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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 295 277
Rank change year-on-year -13 -18 -22
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 89 63 119
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.55% 0.47% 0.65%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.71% 3.37% 5.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 36 103
10th Percentile £308 £343 £355
25th Percentile £356 £380 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £430 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% -15.69% -21.54%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £719
90th Percentile £635 £823 £863
England median daily rate £425 £450 £498
% change year-on-year -5.56% -9.55% -13.48%

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 2,396 1,869 2,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.72% 13.98% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,624 1,246 1,680
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £420 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -4.89% -6.25%
75th Percentile £636 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 21
10th Percentile - £26.48 £25.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.14 £31.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.79% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £76.75 £77.19 £58.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £87.88 £73.65
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 6 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 6 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 -4 17 £519 +6.41% 1
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 12 (13.48%) Confluence
2 3 (3.37%) Appian
3 2 (2.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (2.25%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 35 (39.33%) AWS
2 22 (24.72%) GitHub
3 14 (15.73%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (13.48%) Azure
5 10 (11.24%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (11.24%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (11.24%) Serverless
6 9 (10.11%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (10.11%) OpenShift
7 4 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.49%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.49%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (3.37%) Tricentis Tosca
9 2 (2.25%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (2.25%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (2.25%) BlazeMeter
9 2 (2.25%) BrowserStack
9 2 (2.25%) SonarCloud
10 1 (1.12%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.25%) HTTP
2 1 (1.12%) Multicast
2 1 (1.12%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.24%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.62%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.37%) MySQL
5 2 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.25%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.12%) DB2
6 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (46.07%) Selenium
2 36 (40.45%) Jenkins
3 31 (34.83%) Git
4 29 (32.58%) JIRA
5 26 (29.21%) JUnit
6 21 (23.60%) Postman
7 20 (22.47%) GitLab
8 11 (12.36%) REST Assured
9 10 (11.24%) JMeter
10 8 (8.99%) Cypress.io
10 8 (8.99%) WebDriver
11 7 (7.87%) Maven
11 7 (7.87%) Mockito
11 7 (7.87%) SonarQube
11 7 (7.87%) SpecFlow
12 5 (5.62%) Bitbucket
12 5 (5.62%) Zephyr
13 4 (4.49%) Gradle
13 4 (4.49%) Robot Framework
13 4 (4.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (32.58%) Finance
2 25 (28.09%) Social Skills
3 18 (20.22%) Banking
4 12 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.62%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.49%) Front Office
7 3 (3.37%) Back Office
7 3 (3.37%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.37%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Retail
9 1 (1.12%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (16.85%) Developer
2 14 (15.73%) Test Engineer
3 11 (12.36%) Senior
3 11 (12.36%) Test Automation Engineer
3 11 (12.36%) Tester
4 10 (11.24%) Java Developer
5 9 (10.11%) Software Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Automation Tester
6 8 (8.99%) QA Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Lead
8 4 (4.49%) QA Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Java Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Test Leader
10 2 (2.25%) AWS Software Engineer
10 2 (2.25%) Developer in Test
10 2 (2.25%) Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (2.25%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (29.21%) REST
2 18 (20.22%) Playwright
3 16 (17.98%) Spring
4 15 (16.85%) Gherkin
5 13 (14.61%) JSON
6 12 (13.48%) Kafka
7 11 (12.36%) React
7 11 (12.36%) RESTful
7 11 (12.36%) Spring Boot
7 11 (12.36%) XML
8 10 (11.24%) CSS
9 9 (10.11%) AngularJS
9 9 (10.11%) SOAP
10 8 (8.99%) .NET
10 8 (8.99%) HTML
10 8 (8.99%) Web Services
11 7 (7.87%) WireMock
12 6 (6.74%) Node.js
13 5 (5.62%) ZK
14 4 (4.49%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.74%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.37%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.37%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.25%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.25%) Derivative
3 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.25%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (2.25%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.25%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.12%) Equities
4 1 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.85%) Linux
2 4 (4.49%) Unix
3 1 (1.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (70.79%) Test Automation
2 60 (67.42%) CI/CD
3 47 (52.81%) Agile
4 45 (50.56%) BDD
5 29 (32.58%) DevOps
6 27 (30.34%) API Testing
7 25 (28.09%) Microservices
8 23 (25.84%) TDD
9 20 (22.47%) Test Strategy
10 18 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (20.22%) Scrum
11 17 (19.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (19.10%) Full-Stack Development
11 17 (19.10%) Software Engineering
12 15 (16.85%) QA Automation
12 15 (16.85%) Validation
13 13 (14.61%) End-to-End Testing
14 11 (12.36%) Containerisation
14 11 (12.36%) Software Testing
14 11 (12.36%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 61 (68.54%) Java
2 24 (26.97%) Python
3 20 (22.47%) JavaScript
4 19 (21.35%) SQL
5 16 (17.98%) C#
6 10 (11.24%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.62%) Ruby
8 4 (4.49%) XPath
9 3 (3.37%) T-SQL
9 3 (3.37%) VB.NET
10 2 (2.25%) Go
11 1 (1.12%) Bash
11 1 (1.12%) C
11 1 (1.12%) C++
11 1 (1.12%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.12%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (14.61%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.36%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.74%) Degree
3 6 (6.74%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.12%) CFA
6 1 (1.12%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (42.70%) QA
2 3 (3.37%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.25%) NCSC
4 1 (1.12%) SLA
4 1 (1.12%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (19.10%) Docker
2 2 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (21.35%) Kubernetes
2 12 (13.48%) Ansible
3 4 (4.49%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.25%) Grafana
4 2 (2.25%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (8.99%) Oracle
2 4 (4.49%) Red Hat
2 4 (4.49%) VMware
3 3 (3.37%) Cisco
3 3 (3.37%) UiPath
3 3 (3.37%) Veracode
4 2 (2.25%) Adobe
4 2 (2.25%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.25%) Splunk
5 1 (1.12%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.12%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.12%) IBM
5 1 (1.12%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.12%) MarketAxess
5 1 (1.12%) SAP
5 1 (1.12%) Sybase
5 1 (1.12%) Tradeweb
5 1 (1.12%) Workday