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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 282 298
Rank change year-on-year -26 +16 -80
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 73 82 102
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.51% 0.56% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.26% 4.03% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 46 90
10th Percentile £326 £313 £350
25th Percentile £363 £393 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £440 £505
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -12.82% -15.83%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £700
90th Percentile £700 £823 £741
England median daily rate £425 £475 £485
% change year-on-year -10.53% -2.06% -11.82%

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 2,242 2,034 2,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.60% 13.84% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,528 1,331 1,740
10th Percentile £350 £345 £399
25th Percentile £425 £423 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 21
10th Percentile £37.65 £22.25 £25.38
25th Percentile £42.63 £25.63 £30.00
Median hourly rate £56.50 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.90% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £86.88 £77.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £87.88 £73.65
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 30 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 30 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 -4 13 £613 +23.74% 10
East London - 2 £440 - 1
West London - 1 - - 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 (17.81%) Confluence
2 3 (4.11%) Appian
3 2 (2.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.37%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 23 (31.51%) AWS
2 14 (19.18%) Azure
3 12 (16.44%) GitHub
4 10 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (12.33%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (9.59%) OpenShift
7 4 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.48%) Serverless
8 3 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (4.11%) Tricentis Tosca
9 2 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.74%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (2.74%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.37%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.37%) Figma
10 1 (1.37%) GCP
10 1 (1.37%) PaaS
10 1 (1.37%) SonarCloud
10 1 (1.37%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) HTTP
1 2 (2.74%) Internet
2 1 (1.37%) DSL
2 1 (1.37%) Multicast
2 1 (1.37%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.33%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.85%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.11%) DB2
3 3 (4.11%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.11%) MySQL
4 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (57.53%) Selenium
2 28 (38.36%) Jenkins
3 25 (34.25%) JIRA
4 24 (32.88%) Git
5 20 (27.40%) Postman
6 18 (24.66%) JUnit
7 15 (20.55%) GitLab
8 12 (16.44%) JMeter
8 12 (16.44%) REST Assured
9 9 (12.33%) Cypress.io
10 8 (10.96%) Bitbucket
11 7 (9.59%) SonarQube
12 6 (8.22%) Zephyr
13 5 (6.85%) Maven
13 5 (6.85%) SpecFlow
13 5 (6.85%) WebDriver
14 4 (5.48%) Robot Framework
14 4 (5.48%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (5.48%) Subversion
14 4 (5.48%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (35.62%) Social Skills
2 25 (34.25%) Finance
3 17 (23.29%) Banking
4 6 (8.22%) Investment Banking
5 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.85%) Back Office
5 5 (6.85%) Front Office
6 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.11%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.74%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.74%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (23.29%) Developer
2 11 (15.07%) Java Developer
2 11 (15.07%) Test Engineer
3 9 (12.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 9 (12.33%) Tester
4 8 (10.96%) Automation Engineer
4 8 (10.96%) Automation Tester
4 8 (10.96%) QA Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Senior
6 5 (6.85%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Developer in Test
7 4 (5.48%) QA Automation Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Software Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Agile Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Agile Java Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Java Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) Senior Automation Tester
9 2 (2.74%) Senior Tester
10 1 (1.37%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (27.40%) REST
2 16 (21.92%) Gherkin
3 15 (20.55%) RESTful
4 14 (19.18%) JSON
5 12 (16.44%) React
5 12 (16.44%) XML
6 10 (13.70%) Spring
7 9 (12.33%) Playwright
7 9 (12.33%) SOAP
8 8 (10.96%) CSS
8 8 (10.96%) Node.js
8 8 (10.96%) Web Services
9 7 (9.59%) .NET
9 7 (9.59%) HTML
10 6 (8.22%) Spring Boot
11 5 (6.85%) AngularJS
11 5 (6.85%) Kafka
11 5 (6.85%) WireMock
12 4 (5.48%) Hibernate
12 4 (5.48%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.48%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.74%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.74%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.74%) Derivative
3 2 (2.74%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.37%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.44%) Linux
2 6 (8.22%) Unix
3 1 (1.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (76.71%) Test Automation
2 46 (63.01%) CI/CD
3 43 (58.90%) Agile
4 35 (47.95%) BDD
5 28 (38.36%) DevOps
6 22 (30.14%) Microservices
7 20 (27.40%) API Testing
7 20 (27.40%) Scrum
7 20 (27.40%) TDD
8 18 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (24.66%) Software Engineering
9 16 (21.92%) Software Testing
9 16 (21.92%) Test Strategy
10 14 (19.18%) Full-Stack Development
10 14 (19.18%) Sprint Planning
11 13 (17.81%) SDET
12 12 (16.44%) Functional Testing
12 12 (16.44%) Performance Testing
13 10 (13.70%) Continuous Integration
13 10 (13.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 56 (76.71%) Java
2 21 (28.77%) Python
3 19 (26.03%) SQL
4 15 (20.55%) JavaScript
5 10 (13.70%) C#
6 6 (8.22%) Ruby
7 4 (5.48%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.48%) VB.NET
7 4 (5.48%) XPath
8 1 (1.37%) Bash
8 1 (1.37%) C
8 1 (1.37%) C++
8 1 (1.37%) Go
8 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (12.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.96%) Degree
3 7 (9.59%) ISTQB
3 7 (9.59%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (43.84%) QA
2 3 (4.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.74%) SLA
3 2 (2.74%) WCAG
4 1 (1.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (21.92%) Docker
2 2 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (16.44%) Kubernetes
2 11 (15.07%) Ansible
3 4 (5.48%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (9.59%) Oracle
2 5 (6.85%) UiPath
3 4 (5.48%) VMware
4 3 (4.11%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.11%) Cisco
4 3 (4.11%) Veracode
5 2 (2.74%) Adobe
5 2 (2.74%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.74%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.74%) Splunk
6 1 (1.37%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.37%) Databricks
6 1 (1.37%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.37%) MarketAxess
6 1 (1.37%) SAP
6 1 (1.37%) Tradeweb
6 1 (1.37%) Workday