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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 308 291
Rank change year-on-year -82 -17 -3
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 63 65 86
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.31% 0.48% 0.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.43% 3.05% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 45 61
10th Percentile £350 £342 £350
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £525 £613 £625
90th Percentile £575 £723 £825
England median daily rate £445 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +4.71% -19.05% -2.78%
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 2,595 2,128 2,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.74% 15.80% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,683 1,434 1,612
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £438 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £749 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 18
10th Percentile £18.75 £37.00 £24.28
25th Percentile £30.75 £42.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £53.00 £45.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -2.70% -32.28%
75th Percentile £73.75 £67.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.75 £105.75 £71.44
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -21 9 £525 +1.20% 4
South London - 2 - -
East London +1 1 £500 +13.64%
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 (9.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (39.68%) Azure
2 23 (36.51%) AWS
3 20 (31.75%) GitHub
4 18 (28.57%) Serverless
5 17 (26.98%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (15.87%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (12.70%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (11.11%) Amazon S3
11 6 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (7.94%) OpenShift
13 4 (6.35%) GCP
14 3 (4.76%) Anthropic Claude
14 3 (4.76%) Power Platform
14 3 (4.76%) PowerApps
15 2 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
15 2 (3.17%) GitHub Copilot
15 2 (3.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) HTTP
2 1 (1.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 7 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.94%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (7.94%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.76%) Pinecone
4 3 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.76%) Weaviate
5 2 (3.17%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.17%) MySQL
5 2 (3.17%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.59%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 32 (50.79%) Jenkins
2 27 (42.86%) Selenium
3 25 (39.68%) JUnit
4 18 (28.57%) Git
5 16 (25.40%) GitLab
6 14 (22.22%) REST Assured
7 13 (20.63%) Postman
8 11 (17.46%) JIRA
9 10 (15.87%) Maven
9 10 (15.87%) Mockito
10 9 (14.29%) JMeter
11 8 (12.70%) Gatling
12 7 (11.11%) Gradle
12 7 (11.11%) TestNG
13 6 (9.52%) WebDriver
14 5 (7.94%) HP UFT
14 5 (7.94%) SpecFlow
15 4 (6.35%) Cypress.io
15 4 (6.35%) SoapUI
15 4 (6.35%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (39.68%) Social Skills
2 18 (28.57%) Finance
3 12 (19.05%) Banking
4 7 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Marketing
8 1 (1.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 11 (17.46%) Senior
2 11 (17.46%) Test Automation Engineer
3 8 (12.70%) Developer
4 7 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) Java Developer
5 6 (9.52%) QA Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Test Manager
6 4 (6.35%) Tester
7 3 (4.76%) .NET Software Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Automation Tester
7 3 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) QA Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Quality Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (30.16%) Kafka
2 18 (28.57%) REST
3 15 (23.81%) Playwright
3 15 (23.81%) RESTful
4 11 (17.46%) Spring Boot
5 10 (15.87%) Spring
6 8 (12.70%) Gherkin
6 8 (12.70%) HTML
6 8 (12.70%) Node.js
6 8 (12.70%) SOAP
7 6 (9.52%) CSS
8 5 (7.94%) AngularJS
8 5 (7.94%) OpenAPI
8 5 (7.94%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (7.94%) Web Services
8 5 (7.94%) WireMock
9 4 (6.35%) GraphQL
9 4 (6.35%) Swagger
9 4 (6.35%) Terraform
10 3 (4.76%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
1 6 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (7.94%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.76%) AI Agents
3 3 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.17%) Equities
4 2 (3.17%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.70%) Linux
2 5 (7.94%) Unix
3 1 (1.59%) Android
3 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.59%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (76.19%) CI/CD
1 48 (76.19%) Test Automation
2 38 (60.32%) BDD
3 36 (57.14%) Agile
4 25 (39.68%) DevOps
5 21 (33.33%) API Testing
6 18 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (26.98%) TDD
8 15 (23.81%) Containerisation
9 14 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (22.22%) Microservices
9 14 (22.22%) Performance Testing
10 13 (20.63%) Test Strategy
11 12 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (19.05%) Software Testing
12 11 (17.46%) SDET
12 11 (17.46%) Software Engineering
12 11 (17.46%) Test Scripting
13 9 (14.29%) SDLC
13 9 (14.29%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (79.37%) Java
2 17 (26.98%) JavaScript
3 16 (25.40%) Python
4 12 (19.05%) C#
4 12 (19.05%) SQL
5 9 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 7 (11.11%) Scala
7 4 (6.35%) Ruby
7 4 (6.35%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.76%) Kotlin
8 3 (4.76%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.59%) Bash
9 1 (1.59%) COBOL
9 1 (1.59%) Groovy
9 1 (1.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (31.75%) Security Cleared
2 17 (26.98%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.94%) Degree
3 5 (7.94%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.59%) ISEB
5 1 (1.59%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (49.21%) QA
2 5 (7.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.59%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.59%) SEPA
3 1 (1.59%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 20 (31.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.94%) Grafana
2 5 (7.94%) Prometheus
3 4 (6.35%) Ansible
4 2 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft
1 6 (9.52%) Oracle
2 5 (7.94%) Databricks
3 4 (6.35%) HP
3 4 (6.35%) Splunk
4 3 (4.76%) Google
4 3 (4.76%) IBM
4 3 (4.76%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.17%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (3.17%) Sybase
6 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.59%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.59%) Pega
6 1 (1.59%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.59%) UiPath