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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 311 317
Rank change year-on-year -51 +6 -48
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 64 58 80
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.32% 0.43% 0.47%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.57% 2.80% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 36 69
10th Percentile £305 £328 £350
25th Percentile £350 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £516 £533
Median % change year-on-year -13.12% -3.14% -11.17%
75th Percentile £547 £595 £719
90th Percentile £646 £688 £825
England median daily rate £442 £424 £534
% change year-on-year +4.43% -20.69% -4.22%
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 2,493 2,068 2,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.53% 15.25% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,618 1,402 1,717
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £432 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £636 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 25
10th Percentile - £25.52 £23.30
25th Percentile £18.75 £32.13 £25.99
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -48.28%
75th Percentile £72.88 £59.69 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £69.63 £71.63
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -5 12 £470 -3.59%
South London - 3 - -
East London +2 1 £500 -3.85%
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 6 (9.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.56%) Mingle
1 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (39.06%) GitHub
2 23 (35.94%) AWS
3 16 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 16 (25.00%) Serverless
4 13 (20.31%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (18.75%) Azure
6 11 (17.19%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (14.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (9.38%) Amazon S3
9 6 (9.38%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (3.13%) GCP
10 2 (3.13%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (3.13%) OpenShift
10 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
10 2 (3.13%) PowerApps
11 1 (1.56%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (1.56%) BlazeMeter
11 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.63%) DynamoDB
2 8 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 6 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (7.81%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (7.81%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.56%) Db2
6 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (46.88%) Jenkins
2 19 (29.69%) JIRA
2 19 (29.69%) Selenium
3 18 (28.13%) JUnit
4 16 (25.00%) Git
5 15 (23.44%) REST Assured
6 13 (20.31%) GitLab
7 12 (18.75%) Postman
8 8 (12.50%) WebDriver
9 6 (9.38%) Gatling
9 6 (9.38%) Maven
9 6 (9.38%) Mocha
9 6 (9.38%) Mockito
9 6 (9.38%) MSTest
9 6 (9.38%) SpecFlow
9 6 (9.38%) tSQLt
10 5 (7.81%) JMeter
11 4 (6.25%) Bitbucket
11 4 (6.25%) TeamCity
11 4 (6.25%) TestNG
General
1 26 (40.63%) Finance
2 22 (34.38%) Social Skills
3 16 (25.00%) Banking
4 9 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (23.44%) Test Engineer
2 12 (18.75%) Senior
2 12 (18.75%) Test Automation Engineer
3 8 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
4 7 (10.94%) Tester
5 6 (9.38%) Developer
5 6 (9.38%) Software Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Analyst
6 5 (7.81%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Test Analyst
7 4 (6.25%) Automation Tester
7 4 (6.25%) Lead
7 4 (6.25%) Senior Test Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Payments Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) QA Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) QA Automation Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) QA Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (28.13%) Playwright
2 17 (26.56%) Kafka
2 17 (26.56%) REST
3 15 (23.44%) RESTful
4 11 (17.19%) Gherkin
4 11 (17.19%) Spring Boot
5 10 (15.63%) Spring
6 9 (14.06%) AngularJS
7 8 (12.50%) .NET
8 7 (10.94%) CSS
8 7 (10.94%) HTML
8 7 (10.94%) SOAP
8 7 (10.94%) WireMock
9 5 (7.81%) Node.js
9 5 (7.81%) YAML
10 4 (6.25%) OAuth
11 3 (4.69%) GraphQL
11 3 (4.69%) OAuth2
11 3 (4.69%) Web Services
12 2 (3.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.69%) Equities
2 3 (4.69%) Fixed Income
2 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.56%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.69%) Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Android
2 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (81.25%) Test Automation
2 46 (71.88%) CI/CD
3 38 (59.38%) BDD
4 31 (48.44%) Agile
5 25 (39.06%) API Testing
6 19 (29.69%) DevOps
7 18 (28.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (26.56%) Microservices
8 17 (26.56%) Test Strategy
9 13 (20.31%) Software Engineering
9 13 (20.31%) TDD
10 12 (18.75%) Validation
11 11 (17.19%) End-to-End Testing
11 11 (17.19%) Test Scripting
12 10 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (14.06%) Regression Testing
14 8 (12.50%) Clean Code
14 8 (12.50%) Performance Testing
14 8 (12.50%) SDLC
15 7 (10.94%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (62.50%) Java
2 23 (35.94%) JavaScript
3 18 (28.13%) C#
4 16 (25.00%) SQL
5 15 (23.44%) Python
6 11 (17.19%) TypeScript
7 6 (9.38%) T-SQL
8 4 (6.25%) Ruby
8 4 (6.25%) Scala
9 1 (1.56%) COBOL
9 1 (1.56%) Groovy
9 1 (1.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (48.44%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.56%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.56%) SEPA
3 1 (1.56%) SLA
3 1 (1.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (15.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (26.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.13%) Ansible
2 2 (3.13%) Grafana
2 2 (3.13%) Prometheus
2 2 (3.13%) Terraform
3 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 4 (6.25%) Oracle
2 3 (4.69%) Sybase
3 2 (3.13%) IBM
4 1 (1.56%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.56%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.56%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.56%) Pega
4 1 (1.56%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.56%) UiPath