percentile - £409 £478
90th Percentile - £426 £488
Scotland median daily rate £463 £461 £450
% change year-on-year +0.43% +2.33% -0.44%

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 141 87 222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.03% 10.65% 20.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 54 148
10th Percentile £400 £363 £386
25th Percentile £450 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £478 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.20% +0.53% -
75th Percentile £538 £534 £510
90th Percentile £563 £600 £552
Scotland median daily rate £482 £480 £475
% change year-on-year +0.31% +1.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £55.00 - -
25th Percentile £56.88 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £66.88 - £62.50
90th Percentile £70.25 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.45 - £59.52
% change year-on-year - - +9.20%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Cucumber.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Cucumber

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
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) IaaS
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) PowerApps
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) npm
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Subversion
2 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
2 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
3 1 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) webpack
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Jest
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Client/Server
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) ATDD
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Feature Driven Development
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
2 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) V-Model
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) VBA
2 2 (66.67%) VBScript
3 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISEB
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform