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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 358 348
Rank change year-on-year +16 -10 -35
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 138 186 336
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.58% 0.51% 0.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.18% 4.38% 4.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 147 253
10th Percentile £268 £363 £400
25th Percentile £360 £441 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £593
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -11.39% +18.50%
75th Percentile £520 £688 £750
90th Percentile £603 £825 £834
UK median daily rate £428 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -14.50% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 13
10th Percentile - - £70.00
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - £87.60
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 4,247 6,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.86% 11.69% 14.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,244 2,902 4,944
10th Percentile £343 £351 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £607 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 197 206
10th Percentile £27.50 £32.48 £43.70
25th Percentile £48.00 £55.00 £52.81
Median hourly rate £57.75 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.15% +5.69% +17.70%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £74.31
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.30 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £57.63 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -11.35% +5.69% +17.14%

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 23 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 23 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 -4 57 £460 -12.38% 44
North of England +29 34 £400 -8.05% 62
Midlands +36 21 £269 -29.21% 35
South East +37 19 £501 -23.00% 43
Yorkshire +24 18 £450 +1.69% 29
East Midlands +25 15 £268 -29.47% 21
North West +7 9 £390 -10.55% 30
North East +6 7 £390 +25.81% 3
West Midlands +17 6 £483 +60.33% 13
South West +38 4 - - 28
East of England - 2 £525 - 13
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 22 (15.94%) Confluence
2 5 (3.62%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.72%) CICS
3 1 (0.72%) nginx
3 1 (0.72%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (30.43%) AWS
2 22 (15.94%) Azure
3 17 (12.32%) GitHub
4 7 (5.07%) OpenShift
4 7 (5.07%) Slack
5 6 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (4.35%) Serverless
6 5 (3.62%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.90%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (2.90%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.45%) BrowserStack
8 2 (1.45%) GCP
8 2 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.72%) dbt
9 1 (0.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.35%) HTTP
2 2 (1.45%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.14%) MongoDB
2 12 (8.70%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.80%) MySQL
3 8 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.07%) Apache Cassandra
4 7 (5.07%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.62%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.72%) Big Data
6 1 (0.72%) DB2
6 1 (0.72%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.72%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.72%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.72%) Redis
6 1 (0.72%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 72 (52.17%) Selenium
2 63 (45.65%) Jenkins
3 44 (31.88%) JIRA
4 37 (26.81%) REST Assured
5 33 (23.91%) Git
6 30 (21.74%) JUnit
7 27 (19.57%) Postman
8 25 (18.12%) GitLab
9 22 (15.94%) Cypress.io
10 21 (15.22%) Maven
11 13 (9.42%) JMeter
12 12 (8.70%) Gradle
12 12 (8.70%) SonarQube
12 12 (8.70%) WebDriver
13 8 (5.80%) Mockito
14 7 (5.07%) IntelliJ
14 7 (5.07%) Jasmine
14 7 (5.07%) TestNG
14 7 (5.07%) Visual Studio
15 6 (4.35%) SoapUI
General
1 32 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (14.49%) Finance
3 20 (14.49%) Public Sector
4 15 (10.87%) Banking
5 8 (5.80%) Law
6 4 (2.90%) Front Office
6 4 (2.90%) Police
7 3 (2.17%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.72%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (20.29%) Tester
2 27 (19.57%) Developer
3 25 (18.12%) Test Engineer
4 22 (15.94%) Java Developer
5 21 (15.22%) Senior
6 20 (14.49%) Automation Tester
7 16 (11.59%) Java Engineer
8 12 (8.70%) Lead
9 11 (7.97%) Java Software Engineer
9 11 (7.97%) Software Engineer
10 10 (7.25%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (5.80%) Senior Test Engineer
12 7 (5.07%) QA Engineer
12 7 (5.07%) Test Automation Engineer
13 6 (4.35%) Senior Developer
14 5 (3.62%) QA Tester
14 5 (3.62%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
14 5 (3.62%) Senior Java Developer
14 5 (3.62%) Test Leader
15 4 (2.90%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (22.46%) REST
2 25 (18.12%) Spring
3 22 (15.94%) Spring Boot
4 17 (12.32%) RESTful
5 16 (11.59%) Gherkin
6 15 (10.87%) Playwright
7 14 (10.14%) HTML
8 13 (9.42%) Java EE
9 11 (7.97%) jQuery
10 10 (7.25%) Kafka
11 9 (6.52%) ARM Templates
11 9 (6.52%) Swagger
12 8 (5.80%) Web Services
13 7 (5.07%) CSS
13 7 (5.07%) DOM
13 7 (5.07%) OpenAPI
13 7 (5.07%) Spring Batch
13 7 (5.07%) Spring Security
14 6 (4.35%) Node.js
14 6 (4.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (3.62%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.90%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.90%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.45%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.45%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.45%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.72%) Derivative
6 1 (0.72%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.72%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.04%) Linux
2 9 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.72%) AIX
3 1 (0.72%) Unix
3 1 (0.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (76.81%) Test Automation
2 67 (48.55%) Agile
3 55 (39.86%) BDD
3 55 (39.86%) CI/CD
4 33 (23.91%) Continuous Integration
4 33 (23.91%) TDD
5 32 (23.19%) DevOps
6 28 (20.29%) API Testing
7 26 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (18.84%) Software Engineering
8 21 (15.22%) Test Strategy
9 20 (14.49%) Technical Leadership
10 19 (13.77%) Software Testing
10 19 (13.77%) Test Scripting
11 18 (13.04%) Containerisation
11 18 (13.04%) Microservices
12 15 (10.87%) Software Architecture
13 13 (9.42%) Configuration Management
13 13 (9.42%) Continuous Delivery
14 12 (8.70%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 95 (68.84%) Java
2 27 (19.57%) JavaScript
3 24 (17.39%) SQL
4 23 (16.67%) Python
5 8 (5.80%) Bash
5 8 (5.80%) C#
5 8 (5.80%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.90%) Ruby
7 3 (2.17%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.17%) Scala
8 1 (0.72%) COBOL
8 1 (0.72%) Go
8 1 (0.72%) Groovy
8 1 (0.72%) JCL
8 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (31.16%) Security Cleared
2 38 (27.54%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.07%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (5.07%) Degree
4 4 (2.90%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.45%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (28.26%) QA
2 18 (13.04%) Accessibility
3 10 (7.25%) WCAG
4 4 (2.90%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.45%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.72%) SEPA
System Software
1 36 (26.09%) Docker
2 3 (2.17%) VirtualBox
3 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (19.57%) Kubernetes
2 22 (15.94%) Ansible
3 15 (10.87%) Terraform
4 9 (6.52%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (6.52%) Podman
5 3 (2.17%) Puppet
6 1 (0.72%) Grafana
6 1 (0.72%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (3.62%) Splunk
2 3 (2.17%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.17%) Oracle
2 3 (2.17%) Virgin Media
3 2 (1.45%) Veracode
4 1 (0.72%) Confluent
4 1 (0.72%) IBM
4 1 (0.72%) New Relic
4 1 (0.72%) Perfecto Mobile
4 1 (0.72%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.72%) Sybase
4 1 (0.72%) UiPath