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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 310 315
Rank change year-on-year -68 +5 -40
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 55 61 75
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.28% 0.45% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.24% 2.91% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 40 63
10th Percentile £331 £330 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.05% -0.48% -10.06%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £719
90th Percentile £660 £700 £825
England median daily rate £438 £420 £533
% change year-on-year +4.17% -21.20% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
England median hourly rate - £50.00 -

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 2,453 2,099 2,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.36% 15.44% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 1,432 1,635
10th Percentile £363 £340 £363
25th Percentile £438 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £756 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 24
10th Percentile - £26.04 £22.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £33.50 £25.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £35.29
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +27.53% -49.59%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.63 £71.25
90th Percentile £83.95 £88.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -5 10 £470 -3.59%
South London - 3 - -
East London +2 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 6 (10.91%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.82%) Mingle
1 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.18%) AWS
1 21 (38.18%) GitHub
2 15 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
2 15 (27.27%) Serverless
3 12 (21.82%) Azure
4 11 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (14.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (14.55%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (10.91%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (9.09%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.64%) GCP
9 2 (3.64%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.64%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.82%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.82%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.36%) DynamoDB
2 7 (12.73%) SQL Server
3 6 (10.91%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (7.27%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (7.27%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.82%) Db2
Development Applications
1 26 (47.27%) Jenkins
2 18 (32.73%) JIRA
3 17 (30.91%) JUnit
3 17 (30.91%) Selenium
4 14 (25.45%) REST Assured
5 12 (21.82%) Git
6 11 (20.00%) Postman
7 10 (18.18%) GitLab
8 7 (12.73%) WebDriver
9 6 (10.91%) Gatling
9 6 (10.91%) Maven
9 6 (10.91%) Mocha
9 6 (10.91%) MSTest
9 6 (10.91%) SpecFlow
9 6 (10.91%) tSQLt
10 5 (9.09%) JMeter
10 5 (9.09%) Mockito
11 4 (7.27%) Bitbucket
11 4 (7.27%) TeamCity
11 4 (7.27%) TestNG
General
1 23 (41.82%) Finance
2 19 (34.55%) Social Skills
3 15 (27.27%) Banking
4 9 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.27%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (27.27%) Test Engineer
2 12 (21.82%) Senior
2 12 (21.82%) Test Automation Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Analyst
4 5 (9.09%) Developer
4 5 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Test Analyst
4 5 (9.09%) Tester
5 4 (7.27%) Senior Test Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) .NET Software Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Payments Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) QA Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) QA Automation Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) QA Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) QA Test Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (29.09%) Kafka
2 15 (27.27%) Playwright
2 15 (27.27%) RESTful
3 14 (25.45%) REST
4 10 (18.18%) Gherkin
5 8 (14.55%) .NET
5 8 (14.55%) AngularJS
5 8 (14.55%) Spring Boot
6 7 (12.73%) CSS
6 7 (12.73%) HTML
6 7 (12.73%) Spring
7 6 (10.91%) SOAP
7 6 (10.91%) WireMock
8 5 (9.09%) Node.js
9 4 (7.27%) YAML
10 3 (5.45%) OAuth
10 3 (5.45%) OAuth2
11 2 (3.64%) Apache Avro
11 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET Web API
11 2 (3.64%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.45%) Equities
2 3 (5.45%) Fixed Income
2 3 (5.45%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.64%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.82%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Android
2 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (81.82%) Test Automation
2 39 (70.91%) CI/CD
3 34 (61.82%) BDD
4 27 (49.09%) Agile
5 20 (36.36%) API Testing
6 18 (32.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (30.91%) DevOps
8 14 (25.45%) Microservices
8 14 (25.45%) Test Strategy
9 12 (21.82%) Software Engineering
9 12 (21.82%) TDD
10 11 (20.00%) Validation
11 10 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (18.18%) Test Scripting
12 9 (16.36%) Regression Testing
13 8 (14.55%) Clean Code
13 8 (14.55%) End-to-End Testing
13 8 (14.55%) Performance Testing
13 8 (14.55%) SDLC
14 7 (12.73%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 35 (63.64%) Java
2 19 (34.55%) JavaScript
3 17 (30.91%) C#
4 14 (25.45%) Python
5 13 (23.64%) SQL
6 8 (14.55%) TypeScript
7 6 (10.91%) T-SQL
8 4 (7.27%) Ruby
8 4 (7.27%) Scala
9 1 (1.82%) COBOL
9 1 (1.82%) Groovy
9 1 (1.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (49.09%) QA
2 2 (3.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.82%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.82%) SEPA
3 1 (1.82%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (16.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.64%) Grafana
2 2 (3.64%) Prometheus
2 2 (3.64%) Terraform
3 1 (1.82%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
1 3 (5.45%) Sybase
2 2 (3.64%) Oracle
3 1 (1.82%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.82%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (1.82%) Guidewire
3 1 (1.82%) IBM
3 1 (1.82%) Pega
3 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.82%) UiPath