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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 300 306
Rank change year-on-year -84 +6 -27
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 76 68 74
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.38% 0.51% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.94% 3.18% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 48 48
10th Percentile £331 £349 £339
25th Percentile £406 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £519
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +0.24% -5.68%
75th Percentile £525 £619 £616
90th Percentile £575 £741 £763
England median daily rate £439 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +3.24% -15.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
England median hourly rate £35.80 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -28.40% - -

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 2,583 2,138 2,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.76% 16.06% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,694 1,452 1,555
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £431 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 13
10th Percentile £19.20 £36.63 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £41.69 £25.99
Median hourly rate £58.25 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.44% +20.00% -44.24%
75th Percentile £77.27 £70.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £89.63 £107.88 £71.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -17 9 £525 +1.20% 4
South London - 2 - -
East London +1 1 £500 +13.64%
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 8 (10.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (42.11%) Azure
2 29 (38.16%) AWS
3 21 (27.63%) GitHub
4 19 (25.00%) Serverless
5 18 (23.68%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (19.74%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (13.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (13.16%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (13.16%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (10.53%) Amazon S3
10 7 (9.21%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (9.21%) GCP
11 5 (6.58%) OpenShift
12 3 (3.95%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (3.95%) Power Platform
12 3 (3.95%) PowerApps
13 2 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (2.63%) Amazon EventBridge
13 2 (2.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) Internet
2 1 (1.32%) BGP
2 1 (1.32%) DNS
2 1 (1.32%) Firewall
2 1 (1.32%) HTTP
2 1 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.32%) Network Security
2 1 (1.32%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.32%) VPN
2 1 (1.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.84%) DynamoDB
1 9 (11.84%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (9.21%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.58%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.26%) MySQL
4 4 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (3.95%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.95%) Pinecone
5 3 (3.95%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.95%) Weaviate
6 2 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.63%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.32%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 40 (52.63%) Jenkins
2 33 (43.42%) Selenium
3 31 (40.79%) JUnit
4 23 (30.26%) Git
5 18 (23.68%) GitLab
6 16 (21.05%) Postman
7 15 (19.74%) REST Assured
8 14 (18.42%) JIRA
9 13 (17.11%) JMeter
9 13 (17.11%) Maven
9 13 (17.11%) Mockito
10 10 (13.16%) Gatling
10 10 (13.16%) TestNG
11 9 (11.84%) Gradle
12 7 (9.21%) SpecFlow
13 6 (7.89%) SoapUI
13 6 (7.89%) SonarQube
13 6 (7.89%) WebDriver
14 5 (6.58%) Cypress.io
14 5 (6.58%) HP UFT
General
1 30 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 21 (27.63%) Finance
3 15 (19.74%) Banking
4 10 (13.16%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.63%) Police
8 1 (1.32%) Marketing
8 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (30.26%) Test Engineer
2 16 (21.05%) Senior
3 12 (15.79%) Test Automation Engineer
4 11 (14.47%) Developer
5 9 (11.84%) Automation Engineer
5 9 (11.84%) Java Developer
5 9 (11.84%) Senior Test Engineer
6 7 (9.21%) QA Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Tester
8 4 (5.26%) Automation Tester
8 4 (5.26%) Java Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Test Manager
9 3 (3.95%) .NET Software Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) QA Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Quality Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 3 (3.95%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Senior Java Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (28.95%) Kafka
2 19 (25.00%) RESTful
3 18 (23.68%) REST
4 17 (22.37%) Playwright
5 14 (18.42%) Spring Boot
6 13 (17.11%) Spring
7 10 (13.16%) HTML
7 10 (13.16%) Node.js
7 10 (13.16%) SOAP
8 9 (11.84%) Gherkin
9 8 (10.53%) CSS
10 7 (9.21%) AngularJS
10 7 (9.21%) Web Services
11 6 (7.89%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (7.89%) Terraform
12 5 (6.58%) OpenAPI
12 5 (6.58%) React
12 5 (6.58%) WireMock
12 5 (6.58%) WSDL
12 5 (6.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.21%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (7.89%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.26%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.95%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.63%) Equities
5 2 (2.63%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.32%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.32%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.32%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.16%) Linux
2 7 (9.21%) Unix
3 3 (3.95%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.32%) Android
4 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (78.95%) Test Automation
2 57 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 47 (61.84%) Agile
3 47 (61.84%) BDD
4 31 (40.79%) DevOps
5 26 (34.21%) API Testing
6 24 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (27.63%) Containerisation
7 21 (27.63%) Performance Testing
8 20 (26.32%) TDD
9 17 (22.37%) Microservices
9 17 (22.37%) Software Testing
10 16 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (19.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (19.74%) SDET
12 14 (18.42%) Test Strategy
13 13 (17.11%) Code Quality
13 13 (17.11%) SDLC
13 13 (17.11%) Test Scripting
14 12 (15.79%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 60 (78.95%) Java
2 21 (27.63%) Python
3 20 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 13 (17.11%) C#
4 13 (17.11%) SQL
5 10 (13.16%) TypeScript
6 7 (9.21%) Scala
7 4 (5.26%) Ruby
7 4 (5.26%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.95%) Kotlin
8 3 (3.95%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.63%) Bash
10 1 (1.32%) COBOL
10 1 (1.32%) Go
10 1 (1.32%) Groovy
10 1 (1.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 25 (32.89%) SC Cleared
3 10 (13.16%) DV Cleared
4 7 (9.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (9.21%) Degree
5 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (2.63%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.63%) ISEB
6 2 (2.63%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (47.37%) QA
2 7 (9.21%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.32%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.32%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.32%) SEPA
3 1 (1.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 28 (36.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (38.16%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.58%) Ansible
2 5 (6.58%) Grafana
2 5 (6.58%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.32%) Argo
Vendors
1 6 (7.89%) Databricks
1 6 (7.89%) Google
1 6 (7.89%) Microsoft
1 6 (7.89%) Oracle
2 4 (5.26%) HP
2 4 (5.26%) Splunk
3 3 (3.95%) CA Agile Central
3 3 (3.95%) IBM
3 3 (3.95%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.63%) Sybase
5 1 (1.32%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.32%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.32%) Pega
5 1 (1.32%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.32%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.32%) UiPath