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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 313 309
Rank change year-on-year -86 -4 -35
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 53 61 88
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.26% 0.45% 0.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.07% 2.84% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 41 62
10th Percentile £350 £332 £350
25th Percentile £406 £400 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% -5.83%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £634
90th Percentile £590 £700 £825
England median daily rate £445 £428 £525
% change year-on-year +4.09% -18.57% -4.55%
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 2,558 2,145 2,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.59% 15.89% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,650 1,455 1,599
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £438 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -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 22 13 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £37.00 £24.60
25th Percentile £27.38 £42.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £49.00 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% +20.00% -44.44%
75th Percentile £73.56 £67.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.66 £105.75 £71.38
England median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - -

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 10 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 10 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 -13 9 £513 +20.59%
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 4 (7.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (35.85%) AWS
1 19 (35.85%) GitHub
2 18 (33.96%) Azure
3 15 (28.30%) AWS Lambda
3 15 (28.30%) Serverless
4 12 (22.64%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (18.87%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (16.98%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (15.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (13.21%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (13.21%) Amazon S3
9 4 (7.55%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (5.66%) GCP
11 2 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (3.77%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (3.77%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
11 2 (3.77%) PowerApps
12 1 (1.89%) AWS CodePipeline
12 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.09%) DynamoDB
2 5 (9.43%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.55%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.66%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.77%) Pinecone
5 2 (3.77%) Weaviate
6 1 (1.89%) MySQL
6 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (52.83%) Jenkins
2 21 (39.62%) JUnit
2 21 (39.62%) Selenium
3 16 (30.19%) Git
4 14 (26.42%) GitLab
5 13 (24.53%) Postman
5 13 (24.53%) REST Assured
6 10 (18.87%) JIRA
7 8 (15.09%) Gatling
7 8 (15.09%) JMeter
8 7 (13.21%) Mockito
8 7 (13.21%) TestNG
9 6 (11.32%) Maven
9 6 (11.32%) WebDriver
10 5 (9.43%) Gradle
10 5 (9.43%) SpecFlow
11 4 (7.55%) Cypress.io
12 3 (5.66%) Bitbucket
12 3 (5.66%) SonarQube
12 3 (5.66%) tSQLt
General
1 21 (39.62%) Social Skills
2 14 (26.42%) Finance
3 10 (18.87%) Banking
4 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
5 6 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (30.19%) Test Engineer
2 11 (20.75%) Senior
2 11 (20.75%) Test Automation Engineer
3 7 (13.21%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Developer
4 6 (11.32%) QA Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Senior Test Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) .NET Software Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Java Developer
5 3 (5.66%) QA Automation Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Software Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Test Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Tester
6 2 (3.77%) Automation Tester
6 2 (3.77%) Java Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Payments Analyst
6 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (28.30%) Playwright
1 15 (28.30%) REST
2 14 (26.42%) Kafka
2 14 (26.42%) RESTful
3 9 (16.98%) Gherkin
3 9 (16.98%) Spring Boot
4 8 (15.09%) Spring
5 7 (13.21%) Node.js
6 6 (11.32%) HTML
6 6 (11.32%) SOAP
7 5 (9.43%) AngularJS
7 5 (9.43%) CSS
7 5 (9.43%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (7.55%) .NET
8 4 (7.55%) OpenAPI
8 4 (7.55%) Terraform
8 4 (7.55%) WireMock
9 3 (5.66%) GraphQL
9 3 (5.66%) Swagger
9 3 (5.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.21%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.55%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.77%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.77%) Equities
4 2 (3.77%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Unix
2 1 (1.89%) Android
2 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.89%) Linux
2 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (81.13%) Test Automation
2 40 (75.47%) CI/CD
3 34 (64.15%) BDD
4 29 (54.72%) Agile
5 22 (41.51%) API Testing
6 19 (35.85%) DevOps
7 14 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (24.53%) TDD
9 12 (22.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (22.64%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (22.64%) Performance Testing
9 12 (22.64%) Test Strategy
10 11 (20.75%) Containerisation
10 11 (20.75%) Software Testing
10 11 (20.75%) Test Scripting
11 10 (18.87%) SDET
11 10 (18.87%) Software Engineering
12 8 (15.09%) Event-Driven
12 8 (15.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 8 (15.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 39 (73.58%) Java
2 16 (30.19%) JavaScript
3 15 (28.30%) Python
4 11 (20.75%) C#
5 10 (18.87%) SQL
6 9 (16.98%) TypeScript
7 6 (11.32%) Scala
8 4 (7.55%) Ruby
9 3 (5.66%) T-SQL
10 2 (3.77%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.89%) Bash
11 1 (1.89%) COBOL
11 1 (1.89%) Groovy
11 1 (1.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (28.30%) Security Cleared
2 12 (22.64%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.55%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.66%) Degree
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.89%) ISEB
6 1 (1.89%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (52.83%) QA
2 5 (9.43%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.89%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.89%) SEPA
3 1 (1.89%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (30.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (32.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.77%) Ansible
2 2 (3.77%) Grafana
2 2 (3.77%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (9.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.55%) Databricks
3 3 (5.66%) Oracle
4 2 (3.77%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (3.77%) Google
4 2 (3.77%) IBM
4 2 (3.77%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.77%) Sybase
5 1 (1.89%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.89%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.89%) Pega
5 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.89%) UiPath