Cucumber Contract Job Trends in London

Cucumber
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Cucumber skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 296 315
Rank change year-on-year -14 +19 -89
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 72 82 101
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.50% 0.55% 0.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.19% 3.97% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 47 88
10th Percentile £326 £313 £359
25th Percentile £363 £395 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £431 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -13.90% -16.67%
75th Percentile £583 £625 £700
90th Percentile £700 £822 £749
England median daily rate £424 £475 £485
% change year-on-year -10.79% -2.06% -13.97%

All Development Application Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,258 2,064 2,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.67% 13.82% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,543 1,354 1,793
10th Percentile £356 £349 £390
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £643 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -4.40% -4.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 22
10th Percentile £37.65 £28.75 £25.80
25th Percentile £42.63 £41.88 £32.50
Median hourly rate £56.50 £67.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +50.00% -21.74%
75th Percentile £86.88 £83.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £90.25 £73.74
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Cucumber job vacancy trend in London

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in London over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in London

Cucumber
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the London region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Central London -3 14 £613 +23.74% 5
East London - 2 £440 - 1
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 13 (18.06%) Confluence
2 3 (4.17%) Appian
3 2 (2.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.17%) AWS
2 16 (22.22%) Azure
3 12 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (13.89%) GitHub
5 8 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (8.33%) OpenShift
7 3 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.17%) Serverless
7 3 (4.17%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.78%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (2.78%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (1.39%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.39%) Figma
9 1 (1.39%) GCP
9 1 (1.39%) PaaS
9 1 (1.39%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) HTTP
1 2 (2.78%) Internet
2 1 (1.39%) DSL
2 1 (1.39%) Multicast
2 1 (1.39%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.94%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.17%) DB2
3 3 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.78%) MySQL
4 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (58.33%) Selenium
2 29 (40.28%) Jenkins
3 25 (34.72%) JIRA
4 22 (30.56%) Git
5 20 (27.78%) Postman
6 17 (23.61%) JUnit
7 15 (20.83%) GitLab
8 12 (16.67%) REST Assured
9 11 (15.28%) JMeter
10 9 (12.50%) Bitbucket
11 8 (11.11%) Cypress.io
12 7 (9.72%) SonarQube
13 6 (8.33%) Zephyr
14 5 (6.94%) SpecFlow
14 5 (6.94%) WebDriver
15 4 (5.56%) Maven
15 4 (5.56%) Robot Framework
15 4 (5.56%) Serenity BDD
15 4 (5.56%) Subversion
15 4 (5.56%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (36.11%) Finance
2 25 (34.72%) Social Skills
3 18 (25.00%) Banking
4 7 (9.72%) Investment Banking
5 6 (8.33%) Back Office
5 6 (8.33%) Front Office
6 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.17%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.78%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.78%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (1.39%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (22.22%) Developer
2 11 (15.28%) Java Developer
2 11 (15.28%) Test Engineer
3 10 (13.89%) Tester
4 9 (12.50%) Automation Tester
4 9 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
5 8 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
5 8 (11.11%) QA Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) Senior
7 4 (5.56%) Developer in Test
7 4 (5.56%) QA Automation Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Software Developer
7 4 (5.56%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Agile Developer
8 3 (4.17%) Agile Java Developer
8 3 (4.17%) Java Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) Senior Automation Tester
9 2 (2.78%) Senior Tester
10 1 (1.39%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (27.78%) REST
2 14 (19.44%) Gherkin
2 14 (19.44%) JSON
2 14 (19.44%) RESTful
3 12 (16.67%) XML
4 11 (15.28%) React
5 9 (12.50%) SOAP
5 9 (12.50%) Spring
6 8 (11.11%) .NET
6 8 (11.11%) Node.js
6 8 (11.11%) Playwright
6 8 (11.11%) Web Services
7 6 (8.33%) CSS
7 6 (8.33%) HTML
8 5 (6.94%) Kafka
8 5 (6.94%) Spring Boot
8 5 (6.94%) WireMock
9 4 (5.56%) AngularJS
9 4 (5.56%) Hibernate
9 4 (5.56%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.78%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.78%) Derivative
3 2 (2.78%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.39%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.39%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.06%) Linux
2 6 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (1.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 46 (63.89%) CI/CD
3 42 (58.33%) Agile
4 35 (48.61%) BDD
5 29 (40.28%) DevOps
6 22 (30.56%) Microservices
7 20 (27.78%) Scrum
8 19 (26.39%) API Testing
8 19 (26.39%) TDD
9 18 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (23.61%) Software Engineering
10 17 (23.61%) Test Strategy
11 16 (22.22%) Software Testing
12 13 (18.06%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (18.06%) SDET
12 13 (18.06%) Sprint Planning
13 12 (16.67%) Validation
14 11 (15.28%) Continuous Integration
14 11 (15.28%) Defect Management
14 11 (15.28%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 58 (80.56%) Java
2 20 (27.78%) Python
3 19 (26.39%) SQL
4 14 (19.44%) JavaScript
5 11 (15.28%) C#
6 5 (6.94%) Ruby
6 5 (6.94%) VB.NET
7 4 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.56%) XPath
8 1 (1.39%) Bash
8 1 (1.39%) C
8 1 (1.39%) C++
8 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.11%) Degree
3 7 (9.72%) ISTQB
3 7 (9.72%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (45.83%) QA
2 2 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.78%) SLA
2 2 (2.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (19.44%) Docker
2 2 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (15.28%) Ansible
1 11 (15.28%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.56%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (9.72%) Oracle
2 6 (8.33%) UiPath
3 4 (5.56%) VMware
4 3 (4.17%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.17%) Cisco
4 3 (4.17%) Veracode
5 2 (2.78%) Adobe
5 2 (2.78%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.78%) Splunk
6 1 (1.39%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.39%) Databricks
6 1 (1.39%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.39%) MarketAxess
6 1 (1.39%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.39%) SAP
6 1 (1.39%) Tradeweb
6 1 (1.39%) Workday