Cucumber Contracts in England

Cucumber
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Cucumber skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cucumber over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 356 332 291
Rank change year-on-year -24 -41 -12
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 187 353 647
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.72% 0.92%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.41% 4.90% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 269 468
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £431 £481 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £593 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% +18.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £688 £750 £625
90th Percentile £835 £825 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 11
10th Percentile - £70.00 £45.00
25th Percentile - £70.94 £54.03
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year - +14.43% +0.06%
75th Percentile - £75.75 £80.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year - +14.43% +13.00%

All Development Application Skills
England

Cucumber is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,236 7,206 12,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.52% 14.74% 18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,888 5,115 9,028
10th Percentile £351 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 212 190
10th Percentile £33.00 £44.60 £38.68
25th Percentile £55.00 £53.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.61
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +16.90% +10.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.71
90th Percentile £80.00 £82.50 £77.05
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.63
% change year-on-year +5.69% +16.85% +16.96%

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 May 2024. 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 -2 123 £525 -19.23% 19
South East +14 28 £650 +33.33% 7
North of England +12 22 £406 -26.14% 6
North West +21 13 £423 -15.35% 2
Yorkshire +12 8 £400 -23.81% 4
Midlands +26 5 £380 -10.06% 2
West Midlands +15 4 £301 -29.12% 1
South West +3 2 £500 +25.00% 7
East Midlands +18 1 £380 -8.43% 1
North East -5 1 £310 -60.00%
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 5 (2.67%) Confluence
2 4 (2.14%) nginx
3 3 (1.60%) IIS
3 3 (1.60%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.53%) JBoss
4 1 (0.53%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 7 (3.74%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (3.21%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.07%) Endur
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 59 (31.55%) AWS
2 23 (12.30%) Azure
3 11 (5.88%) GitHub
4 9 (4.81%) Amazon SQS
4 9 (4.81%) Serverless
5 8 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.67%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.67%) BrowserStack
7 5 (2.67%) PaaS
8 4 (2.14%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.60%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (1.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (1.60%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.60%) Sauce Labs
10 2 (1.07%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.07%) AWS KMS
10 2 (1.07%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.74%) SSH
2 4 (2.14%) HTTP
2 4 (2.14%) Internet
3 1 (0.53%) MQTT
3 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.02%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.35%) MongoDB
3 9 (4.81%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.07%) MySQL
7 2 (1.07%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.53%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.53%) Power BI
8 1 (0.53%) Redis
8 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 108 (57.75%) Selenium
2 77 (41.18%) Jenkins
3 56 (29.95%) JIRA
4 51 (27.27%) JUnit
5 49 (26.20%) Git
6 46 (24.60%) REST Assured
7 40 (21.39%) GitLab
8 32 (17.11%) SonarQube
9 26 (13.90%) WebDriver
10 24 (12.83%) JMeter
10 24 (12.83%) Postman
11 20 (10.70%) TestNG
12 19 (10.16%) Appium
12 19 (10.16%) Mockito
13 16 (8.56%) SoapUI
14 15 (8.02%) SpecFlow
15 14 (7.49%) Maven
16 13 (6.95%) TeamCity
17 12 (6.42%) Bitbucket
18 11 (5.88%) Moq
General
1 59 (31.55%) Social Skills
2 55 (29.41%) Finance
3 39 (20.86%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (18.18%) Banking
5 33 (17.65%) Front Office
6 20 (10.70%) Law
7 13 (6.95%) Police
8 10 (5.35%) Investment Banking
9 9 (4.81%) Back Office
10 8 (4.28%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.14%) Wholesale Banking
12 3 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.60%) Prime Brokerage
13 1 (0.53%) Aviation
13 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (29.41%) Developer
2 38 (20.32%) Senior
3 32 (17.11%) Java Developer
4 27 (14.44%) Tester
5 21 (11.23%) Java Engineer
5 21 (11.23%) Test Engineer
6 18 (9.63%) Senior Developer
7 16 (8.56%) Automation Tester
7 16 (8.56%) QA Engineer
7 16 (8.56%) Senior Java Developer
8 13 (6.95%) Software Engineer
9 12 (6.42%) C# Developer
10 11 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (4.81%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (4.81%) Lead
11 9 (4.81%) QA Tester
12 8 (4.28%) Java Software Engineer
13 7 (3.74%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 7 (3.74%) Senior Test Engineer
14 6 (3.21%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (29.95%) REST
2 25 (13.37%) .NET
2 25 (13.37%) Java EE
3 24 (12.83%) Gherkin
4 23 (12.30%) Spring Boot
5 21 (11.23%) Spring
6 15 (8.02%) JSON
6 15 (8.02%) RESTful
6 15 (8.02%) Web Services
7 14 (7.49%) Node.js
8 13 (6.95%) Middleware
8 13 (6.95%) RabbitMQ
9 12 (6.42%) .NET Core
9 12 (6.42%) ARM Templates
10 11 (5.88%) .NET Framework
10 11 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
10 11 (5.88%) Kafka
10 11 (5.88%) SignalR
10 11 (5.88%) SOAP
10 11 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.95%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (6.42%) Credit Derivative
3 7 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.74%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.14%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.60%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.60%) Derivative
5 3 (1.60%) Equities
5 3 (1.60%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.07%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.07%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.07%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.07%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.53%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.53%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.23%) Unix
2 14 (7.49%) Linux
3 4 (2.14%) Mac OS X
3 4 (2.14%) Windows
4 1 (0.53%) Android
4 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (70.59%) Test Automation
2 83 (44.39%) Agile
3 77 (41.18%) CI/CD
4 73 (39.04%) Continuous Integration
5 67 (35.83%) BDD
6 55 (29.41%) DevOps
7 47 (25.13%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (20.32%) TDD
9 36 (19.25%) Containerisation
10 34 (18.18%) Microservices
11 33 (17.65%) Software Engineering
12 32 (17.11%) Software Architecture
13 31 (16.58%) Software Testing
14 29 (15.51%) SDLC
14 29 (15.51%) Test Strategy
15 26 (13.90%) Technical Leadership
16 25 (13.37%) Decision-Making
17 21 (11.23%) API Testing
17 21 (11.23%) Scrum
17 21 (11.23%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 132 (70.59%) Java
2 35 (18.72%) SQL
3 27 (14.44%) C#
4 25 (13.37%) Python
5 24 (12.83%) JavaScript
6 18 (9.63%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.67%) Perl
7 5 (2.67%) Scala
7 5 (2.67%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.14%) Bash
8 4 (2.14%) Groovy
9 2 (1.07%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.07%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.07%) Ruby
10 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.53%) Swift
Qualifications
1 69 (36.90%) Security Cleared
2 60 (32.09%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.81%) ISTQB
4 6 (3.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 5 (2.67%) Degree
6 2 (1.07%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.53%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (27.81%) QA
2 5 (2.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 47 (25.13%) Docker
2 3 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.53%) iptables
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (19.25%) Kubernetes
2 33 (17.65%) Ansible
3 26 (13.90%) Terraform
4 13 (6.95%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (6.42%) Podman
6 4 (2.14%) Grafana
7 3 (1.60%) Kibana
7 3 (1.60%) Kustomize
7 3 (1.60%) Netcool
7 3 (1.60%) Packer
7 3 (1.60%) Puppet
8 2 (1.07%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.53%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.53%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.53%) Istio
9 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (9.09%) Oracle
2 11 (5.88%) TIBCO
3 8 (4.28%) Splunk
4 7 (3.74%) IBM
4 7 (3.74%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.14%) HP
5 4 (2.14%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.60%) Ab Initio
6 3 (1.60%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.60%) Perfecto Mobile
7 2 (1.07%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.07%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.07%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.53%) Spotify
8 1 (0.53%) VMware