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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 304 318
Rank change year-on-year -76 +14 -25
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 80 71 75
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.40% 0.53% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.07% 3.30% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 51 48
10th Percentile £337 £332 £339
25th Percentile £406 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £537 £625 £625
90th Percentile £593 £738 £763
England median daily rate £445 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +4.71% -15.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
England median hourly rate £35.80 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -28.40% - -

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 2,609 2,151 2,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.90% 16.07% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,706 1,466 1,562
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £435 £421 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £656
90th Percentile £741 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 12
10th Percentile £19.25 £36.63 £25.99
25th Percentile £41.25 £41.69 £29.93
Median hourly rate £57.00 £45.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -2.70% -19.57%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.75 £107.88 £71.81
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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -14.29% 4
South London - 2 - -
East London +4 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 9 (11.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (41.25%) Azure
2 31 (38.75%) AWS
3 21 (26.25%) GitHub
4 19 (23.75%) Serverless
5 18 (22.50%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (10.00%) Amazon S3
9 8 (10.00%) GCP
10 7 (8.75%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (6.25%) OpenShift
12 3 (3.75%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (3.75%) Power Platform
12 3 (3.75%) PowerApps
13 2 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (2.50%) Amazon EventBridge
13 2 (2.50%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) Internet
2 1 (1.25%) BGP
2 1 (1.25%) DNS
2 1 (1.25%) Firewall
2 1 (1.25%) HTTP
2 1 (1.25%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.25%) Network Security
2 1 (1.25%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.25%) VPN
2 1 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (11.25%) DynamoDB
3 8 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 5 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (6.25%) MySQL
4 5 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 5 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (3.75%) Pinecone
5 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.75%) Weaviate
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.50%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.25%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 43 (53.75%) Jenkins
2 35 (43.75%) Selenium
3 33 (41.25%) JUnit
4 26 (32.50%) Git
5 18 (22.50%) GitLab
6 16 (20.00%) Postman
7 15 (18.75%) JIRA
7 15 (18.75%) REST Assured
8 14 (17.50%) Maven
8 14 (17.50%) Mockito
9 13 (16.25%) JMeter
10 11 (13.75%) TestNG
11 10 (12.50%) Gatling
11 10 (12.50%) Gradle
12 7 (8.75%) SonarQube
12 7 (8.75%) SpecFlow
13 6 (7.50%) SoapUI
13 6 (7.50%) WebDriver
14 5 (6.25%) Cypress.io
14 5 (6.25%) HP UFT
General
1 32 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 23 (28.75%) Finance
3 16 (20.00%) Banking
4 11 (13.75%) Public Sector
5 7 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Police
8 1 (1.25%) Marketing
8 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (28.75%) Test Engineer
2 18 (22.50%) Senior
3 13 (16.25%) Developer
4 12 (15.00%) Test Automation Engineer
5 10 (12.50%) Java Developer
6 9 (11.25%) Automation Engineer
6 9 (11.25%) Senior Test Engineer
7 8 (10.00%) QA Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Tester
9 4 (5.00%) Automation Tester
9 4 (5.00%) Java Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Test Manager
10 3 (3.75%) .NET Software Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) QA Automation Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Quality Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Senior Java Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (28.75%) Kafka
2 21 (26.25%) RESTful
3 19 (23.75%) REST
4 18 (22.50%) Playwright
5 15 (18.75%) Spring Boot
6 14 (17.50%) Spring
7 11 (13.75%) SOAP
8 10 (12.50%) HTML
8 10 (12.50%) Node.js
9 9 (11.25%) Gherkin
10 8 (10.00%) CSS
10 8 (10.00%) Web Services
11 7 (8.75%) AngularJS
11 7 (8.75%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (7.50%) OpenAPI
12 6 (7.50%) Terraform
12 6 (7.50%) WSDL
12 6 (7.50%) XML
13 5 (6.25%) Swagger
13 5 (6.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 8 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (8.75%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.00%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.75%) Fixed Income
4 3 (3.75%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.50%) Equities
5 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.25%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.25%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.75%) Linux
2 8 (10.00%) Unix
3 4 (5.00%) macOS
4 1 (1.25%) Android
4 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 61 (76.25%) CI/CD
3 51 (63.75%) Agile
4 50 (62.50%) BDD
5 32 (40.00%) DevOps
6 28 (35.00%) API Testing
7 27 (33.75%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (30.00%) Containerisation
9 21 (26.25%) Performance Testing
9 21 (26.25%) TDD
10 19 (23.75%) Microservices
11 18 (22.50%) Continuous Integration
11 18 (22.50%) Software Testing
12 16 (20.00%) Code Quality
13 15 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (18.75%) SDET
13 15 (18.75%) SDLC
13 15 (18.75%) Test Strategy
14 14 (17.50%) Software Engineering
14 14 (17.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 62 (77.50%) Java
2 23 (28.75%) JavaScript
3 22 (27.50%) Python
4 15 (18.75%) SQL
5 13 (16.25%) C#
6 11 (13.75%) TypeScript
7 7 (8.75%) Scala
8 4 (5.00%) Ruby
8 4 (5.00%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.75%) Kotlin
9 3 (3.75%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.50%) Bash
11 1 (1.25%) COBOL
11 1 (1.25%) Go
11 1 (1.25%) Groovy
11 1 (1.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 27 (33.75%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.75%) DV Cleared
4 8 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (10.00%) Degree
5 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.50%) ISEB
6 2 (2.50%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (47.50%) QA
2 8 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.25%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.25%) SEPA
3 1 (1.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 31 (38.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (38.75%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.25%) Ansible
2 5 (6.25%) Grafana
2 5 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.25%) Argo
Vendors
1 7 (8.75%) Google
1 7 (8.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.50%) Databricks
2 6 (7.50%) Oracle
3 4 (5.00%) HP
3 4 (5.00%) Splunk
4 3 (3.75%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (3.75%) IBM
4 3 (3.75%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.50%) Sybase
6 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.25%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.25%) Pega
6 1 (1.25%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.25%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.25%) UiPath