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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 294 277
Rank change year-on-year -48 -17 -19
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 63 56 120
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.35% 0.45% 0.69%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.69% 3.05% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 36 103
10th Percentile £304 £359 £353
25th Percentile £372 £398 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £430 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% -18.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £584 £578 £719
90th Percentile £649 £825 £863
England median daily rate £456 £425 £519
% change year-on-year +7.35% -18.07% -12.45%

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 2,339 1,835 2,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.03% 14.67% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,549 1,250 1,653
10th Percentile £354 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £528
% change year-on-year - -5.30% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 26
10th Percentile - £24.49 £23.50
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.14 £25.99
Median hourly rate £37.00 £38.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% +6.16% -47.86%
75th Percentile £72.88 £52.50 £70.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +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 18 May 2026.

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 May 2026. 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 -10 8 £369 -13.24% 2
South London -8 3 - -
West London - 2 - -
East London - 1 £500 -
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 3 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (3.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (3.17%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.59%) Mingle
1 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 22 (34.92%) AWS
1 22 (34.92%) GitHub
2 11 (17.46%) Amazon EC2
2 11 (17.46%) AWS Lambda
2 11 (17.46%) GitHub Actions
2 11 (17.46%) Serverless
3 9 (14.29%) Azure
4 8 (12.70%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (9.52%) Amazon S3
6 6 (9.52%) OpenShift
7 5 (7.94%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.17%) BlazeMeter
9 2 (3.17%) BrowserStack
9 2 (3.17%) SonarCloud
10 1 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.59%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (1.59%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.94%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (6.35%) DynamoDB
4 3 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.17%) MySQL
5 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.59%) DB2
6 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (39.68%) Jenkins
2 24 (38.10%) Selenium
3 21 (33.33%) Git
4 18 (28.57%) JIRA
5 16 (25.40%) JUnit
6 13 (20.63%) Postman
7 12 (19.05%) GitLab
8 9 (14.29%) REST Assured
9 7 (11.11%) Mockito
9 7 (11.11%) SpecFlow
10 5 (7.94%) Maven
10 5 (7.94%) Mocha
10 5 (7.94%) MSTest
10 5 (7.94%) tSQLt
10 5 (7.94%) WebDriver
11 4 (6.35%) Cypress.io
11 4 (6.35%) Gradle
11 4 (6.35%) JMeter
12 3 (4.76%) Subversion
12 3 (4.76%) TestNG
General
1 23 (36.51%) Finance
2 19 (30.16%) Social Skills
3 13 (20.63%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (20.63%) Banking
4 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Retail
6 1 (1.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (17.46%) Senior
2 10 (15.87%) Developer
3 9 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 9 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) Test Automation Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) Tester
5 6 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) Automation Tester
5 6 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Lead
7 4 (6.35%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) QA Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) QA Automation Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) QA Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) QA Test Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Test Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Test Leader
9 2 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (26.98%) REST
2 14 (22.22%) Gherkin
2 14 (22.22%) Playwright
2 14 (22.22%) RESTful
3 13 (20.63%) Kafka
3 13 (20.63%) Spring Boot
4 12 (19.05%) AngularJS
4 12 (19.05%) Spring
5 10 (15.87%) CSS
6 8 (12.70%) HTML
7 7 (11.11%) .NET
8 5 (7.94%) OAuth
8 5 (7.94%) React
9 4 (6.35%) FastAPI
9 4 (6.35%) pytest
9 4 (6.35%) SOAP
9 4 (6.35%) WireMock
10 3 (4.76%) Web Services
10 3 (4.76%) YAML
10 3 (4.76%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.35%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.17%) Equities
4 2 (3.17%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.59%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.94%) Linux
2 1 (1.59%) Unix
2 1 (1.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 43 (68.25%) CI/CD
3 35 (55.56%) BDD
4 31 (49.21%) Agile
5 22 (34.92%) API Testing
6 18 (28.57%) DevOps
7 17 (26.98%) Microservices
8 15 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (23.81%) Software Engineering
8 15 (23.81%) TDD
9 13 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (19.05%) Test Strategy
11 11 (17.46%) Containerisation
11 11 (17.46%) Validation
12 10 (15.87%) QA Automation
12 10 (15.87%) Scrum
12 10 (15.87%) SDLC
13 9 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
13 9 (14.29%) Test Scripting
14 8 (12.70%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (60.32%) Java
2 20 (31.75%) Python
3 19 (30.16%) SQL
4 17 (26.98%) C#
5 15 (23.81%) JavaScript
6 6 (9.52%) Ruby
6 6 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 5 (7.94%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.17%) Go
8 2 (3.17%) XPath
9 1 (1.59%) Bash
9 1 (1.59%) C
9 1 (1.59%) C++
9 1 (1.59%) COBOL
9 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.59%) Rust
9 1 (1.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.35%) Degree
4 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.17%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.59%) CFA
5 1 (1.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (44.44%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.17%) NCSC
3 1 (1.59%) SLA
3 1 (1.59%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (20.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (31.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.76%) Ansible
2 3 (4.76%) Terraform
3 2 (3.17%) Grafana
3 2 (3.17%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (9.52%) Oracle
2 4 (6.35%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.17%) Adobe
3 2 (3.17%) IBM
3 2 (3.17%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.17%) Sybase
4 1 (1.59%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.59%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.59%) Pega
4 1 (1.59%) SAP
4 1 (1.59%) UiPath
4 1 (1.59%) Workday