Cucumber Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Cucumber
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Cucumber skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 88 76
Rank change year-on-year +20 -12 +31
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 11 2 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.14% 0.15% 1.47%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.66% 1.31% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 9
10th Percentile £361 - £510
25th Percentile £365 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -33.91% - -
75th Percentile £397 £588 £588
90th Percentile £400 - £618
South East median daily rate £475 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -24.00% +8.70% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £48.13 - £53.50
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%

All Development Application Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 127 153 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 13.19% 11.16% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 94 112
10th Percentile £383 £356 £401
25th Percentile £433 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% - -
75th Percentile £586 £603 £612
90th Percentile £609 £668 £638
South East median daily rate £478 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -4.50% -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 26
10th Percentile - £56.78 £51.25
25th Percentile - - £55.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +14.29% -5.77%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile £58.50 £72.25 £74.38
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £58.25
% change year-on-year -15.38% +11.59% -7.91%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in Hampshire

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Cucumber.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Portsmouth - 6 - -
Farnborough - 5 £380 - 1
Cucumber
South East

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 4 (36.36%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) JIRA
1 10 (90.91%) Selenium
2 6 (54.55%) Git
2 6 (54.55%) Postman
2 6 (54.55%) WebDriver
3 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
4 4 (36.36%) Bitbucket
4 4 (36.36%) REST Assured
5 1 (9.09%) JMeter
5 1 (9.09%) JUnit
5 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Automotive
3 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Software Test Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Test Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Automation Tester
2 4 (36.36%) Selenium Automation Tester
2 4 (36.36%) Selenium Tester
2 4 (36.36%) Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) REST
2 5 (45.45%) RESTful
3 4 (36.36%) .NET
3 4 (36.36%) SOAP
4 2 (18.18%) Swagger
5 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
5 1 (9.09%) Kafka
5 1 (9.09%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (9.09%) Client/Server
2 1 (9.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 10 (90.91%) Test Automation
3 6 (54.55%) Exploratory Testing
3 6 (54.55%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 6 (54.55%) Scrum
3 6 (54.55%) Software Testing
3 6 (54.55%) Sprint Planning
4 5 (45.45%) Code Quality
4 5 (45.45%) Manual Testing
4 5 (45.45%) SDLC
5 4 (36.36%) Regression Testing
5 4 (36.36%) Scenario Testing
6 3 (27.27%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
6 3 (27.27%) TDD
7 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (18.18%) Contract Management
7 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
8 1 (9.09%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) C#
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) VMware