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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 290 273
Rank change year-on-year -45 -17 -8
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 77 61 121
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.45% 0.48% 0.67%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.23% 3.39% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 37 103
10th Percentile £305 £325 £335
25th Percentile £359 £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 £660 £754 £863
England median daily rate £425 £430 £500
% change year-on-year -1.22% -13.95% -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 2,386 1,800 2,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.09% 14.28% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,605 1,219 1,645
10th Percentile £356 £343 £363
25th Percentile £425 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -6.25% -6.67%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £529
% change year-on-year - -5.44% -6.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 23
10th Percentile - £22.93 £22.60
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £25.81
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 £66.00
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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -7 13 £425 -12.82% 3
West London - 2 - -
South London -14 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 7 (9.09%) Confluence
2 2 (2.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.60%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.30%) Mingle
1 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 28 (36.36%) AWS
2 21 (27.27%) GitHub
3 13 (16.88%) Azure
4 12 (15.58%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (14.29%) Serverless
6 10 (12.99%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (7.79%) OpenShift
8 5 (6.49%) Amazon S3
9 4 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (5.19%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.60%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (2.60%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (2.60%) BlazeMeter
11 2 (2.60%) BrowserStack
11 2 (2.60%) SonarCloud
12 1 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (1.30%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) HTTP
2 1 (1.30%) Multicast
2 1 (1.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.49%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (6.49%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.90%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (3.90%) DynamoDB
3 3 (3.90%) MySQL
4 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.30%) DB2
5 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 31 (40.26%) Selenium
2 30 (38.96%) Jenkins
3 29 (37.66%) Git
4 26 (33.77%) JIRA
5 20 (25.97%) JUnit
6 19 (24.68%) Postman
7 15 (19.48%) GitLab
8 11 (14.29%) REST Assured
9 8 (10.39%) Mockito
9 8 (10.39%) SpecFlow
10 7 (9.09%) WebDriver
11 6 (7.79%) JMeter
11 6 (7.79%) Maven
12 5 (6.49%) Cypress.io
12 5 (6.49%) Zephyr
13 4 (5.19%) Bitbucket
13 4 (5.19%) Gradle
13 4 (5.19%) Subversion
13 4 (5.19%) TestRail
14 3 (3.90%) tSQLt
General
1 28 (36.36%) Finance
2 22 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 17 (22.08%) Banking
4 12 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Front Office
6 3 (3.90%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.90%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.60%) Back Office
7 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Retail
8 1 (1.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (16.88%) Developer
1 13 (16.88%) Test Engineer
2 10 (12.99%) Automation Engineer
2 10 (12.99%) Test Automation Engineer
2 10 (12.99%) Tester
3 9 (11.69%) Senior
3 9 (11.69%) Software Engineer
4 7 (9.09%) Automation Tester
5 6 (7.79%) Java Developer
5 6 (7.79%) QA Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Lead
6 5 (6.49%) QA Automation Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) QA Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) QA Test Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Test Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Test Leader
9 2 (2.60%) QA Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (31.17%) REST
2 17 (22.08%) Playwright
3 16 (20.78%) Gherkin
4 14 (18.18%) Spring
5 13 (16.88%) Kafka
6 12 (15.58%) Spring Boot
7 11 (14.29%) AngularJS
7 11 (14.29%) RESTful
8 10 (12.99%) React
9 9 (11.69%) .NET
9 9 (11.69%) CSS
10 7 (9.09%) HTML
10 7 (9.09%) SOAP
11 6 (7.79%) JSON
11 6 (7.79%) Node.js
11 6 (7.79%) WireMock
12 5 (6.49%) Web Services
12 5 (6.49%) XML
13 4 (5.19%) OAuth
13 4 (5.19%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.90%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.60%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.60%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.30%) Derivative
5 1 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.30%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.30%) Equities
5 1 (1.30%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.39%) Linux
2 1 (1.30%) Unix
2 1 (1.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (76.62%) Test Automation
2 52 (67.53%) CI/CD
3 42 (54.55%) BDD
4 40 (51.95%) Agile
5 27 (35.06%) API Testing
6 25 (32.47%) DevOps
7 22 (28.57%) Microservices
8 18 (23.38%) TDD
8 18 (23.38%) Test Strategy
9 16 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (20.78%) Validation
10 14 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (18.18%) QA Automation
11 13 (16.88%) End-to-End Testing
11 13 (16.88%) Scrum
11 13 (16.88%) Software Engineering
12 12 (15.58%) Containerisation
12 12 (15.58%) Full-Stack Development
13 11 (14.29%) Software Testing
14 10 (12.99%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 52 (67.53%) Java
2 21 (27.27%) Python
3 19 (24.68%) C#
4 17 (22.08%) SQL
5 15 (19.48%) JavaScript
6 9 (11.69%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.49%) Ruby
8 4 (5.19%) XPath
9 3 (3.90%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.60%) Go
10 2 (2.60%) VB.NET
11 1 (1.30%) Bash
11 1 (1.30%) C
11 1 (1.30%) C++
11 1 (1.30%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.30%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.69%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.79%) Degree
4 4 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.90%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.30%) CFA
6 1 (1.30%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (44.16%) QA
2 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.60%) NCSC
4 1 (1.30%) SLA
4 1 (1.30%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (16.88%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.19%) Ansible
3 3 (3.90%) Terraform
4 2 (2.60%) Grafana
4 2 (2.60%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (7.79%) Oracle
2 4 (5.19%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.60%) Adobe
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.60%) UiPath
4 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.30%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.30%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.30%) IBM
4 1 (1.30%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.30%) MarketAxess
4 1 (1.30%) SAP
4 1 (1.30%) Sybase
4 1 (1.30%) Tradeweb
4 1 (1.30%) VMware
4 1 (1.30%) Workday