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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 280 267
Rank change year-on-year -46 -13 -12
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 80 60 117
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.48% 0.47% 0.65%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.34% 3.36% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 36 99
10th Percentile £305 £324 £331
25th Percentile £361 £380 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £430 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% -18.10% -19.23%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £719
90th Percentile £656 £766 £863
England median daily rate £425 £430 £500
% change year-on-year -1.16% -14.00% -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 2,398 1,788 2,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.34% 14.15% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,610 1,223 1,636
10th Percentile £351 £345 £363
25th Percentile £420 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £530 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% -5.78% -6.25%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £529
% change year-on-year - -5.44% -6.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 21
10th Percentile - £22.93 £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £26.24
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -25.00% -30.43%
75th Percentile £74.63 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £84.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.72% +1.20% +1.63%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -12 13 £425 -12.82% 3
West London - 2 - -
South London -16 1 - -
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 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.50%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.25%) Mingle
1 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 29 (36.25%) AWS
2 21 (26.25%) GitHub
3 14 (17.50%) Azure
4 12 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (13.75%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (13.75%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (13.75%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (13.75%) Serverless
6 6 (7.50%) OpenShift
7 5 (6.25%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.50%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (2.50%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (2.50%) BlazeMeter
10 2 (2.50%) BrowserStack
10 2 (2.50%) SonarCloud
11 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (1.25%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) HTTP
2 1 (1.25%) Multicast
2 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.75%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (3.75%) DynamoDB
3 3 (3.75%) MySQL
4 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.25%) DB2
5 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (41.25%) Selenium
2 31 (38.75%) Jenkins
3 30 (37.50%) Git
4 27 (33.75%) JIRA
5 21 (26.25%) JUnit
6 20 (25.00%) Postman
7 16 (20.00%) GitLab
8 11 (13.75%) REST Assured
9 8 (10.00%) Mockito
9 8 (10.00%) SpecFlow
10 7 (8.75%) Maven
10 7 (8.75%) WebDriver
11 6 (7.50%) JMeter
12 5 (6.25%) Bitbucket
12 5 (6.25%) Cypress.io
12 5 (6.25%) Zephyr
13 4 (5.00%) Gradle
13 4 (5.00%) Subversion
13 4 (5.00%) TestRail
14 3 (3.75%) tSQLt
General
1 29 (36.25%) Finance
2 23 (28.75%) Social Skills
3 19 (23.75%) Banking
4 12 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.00%) Front Office
7 3 (3.75%) Back Office
7 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Retail
9 1 (1.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (17.50%) Developer
1 14 (17.50%) Test Engineer
2 11 (13.75%) Test Automation Engineer
3 10 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 10 (12.50%) Tester
4 9 (11.25%) Senior
4 9 (11.25%) Software Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) Automation Tester
5 7 (8.75%) Java Developer
5 7 (8.75%) QA Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Lead
6 5 (6.25%) QA Automation Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) QA Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) QA Test Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Test Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Test Leader
9 2 (2.50%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (31.25%) REST
2 17 (21.25%) Playwright
3 16 (20.00%) Gherkin
4 14 (17.50%) Spring
5 13 (16.25%) Kafka
6 12 (15.00%) Spring Boot
7 11 (13.75%) AngularJS
7 11 (13.75%) React
7 11 (13.75%) RESTful
8 10 (12.50%) .NET
9 9 (11.25%) CSS
10 8 (10.00%) SOAP
11 7 (8.75%) HTML
11 7 (8.75%) JSON
12 6 (7.50%) Node.js
12 6 (7.50%) WireMock
12 6 (7.50%) XML
13 5 (6.25%) Web Services
14 4 (5.00%) OAuth
14 4 (5.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.50%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.75%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.50%) Derivative
4 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.50%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (2.50%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.50%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.25%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Equities
5 1 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.25%) Linux
2 2 (2.50%) Unix
3 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 54 (67.50%) CI/CD
3 43 (53.75%) BDD
4 42 (52.50%) Agile
5 27 (33.75%) API Testing
5 27 (33.75%) DevOps
6 24 (30.00%) Microservices
7 19 (23.75%) TDD
8 18 (22.50%) Test Strategy
9 17 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (20.00%) Validation
11 15 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (17.50%) QA Automation
12 14 (17.50%) Scrum
13 13 (16.25%) End-to-End Testing
13 13 (16.25%) Software Engineering
14 12 (15.00%) Containerisation
14 12 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
15 11 (13.75%) Software Testing
15 11 (13.75%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 55 (68.75%) Java
2 21 (26.25%) Python
3 20 (25.00%) C#
4 18 (22.50%) SQL
5 15 (18.75%) JavaScript
6 10 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.25%) Ruby
8 4 (5.00%) XPath
9 3 (3.75%) T-SQL
9 3 (3.75%) VB.NET
10 2 (2.50%) Go
11 1 (1.25%) Bash
11 1 (1.25%) C
11 1 (1.25%) C++
11 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.25%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.50%) Degree
4 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.00%) ISTQB
5 3 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.25%) CFA
7 1 (1.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (43.75%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.50%) NCSC
4 1 (1.25%) SLA
4 1 (1.25%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (16.25%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (26.25%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.00%) Ansible
3 3 (3.75%) Terraform
4 2 (2.50%) Grafana
4 2 (2.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (7.50%) Oracle
2 4 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (3.75%) UiPath
4 2 (2.50%) Adobe
4 2 (2.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.25%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.25%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.25%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.25%) IBM
5 1 (1.25%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.25%) MarketAxess
5 1 (1.25%) SAP
5 1 (1.25%) Sybase
5 1 (1.25%) Tradeweb
5 1 (1.25%) VMware
5 1 (1.25%) Workday