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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 283 274
Rank change year-on-year -28 -9 -52
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 73 78 117
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.49% 0.56% 0.64%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.18% 4.05% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 41 102
10th Percentile £314 £317 £333
25th Percentile £361 £380 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £430 £518
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% -16.91% -17.20%
75th Percentile £576 £575 £719
90th Percentile £676 £820 £863
England median daily rate £425 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -12.28%

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 2,298 1,928 2,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.55% 13.87% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,572 1,254 1,717
10th Percentile £356 £345 £381
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £569
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -5.98% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 19
10th Percentile £42.63 £22.25 £25.68
25th Percentile £45.19 £25.63 £33.75
Median hourly rate £73.25 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.26% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £95.00 £77.19 £64.38
90th Percentile £102.50 £87.88 £73.67
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +1.96%

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 29 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 29 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 -7 15 £613 +44.12% 1
West London - 2 - -
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 11 (15.07%) Confluence
2 3 (4.11%) Appian
3 2 (2.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (2.74%) Camunda
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 26 (35.62%) AWS
2 15 (20.55%) GitHub
3 11 (15.07%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (12.33%) Azure
4 9 (12.33%) OpenShift
5 6 (8.22%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (8.22%) Serverless
6 5 (6.85%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.11%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.11%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (2.74%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (2.74%) BlazeMeter
8 2 (2.74%) BrowserStack
8 2 (2.74%) SonarCloud
9 1 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.37%) Figma
9 1 (1.37%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) HTTP
2 1 (1.37%) Multicast
2 1 (1.37%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.96%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.11%) MySQL
2 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.74%) DB2
3 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (54.79%) Selenium
2 29 (39.73%) Git
2 29 (39.73%) Jenkins
3 22 (30.14%) JIRA
4 20 (27.40%) JUnit
5 19 (26.03%) Postman
6 18 (24.66%) GitLab
7 11 (15.07%) REST Assured
8 10 (13.70%) JMeter
9 8 (10.96%) Cypress.io
10 7 (9.59%) SonarQube
11 6 (8.22%) Bitbucket
11 6 (8.22%) Mockito
11 6 (8.22%) WebDriver
12 5 (6.85%) Maven
13 4 (5.48%) Robot Framework
13 4 (5.48%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (5.48%) SpecFlow
13 4 (5.48%) Subversion
13 4 (5.48%) Zephyr
General
1 22 (30.14%) Finance
2 21 (28.77%) Social Skills
3 13 (17.81%) Banking
4 7 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.22%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.48%) Front Office
6 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.11%) Back Office
7 3 (4.11%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.74%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.74%) Retail
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
Job Titles
1 16 (21.92%) Developer
2 11 (15.07%) Java Developer
2 11 (15.07%) Test Engineer
3 9 (12.33%) Test Automation Engineer
4 8 (10.96%) QA Engineer
4 8 (10.96%) Tester
5 7 (9.59%) Automation Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Automation Tester
5 7 (9.59%) Software Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Senior
7 4 (5.48%) QA Automation Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Developer in Test
8 3 (4.11%) Java Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Software Developer
9 2 (2.74%) Agile Developer
9 2 (2.74%) Agile Java Developer
9 2 (2.74%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (2.74%) Lead
9 2 (2.74%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (31.51%) REST
2 14 (19.18%) Gherkin
2 14 (19.18%) Playwright
2 14 (19.18%) Spring
3 13 (17.81%) JSON
4 12 (16.44%) React
5 11 (15.07%) XML
6 10 (13.70%) Spring Boot
7 9 (12.33%) RESTful
8 8 (10.96%) CSS
8 8 (10.96%) SOAP
8 8 (10.96%) Web Services
9 7 (9.59%) Node.js
10 6 (8.22%) AngularJS
10 6 (8.22%) HTML
10 6 (8.22%) WireMock
11 5 (6.85%) .NET
11 5 (6.85%) Kafka
11 5 (6.85%) ZK
12 4 (5.48%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.48%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.74%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.74%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.74%) Derivative
2 2 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.74%) Equity Derivative
2 2 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (2.74%) Private Cloud
2 2 (2.74%) Public Cloud
2 2 (2.74%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.37%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.81%) Linux
2 4 (5.48%) Unix
3 1 (1.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (72.60%) Test Automation
2 48 (65.75%) CI/CD
3 42 (57.53%) Agile
4 37 (50.68%) BDD
5 24 (32.88%) API Testing
5 24 (32.88%) DevOps
6 21 (28.77%) Microservices
7 20 (27.40%) TDD
8 17 (23.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 17 (23.29%) Scrum
9 16 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (20.55%) Test Strategy
11 14 (19.18%) Software Engineering
12 13 (17.81%) QA Automation
12 13 (17.81%) Software Testing
12 13 (17.81%) Sprint Planning
13 12 (16.44%) Containerisation
13 12 (16.44%) SDET
14 10 (13.70%) Sprint Retrospective
14 10 (13.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 55 (75.34%) Java
2 21 (28.77%) Python
3 18 (24.66%) SQL
4 14 (19.18%) JavaScript
5 10 (13.70%) C#
6 6 (8.22%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.85%) Ruby
8 4 (5.48%) XPath
9 3 (4.11%) VB.NET
10 2 (2.74%) Go
11 1 (1.37%) Bash
11 1 (1.37%) C
11 1 (1.37%) C++
11 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (15.07%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.22%) ISTQB
4 5 (6.85%) Degree
5 4 (5.48%) 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 28 (38.36%) QA
2 4 (5.48%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.74%) NCSC
3 2 (2.74%) WCAG
4 1 (1.37%) SLA
4 1 (1.37%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (23.29%) Docker
2 2 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (16.44%) Ansible
1 12 (16.44%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.48%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (10.96%) Oracle
2 4 (5.48%) Red Hat
2 4 (5.48%) VMware
3 3 (4.11%) Cisco
3 3 (4.11%) UiPath
3 3 (4.11%) Veracode
4 2 (2.74%) Adobe
4 2 (2.74%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.74%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.74%) Splunk
5 1 (1.37%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.37%) Databricks
5 1 (1.37%) IBM
5 1 (1.37%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.37%) MarketAxess
5 1 (1.37%) SAP
5 1 (1.37%) Tradeweb
5 1 (1.37%) Workday