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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 304 305
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -73
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 67 70 134
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.50% 0.45% 0.65%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.14% 3.15% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 42 114
10th Percentile £349 £313 £377
25th Percentile £375 £407 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £558
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -10.31% -5.35%
75th Percentile £619 £609 £719
90th Percentile £711 £763 £775
England median daily rate £425 £494 £525
% change year-on-year -13.92% -5.95% -4.55%
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 - £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 2,137 2,221 2,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.92% 14.20% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,465 1,484 2,112
10th Percentile £356 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £688
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 12 8 30
10th Percentile £36.63 £27.88 £29.58
25th Percentile £41.69 £32.62 £41.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -15.91% +24.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.89 £74.66
90th Percentile £107.88 £71.44 £86.90
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +2.36%

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 27 October 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 27 October 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 10 £613 +8.17% 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 11 (16.42%) Confluence
2 3 (4.48%) Appian
3 2 (2.99%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (37.31%) AWS
2 13 (19.40%) Azure
3 10 (14.93%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (14.93%) GitHub
4 9 (13.43%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (13.43%) Serverless
5 8 (11.94%) Amazon Kinesis
5 8 (11.94%) OpenShift
6 7 (10.45%) Amazon S3
6 7 (10.45%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (10.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (10.45%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (8.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (8.96%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (8.96%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (4.48%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (2.99%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (2.99%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (2.99%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) Internet
1 2 (2.99%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.49%) DSL
2 1 (1.49%) Multicast
2 1 (1.49%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.90%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (10.45%) Relational Database
3 6 (8.96%) DynamoDB
4 5 (7.46%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (5.97%) DB2
5 4 (5.97%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.48%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.49%) MySQL
7 1 (1.49%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (46.27%) Selenium
2 24 (35.82%) Jenkins
3 21 (31.34%) JUnit
4 14 (20.90%) JIRA
5 13 (19.40%) Git
5 13 (19.40%) Postman
6 12 (17.91%) JMeter
6 12 (17.91%) Maven
7 10 (14.93%) GitLab
8 9 (13.43%) Cypress.io
9 8 (11.94%) Bitbucket
9 8 (11.94%) REST Assured
10 5 (7.46%) Eclipse
10 5 (7.46%) SonarQube
11 4 (5.97%) Gatling
11 4 (5.97%) IntelliJ
11 4 (5.97%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (5.97%) TeamCity
12 3 (4.48%) Artifactory
12 3 (4.48%) Robot Framework
General
1 24 (35.82%) Social Skills
2 22 (32.84%) Finance
3 17 (25.37%) Banking
4 7 (10.45%) Investment Banking
5 6 (8.96%) Front Office
6 5 (7.46%) Back Office
7 3 (4.48%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.99%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (1.49%) Aviation
9 1 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.49%) Retail
9 1 (1.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (37.31%) Developer
2 15 (22.39%) Java Developer
3 8 (11.94%) QA Engineer
3 8 (11.94%) Senior
4 7 (10.45%) Automation Tester
4 7 (10.45%) Test Automation Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) Test Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) Tester
5 6 (8.96%) AWS Developer
6 5 (7.46%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Java Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Agile Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Agile Java Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Developer in Test
8 3 (4.48%) Software Developer
9 2 (2.99%) QA Tester
9 2 (2.99%) Senior Developer
9 2 (2.99%) Senior Tester
9 2 (2.99%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (25.37%) Spring
2 14 (20.90%) REST
3 12 (17.91%) RESTful
4 10 (14.93%) Gherkin
4 10 (14.93%) JSON
5 9 (13.43%) Kafka
5 9 (13.43%) Spring Boot
5 9 (13.43%) Web Services
6 8 (11.94%) SOAP
6 8 (11.94%) XML
7 7 (10.45%) .NET
7 7 (10.45%) Jest
8 6 (8.96%) CSS
8 6 (8.96%) HTML
8 6 (8.96%) Playwright
9 5 (7.46%) Node.js
9 5 (7.46%) React
10 4 (5.97%) Hibernate
11 3 (4.48%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (4.48%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.97%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.48%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.99%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.99%) Derivative
4 2 (2.99%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.42%) Linux
2 6 (8.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (71.64%) Test Automation
2 43 (64.18%) CI/CD
3 41 (61.19%) Agile
4 30 (44.78%) BDD
5 23 (34.33%) DevOps
6 20 (29.85%) Microservices
7 16 (23.88%) Scrum
8 14 (20.90%) TDD
9 13 (19.40%) Performance Testing
9 13 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (19.40%) Software Engineering
9 13 (19.40%) Test Strategy
10 12 (17.91%) Software Testing
11 11 (16.42%) Code Quality
11 11 (16.42%) Containerisation
11 11 (16.42%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (16.42%) Integration Testing
12 10 (14.93%) SDET
12 10 (14.93%) Test Scripting
13 9 (13.43%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 54 (80.60%) Java
2 19 (28.36%) SQL
3 16 (23.88%) JavaScript
4 15 (22.39%) Python
5 9 (13.43%) TypeScript
6 6 (8.96%) C#
7 5 (7.46%) VB.NET
8 4 (5.97%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.99%) Ruby
10 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (11.94%) Degree
2 6 (8.96%) ISTQB
2 6 (8.96%) SC Cleared
2 6 (8.96%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.97%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (49.25%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.99%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.99%) SLA
2 2 (2.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (34.33%) Docker
2 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (20.90%) Ansible
2 12 (17.91%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.97%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.99%) Terraform
5 1 (1.49%) Grafana
5 1 (1.49%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (8.96%) CA Agile Central
1 6 (8.96%) UiPath
2 5 (7.46%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.97%) Oracle
3 4 (5.97%) VMware
4 3 (4.48%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.48%) Cisco
4 3 (4.48%) Splunk
4 3 (4.48%) Veracode
5 1 (1.49%) Databricks
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.49%) Sybase