Cucumber Contracts in England

Cucumber
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 344 354 321
Rank change year-on-year +10 -33 -19
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 141 190 379
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.58% 0.51% 0.75%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.27% 4.46% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 149 289
10th Percentile £269 £354 £400
25th Percentile £377 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £538 £688 £750
90th Percentile £702 £830 £820
UK median daily rate £460 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -8.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 11
10th Percentile - - £70.00
25th Percentile - - £70.63
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.43%

All Development Application Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,305 4,263 7,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.57% 11.46% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,218 2,908 5,318
10th Percentile £350 £355 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 182 222
10th Percentile £27.50 £31.84 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.00 £52.50 £52.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £82.35 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in England

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in England

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in England

Cucumber
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cucumber in England

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -27 57 £430 -18.05% 25
North of England +33 39 £460 +15.00% 19
Yorkshire +20 20 £520 +29.94% 8
South East +38 19 £501 -23.00% 16
Midlands +32 16 £348 -10.90% 6
North West +13 12 £475 +19.12% 9
West Midlands +18 8 £483 +60.33% 1
East Midlands +16 8 £226 -44.88% 5
North East +6 7 £390 +25.81% 2
South West +50 6 £230 -54.00% 12
East of England - 2 £525 - 2
Cucumber
UK

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 34 (24.11%) Confluence
2 4 (2.84%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.42%) Apache
4 1 (0.71%) nginx
4 1 (0.71%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 39 (27.66%) AWS
2 23 (16.31%) Azure
3 18 (12.77%) Slack
4 17 (12.06%) GitHub
5 15 (10.64%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.55%) Serverless
8 4 (2.84%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.84%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (2.13%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.13%) GCP
9 3 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.42%) BrowserStack
10 2 (1.42%) SaaS
11 1 (0.71%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (19.15%) MongoDB
2 20 (14.18%) MySQL
2 20 (14.18%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (13.48%) Apache Cassandra
4 10 (7.09%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.55%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.84%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.71%) Big Data
7 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.71%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.71%) IDMS
7 1 (0.71%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.71%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 63 (44.68%) Selenium
2 57 (40.43%) JIRA
3 51 (36.17%) Jenkins
4 42 (29.79%) Git
5 38 (26.95%) JUnit
6 28 (19.86%) REST Assured
7 22 (15.60%) GitLab
8 19 (13.48%) Jasmine
9 18 (12.77%) Cypress.io
9 18 (12.77%) Postman
10 15 (10.64%) Maven
11 12 (8.51%) SonarQube
11 12 (8.51%) WebDriver
12 11 (7.80%) Gradle
13 8 (5.67%) JMeter
14 7 (4.96%) Mockito
14 7 (4.96%) Visual Studio
15 6 (4.26%) SoapUI
15 6 (4.26%) SpecFlow
16 4 (2.84%) Bitbucket
General
1 29 (20.57%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.15%) Public Sector
3 24 (17.02%) Finance
4 22 (15.60%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.51%) Banking
6 8 (5.67%) Law
7 4 (2.84%) Police
8 3 (2.13%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.13%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.13%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.42%) Electronics
9 2 (1.42%) Front Office
9 2 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.42%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.42%) Marketing
10 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Retail
10 1 (0.71%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 34 (24.11%) Developer
2 30 (21.28%) Java Developer
3 28 (19.86%) Senior
4 21 (14.89%) Tester
5 19 (13.48%) Lead
5 19 (13.48%) Test Engineer
6 17 (12.06%) Java Engineer
7 14 (9.93%) Senior Developer
7 14 (9.93%) Software Engineer
8 13 (9.22%) Automation Tester
8 13 (9.22%) Senior Java Developer
9 12 (8.51%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (6.38%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.96%) Lead Developer
11 7 (4.96%) Lead Java Developer
11 7 (4.96%) QA Engineer
11 7 (4.96%) Senior Test Engineer
12 5 (3.55%) Analyst
12 5 (3.55%) QA Tester
12 5 (3.55%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (22.70%) Spring
2 29 (20.57%) Spring Boot
3 27 (19.15%) REST
3 27 (19.15%) RESTful
4 20 (14.18%) Swagger
5 18 (12.77%) Spring Security
6 17 (12.06%) Gherkin
6 17 (12.06%) OpenAPI
6 17 (12.06%) Spring Batch
7 13 (9.22%) Java EE
8 12 (8.51%) HTML
9 11 (7.80%) Playwright
10 9 (6.38%) ARM Templates
11 8 (5.67%) CSS
11 8 (5.67%) Kafka
12 6 (4.26%) Node.js
12 6 (4.26%) React
12 6 (4.26%) Web Services
13 5 (3.55%) .NET
13 5 (3.55%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (2.84%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.13%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.13%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.42%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.71%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.71%) Derivative
5 1 (0.71%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (0.71%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (21.99%) Linux
2 22 (15.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.13%) Unix
4 1 (0.71%) AIX
4 1 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (78.72%) Test Automation
2 62 (43.97%) BDD
3 57 (40.43%) Agile
3 57 (40.43%) CI/CD
4 42 (29.79%) Continuous Integration
5 37 (26.24%) TDD
6 32 (22.70%) DevOps
6 32 (22.70%) Software Engineering
7 28 (19.86%) Containerisation
7 28 (19.86%) Microservices
8 24 (17.02%) Continuous Delivery
8 24 (17.02%) Technical Leadership
9 23 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (15.60%) Software Testing
11 19 (13.48%) API Design
11 19 (13.48%) API Testing
12 18 (12.77%) OWASP
12 18 (12.77%) Test Scripting
12 18 (12.77%) Test Strategy
13 17 (12.06%) Kernel Tuning
Programming Languages
1 91 (64.54%) Java
2 36 (25.53%) SQL
3 24 (17.02%) JavaScript
4 22 (15.60%) Python
5 20 (14.18%) Bash
6 9 (6.38%) C#
6 9 (6.38%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.84%) Ruby
8 3 (2.13%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.13%) Scala
9 1 (0.71%) COBOL
9 1 (0.71%) Go
9 1 (0.71%) Groovy
9 1 (0.71%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.71%) Swift
Qualifications
1 48 (34.04%) Security Cleared
2 43 (30.50%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.67%) Degree
4 7 (4.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.26%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.71%) ISEB
8 1 (0.71%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (29.08%) QA
2 13 (9.22%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.84%) WCAG
4 3 (2.13%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.42%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.71%) SEPA
System Software
1 37 (26.24%) Docker
2 3 (2.13%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 36 (25.53%) Kubernetes
2 21 (14.89%) Ansible
3 14 (9.93%) Terraform
4 9 (6.38%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (6.38%) Podman
5 3 (2.13%) Puppet
6 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (2.84%) Splunk
2 3 (2.13%) Virgin Media
3 2 (1.42%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.42%) Oracle
3 2 (1.42%) SAP
3 2 (1.42%) Veracode
4 1 (0.71%) Confluent
4 1 (0.71%) IBM
4 1 (0.71%) New Relic
4 1 (0.71%) Perfecto Mobile
4 1 (0.71%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.71%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.71%) Sybase
4 1 (0.71%) UiPath