Cucumber Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Cucumber
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Cucumber skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 62 63
Rank change year-on-year -15 +1 +6
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 4 6 11
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.53% 0.88% 1.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.05% 5.31% 8.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £458 £355 £388
25th Percentile £460 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £496 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +4.42% -1.30%
75th Percentile £470 £500 £488
90th Percentile £470 - £506
Scotland median daily rate £463 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +15.63% -15.79% +5.09%

All Development Application Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 195 113 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 26.07% 16.64% 16.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 80 100
10th Percentile £359 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £356 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £448 £478
Median % change year-on-year +10.61% -6.28% -4.50%
75th Percentile £550 £516 £580
90th Percentile £629 £594 £700
Scotland median daily rate £493 £473 £480
% change year-on-year +4.34% -1.56% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £15.96 - -
25th Percentile £16.84 - £62.19
Median hourly rate £17.45 - £64.38
75th Percentile £18.05 - £66.56
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.45 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.92%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cucumber relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Cucumber job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (25.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
1 2 (50.00%) Mockito
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Developer in Test
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (50.00%) J2EE
1 2 (50.00%) JPA
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 2 (50.00%) SDET
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle