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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 284 295
Rank change year-on-year -24 +11 -77
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 73 82 101
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.51% 0.56% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.25% 4.07% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 46 89
10th Percentile £326 £313 £350
25th Percentile £363 £393 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £440 £510
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -13.68% -15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £700
90th Percentile £700 £823 £745
England median daily rate £425 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -10.53% -4.04% -10.00%

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 2,247 2,015 2,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.58% 13.79% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,529 1,313 1,720
10th Percentile £350 £342 £400
25th Percentile £425 £420 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £785 £788
England median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 22
10th Percentile £37.65 £22.25 £25.42
25th Percentile £42.63 £25.63 £30.31
Median hourly rate £56.50 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.90% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £86.88 £77.19 £69.25
90th Percentile £110.00 £87.88 £73.49
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 1 January 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 1 January 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 13 £613 +23.74% 12
East London - 2 £440 - 1
West London - 1 - - 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 13 (17.81%) Confluence
2 3 (4.11%) Appian
3 2 (2.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.37%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 23 (31.51%) AWS
2 14 (19.18%) Azure
3 12 (16.44%) GitHub
4 10 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (12.33%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (9.59%) OpenShift
7 4 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.48%) Serverless
8 3 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (4.11%) Tricentis Tosca
9 2 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.74%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (2.74%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.37%) BrowserStack
10 1 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.37%) Figma
10 1 (1.37%) SonarCloud
10 1 (1.37%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) HTTP
2 1 (1.37%) DSL
2 1 (1.37%) Internet
2 1 (1.37%) Multicast
2 1 (1.37%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.33%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.85%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.11%) DB2
3 3 (4.11%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.11%) MySQL
4 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 42 (57.53%) Selenium
2 28 (38.36%) Jenkins
3 25 (34.25%) JIRA
4 24 (32.88%) Git
5 20 (27.40%) Postman
6 18 (24.66%) JUnit
7 15 (20.55%) GitLab
8 12 (16.44%) JMeter
8 12 (16.44%) REST Assured
9 9 (12.33%) Cypress.io
10 8 (10.96%) Bitbucket
11 7 (9.59%) SonarQube
12 6 (8.22%) Zephyr
13 5 (6.85%) Maven
13 5 (6.85%) SpecFlow
13 5 (6.85%) WebDriver
14 4 (5.48%) Robot Framework
14 4 (5.48%) Subversion
14 4 (5.48%) TeamCity
14 4 (5.48%) TestNG
General
1 26 (35.62%) Finance
1 26 (35.62%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.29%) Banking
3 7 (9.59%) Investment Banking
4 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.85%) Front Office
6 4 (5.48%) Back Office
7 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.11%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.74%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.74%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Retail
9 1 (1.37%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (23.29%) Developer
2 11 (15.07%) Java Developer
2 11 (15.07%) Test Engineer
3 9 (12.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 9 (12.33%) Tester
4 8 (10.96%) Automation Tester
4 8 (10.96%) QA Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Automation Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Senior
6 5 (6.85%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Developer in Test
7 4 (5.48%) QA Automation Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Software Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Agile Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Agile Java Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Java Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) Senior Automation Tester
9 2 (2.74%) Senior Tester
10 1 (1.37%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (27.40%) REST
2 16 (21.92%) Gherkin
3 15 (20.55%) RESTful
4 14 (19.18%) JSON
5 12 (16.44%) React
5 12 (16.44%) XML
6 10 (13.70%) Spring
7 9 (12.33%) Playwright
7 9 (12.33%) SOAP
8 8 (10.96%) CSS
8 8 (10.96%) Node.js
8 8 (10.96%) Web Services
9 7 (9.59%) .NET
9 7 (9.59%) HTML
10 6 (8.22%) Spring Boot
11 5 (6.85%) AngularJS
11 5 (6.85%) Kafka
11 5 (6.85%) WireMock
12 4 (5.48%) Hibernate
12 4 (5.48%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.48%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.74%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.74%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.74%) Derivative
3 2 (2.74%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.74%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.37%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.44%) Linux
2 5 (6.85%) Unix
3 1 (1.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (76.71%) Test Automation
2 47 (64.38%) CI/CD
3 42 (57.53%) Agile
4 35 (47.95%) BDD
5 28 (38.36%) DevOps
6 22 (30.14%) Microservices
7 20 (27.40%) API Testing
7 20 (27.40%) Scrum
7 20 (27.40%) TDD
8 19 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (24.66%) Software Engineering
10 17 (23.29%) Software Testing
11 16 (21.92%) Test Strategy
12 14 (19.18%) Full-Stack Development
12 14 (19.18%) SDET
12 14 (19.18%) Sprint Planning
13 11 (15.07%) Functional Testing
13 11 (15.07%) Performance Testing
13 11 (15.07%) QA Automation
14 10 (13.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 56 (76.71%) Java
2 21 (28.77%) Python
3 19 (26.03%) SQL
4 15 (20.55%) JavaScript
5 11 (15.07%) C#
6 6 (8.22%) Ruby
7 4 (5.48%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.48%) VB.NET
7 4 (5.48%) XPath
8 1 (1.37%) Bash
8 1 (1.37%) C
8 1 (1.37%) C++
8 1 (1.37%) Go
8 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (12.33%) Degree
1 9 (12.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.96%) ISTQB
3 7 (9.59%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.37%) CFA
7 1 (1.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (43.84%) QA
2 3 (4.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.74%) SLA
3 2 (2.74%) WCAG
4 1 (1.37%) NCSC
4 1 (1.37%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (21.92%) Docker
2 2 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (16.44%) Kubernetes
2 11 (15.07%) Ansible
3 4 (5.48%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (9.59%) Oracle
2 5 (6.85%) UiPath
3 4 (5.48%) VMware
4 3 (4.11%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.11%) Cisco
4 3 (4.11%) Veracode
5 2 (2.74%) Adobe
5 2 (2.74%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.74%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.74%) Splunk
6 1 (1.37%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.37%) Databricks
6 1 (1.37%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.37%) MarketAxess
6 1 (1.37%) SAP
6 1 (1.37%) Tradeweb
6 1 (1.37%) Workday