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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 298 275
Rank change year-on-year 0 -23 -26
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 64 86 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.48% 0.53% 0.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.01% 3.60% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 61 139
10th Percentile £340 £350 £374
25th Percentile £400 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £725
90th Percentile £726 £825 £775
England median daily rate £425 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -19.05% -3.67% +3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £90.00
75th Percentile £47.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

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 2,128 2,391 3,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.83% 14.68% 14.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,611 2,356
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £420 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £769 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 34
10th Percentile £37.00 £24.28 £32.38
25th Percentile £42.25 £25.99 £52.13
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.25 £68.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -32.28% +54.84%
75th Percentile £67.50 £71.25 £79.38
90th Percentile £105.75 £71.44 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 5 £519 +1.22% 4
East London - 2 £440 -
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (9.38%) Confluence
2 3 (4.69%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.13%) Appian
4 1 (1.56%) nginx
4 1 (1.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (34.38%) AWS
2 12 (18.75%) Azure
3 10 (15.63%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (15.63%) GitHub
3 10 (15.63%) Serverless
4 9 (14.06%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
5 8 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 8 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (10.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (9.38%) AWS Fargate
7 6 (9.38%) OpenShift
8 5 (7.81%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (3.13%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (3.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) Internet
1 2 (3.13%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.56%) DSL
2 1 (1.56%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (14.06%) Relational Database
3 6 (9.38%) DynamoDB
3 6 (9.38%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.81%) MongoDB
4 5 (7.81%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (6.25%) DB2
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.56%) Big Data
6 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.56%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.56%) MySQL
6 1 (1.56%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (42.19%) Selenium
2 18 (28.13%) Jenkins
3 17 (26.56%) JUnit
4 12 (18.75%) Git
5 11 (17.19%) Postman
6 10 (15.63%) Maven
7 9 (14.06%) Cypress.io
7 9 (14.06%) JIRA
7 9 (14.06%) JMeter
8 8 (12.50%) REST Assured
9 7 (10.94%) GitLab
10 6 (9.38%) Bitbucket
11 5 (7.81%) Eclipse
12 4 (6.25%) Gatling
12 4 (6.25%) SonarQube
12 4 (6.25%) SpecFlow
12 4 (6.25%) TeamCity
12 4 (6.25%) WebDriver
13 3 (4.69%) Artifactory
14 2 (3.13%) Gradle
General
1 27 (42.19%) Social Skills
2 21 (32.81%) Finance
3 14 (21.88%) Banking
4 5 (7.81%) Front Office
5 4 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.69%) Back Office
6 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.13%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Aviation
8 1 (1.56%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Retail
8 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (35.94%) Developer
2 13 (20.31%) Senior
3 12 (18.75%) Java Developer
4 8 (12.50%) Automation Tester
4 8 (12.50%) Tester
5 7 (10.94%) Test Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) AWS Developer
7 5 (7.81%) QA Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (6.25%) Java Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Agile Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Agile Java Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Developer in Test
9 3 (4.69%) Lead
9 3 (4.69%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Software Developer
10 2 (3.13%) Analyst
10 2 (3.13%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (26.56%) Spring
2 14 (21.88%) RESTful
3 10 (15.63%) Gherkin
3 10 (15.63%) Spring Boot
4 9 (14.06%) Kafka
4 9 (14.06%) REST
5 7 (10.94%) Jest
5 7 (10.94%) Web Services
6 6 (9.38%) .NET
6 6 (9.38%) CSS
6 6 (9.38%) HTML
6 6 (9.38%) Node.js
7 5 (7.81%) React
8 4 (6.25%) JSON
8 4 (6.25%) Playwright
9 3 (4.69%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (4.69%) Hibernate
9 3 (4.69%) SOAP
9 3 (4.69%) WireMock
9 3 (4.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.38%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.69%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.13%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.56%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.38%) Linux
2 2 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 40 (62.50%) Agile
3 33 (51.56%) CI/CD
4 28 (43.75%) BDD
5 17 (26.56%) DevOps
6 16 (25.00%) Scrum
7 15 (23.44%) Microservices
8 14 (21.88%) Test Strategy
9 13 (20.31%) Software Engineering
9 13 (20.31%) Software Testing
10 12 (18.75%) Integration Testing
10 12 (18.75%) Performance Testing
10 12 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (17.19%) TDD
12 10 (15.63%) Code Quality
12 10 (15.63%) Containerisation
13 9 (14.06%) Full-Stack Development
13 9 (14.06%) SDET
13 9 (14.06%) Test Scripting
13 9 (14.06%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 46 (71.88%) Java
2 18 (28.13%) JavaScript
3 16 (25.00%) SQL
4 15 (23.44%) Python
5 10 (15.63%) TypeScript
6 7 (10.94%) C#
7 4 (6.25%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.69%) VB.NET
9 2 (3.13%) Ruby
10 1 (1.56%) Bash
10 1 (1.56%) Groovy
10 1 (1.56%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (12.50%) Degree
1 8 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 8 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.81%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.69%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (51.56%) QA
2 3 (4.69%) WCAG
3 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.13%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (32.81%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 10 (15.63%) Ansible
3 2 (3.13%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.13%) Terraform
4 1 (1.56%) Grafana
4 1 (1.56%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (9.38%) CA Agile Central
2 5 (7.81%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.25%) Oracle
3 4 (6.25%) UiPath
4 3 (4.69%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.69%) Splunk
5 2 (3.13%) Cisco
5 2 (3.13%) Veracode
5 2 (3.13%) VMware
6 1 (1.56%) Databricks
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.56%) Sybase