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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 313 308
Rank change year-on-year -88 -5 -18
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 48 60 86
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.45% 0.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.89% 2.80% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 40 64
10th Percentile £350 £331 £350
25th Percentile £394 £409 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £535 £614 £628
90th Percentile £649 £700 £825
England median daily rate £446 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +4.94% -19.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
England median hourly rate - £50.00 -

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 2,538 2,144 2,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.55% 15.92% 14.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,639 1,469 1,600
10th Percentile £364 £350 £363
25th Percentile £439 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £648 £650
90th Percentile £746 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £31.85 £24.60
25th Percentile £22.75 £40.00 £25.99
Median hourly rate £45.00 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -45.45%
75th Percentile £73.38 £67.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.57 £105.75 £71.38
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -12 10 £513 +5.13% 2
South London - 2 - - 1
East London +2 1 £500 +13.64%
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 4 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (35.42%) AWS
1 17 (35.42%) GitHub
2 15 (31.25%) Azure
3 13 (27.08%) AWS Lambda
3 13 (27.08%) Serverless
4 10 (20.83%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (10.42%) Amazon S3
9 4 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (6.25%) GCP
11 2 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
11 2 (4.17%) PowerApps
12 1 (2.08%) Amazon EventBridge
12 1 (2.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 3 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.08%) MySQL
3 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 18 (37.50%) Selenium
3 16 (33.33%) JUnit
4 12 (25.00%) Git
4 12 (25.00%) GitLab
4 12 (25.00%) Postman
4 12 (25.00%) REST Assured
5 9 (18.75%) JIRA
6 7 (14.58%) Gatling
6 7 (14.58%) JMeter
7 6 (12.50%) WebDriver
8 5 (10.42%) Maven
8 5 (10.42%) Mockito
9 4 (8.33%) Cypress.io
9 4 (8.33%) Gradle
9 4 (8.33%) SpecFlow
9 4 (8.33%) TestNG
10 3 (6.25%) Bitbucket
10 3 (6.25%) MSTest
10 3 (6.25%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 15 (31.25%) Finance
3 11 (22.92%) Banking
4 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (27.08%) Test Engineer
2 10 (20.83%) Senior
2 10 (20.83%) Test Automation Engineer
3 8 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Test Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) .NET Software Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) QA Automation Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) QA Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Test Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Tester
7 2 (4.17%) Automation Tester
7 2 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Java Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Python Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (31.25%) REST
2 13 (27.08%) Playwright
2 13 (27.08%) RESTful
3 11 (22.92%) Kafka
4 9 (18.75%) Gherkin
5 7 (14.58%) Node.js
5 7 (14.58%) Spring Boot
6 6 (12.50%) AngularJS
6 6 (12.50%) HTML
6 6 (12.50%) SOAP
6 6 (12.50%) Spring
7 5 (10.42%) .NET
7 5 (10.42%) CSS
7 5 (10.42%) Terraform
8 4 (8.33%) Web Services
8 4 (8.33%) WireMock
9 3 (6.25%) OAuth
9 3 (6.25%) OAuth2
9 3 (6.25%) YAML
10 2 (4.17%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.17%) Equities
4 2 (4.17%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.08%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Android
1 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.08%) Linux
1 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (85.42%) Test Automation
2 36 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 31 (64.58%) BDD
4 24 (50.00%) Agile
5 18 (37.50%) API Testing
6 15 (31.25%) DevOps
7 13 (27.08%) TDD
8 12 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (22.92%) Performance Testing
9 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (22.92%) Test Strategy
10 9 (18.75%) SDET
10 9 (18.75%) Software Engineering
11 8 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
11 8 (16.67%) Microservices
11 8 (16.67%) Security Testing
11 8 (16.67%) Software Testing
11 8 (16.67%) Test Scripting
12 7 (14.58%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 33 (68.75%) Java
2 14 (29.17%) JavaScript
2 14 (29.17%) Python
3 11 (22.92%) C#
3 11 (22.92%) SQL
4 7 (14.58%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.33%) Ruby
5 4 (8.33%) Scala
6 3 (6.25%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.08%) COBOL
7 1 (2.08%) Groovy
7 1 (2.08%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.08%) Degree
4 1 (2.08%) ISEB
4 1 (2.08%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (45.83%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.08%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.08%) SEPA
3 1 (2.08%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (22.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (2.08%) Grafana
3 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.33%) Databricks
3 2 (4.17%) Google
3 2 (4.17%) IBM
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle
3 2 (4.17%) Sybase
4 1 (2.08%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.08%) Guidewire
4 1 (2.08%) Pega
4 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.08%) UiPath