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 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 312 299
Rank change year-on-year +13 -13 -82
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 72 70 127
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.52% 0.45% 0.62%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.24% 3.20% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 39 111
10th Percentile £334 £312 £363
25th Percentile £375 £406 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year +6.58% -12.04% -9.24%
75th Percentile £619 £606 £719
90th Percentile £700 £774 £775
England median daily rate £425 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
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 2,219 2,187 2,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 16.14% 14.10% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,528 1,446 2,071
10th Percentile £355 £362 £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 £668 £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 9 6 29
10th Percentile £39.95 £25.63 £29.15
25th Percentile £42.50 £31.71 £41.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £35.29 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.12% -35.85% +24.69%
75th Percentile £88.75 £55.76 £73.65
90th Percentile £110.00 £66.34 £79.31
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 10 November 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 10 November 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 0 12 £640 +13.27% 10
East London - 2 £440 - 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 11 (15.28%) Confluence
2 3 (4.17%) Appian
3 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (36.11%) AWS
2 17 (23.61%) Azure
3 12 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (15.28%) GitHub
5 10 (13.89%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (13.89%) Serverless
6 8 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (9.72%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (8.33%) Amazon S3
8 6 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
8 6 (8.33%) OpenShift
9 5 (6.94%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (4.17%) Tricentis Tosca
11 2 (2.78%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (2.78%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (2.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) Internet
2 1 (1.39%) DSL
2 1 (1.39%) HTTP
2 1 (1.39%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.39%) Multicast
2 1 (1.39%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.33%) DynamoDB
3 5 (6.94%) Relational Database
3 5 (6.94%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.56%) DB2
5 3 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.39%) MySQL
6 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (50.00%) Selenium
2 25 (34.72%) Jenkins
3 21 (29.17%) JUnit
4 18 (25.00%) Git
4 18 (25.00%) JIRA
5 15 (20.83%) Postman
6 12 (16.67%) JMeter
7 11 (15.28%) Maven
8 10 (13.89%) Bitbucket
8 10 (13.89%) Cypress.io
8 10 (13.89%) GitLab
9 9 (12.50%) REST Assured
10 5 (6.94%) SonarQube
11 4 (5.56%) Gatling
11 4 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (5.56%) TeamCity
11 4 (5.56%) Zephyr
12 3 (4.17%) Serenity BDD
12 3 (4.17%) SpecFlow
12 3 (4.17%) WebDriver
General
1 24 (33.33%) Finance
1 24 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.00%) Banking
3 8 (11.11%) Investment Banking
4 7 (9.72%) Front Office
5 6 (8.33%) Back Office
6 3 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.17%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.78%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (1.39%) Aviation
8 1 (1.39%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.39%) Retail
8 1 (1.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (31.94%) Developer
2 14 (19.44%) Java Developer
3 11 (15.28%) Test Engineer
4 9 (12.50%) QA Engineer
4 9 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
5 8 (11.11%) Senior
5 8 (11.11%) Tester
6 7 (9.72%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (9.72%) Automation Tester
7 6 (8.33%) AWS Developer
8 5 (6.94%) Java Engineer
9 4 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (4.17%) Agile Developer
10 3 (4.17%) Agile Java Developer
10 3 (4.17%) Developer in Test
10 3 (4.17%) QA Automation Engineer
10 3 (4.17%) Software Developer
11 2 (2.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 2 (2.78%) Lead
11 2 (2.78%) QA Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (23.61%) REST
2 15 (20.83%) Spring
3 12 (16.67%) JSON
4 11 (15.28%) RESTful
5 10 (13.89%) Gherkin
5 10 (13.89%) XML
6 9 (12.50%) .NET
6 9 (12.50%) SOAP
7 8 (11.11%) Kafka
7 8 (11.11%) Node.js
7 8 (11.11%) React
7 8 (11.11%) Web Services
8 7 (9.72%) Jest
8 7 (9.72%) Playwright
8 7 (9.72%) Spring Boot
9 6 (8.33%) CSS
9 6 (8.33%) HTML
10 4 (5.56%) Hibernate
11 3 (4.17%) Jinja
11 3 (4.17%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.78%) Derivative
4 2 (2.78%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.39%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.39%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.89%) Linux
2 6 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 46 (63.89%) CI/CD
3 43 (59.72%) Agile
4 31 (43.06%) BDD
5 26 (36.11%) DevOps
6 21 (29.17%) Microservices
7 17 (23.61%) Scrum
8 16 (22.22%) Test Strategy
9 15 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (19.44%) Software Testing
10 14 (19.44%) TDD
11 13 (18.06%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (18.06%) Software Engineering
12 12 (16.67%) Code Quality
12 12 (16.67%) Containerisation
12 12 (16.67%) Integration Testing
12 12 (16.67%) Performance Testing
12 12 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
13 11 (15.28%) Test Scripting
13 11 (15.28%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 58 (80.56%) Java
2 19 (26.39%) Python
2 19 (26.39%) SQL
3 17 (23.61%) JavaScript
4 10 (13.89%) C#
5 9 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 6 (8.33%) VB.NET
7 4 (5.56%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.17%) Ruby
9 2 (2.78%) XPath
10 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (11.11%) Degree
2 7 (9.72%) Security Cleared
3 6 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (8.33%) ISTQB
4 5 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.94%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (48.61%) QA
2 3 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.17%) WCAG
3 2 (2.78%) SLA
4 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (30.56%) Docker
2 2 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (16.67%) Ansible
1 12 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.56%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.39%) Grafana
3 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (9.72%) UiPath
2 6 (8.33%) CA Agile Central
3 5 (6.94%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.56%) Oracle
4 4 (5.56%) VMware
5 3 (4.17%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.17%) Cisco
5 3 (4.17%) Splunk
5 3 (4.17%) Veracode
6 1 (1.39%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.39%) Databricks
6 1 (1.39%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.39%) MarketAxess
6 1 (1.39%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.39%) Sybase
6 1 (1.39%) Tradeweb