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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 301 301
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -74
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 73 72 119
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.52% 0.46% 0.60%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.20% 3.32% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 39 104
10th Percentile £328 £312 £357
25th Percentile £375 £406 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -9.52% -11.76%
75th Percentile £606 £606 £700
90th Percentile £700 £774 £738
England median daily rate £425 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -15.00% +1.01% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
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 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%

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 2,284 2,170 2,743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 16.13% 13.81% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,566 1,429 2,019
10th Percentile £350 £356 £400
25th Percentile £425 £445 £475
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 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 29
10th Percentile £39.95 £26.54 £29.15
25th Percentile £42.50 £33.87 £41.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £49.47 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -10.06% +4.76%
75th Percentile £88.75 £68.80 £73.65
90th Percentile £110.00 £83.13 £79.31
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 21 November 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 21 November 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 -2 13 £613 +12.39% 10
East London - 2 £440 -
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
Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 25 (34.25%) AWS
2 16 (21.92%) Azure
3 12 (16.44%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (13.70%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (13.70%) GitHub
4 10 (13.70%) Serverless
5 8 (10.96%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (10.96%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (8.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (8.22%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (8.22%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (8.22%) Amazon Kinesis
6 6 (8.22%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (6.85%) Amazon S3
7 5 (6.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (5.48%) OpenShift
9 3 (4.11%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (4.11%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (2.74%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (2.74%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) Internet
2 1 (1.37%) DSL
2 1 (1.37%) HTTP
2 1 (1.37%) Multicast
2 1 (1.37%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.18%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.22%) DynamoDB
3 5 (6.85%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.48%) DB2
4 4 (5.48%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.11%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.74%) MySQL
7 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (52.05%) Selenium
2 25 (34.25%) Jenkins
3 22 (30.14%) JUnit
4 20 (27.40%) JIRA
5 19 (26.03%) Git
6 18 (24.66%) Postman
7 13 (17.81%) JMeter
8 12 (16.44%) GitLab
9 10 (13.70%) Bitbucket
9 10 (13.70%) Cypress.io
9 10 (13.70%) Maven
10 9 (12.33%) REST Assured
11 7 (9.59%) SonarQube
12 4 (5.48%) Gatling
12 4 (5.48%) Serenity BDD
12 4 (5.48%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (5.48%) TeamCity
12 4 (5.48%) WebDriver
12 4 (5.48%) Zephyr
13 3 (4.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 24 (32.88%) Finance
2 23 (31.51%) Social Skills
3 18 (24.66%) Banking
4 8 (10.96%) Investment Banking
5 6 (8.22%) Back Office
5 6 (8.22%) Front Office
6 3 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.11%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.74%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Aviation
8 1 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.37%) Retail
8 1 (1.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (28.77%) Developer
2 12 (16.44%) Java Developer
2 12 (16.44%) Test Engineer
3 10 (13.70%) Test Automation Engineer
4 9 (12.33%) QA Engineer
5 8 (10.96%) Tester
6 7 (9.59%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (9.59%) Automation Tester
6 7 (9.59%) Senior
7 6 (8.22%) AWS Developer
8 4 (5.48%) Developer in Test
8 4 (5.48%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (5.48%) Java Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Software Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Agile Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Agile Java Developer
9 3 (4.11%) QA Automation Engineer
10 2 (2.74%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (2.74%) QA Automation Tester
10 2 (2.74%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (24.66%) REST
2 13 (17.81%) JSON
3 12 (16.44%) Spring
4 11 (15.07%) Gherkin
5 10 (13.70%) RESTful
5 10 (13.70%) XML
6 9 (12.33%) .NET
6 9 (12.33%) React
6 9 (12.33%) SOAP
7 8 (10.96%) Node.js
7 8 (10.96%) Playwright
7 8 (10.96%) Web Services
8 7 (9.59%) CSS
8 7 (9.59%) HTML
8 7 (9.59%) Jest
9 6 (8.22%) Kafka
10 5 (6.85%) WireMock
11 4 (5.48%) Hibernate
11 4 (5.48%) Spring Boot
12 3 (4.11%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.48%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.11%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.74%) Derivative
4 2 (2.74%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.07%) Linux
2 6 (8.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (78.08%) Test Automation
2 47 (64.38%) CI/CD
3 43 (58.90%) Agile
4 31 (42.47%) BDD
5 28 (38.36%) DevOps
6 22 (30.14%) Microservices
7 18 (24.66%) Scrum
8 17 (23.29%) Test Strategy
9 16 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (21.92%) Software Testing
10 15 (20.55%) Software Engineering
10 15 (20.55%) TDD
11 14 (19.18%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (17.81%) API Testing
12 13 (17.81%) Performance Testing
12 13 (17.81%) SDET
13 12 (16.44%) Integration Testing
13 12 (16.44%) Sprint Planning
13 12 (16.44%) Test Scripting
14 11 (15.07%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 58 (79.45%) Java
2 18 (24.66%) JavaScript
2 18 (24.66%) Python
2 18 (24.66%) SQL
3 11 (15.07%) TypeScript
4 10 (13.70%) C#
5 6 (8.22%) VB.NET
6 4 (5.48%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.11%) Ruby
8 2 (2.74%) XPath
9 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (12.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.59%) Degree
2 7 (9.59%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.22%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (8.22%) ISTQB
4 5 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (50.68%) QA
2 3 (4.11%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.11%) WCAG
3 2 (2.74%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (26.03%) Docker
2 2 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (13.70%) Ansible
1 10 (13.70%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.48%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (9.59%) UiPath
2 6 (8.22%) CA Agile Central
3 5 (6.85%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.48%) Oracle
4 4 (5.48%) VMware
5 3 (4.11%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.11%) Cisco
5 3 (4.11%) Veracode
6 2 (2.74%) Splunk
7 1 (1.37%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.37%) Databricks
7 1 (1.37%) ION Trading
7 1 (1.37%) MarketAxess
7 1 (1.37%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.37%) Sybase
7 1 (1.37%) Tradeweb