Cucumber Contracts in the Midlands

Cucumber
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 95 127 157
Rank change year-on-year +32 +30 +11
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 16 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.84% 0.22% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.20% 2.33% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 8
10th Percentile £200 £247 £379
25th Percentile £238 £317 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £348 £390 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.90% -8.24% +6.25%
75th Percentile £483 £430 £438
90th Percentile £485 £439 £459
England median daily rate £455 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -9.00% -13.04% +15.00%

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 258 258 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.48% 9.36% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 187 361
10th Percentile £313 £260 £290
25th Percentile £410 £357 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -8.33% +1.05%
75th Percentile £537 £536 £550
90th Percentile £627 £560 £638
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 4
10th Percentile £22.01 £10.50 £33.21
25th Percentile £27.71 £43.88 £35.49
Median hourly rate £37.85 £56.25 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -32.71% +14.21% +26.28%
75th Percentile £48.61 £58.75 £62.19
90th Percentile £54.70 - £66.13
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in the Midlands

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in the Midlands

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in the Midlands

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
West Midlands +18 8 £483 +60.33% 1
East Midlands +16 8 £226 -44.88% 5
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (18.75%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) MongoDB
1 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) IDMS
3 1 (6.25%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) Selenium
2 5 (31.25%) JUnit
2 5 (31.25%) Maven
2 5 (31.25%) Mockito
3 4 (25.00%) JIRA
4 3 (18.75%) Bitbucket
4 3 (18.75%) Gradle
4 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
5 2 (12.50%) GitLab
5 2 (12.50%) JMeter
5 2 (12.50%) REST Assured
5 2 (12.50%) SonarQube
5 2 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (6.25%) Ant
6 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (6.25%) CA Gen
6 1 (6.25%) JBehave
6 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
6 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (25.00%) Banking
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Developer
1 4 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Test Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Tester
3 2 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Junior
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Tester
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
4 1 (6.25%) Junior Automation Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Junior Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Junior Test Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Product Tester
4 1 (6.25%) QA Leader
4 1 (6.25%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) HTML
2 3 (18.75%) Gherkin
2 3 (18.75%) RESTful
2 3 (18.75%) Spring
3 2 (12.50%) .NET
3 2 (12.50%) CSS
3 2 (12.50%) DOM
3 2 (12.50%) Hibernate
3 2 (12.50%) Jest
3 2 (12.50%) JPA
3 2 (12.50%) jQuery
3 2 (12.50%) Node.js
3 2 (12.50%) Playwright
3 2 (12.50%) React
3 2 (12.50%) Redux
3 2 (12.50%) REST
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.25%) J2EE
4 1 (6.25%) SOAP
4 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
1 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
1 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) TDD
4 4 (25.00%) Manual Testing
5 3 (18.75%) API Testing
5 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 3 (18.75%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Microservices
5 3 (18.75%) Scrum
5 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
6 2 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (12.50%) Compatibility Testing
6 2 (12.50%) Performance Testing
6 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
6 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
6 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy
6 2 (12.50%) User Stories
6 2 (12.50%) Web Development
7 1 (6.25%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Java
2 6 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) C#
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) COBOL
4 1 (6.25%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) Scala
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) ISTQB
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) ISEB
2 1 (6.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (6.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) QA
2 3 (18.75%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Veracode
2 1 (6.25%) Sybase