Cucumber Contract Job Trends in the North East

Cucumber
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Cucumber skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 33 32
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +20
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 7 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 2.48% 1.12% 0.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.86% 5.08% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 2
10th Percentile £381 £340 £445
25th Percentile £444 £385 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £470 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.19% -24.80% -1.19%
75th Percentile £460 £555 £738
90th Percentile £493 £600 £805
England median daily rate £425 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -19.05% -2.78% +2.86%

All Development Application Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 59 59 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 20.92% 21.93% 9.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 22 10
10th Percentile £334 £333 £352
25th Percentile £431 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £478 £460
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% +3.80% -16.36%
75th Percentile £544 £587 £538
90th Percentile £579 £625 £580
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 2
10th Percentile £37.60 - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - -
Median hourly rate £44.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% - -16.79%
75th Percentile £48.00 - -
90th Percentile £50.40 £56.08 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in the North East

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Cucumber.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in the North East over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in the North East

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the North East region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Tyne and Wear -2 7 £455 -3.19% 1
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Selenium
2 3 (42.86%) REST Assured
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) Postman
4 1 (14.29%) Gatling
4 1 (14.29%) Git
4 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 1 (14.29%) JMeter
4 1 (14.29%) SoapUI
4 1 (14.29%) TestRail
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Test Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) QA Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) QA Test Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) QA Tester
3 2 (28.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) WireMock
2 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
3 5 (71.43%) BDD
4 4 (57.14%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (42.86%) API Testing
5 3 (42.86%) Defect Management
5 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
6 2 (28.57%) Microservices
6 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
6 2 (28.57%) QA Automation
6 2 (28.57%) Refactoring
6 2 (28.57%) Scrum
6 2 (28.57%) Security Testing
6 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
7 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (14.29%) Functional Testing
7 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
3 1 (14.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) Accessibility
2 4 (57.14%) QA
3 1 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker