Cucumber Contracts in Leeds

Cucumber
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 51 58 86
Rank change year-on-year +7 +28 +2
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 9 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.94% 0.63% 0.75%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.69% 4.67% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £736 - £455
25th Percentile £753 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £780 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +95.00% -20.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £790 - £550
90th Percentile £796 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £780 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +95.00% -20.00% +11.11%

All Development Application Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 77 107 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 16.56% 13.39% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 71 129
10th Percentile £285 £313 £411
25th Percentile £422 £409 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.18% +5.77%
75th Percentile £650 £527 £675
90th Percentile £746 £585 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £54.80
25th Percentile - - £59.00
Median hourly rate - - £67.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +272.22%
75th Percentile - - £74.00
90th Percentile - - £77.60
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £67.00
% change year-on-year - - +272.22%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in Leeds

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in Leeds

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 7 (77.78%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Slack
2 5 (55.56%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) Apache Cassandra
1 8 (88.89%) MongoDB
1 8 (88.89%) MySQL
1 8 (88.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Jasmine
1 8 (88.89%) JIRA
1 8 (88.89%) JUnit
2 7 (77.78%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
1 7 (77.78%) Java Developer
1 7 (77.78%) Senior
2 6 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 6 (66.67%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Java Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Java Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior SQL Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) RESTful
1 8 (88.89%) Spring
1 8 (88.89%) Spring Boot
2 7 (77.78%) Spring Security
2 7 (77.78%) Swagger
3 6 (66.67%) OpenAPI
3 6 (66.67%) Spring Batch
4 1 (11.11%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
1 8 (88.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) BDD
1 8 (88.89%) Continuous Delivery
1 8 (88.89%) TDD
1 8 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 7 (77.78%) API Design
2 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 7 (77.78%) Containerisation
2 7 (77.78%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (77.78%) Kernel Tuning
2 7 (77.78%) Mentoring
2 7 (77.78%) Microservices
2 7 (77.78%) OWASP
2 7 (77.78%) Software Engineering
2 7 (77.78%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (66.67%) Coaching
3 6 (66.67%) Operational Stability
4 5 (55.56%) High Availability
4 5 (55.56%) Integration Testing
5 4 (44.44%) Cloud Security
6 1 (11.11%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Bash
1 8 (88.89%) Java
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes