Cucumber Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Cucumber
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Cucumber skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 78 101
Rank change year-on-year -2 +23 +15
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 4 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.39% 0.25% 0.48%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.63% 2.34% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 8
10th Percentile £345 £318 £384
25th Percentile £351 £321 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £324 £469
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -30.88% -10.71%
75th Percentile £394 - £509
90th Percentile £398 - £541
North West median daily rate £375 £317 £500
% change year-on-year +18.30% -36.60% +2.56%

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 152 128 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.00% 10.85% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 79 154
10th Percentile £338 £323 £341
25th Percentile £400 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £511
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -14.43% -7.05%
75th Percentile £582 £550 £619
90th Percentile £647 £590 £667
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £510
% change year-on-year -5.56% -11.76% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £49.25
25th Percentile - £46.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -30.91% -1.79%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £77.81
90th Percentile - - £79.88
North West median hourly rate £63.40 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +37.29% - -36.30%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cucumber relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Cucumber job vacancy trend in Manchester

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cucumber.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (25.00%) Gatling
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Test Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) Puppeteer
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (25.00%) Load Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (25.00%) SFIA
3 1 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Veracode
1 1 (25.00%) Virgin Media