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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 302 299
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -73
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 71 77 120
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.50% 0.49% 0.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.16% 3.60% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 42 105
10th Percentile £323 £313 £358
25th Percentile £366 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% -5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £599 £700 £675
90th Percentile £700 £825 £738
England median daily rate £424 £494 £495
% change year-on-year -14.18% -0.25% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £47.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £48.75 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%

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 2,244 2,139 2,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.87% 13.75% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,543 1,404 1,970
10th Percentile £350 £357 £400
25th Percentile £419 £445 £475
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 £775 £798
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 24
10th Percentile £39.95 £25.23 £27.03
25th Percentile £42.50 £33.07 £36.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.67% -31.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £88.75 £71.25 £72.41
90th Percentile £110.00 £85.50 £76.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +2 13 £613 +8.41% 1
East London - 2 £440 -
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 (18.31%) Confluence
2 3 (4.23%) Appian
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.58%) AWS
2 17 (23.94%) Azure
3 13 (18.31%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (15.49%) GitHub
5 9 (12.68%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (8.45%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (8.45%) Serverless
7 4 (5.63%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (5.63%) OpenShift
8 3 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (4.23%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (4.23%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (4.23%) Tricentis Tosca
9 2 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.82%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.82%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (2.82%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (1.41%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) HTTP
1 2 (2.82%) Internet
2 1 (1.41%) DSL
2 1 (1.41%) Multicast
2 1 (1.41%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.08%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.04%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.63%) DB2
3 4 (5.63%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.23%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.82%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.82%) MySQL
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (54.93%) Selenium
2 27 (38.03%) Jenkins
3 22 (30.99%) JIRA
4 20 (28.17%) Git
5 18 (25.35%) JUnit
5 18 (25.35%) Postman
6 13 (18.31%) GitLab
6 13 (18.31%) JMeter
7 10 (14.08%) Bitbucket
7 10 (14.08%) Cypress.io
8 9 (12.68%) REST Assured
9 7 (9.86%) SonarQube
10 6 (8.45%) Maven
11 5 (7.04%) Zephyr
12 4 (5.63%) Gatling
12 4 (5.63%) Serenity BDD
12 4 (5.63%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (5.63%) SpecFlow
12 4 (5.63%) TeamCity
12 4 (5.63%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (35.21%) Social Skills
2 24 (33.80%) Finance
3 18 (25.35%) Banking
4 8 (11.27%) Investment Banking
5 6 (8.45%) Back Office
5 6 (8.45%) Front Office
6 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.23%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.82%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (1.41%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.41%) Retail
9 1 (1.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (23.94%) Developer
2 12 (16.90%) Java Developer
2 12 (16.90%) Test Engineer
3 10 (14.08%) QA Engineer
3 10 (14.08%) Test Automation Engineer
4 8 (11.27%) Automation Engineer
4 8 (11.27%) Tester
5 7 (9.86%) Automation Tester
5 7 (9.86%) Senior
6 4 (5.63%) Developer in Test
6 4 (5.63%) Java Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) QA Automation Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Software Developer
7 3 (4.23%) Agile Developer
7 3 (4.23%) Agile Java Developer
7 3 (4.23%) Lead
8 2 (2.82%) AWS Developer
8 2 (2.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Senior Automation Tester
8 2 (2.82%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (26.76%) REST
2 14 (19.72%) JSON
3 12 (16.90%) Gherkin
4 11 (15.49%) RESTful
4 11 (15.49%) XML
5 10 (14.08%) React
6 9 (12.68%) .NET
6 9 (12.68%) Playwright
6 9 (12.68%) SOAP
7 8 (11.27%) Node.js
7 8 (11.27%) Spring
7 8 (11.27%) Web Services
8 7 (9.86%) CSS
8 7 (9.86%) HTML
9 6 (8.45%) Kafka
10 5 (7.04%) WireMock
11 4 (5.63%) Hibernate
11 4 (5.63%) Spring Boot
12 3 (4.23%) Jinja
12 3 (4.23%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.68%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.63%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.23%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.82%) Derivative
4 2 (2.82%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.41%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.49%) Linux
2 6 (8.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (77.46%) Test Automation
2 48 (67.61%) CI/CD
3 42 (59.15%) Agile
4 32 (45.07%) BDD
5 29 (40.85%) DevOps
6 22 (30.99%) Microservices
7 19 (26.76%) Scrum
8 18 (25.35%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (23.94%) Software Testing
9 17 (23.94%) Test Strategy
10 16 (22.54%) TDD
11 15 (21.13%) API Testing
12 14 (19.72%) Software Engineering
12 14 (19.72%) Sprint Planning
13 13 (18.31%) Performance Testing
13 13 (18.31%) SDET
13 13 (18.31%) Test Scripting
14 12 (16.90%) Validation
15 11 (15.49%) Continuous Integration
16 10 (14.08%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 56 (78.87%) Java
2 19 (26.76%) SQL
3 18 (25.35%) JavaScript
4 16 (22.54%) Python
5 11 (15.49%) C#
6 7 (9.86%) TypeScript
7 6 (8.45%) VB.NET
8 4 (5.63%) Ruby
9 3 (4.23%) XPath
10 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (12.68%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.27%) Degree
3 7 (9.86%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (8.45%) ISTQB
5 4 (5.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (49.30%) QA
2 3 (4.23%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.23%) WCAG
3 2 (2.82%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (21.13%) Docker
2 2 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (14.08%) Ansible
1 10 (14.08%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.63%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (9.86%) UiPath
2 4 (5.63%) Oracle
2 4 (5.63%) VMware
3 3 (4.23%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.23%) Cisco
3 3 (4.23%) Veracode
4 2 (2.82%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (2.82%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.82%) Splunk
5 1 (1.41%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.41%) Databricks
5 1 (1.41%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.41%) MarketAxess
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.41%) Sybase
5 1 (1.41%) Tradeweb