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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 294 282
Rank change year-on-year -57 -12 -17
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 65 53 111
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.36% 0.44% 0.63%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.79% 2.87% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 34 96
10th Percentile £305 £358 £350
25th Percentile £350 £393 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £533
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -17.40% -18.00%
75th Percentile £578 £536 £719
90th Percentile £646 £672 £863
England median daily rate £450 £425 £533
% change year-on-year +5.88% -20.26% -10.04%

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 2,333 1,848 2,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.75% 15.20% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 1,251 1,668
10th Percentile £358 £356 £363
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £656 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £526
% change year-on-year - -4.85% -4.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 27
10th Percentile - £23.97 £23.80
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.77 £25.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -42.86%
75th Percentile £73.00 £43.75 £69.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £55.50 £71.50
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 June 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 June 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 -8 9 £369 -24.36% 1
South London -9 3 - -
West London - 2 - -
East London - 1 £500 -
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 3 (4.62%) Confluence
2 2 (3.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (3.08%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.54%) Mingle
1 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 27 (41.54%) AWS
2 22 (33.85%) GitHub
3 16 (24.62%) AWS Lambda
3 16 (24.62%) Serverless
4 12 (18.46%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (12.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (12.31%) Azure
7 7 (10.77%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (10.77%) Amazon S3
7 7 (10.77%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (9.23%) OpenShift
9 5 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (3.08%) BlazeMeter
10 2 (3.08%) BrowserStack
10 2 (3.08%) SonarCloud
11 1 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.54%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (1.54%) Figma
11 1 (1.54%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.85%) DynamoDB
2 7 (10.77%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (10.77%) SQL Server
3 6 (9.23%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (6.15%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (4.62%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.08%) MySQL
6 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.54%) DB2
7 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 22 (33.85%) Selenium
3 19 (29.23%) Git
4 17 (26.15%) JUnit
5 16 (24.62%) JIRA
6 14 (21.54%) REST Assured
7 13 (20.00%) Postman
8 12 (18.46%) GitLab
9 8 (12.31%) Mockito
10 6 (9.23%) SpecFlow
11 5 (7.69%) Maven
11 5 (7.69%) Mocha
11 5 (7.69%) MSTest
11 5 (7.69%) tSQLt
11 5 (7.69%) WebDriver
12 4 (6.15%) Cypress.io
12 4 (6.15%) Gatling
12 4 (6.15%) Gradle
12 4 (6.15%) JMeter
13 3 (4.62%) TestNG
General
1 24 (36.92%) Finance
2 20 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 15 (23.08%) Banking
4 12 (18.46%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.15%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Retail
7 1 (1.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (18.46%) Senior
2 11 (16.92%) Test Engineer
3 9 (13.85%) Developer
3 9 (13.85%) Software Engineer
3 9 (13.85%) Test Automation Engineer
4 8 (12.31%) Automation Engineer
4 8 (12.31%) Tester
5 6 (9.23%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Automation Tester
7 4 (6.15%) Java Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Lead
7 4 (6.15%) QA Automation Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) QA Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Analyst
8 3 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) QA Analyst
8 3 (4.62%) QA Test Analyst
8 3 (4.62%) Test Analyst
9 2 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (3.08%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (26.15%) Playwright
1 17 (26.15%) RESTful
2 16 (24.62%) REST
3 14 (21.54%) Kafka
3 14 (21.54%) Spring
3 14 (21.54%) Spring Boot
4 13 (20.00%) Gherkin
5 12 (18.46%) AngularJS
6 10 (15.38%) CSS
7 8 (12.31%) HTML
8 7 (10.77%) .NET
9 5 (7.69%) Node.js
9 5 (7.69%) OAuth
9 5 (7.69%) SOAP
9 5 (7.69%) WireMock
10 4 (6.15%) FastAPI
10 4 (6.15%) pytest
10 4 (6.15%) YAML
11 3 (4.62%) OAuth2
11 3 (4.62%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.08%) Equities
3 2 (3.08%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.08%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.08%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.54%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (1.54%) Unix
2 1 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (78.46%) Test Automation
2 43 (66.15%) CI/CD
3 34 (52.31%) BDD
4 33 (50.77%) Agile
5 24 (36.92%) API Testing
6 17 (26.15%) DevOps
6 17 (26.15%) Microservices
7 16 (24.62%) Software Engineering
7 16 (24.62%) Test Strategy
8 15 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (20.00%) TDD
10 11 (16.92%) Containerisation
11 10 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (15.38%) Validation
12 9 (13.85%) End-to-End Testing
12 9 (13.85%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (13.85%) Scrum
12 9 (13.85%) SDLC
13 8 (12.31%) QA Automation
13 8 (12.31%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 40 (61.54%) Java
2 19 (29.23%) JavaScript
3 18 (27.69%) SQL
4 17 (26.15%) C#
4 17 (26.15%) Python
5 6 (9.23%) TypeScript
6 5 (7.69%) T-SQL
7 4 (6.15%) Ruby
7 4 (6.15%) Scala
8 2 (3.08%) Go
9 1 (1.54%) Bash
9 1 (1.54%) C
9 1 (1.54%) C++
9 1 (1.54%) COBOL
9 1 (1.54%) Groovy
9 1 (1.54%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.54%) Rust
9 1 (1.54%) VBA
9 1 (1.54%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.77%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.62%) Degree
4 2 (3.08%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.54%) CFA
5 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.54%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (46.15%) QA
2 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.08%) NCSC
3 1 (1.54%) SLA
3 1 (1.54%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (21.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (32.31%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.62%) Ansible
2 3 (4.62%) Terraform
3 2 (3.08%) Grafana
3 2 (3.08%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (10.77%) Oracle
2 4 (6.15%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.08%) Adobe
3 2 (3.08%) IBM
3 2 (3.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.08%) Sybase
4 1 (1.54%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.54%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.54%) Pega
4 1 (1.54%) SAP
4 1 (1.54%) UiPath
4 1 (1.54%) Workday