Cucumber Contracts in Manchester

Cucumber
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Cucumber skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cucumber over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 81 115
Rank change year-on-year +13 +34 +13
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 11 15 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.19% 0.99% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.38% 7.39% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 2
10th Percentile £347 £368 £446
25th Percentile £394 £375 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £399 £519
Median % change year-on-year +19.12% -23.13% +3.75%
75th Percentile £500 £466 £555
90th Percentile £511 £500 £567
North West median daily rate £475 £399 £513
% change year-on-year +19.12% -22.20% +2.50%

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 149 203 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.09% 13.38% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 159 177
10th Percentile £322 £375 £320
25th Percentile £400 £428 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £538 £581 £638
90th Percentile £635 £694 £688
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -10.00% -1.28% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £71.63 £61.38 £40.68
25th Percentile £72.19 £65.31 £42.30
Median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +66.67% -
75th Percentile £77.81 £81.38 -
90th Percentile £78.38 £82.05 -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £52.94 £49.88
% change year-on-year +41.67% +6.15% +17.35%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in Manchester

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in Manchester

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in Manchester

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Apache
1 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (18.18%) Slack
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Datadog
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 2 (18.18%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (18.18%) MySQL
2 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
3 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Maven
1 4 (36.36%) Selenium
2 3 (27.27%) Git
2 3 (27.27%) GitLab
2 3 (27.27%) JUnit
3 2 (18.18%) Eclipse
3 2 (18.18%) Jasmine
3 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 2 (18.18%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) REST Assured
3 2 (18.18%) WebDriver
4 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
4 1 (9.09%) Gatling
4 1 (9.09%) Gradle
4 1 (9.09%) JMeter
4 1 (9.09%) Mockito
4 1 (9.09%) Postman
General
1 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Tester
3 2 (18.18%) Automation Tester
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) QA Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) QA Automation Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) QA Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior QA Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) RESTful
1 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
2 2 (18.18%) Apache POI
2 2 (18.18%) JDBC
2 2 (18.18%) Node.js
2 2 (18.18%) OpenAPI
2 2 (18.18%) Spring
2 2 (18.18%) Spring Batch
2 2 (18.18%) Spring Security
2 2 (18.18%) Swagger
3 1 (9.09%) Kafka
3 1 (9.09%) Playwright
3 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
2 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) BDD
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (27.27%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) TDD
5 2 (18.18%) API Design
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Integration Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Kernel Tuning
5 2 (18.18%) Manual Testing
5 2 (18.18%) OWASP
5 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
6 1 (9.09%) API Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven
6 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 1 (9.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Scala
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) ISTQB
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Virgin Media
2 1 (9.09%) Confluent
2 1 (9.09%) New Relic