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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 286 276
Rank change year-on-year -52 -10 -18
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 74 61 119
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.43% 0.48% 0.66%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.11% 3.36% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 36 102
10th Percentile £304 £324 £350
25th Percentile £361 £380 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £430 £518
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% -16.91% -20.38%
75th Percentile £575 £578 £720
90th Percentile £637 £825 £863
England median daily rate £425 £453 £500
% change year-on-year -6.08% -9.50% -13.04%

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 2,379 1,814 2,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.73% 14.34% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,587 1,229 1,650
10th Percentile £350 £341 £363
25th Percentile £417 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £556
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -5.58% -7.33%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 23
10th Percentile - £22.93 £22.60
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £25.68
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -22.58% -32.61%
75th Percentile £72.50 £67.50 £68.50
90th Percentile £91.35 £84.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 -11 12 £400 -5.88% 2
West London - 2 - -
South London -15 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 7 (9.46%) Confluence
2 2 (2.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.70%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.35%) Mingle
1 1 (1.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 27 (36.49%) AWS
2 20 (27.03%) GitHub
3 12 (16.22%) Azure
4 11 (14.86%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (14.86%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (14.86%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (14.86%) Serverless
5 9 (12.16%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.76%) Amazon S3
6 5 (6.76%) OpenShift
7 4 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.70%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (2.70%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (2.70%) BlazeMeter
9 2 (2.70%) BrowserStack
9 2 (2.70%) SonarCloud
10 1 (1.35%) Figma
10 1 (1.35%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.05%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.76%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (6.76%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.05%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (4.05%) DynamoDB
3 3 (4.05%) MySQL
4 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.35%) DB2
5 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (40.54%) Selenium
2 29 (39.19%) Jenkins
3 28 (37.84%) Git
4 26 (35.14%) JIRA
5 19 (25.68%) JUnit
6 18 (24.32%) Postman
7 14 (18.92%) GitLab
8 11 (14.86%) REST Assured
9 8 (10.81%) Mockito
9 8 (10.81%) SpecFlow
10 7 (9.46%) WebDriver
11 5 (6.76%) Cypress.io
11 5 (6.76%) JMeter
11 5 (6.76%) Maven
11 5 (6.76%) Zephyr
12 4 (5.41%) Gradle
12 4 (5.41%) Subversion
12 4 (5.41%) TestRail
13 3 (4.05%) TestNG
13 3 (4.05%) tSQLt
General
1 27 (36.49%) Finance
2 22 (29.73%) Social Skills
3 16 (21.62%) Banking
4 12 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.05%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.70%) Front Office
6 2 (2.70%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Back Office
7 1 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Retail
7 1 (1.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (16.22%) Test Engineer
2 11 (14.86%) Developer
3 10 (13.51%) Automation Engineer
3 10 (13.51%) Tester
4 9 (12.16%) Senior
4 9 (12.16%) Software Engineer
4 9 (12.16%) Test Automation Engineer
5 7 (9.46%) Automation Tester
6 6 (8.11%) QA Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Lead
7 5 (6.76%) QA Automation Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Java Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Analyst
9 3 (4.05%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) QA Analyst
9 3 (4.05%) QA Test Analyst
9 3 (4.05%) Test Analyst
9 3 (4.05%) Test Leader
10 2 (2.70%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (32.43%) REST
2 17 (22.97%) Playwright
3 16 (21.62%) Gherkin
4 13 (17.57%) Spring
5 12 (16.22%) Kafka
5 12 (16.22%) Spring Boot
6 11 (14.86%) AngularJS
6 11 (14.86%) RESTful
7 9 (12.16%) CSS
7 9 (12.16%) React
8 8 (10.81%) .NET
9 7 (9.46%) HTML
9 7 (9.46%) SOAP
10 6 (8.11%) JSON
10 6 (8.11%) Node.js
10 6 (8.11%) WireMock
11 5 (6.76%) Web Services
11 5 (6.76%) XML
12 4 (5.41%) OAuth
12 4 (5.41%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.11%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.76%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.05%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.70%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.70%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.70%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.35%) Equities
5 1 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.46%) Linux
2 1 (1.35%) Unix
2 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (77.03%) Test Automation
2 50 (67.57%) CI/CD
3 42 (56.76%) BDD
4 39 (52.70%) Agile
5 27 (36.49%) API Testing
6 23 (31.08%) DevOps
7 21 (28.38%) Microservices
8 18 (24.32%) TDD
8 18 (24.32%) Test Strategy
9 15 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (20.27%) Validation
10 14 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (17.57%) QA Automation
11 13 (17.57%) Software Engineering
12 12 (16.22%) Containerisation
12 12 (16.22%) End-to-End Testing
12 12 (16.22%) Scrum
13 11 (14.86%) Full-Stack Development
14 10 (13.51%) Software Testing
14 10 (13.51%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 49 (66.22%) Java
2 21 (28.38%) Python
3 18 (24.32%) C#
4 17 (22.97%) SQL
5 15 (20.27%) JavaScript
6 8 (10.81%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.76%) Ruby
8 4 (5.41%) XPath
9 3 (4.05%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.70%) Go
11 1 (1.35%) Bash
11 1 (1.35%) C
11 1 (1.35%) C++
11 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.35%) Rust
11 1 (1.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (14.86%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.16%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.76%) Degree
4 3 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.05%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.35%) CFA
5 1 (1.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (1.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (44.59%) QA
2 3 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.70%) NCSC
4 1 (1.35%) SLA
4 1 (1.35%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (17.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (28.38%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.05%) Ansible
2 3 (4.05%) Terraform
3 2 (2.70%) Grafana
3 2 (2.70%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (8.11%) Oracle
2 4 (5.41%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.70%) Adobe
3 2 (2.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.35%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.35%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.35%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.35%) IBM
4 1 (1.35%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.35%) MarketAxess
4 1 (1.35%) SAP
4 1 (1.35%) Sybase
4 1 (1.35%) Tradeweb
4 1 (1.35%) UiPath
4 1 (1.35%) Workday