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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 272 279
Rank change year-on-year -38 +7 -45
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 74 76 119
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.50% 0.55% 0.65%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.26% 3.94% 5.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 38 104
10th Percentile £313 £344 £331
25th Percentile £356 £383 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £440 £510
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -13.68% -18.40%
75th Percentile £578 £576 £719
90th Percentile £676 £822 £863
England median daily rate £425 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -13.04%

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 2,268 1,930 2,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.21% 14.08% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,548 1,247 1,732
10th Percentile £351 £341 £380
25th Percentile £420 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £569
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -5.98% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 18
10th Percentile £55.60 £22.25 £25.64
25th Percentile £74.50 £25.63 £32.50
Median hourly rate £90.00 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £98.75 £77.19 £58.44
90th Percentile £105.50 £87.88 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -2 15 £613 +23.74% 3
West London - 2 - -
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 12 (16.22%) Confluence
2 3 (4.05%) Appian
3 2 (2.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (2.70%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 27 (36.49%) AWS
2 16 (21.62%) GitHub
3 12 (16.22%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (12.16%) OpenShift
5 8 (10.81%) Azure
6 7 (9.46%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (9.46%) Serverless
7 6 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (4.05%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.05%) Tricentis Tosca
9 2 (2.70%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.70%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (2.70%) BlazeMeter
9 2 (2.70%) BrowserStack
9 2 (2.70%) SonarCloud
10 1 (1.35%) PaaS
10 1 (1.35%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.70%) HTTP
2 1 (1.35%) Multicast
2 1 (1.35%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.76%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.05%) DB2
3 3 (4.05%) MySQL
4 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.35%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (52.70%) Selenium
2 30 (40.54%) Jenkins
3 29 (39.19%) Git
4 23 (31.08%) JIRA
5 19 (25.68%) JUnit
5 19 (25.68%) Postman
6 18 (24.32%) GitLab
7 10 (13.51%) REST Assured
8 9 (12.16%) JMeter
9 8 (10.81%) Cypress.io
10 7 (9.46%) Bitbucket
10 7 (9.46%) SonarQube
11 6 (8.11%) Mockito
11 6 (8.11%) WebDriver
12 5 (6.76%) Maven
13 4 (5.41%) Robot Framework
13 4 (5.41%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (5.41%) SpecFlow
13 4 (5.41%) Subversion
13 4 (5.41%) Zephyr
General
1 22 (29.73%) Finance
1 22 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.57%) Banking
3 8 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.11%) Investment Banking
5 4 (5.41%) Front Office
5 4 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.05%) Back Office
6 3 (4.05%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.70%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Retail
7 2 (2.70%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (21.62%) Developer
2 12 (16.22%) Java Developer
3 11 (14.86%) Test Engineer
4 9 (12.16%) Test Automation Engineer
5 8 (10.81%) QA Engineer
5 8 (10.81%) Software Engineer
5 8 (10.81%) Tester
6 7 (9.46%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) Automation Tester
6 7 (9.46%) Senior
7 4 (5.41%) QA Automation Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Agile Developer
8 3 (4.05%) Agile Java Developer
8 3 (4.05%) Java Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (2.70%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (2.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (2.70%) Lead
9 2 (2.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (32.43%) REST
2 15 (20.27%) Gherkin
3 14 (18.92%) Playwright
3 14 (18.92%) Spring
4 13 (17.57%) JSON
4 13 (17.57%) React
5 11 (14.86%) Spring Boot
5 11 (14.86%) XML
6 10 (13.51%) CSS
6 10 (13.51%) RESTful
7 8 (10.81%) HTML
7 8 (10.81%) Node.js
7 8 (10.81%) SOAP
7 8 (10.81%) Web Services
8 7 (9.46%) AngularJS
9 6 (8.11%) .NET
9 6 (8.11%) WireMock
10 5 (6.76%) Kafka
10 5 (6.76%) ZK
11 4 (5.41%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.70%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.70%) Derivative
3 2 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.70%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (2.70%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.70%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.70%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.70%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.35%) Equities
4 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.57%) Linux
2 4 (5.41%) Unix
3 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (71.62%) Test Automation
2 50 (67.57%) CI/CD
3 43 (58.11%) Agile
4 39 (52.70%) BDD
5 25 (33.78%) API Testing
6 24 (32.43%) DevOps
7 22 (29.73%) Microservices
8 20 (27.03%) TDD
9 18 (24.32%) Scrum
10 17 (22.97%) Full-Stack Development
10 17 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (21.62%) Software Engineering
12 15 (20.27%) Test Strategy
13 14 (18.92%) QA Automation
14 13 (17.57%) Sprint Planning
15 12 (16.22%) Software Testing
16 11 (14.86%) Containerisation
16 11 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 11 (14.86%) Sprint Retrospective
17 10 (13.51%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 55 (74.32%) Java
2 22 (29.73%) Python
3 19 (25.68%) SQL
4 17 (22.97%) JavaScript
5 11 (14.86%) C#
6 7 (9.46%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.76%) Ruby
8 4 (5.41%) XPath
9 3 (4.05%) VB.NET
10 2 (2.70%) Go
11 1 (1.35%) Bash
11 1 (1.35%) C
11 1 (1.35%) C++
11 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.35%) Rust
11 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (14.86%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.16%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.11%) Degree
3 6 (8.11%) ISTQB
4 4 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.35%) CFA
6 1 (1.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (40.54%) QA
2 4 (5.41%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.70%) NCSC
3 2 (2.70%) WCAG
4 1 (1.35%) SLA
4 1 (1.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (22.97%) Docker
2 2 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (16.22%) Ansible
1 12 (16.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.41%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (10.81%) Oracle
2 4 (5.41%) Red Hat
2 4 (5.41%) VMware
3 3 (4.05%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.05%) Cisco
3 3 (4.05%) UiPath
3 3 (4.05%) Veracode
4 2 (2.70%) Adobe
4 2 (2.70%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.70%) Splunk
5 1 (1.35%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.35%) IBM
5 1 (1.35%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.35%) MarketAxess
5 1 (1.35%) SAP
5 1 (1.35%) Sybase
5 1 (1.35%) Tradeweb
5 1 (1.35%) Workday