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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 298 307
Rank change year-on-year -78 +9 -10
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 66 66 84
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.33% 0.50% 0.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.56% 3.14% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 47 59
10th Percentile £350 £347 £343
25th Percentile £406 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £525 £609 £625
90th Percentile £575 £715 £821
England median daily rate £445 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +4.71% -19.05% -2.33%
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 2,576 2,102 2,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.74% 15.83% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,676 1,419 1,593
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £438 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 17
10th Percentile £18.75 £36.63 £23.95
25th Percentile £30.75 £41.69 £25.99
Median hourly rate £53.00 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% +20.00% -44.44%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.75 £107.88 £71.50
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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +23.53% 5
South London - 2 - -
East London +3 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 7 (10.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (39.39%) Azure
2 25 (37.88%) AWS
3 19 (28.79%) GitHub
4 18 (27.27%) Serverless
5 17 (25.76%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (19.70%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (12.12%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (10.61%) Amazon S3
11 6 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (7.58%) GCP
12 5 (7.58%) OpenShift
13 3 (4.55%) Anthropic Claude
13 3 (4.55%) Power Platform
13 3 (4.55%) PowerApps
14 2 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
14 2 (3.03%) GitHub Copilot
14 2 (3.03%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) HTTP
1 1 (1.52%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.64%) DynamoDB
2 8 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 5 (7.58%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.55%) MySQL
5 3 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.55%) Pinecone
5 3 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.55%) Weaviate
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (3.03%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.52%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 34 (51.52%) Jenkins
2 29 (43.94%) Selenium
3 27 (40.91%) JUnit
4 21 (31.82%) Git
5 16 (24.24%) GitLab
6 14 (21.21%) REST Assured
7 13 (19.70%) Postman
8 12 (18.18%) JIRA
9 11 (16.67%) JMeter
9 11 (16.67%) Maven
9 11 (16.67%) Mockito
10 9 (13.64%) Gatling
10 9 (13.64%) TestNG
11 8 (12.12%) Gradle
12 6 (9.09%) WebDriver
13 5 (7.58%) HP UFT
13 5 (7.58%) SonarQube
13 5 (7.58%) SpecFlow
14 4 (6.06%) Cypress.io
14 4 (6.06%) SoapUI
General
1 27 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 17 (25.76%) Finance
3 12 (18.18%) Banking
4 9 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Marketing
8 1 (1.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 20 (30.30%) Test Engineer
2 12 (18.18%) Senior
3 11 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
4 9 (13.64%) Developer
5 7 (10.61%) Automation Engineer
5 7 (10.61%) Java Developer
5 7 (10.61%) Senior Test Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) QA Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Tester
8 4 (6.06%) Automation Tester
8 4 (6.06%) Test Manager
9 3 (4.55%) .NET Software Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Java Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) QA Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Quality Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (28.79%) Kafka
2 17 (25.76%) REST
2 17 (25.76%) RESTful
3 16 (24.24%) Playwright
4 12 (18.18%) Spring Boot
5 11 (16.67%) Spring
6 9 (13.64%) HTML
6 9 (13.64%) Node.js
6 9 (13.64%) SOAP
7 8 (12.12%) Gherkin
8 7 (10.61%) CSS
9 6 (9.09%) AngularJS
9 6 (9.09%) Web Services
10 5 (7.58%) OpenAPI
10 5 (7.58%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (7.58%) WireMock
11 4 (6.06%) GraphQL
11 4 (6.06%) React
11 4 (6.06%) Swagger
11 4 (6.06%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (7.58%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.55%) AI Agents
3 3 (4.55%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.03%) Equities
4 2 (3.03%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.03%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.64%) Linux
2 6 (9.09%) Unix
3 2 (3.03%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.52%) Android
4 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (77.27%) Test Automation
2 50 (75.76%) CI/CD
3 40 (60.61%) Agile
3 40 (60.61%) BDD
4 26 (39.39%) DevOps
5 22 (33.33%) API Testing
6 21 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (27.27%) TDD
8 17 (25.76%) Containerisation
9 16 (24.24%) Performance Testing
10 15 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (21.21%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (21.21%) Microservices
11 14 (21.21%) Software Testing
11 14 (21.21%) Test Strategy
12 12 (18.18%) SDET
12 12 (18.18%) Test Scripting
13 11 (16.67%) Code Quality
13 11 (16.67%) SDLC
13 11 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (80.30%) Java
2 19 (28.79%) JavaScript
3 17 (25.76%) Python
4 12 (18.18%) C#
4 12 (18.18%) SQL
5 10 (15.15%) TypeScript
6 7 (10.61%) Scala
7 4 (6.06%) Ruby
7 4 (6.06%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.55%) Kotlin
8 3 (4.55%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.52%) Bash
9 1 (1.52%) COBOL
9 1 (1.52%) Groovy
9 1 (1.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (34.85%) Security Cleared
2 20 (30.30%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.61%) DV Cleared
4 6 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (9.09%) Degree
5 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.52%) ISEB
6 1 (1.52%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (50.00%) QA
2 6 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.52%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.52%) SEPA
3 1 (1.52%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 23 (34.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (34.85%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.58%) Grafana
2 5 (7.58%) Prometheus
3 4 (6.06%) Ansible
4 2 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 6 (9.09%) Oracle
2 5 (7.58%) Databricks
3 4 (6.06%) Google
3 4 (6.06%) HP
3 4 (6.06%) Splunk
4 3 (4.55%) IBM
4 3 (4.55%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.03%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (3.03%) Sybase
6 1 (1.52%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.52%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.52%) Pega
6 1 (1.52%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.52%) UiPath