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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 289 276
Rank change year-on-year -47 -13 -7
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 69 58 121
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.39% 0.47% 0.68%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.93% 3.21% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 36 104
10th Percentile £306 £359 £354
25th Percentile £363 £398 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £430 £529
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% -18.67% -18.62%
75th Percentile £575 £578 £719
90th Percentile £640 £825 £863
England median daily rate £450 £430 £510
% change year-on-year +4.59% -15.64% -11.30%

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 2,357 1,807 2,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.25% 14.50% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,564 1,222 1,653
10th Percentile £351 £350 £363
25th Percentile £423 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.19% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 25
10th Percentile - £24.49 £23.20
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.14 £25.99
Median hourly rate £31.50 £38.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% -3.13% -35.74%
75th Percentile £73.00 £52.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.75 £71.63
England median hourly rate £67.50 £60.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.03% -7.31% +5.69%

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 8 May 2026.

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 8 May 2026. 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 -8 9 £375 -11.76% 2
South London -18 2 - -
West London - 2 - -
East London - 1 £500 -
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 5 (7.25%) Confluence
2 2 (2.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.90%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.45%) Mingle
1 1 (1.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 24 (34.78%) AWS
2 23 (33.33%) GitHub
3 12 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
3 12 (17.39%) Serverless
4 11 (15.94%) Azure
5 9 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (10.14%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (8.70%) Amazon S3
7 6 (8.70%) OpenShift
8 5 (7.25%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.90%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (2.90%) BlazeMeter
10 2 (2.90%) BrowserStack
10 2 (2.90%) SonarCloud
11 1 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (1.45%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (10.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.25%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.80%) DynamoDB
4 3 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (4.35%) MySQL
5 2 (2.90%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.45%) DB2
6 1 (1.45%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (39.13%) Jenkins
2 26 (37.68%) Selenium
3 25 (36.23%) Git
4 22 (31.88%) JIRA
5 18 (26.09%) JUnit
6 16 (23.19%) Postman
7 14 (20.29%) GitLab
8 9 (13.04%) REST Assured
8 9 (13.04%) SpecFlow
9 7 (10.14%) Mockito
10 6 (8.70%) WebDriver
11 5 (7.25%) JMeter
11 5 (7.25%) Maven
11 5 (7.25%) Mocha
11 5 (7.25%) MSTest
11 5 (7.25%) tSQLt
11 5 (7.25%) Zephyr
12 4 (5.80%) Cypress.io
12 4 (5.80%) Gradle
12 4 (5.80%) TestRail
General
1 24 (34.78%) Finance
2 20 (28.99%) Social Skills
3 13 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (18.84%) Banking
4 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Retail
6 1 (1.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (15.94%) Developer
1 11 (15.94%) Senior
1 11 (15.94%) Software Engineer
2 10 (14.49%) Tester
3 9 (13.04%) Test Engineer
4 8 (11.59%) Test Automation Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) Automation Tester
6 6 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
6 6 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Lead
8 4 (5.80%) Java Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Analyst
9 3 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) QA Analyst
9 3 (4.35%) QA Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) QA Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) QA Test Analyst
9 3 (4.35%) Test Analyst
9 3 (4.35%) Test Leader
10 2 (2.90%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.99%) REST
2 16 (23.19%) Playwright
3 15 (21.74%) Gherkin
4 14 (20.29%) RESTful
4 14 (20.29%) Spring Boot
5 13 (18.84%) AngularJS
5 13 (18.84%) Kafka
5 13 (18.84%) Spring
6 11 (15.94%) CSS
7 9 (13.04%) HTML
8 7 (10.14%) .NET
9 6 (8.70%) React
9 6 (8.70%) WireMock
10 5 (7.25%) JSON
10 5 (7.25%) OAuth
11 4 (5.80%) FastAPI
11 4 (5.80%) pytest
11 4 (5.80%) SOAP
11 4 (5.80%) Web Services
11 4 (5.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.80%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.80%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.90%) Equities
3 2 (2.90%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.90%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.90%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.45%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.70%) Linux
2 1 (1.45%) Unix
2 1 (1.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (75.36%) Test Automation
2 46 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 38 (55.07%) BDD
4 35 (50.72%) Agile
5 25 (36.23%) API Testing
6 21 (30.43%) DevOps
7 19 (27.54%) Microservices
8 17 (24.64%) Software Engineering
8 17 (24.64%) TDD
9 14 (20.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (18.84%) Test Strategy
11 12 (17.39%) Validation
12 11 (15.94%) Containerisation
12 11 (15.94%) Scrum
12 11 (15.94%) SDLC
13 10 (14.49%) QA Automation
13 10 (14.49%) Unit Testing
14 9 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
14 9 (13.04%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 43 (62.32%) Java
2 21 (30.43%) Python
3 19 (27.54%) C#
4 18 (26.09%) SQL
5 16 (23.19%) JavaScript
6 8 (11.59%) TypeScript
7 5 (7.25%) Ruby
7 5 (7.25%) T-SQL
8 4 (5.80%) XPath
9 2 (2.90%) Go
10 1 (1.45%) Bash
10 1 (1.45%) C
10 1 (1.45%) C++
10 1 (1.45%) COBOL
10 1 (1.45%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.45%) Rust
10 1 (1.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.80%) Degree
4 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.90%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.45%) CFA
5 1 (1.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (42.03%) QA
2 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.90%) NCSC
3 1 (1.45%) SLA
3 1 (1.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (18.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (28.99%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.35%) Ansible
2 3 (4.35%) Terraform
3 2 (2.90%) Grafana
3 2 (2.90%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (8.70%) Oracle
2 4 (5.80%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.90%) Adobe
3 2 (2.90%) IBM
3 2 (2.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.90%) Sybase
4 1 (1.45%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.45%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.45%) Pega
4 1 (1.45%) SAP
4 1 (1.45%) UiPath
4 1 (1.45%) Workday