Cucumber Contracts in London

Cucumber
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Cucumber skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cucumber over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 303 267
Rank change year-on-year 0 -36 +7
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 57 104 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.43% 0.59% 0.92%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.83% 4.23% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 87 188
10th Percentile £328 £358 £417
25th Percentile £400 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £578 £720 £741
90th Percentile £669 £855 £828
England median daily rate £425 £533 £566
% change year-on-year -20.26% -5.87% +10.22%
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 - - +57.89%

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 2,013 2,457 3,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.36% 13.94% 15.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,359 1,755 2,907
10th Percentile £350 £363 £406
25th Percentile £420 £450 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £667 £713
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 25 36
10th Percentile £25.00 £23.30 £51.38
25th Percentile £30.75 £25.99 £54.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -50.00% +68.54%
75th Percentile £47.50 £71.25 £82.50
90th Percentile £71.75 £71.63 £90.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.84% +18.10%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in London.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in London

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in London

Cucumber
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in London.

Hourly rate trend for Cucumber in London

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 3 July 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 -5 4 £488 -3.47% 6
South London -2 1 £380 +7.04%
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 5 (8.77%) Apache Spark
2 4 (7.02%) Confluence
3 1 (1.75%) nginx
3 1 (1.75%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (45.61%) AWS
2 12 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
2 12 (21.05%) Serverless
3 10 (17.54%) Amazon Kinesis
3 10 (17.54%) Amazon S3
4 9 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (15.79%) GitHub
5 8 (14.04%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (12.28%) Azure
6 7 (12.28%) OpenShift
7 6 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (10.53%) AWS Fargate
8 5 (8.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (8.77%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (7.02%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (3.51%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (3.51%) BrowserStack
10 2 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.75%) HTTP
2 1 (1.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.30%) Relational Database
2 8 (14.04%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (10.53%) DynamoDB
3 6 (10.53%) NoSQL
4 4 (7.02%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (7.02%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.75%) Big Data
5 1 (1.75%) DB2
5 1 (1.75%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.75%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.75%) MySQL
5 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.75%) Redis
5 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (35.09%) Selenium
2 19 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 12 (21.05%) JUnit
4 10 (17.54%) Maven
4 10 (17.54%) Postman
5 9 (15.79%) Git
6 7 (12.28%) Cypress.io
6 7 (12.28%) JIRA
7 5 (8.77%) Eclipse
7 5 (8.77%) REST Assured
7 5 (8.77%) WebDriver
8 4 (7.02%) Artifactory
8 4 (7.02%) git-flow
8 4 (7.02%) Gradle
9 3 (5.26%) JMeter
9 3 (5.26%) SpecFlow
10 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
10 2 (3.51%) IntelliJ
10 2 (3.51%) JBehave
10 2 (3.51%) Mockito
General
1 19 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.81%) Finance
3 8 (14.04%) Banking
4 5 (8.77%) Front Office
4 5 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.26%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.51%) Back Office
7 1 (1.75%) Aviation
7 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (35.09%) Developer
2 14 (24.56%) Senior
3 12 (21.05%) Java Developer
4 11 (19.30%) Tester
5 10 (17.54%) Automation Tester
6 6 (10.53%) AWS Developer
6 6 (10.53%) QA Engineer
6 6 (10.53%) Test Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Lead
7 5 (8.77%) Senior Developer
8 4 (7.02%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (7.02%) Java Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (5.26%) QA Automation Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) Senior Test Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) QA Tester
10 2 (3.51%) Test Automation Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (38.60%) Spring
2 15 (26.32%) Spring Boot
3 9 (15.79%) Kafka
3 9 (15.79%) REST
4 7 (12.28%) Gherkin
4 7 (12.28%) Jest
4 7 (12.28%) RESTful
5 5 (8.77%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (7.02%) .NET
6 4 (7.02%) Playwright
6 4 (7.02%) Web Services
7 3 (5.26%) HTML
7 3 (5.26%) Node.js
7 3 (5.26%) React
7 3 (5.26%) SOAP
7 3 (5.26%) Swagger
8 2 (3.51%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.51%) AWT
8 2 (3.51%) pytest
8 2 (3.51%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) Cloud Native
1 5 (8.77%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.51%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.75%) Derivative
4 1 (1.75%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.75%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.28%) Linux
2 3 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.75%) Unix
3 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (64.91%) Test Automation
2 33 (57.89%) Agile
3 28 (49.12%) BDD
4 24 (42.11%) CI/CD
5 12 (21.05%) Test Strategy
6 11 (19.30%) Microservices
7 10 (17.54%) Code Quality
7 10 (17.54%) DevOps
7 10 (17.54%) Integration Testing
7 10 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (15.79%) TDD
9 8 (14.04%) Computer Science
9 8 (14.04%) Containerisation
9 8 (14.04%) Scrum
9 8 (14.04%) Software Testing
9 8 (14.04%) Test Scripting
10 7 (12.28%) API Testing
10 7 (12.28%) End-to-End Testing
10 7 (12.28%) Software Engineering
10 7 (12.28%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 41 (71.93%) Java
2 15 (26.32%) Python
3 12 (21.05%) SQL
3 12 (21.05%) TypeScript
4 10 (17.54%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.77%) C#
6 4 (7.02%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.51%) Bash
7 2 (3.51%) Ruby
7 2 (3.51%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.75%) Groovy
8 1 (1.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 9 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.04%) Degree
3 5 (8.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.26%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (52.63%) QA
2 4 (7.02%) PCI DSS
3 3 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.26%) WCAG
4 2 (3.51%) SLA
5 1 (1.75%) SEPA
5 1 (1.75%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (29.82%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (22.81%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.53%) Ansible
2 6 (10.53%) Terraform
3 1 (1.75%) Grafana
3 1 (1.75%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (10.53%) CA Agile Central
2 5 (8.77%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.51%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle
3 2 (3.51%) Splunk
3 2 (3.51%) UiPath
4 1 (1.75%) IBM
4 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.75%) Sybase