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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 269 257
Rank change year-on-year -27 -12 +10
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 57 123 261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.45% 0.69% 0.97%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.14% 5.29% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 106 210
10th Percentile £359 £341 £425
25th Percentile £398 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £525 £644
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% -18.45% +15.47%
75th Percentile £578 £719 £775
90th Percentile £825 £863 £825
England median daily rate £455 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -9.00% -13.04% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.43%

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 1,814 2,325 4,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.46% 13.04% 16.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,230 1,656 3,172
10th Percentile £350 £363 £413
25th Percentile £419 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £725
90th Percentile £800 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 24 39
10th Percentile £22.93 £22.90 £48.20
25th Percentile £26.04 £25.99 £56.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% -36.52% +29.21%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.31 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £71.25 £86.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -11 5 £425 -15.00% 5
South London +8 2 £380 +26.67%
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 15 (26.32%) Confluence
2 4 (7.02%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.75%) nginx
3 1 (1.75%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 20 (35.09%) AWS
2 9 (15.79%) Slack
3 8 (14.04%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (14.04%) GitHub
4 5 (8.77%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (7.02%) Amazon S3
5 4 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (7.02%) OpenShift
5 4 (7.02%) Serverless
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.26%) Azure
7 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.75%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (1.75%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.77%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.81%) MongoDB
2 10 (17.54%) MySQL
2 10 (17.54%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (15.79%) Apache Cassandra
4 7 (12.28%) Relational Database
5 4 (7.02%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.75%) Big Data
7 1 (1.75%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.75%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 22 (38.60%) Selenium
2 18 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 18 (31.58%) JIRA
3 17 (29.82%) Git
4 14 (24.56%) JUnit
5 12 (21.05%) Postman
6 11 (19.30%) Cypress.io
7 9 (15.79%) Jasmine
8 8 (14.04%) REST Assured
8 8 (14.04%) WebDriver
9 4 (7.02%) GitLab
9 4 (7.02%) JMeter
10 3 (5.26%) Artifactory
10 3 (5.26%) git-flow
10 3 (5.26%) Gradle
10 3 (5.26%) SoapUI
10 3 (5.26%) SpecFlow
11 2 (3.51%) Gatling
11 2 (3.51%) LoadRunner
11 2 (3.51%) TestNG
General
1 13 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 12 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 10 (17.54%) Finance
4 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.02%) Banking
6 2 (3.51%) Front Office
7 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (29.82%) Developer
2 15 (26.32%) Senior
3 13 (22.81%) Java Developer
4 11 (19.30%) Lead
5 10 (17.54%) Test Engineer
5 10 (17.54%) Tester
6 8 (14.04%) Automation Tester
7 6 (10.53%) Lead Developer
7 6 (10.53%) Lead Java Developer
7 6 (10.53%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) Senior Developer
9 4 (7.02%) Java Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (5.26%) Developer in Test
10 3 (5.26%) QA Engineer
10 3 (5.26%) Software Developer
11 2 (3.51%) Automation Engineer
11 2 (3.51%) Java Software Engineer
11 2 (3.51%) Software Engineer
11 2 (3.51%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (33.33%) Spring
2 16 (28.07%) Spring Boot
3 12 (21.05%) RESTful
4 11 (19.30%) Swagger
5 9 (15.79%) OpenAPI
5 9 (15.79%) REST
5 9 (15.79%) Spring Batch
5 9 (15.79%) Spring Security
6 7 (12.28%) Kafka
7 6 (10.53%) Gherkin
8 5 (8.77%) HTML
8 5 (8.77%) pytest
9 4 (7.02%) CSS
9 4 (7.02%) JSON
9 4 (7.02%) Web Services
10 3 (5.26%) .NET
10 3 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (5.26%) React
10 3 (5.26%) SOAP
11 2 (3.51%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.75%) Derivative
4 1 (1.75%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.75%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (26.32%) Linux
2 12 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (73.68%) Test Automation
2 34 (59.65%) BDD
3 26 (45.61%) CI/CD
4 21 (36.84%) Agile
5 17 (29.82%) TDD
6 15 (26.32%) Microservices
7 14 (24.56%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (19.30%) Software Engineering
9 10 (17.54%) API Design
9 10 (17.54%) Containerisation
9 10 (17.54%) Continuous Delivery
10 9 (15.79%) API Testing
10 9 (15.79%) OWASP
10 9 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (15.79%) Test Scripting
10 9 (15.79%) Test Strategy
11 8 (14.04%) High Availability
11 8 (14.04%) Integration Testing
11 8 (14.04%) Kernel Tuning
11 8 (14.04%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (63.16%) Java
2 14 (24.56%) SQL
3 12 (21.05%) Python
4 11 (19.30%) JavaScript
5 10 (17.54%) Bash
6 5 (8.77%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.26%) C#
8 1 (1.75%) Go
8 1 (1.75%) Groovy
8 1 (1.75%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.75%) Ruby
8 1 (1.75%) Scala
8 1 (1.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 19 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.53%) Degree
3 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.75%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (38.60%) QA
2 9 (15.79%) Accessibility
3 4 (7.02%) WCAG
4 3 (5.26%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.75%) SEPA
5 1 (1.75%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (28.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (29.82%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.77%) Terraform
3 3 (5.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (3.51%) Oracle
2 1 (1.75%) IBM
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
2 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.75%) Splunk
2 1 (1.75%) UiPath
2 1 (1.75%) Virgin Media