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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 303 305
Rank change year-on-year -85 +2 -20
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 46 59 84
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.23% 0.44% 0.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.83% 2.78% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 39 63
10th Percentile £346 £331 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £530 £622 £625
90th Percentile £660 £700 £825
England median daily rate £447 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +5.18% -19.05% -4.55%
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 2,513 2,126 2,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.50% 15.88% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,617 1,457 1,585
10th Percentile £375 £350 £363
25th Percentile £443 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 12 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £31.30 £24.60
25th Percentile £22.75 £39.06 £25.99
Median hourly rate £45.00 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -46.43%
75th Percentile £73.38 £64.69 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.57 £86.63 £71.38
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -15 10 £513 +5.13% 1
South London - 2 - -
East London +2 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 4 (8.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.96%) GitHub
2 16 (34.78%) AWS
3 15 (32.61%) Azure
4 12 (26.09%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (26.09%) Serverless
5 10 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (21.74%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (10.87%) Amazon S3
9 4 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (4.35%) GCP
10 2 (4.35%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
10 2 (4.35%) PowerApps
11 1 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (2.17%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (2.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) DynamoDB
2 3 (6.52%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.52%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.17%) MySQL
3 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 16 (34.78%) Selenium
3 15 (32.61%) JUnit
4 12 (26.09%) GitLab
4 12 (26.09%) REST Assured
5 11 (23.91%) Git
6 10 (21.74%) Postman
7 9 (19.57%) JIRA
8 7 (15.22%) Gatling
8 7 (15.22%) JMeter
9 6 (13.04%) WebDriver
10 5 (10.87%) Maven
11 4 (8.70%) Cypress.io
11 4 (8.70%) Gradle
11 4 (8.70%) Mockito
11 4 (8.70%) SpecFlow
11 4 (8.70%) TestNG
12 3 (6.52%) Bitbucket
12 3 (6.52%) Mocha
12 3 (6.52%) tSQLt
General
1 16 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 14 (30.43%) Finance
3 10 (21.74%) Banking
4 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Police
Job Titles
1 14 (30.43%) Test Engineer
2 11 (23.91%) Test Automation Engineer
3 10 (21.74%) Senior
4 7 (15.22%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Developer
6 4 (8.70%) Senior Test Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) .NET Software Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) QA Automation Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) QA Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Test Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Tester
8 2 (4.35%) Automation Tester
8 2 (4.35%) Java Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Payments Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Python Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (32.61%) REST
2 14 (30.43%) Playwright
3 13 (28.26%) RESTful
4 11 (23.91%) Kafka
5 9 (19.57%) Gherkin
6 7 (15.22%) Spring Boot
7 6 (13.04%) AngularJS
7 6 (13.04%) HTML
7 6 (13.04%) SOAP
7 6 (13.04%) Spring
8 5 (10.87%) .NET
8 5 (10.87%) CSS
8 5 (10.87%) Node.js
9 4 (8.70%) Web Services
9 4 (8.70%) WireMock
10 3 (6.52%) OAuth
10 3 (6.52%) OAuth2
10 3 (6.52%) Terraform
10 3 (6.52%) YAML
11 2 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.35%) Equities
4 2 (4.35%) Fixed Income
4 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Android
1 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.17%) Linux
1 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (86.96%) Test Automation
2 35 (76.09%) CI/CD
3 30 (65.22%) BDD
4 22 (47.83%) Agile
5 17 (36.96%) API Testing
6 15 (32.61%) DevOps
7 13 (28.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (28.26%) TDD
8 11 (23.91%) Test Strategy
9 10 (21.74%) Performance Testing
9 10 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (19.57%) Microservices
10 9 (19.57%) SDET
11 8 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (17.39%) Software Engineering
11 8 (17.39%) Software Testing
11 8 (17.39%) Test Scripting
12 7 (15.22%) End-to-End Testing
12 7 (15.22%) Security Testing
12 7 (15.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 31 (67.39%) Java
2 15 (32.61%) JavaScript
3 13 (28.26%) Python
4 11 (23.91%) C#
4 11 (23.91%) SQL
5 7 (15.22%) TypeScript
6 4 (8.70%) Ruby
6 4 (8.70%) Scala
7 3 (6.52%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.17%) COBOL
8 1 (2.17%) Groovy
8 1 (2.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.17%) Degree
4 1 (2.17%) ISEB
4 1 (2.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (47.83%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.17%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.17%) SEPA
3 1 (2.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (19.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (19.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (2.17%) Grafana
3 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.70%) Databricks
3 2 (4.35%) IBM
3 2 (4.35%) Oracle
3 2 (4.35%) Sybase
4 1 (2.17%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.17%) Google
4 1 (2.17%) Guidewire
4 1 (2.17%) Pega
4 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.17%) UiPath