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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 302 297
Rank change year-on-year -57 -5 -42
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 67 53 107
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.35% 0.42% 0.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.77% 2.72% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 32 90
10th Percentile £305 £333 £350
25th Percentile £356 £404 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £506 £529
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -4.30% -11.87%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £719
90th Percentile £643 £694 £851
England median daily rate £447 £425 £533
% change year-on-year +5.18% -20.26% -7.30%
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 2,423 1,950 2,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.67% 15.49% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,589 1,313 1,718
10th Percentile £361 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £424 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £671
90th Percentile £745 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 27
10th Percentile - £25.00 £23.80
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.50 £25.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -50.00%
75th Percentile £73.00 £47.50 £69.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £71.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -9 10 £423 -13.33%
South London -9 3 - -
West London - 2 - - 1
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 (7.46%) Confluence
2 2 (2.99%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.49%) Mingle
1 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (40.30%) AWS
2 25 (37.31%) GitHub
3 18 (26.87%) AWS Lambda
3 18 (26.87%) Serverless
4 14 (20.90%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (17.91%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (16.42%) Azure
7 10 (14.93%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (13.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (11.94%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (11.94%) Amazon S3
10 6 (8.96%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (5.97%) OpenShift
12 2 (2.99%) BlazeMeter
12 2 (2.99%) BrowserStack
12 2 (2.99%) GCP
12 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
12 2 (2.99%) PowerApps
12 2 (2.99%) SonarCloud
13 1 (1.49%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.93%) DynamoDB
2 8 (11.94%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (11.94%) SQL Server
3 7 (10.45%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (7.46%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (4.48%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.99%) MySQL
6 2 (2.99%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.49%) Db2
7 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (41.79%) Jenkins
2 21 (31.34%) Git
2 21 (31.34%) JUnit
3 20 (29.85%) Selenium
4 17 (25.37%) JIRA
5 15 (22.39%) REST Assured
6 14 (20.90%) GitLab
7 12 (17.91%) Postman
8 10 (14.93%) Mockito
9 7 (10.45%) Maven
10 6 (8.96%) Gatling
10 6 (8.96%) JMeter
10 6 (8.96%) Mocha
10 6 (8.96%) MSTest
10 6 (8.96%) tSQLt
11 5 (7.46%) Cypress.io
11 5 (7.46%) Gradle
11 5 (7.46%) SpecFlow
11 5 (7.46%) WebDriver
12 4 (5.97%) Bitbucket
General
1 26 (38.81%) Finance
2 22 (32.84%) Social Skills
3 17 (25.37%) Banking
4 11 (16.42%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.46%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (22.39%) Senior
2 14 (20.90%) Test Engineer
3 11 (16.42%) Test Automation Engineer
4 8 (11.94%) Automation Engineer
4 8 (11.94%) Developer
4 8 (11.94%) Software Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Senior Software Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Tester
6 5 (7.46%) Analyst
6 5 (7.46%) Test Analyst
7 4 (5.97%) Automation Tester
7 4 (5.97%) Lead
7 4 (5.97%) Senior Test Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Payments Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) QA Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) QA Automation Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) QA Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (26.87%) Playwright
2 17 (25.37%) Kafka
3 16 (23.88%) REST
4 15 (22.39%) RESTful
5 14 (20.90%) Gherkin
6 13 (19.40%) Spring Boot
7 12 (17.91%) Spring
8 11 (16.42%) AngularJS
8 11 (16.42%) CSS
9 9 (13.43%) HTML
10 8 (11.94%) .NET
11 7 (10.45%) WireMock
12 6 (8.96%) SOAP
13 5 (7.46%) Node.js
13 5 (7.46%) YAML
14 4 (5.97%) FastAPI
14 4 (5.97%) OAuth
14 4 (5.97%) pytest
14 4 (5.97%) React
15 3 (4.48%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.48%) Equities
2 3 (4.48%) Fixed Income
2 3 (4.48%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.49%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.49%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.48%) Linux
2 1 (1.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (79.10%) Test Automation
2 45 (67.16%) CI/CD
3 37 (55.22%) BDD
4 33 (49.25%) Agile
5 24 (35.82%) API Testing
6 18 (26.87%) DevOps
7 17 (25.37%) Test Strategy
8 16 (23.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (23.88%) Microservices
9 15 (22.39%) Software Engineering
10 14 (20.90%) TDD
11 10 (14.93%) End-to-End Testing
11 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (14.93%) Test Scripting
11 10 (14.93%) Validation
12 9 (13.43%) SDLC
13 8 (11.94%) Containerisation
13 8 (11.94%) Performance Testing
13 8 (11.94%) Scrum
13 8 (11.94%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 41 (61.19%) Java
2 22 (32.84%) JavaScript
3 19 (28.36%) SQL
4 18 (26.87%) C#
5 17 (25.37%) Python
6 8 (11.94%) TypeScript
7 6 (8.96%) T-SQL
8 4 (5.97%) Ruby
8 4 (5.97%) Scala
9 2 (2.99%) Go
10 1 (1.49%) COBOL
10 1 (1.49%) Groovy
10 1 (1.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (14.93%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.45%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.99%) Degree
4 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.49%) CFA
4 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.49%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.49%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (44.78%) QA
2 3 (4.48%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.99%) NCSC
4 1 (1.49%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.49%) SEPA
4 1 (1.49%) SLA
4 1 (1.49%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (20.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (28.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.99%) Ansible
2 2 (2.99%) Grafana
2 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.99%) Terraform
3 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (5.97%) Oracle
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.48%) Red Hat
2 3 (4.48%) Sybase
3 2 (2.99%) IBM
4 1 (1.49%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.49%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.49%) Pega
4 1 (1.49%) UiPath