Cucumber Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Cucumber
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Cucumber skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 121 170
Rank change year-on-year -38 +49 +16
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 53 41 16
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.13% 1.14% 0.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.94% 7.85% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 29 13
10th Percentile £332 £305 -
25th Percentile £363 £317 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +18.75% -30.43%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £475
90th Percentile £554 £659 £760
England median daily rate £425 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -10.53% -4.04% -10.00%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 892 522 585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.03% 14.53% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 332 434
10th Percentile £325 £325 £352
25th Percentile £388 £389 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -5.50% -8.26%
75th Percentile £543 £573 £597
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 11 40
10th Percentile £39.00 - £45.88
25th Percentile £43.26 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% - -1.33%
75th Percentile £65.13 £53.13 £64.06
90th Percentile £72.98 £77.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Cucumber job vacancy trend in the North of England

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in the North of England

Cucumber
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cucumber.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Yorkshire -34 23 £465 -20.13% 6
North East +2 15 £425 +30.77% 1
North West -20 15 £388 +19.60% 2
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (5.66%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) JBoss
2 1 (1.89%) Mule
2 1 (1.89%) Mule ESB
2 1 (1.89%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.89%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 23 (43.40%) AWS
2 16 (30.19%) Azure
3 9 (16.98%) GCP
4 6 (11.32%) Serverless
5 5 (9.43%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (9.43%) GitHub
5 5 (9.43%) SaaS
6 4 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.66%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.77%) Apigee
8 2 (3.77%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.09%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.32%) MySQL
3 5 (9.43%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.77%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (52.83%) Selenium
2 22 (41.51%) Jenkins
2 22 (41.51%) REST Assured
3 18 (33.96%) GitLab
3 18 (33.96%) Postman
4 16 (30.19%) JIRA
5 10 (18.87%) TestRail
6 9 (16.98%) Cypress.io
7 8 (15.09%) Git
8 5 (9.43%) Mockito
9 4 (7.55%) Gatling
9 4 (7.55%) JMeter
9 4 (7.55%) JUnit
9 4 (7.55%) Maven
9 4 (7.55%) SonarQube
10 2 (3.77%) Bitbucket
10 2 (3.77%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (3.77%) SpecFlow
10 2 (3.77%) Zephyr
11 1 (1.89%) SoapUI
General
1 23 (43.40%) Public Sector
2 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.55%) Banking
4 4 (7.55%) Finance
4 4 (7.55%) Military
5 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 37 (69.81%) Test Engineer
2 16 (30.19%) Test Automation Engineer
3 11 (20.75%) Lead
4 8 (15.09%) Automation Test Lead
5 7 (13.21%) Senior
6 6 (11.32%) Lead Test Engineer
6 6 (11.32%) Senior Test Engineer
6 6 (11.32%) Test Leader
7 5 (9.43%) Developer
7 5 (9.43%) QA Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Automation Tester
8 4 (7.55%) Java Developer
8 4 (7.55%) QA Test Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Tester
9 3 (5.66%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) DevOps Automation Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) Java Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) QA Automation Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (41.51%) REST
2 13 (24.53%) Node.js
2 13 (24.53%) Playwright
3 11 (20.75%) Spring Boot
4 8 (15.09%) WireMock
5 7 (13.21%) Gherkin
5 7 (13.21%) LDAP
5 7 (13.21%) OpenID
5 7 (13.21%) SailPoint
6 6 (11.32%) .NET
6 6 (11.32%) React
6 6 (11.32%) Spring
7 4 (7.55%) Jest
8 3 (5.66%) JSON
8 3 (5.66%) Swagger
8 3 (5.66%) XML
9 2 (3.77%) AngularJS
9 2 (3.77%) CSS
9 2 (3.77%) Hibernate
9 2 (3.77%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (81.13%) Test Automation
2 35 (66.04%) CI/CD
3 31 (58.49%) Agile
3 31 (58.49%) BDD
4 25 (47.17%) API Testing
5 22 (41.51%) TDD
6 17 (32.08%) Manual Testing
6 17 (32.08%) Microservices
6 17 (32.08%) Test Strategy
7 16 (30.19%) DevOps
7 16 (30.19%) Test Scripting
8 13 (24.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (24.53%) Performance Testing
8 13 (24.53%) Scenario Testing
9 11 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (20.75%) Scrum
10 10 (18.87%) Non-Functional Testing
11 9 (16.98%) Mentoring
12 8 (15.09%) Containerisation
12 8 (15.09%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (79.25%) Java
2 20 (37.74%) JavaScript
3 14 (26.42%) SQL
4 12 (22.64%) Python
5 8 (15.09%) TypeScript
6 6 (11.32%) PHP
7 3 (5.66%) C#
8 2 (3.77%) Ruby
8 2 (3.77%) XPath
9 1 (1.89%) Bash
9 1 (1.89%) Groovy
9 1 (1.89%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.98%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.77%) Degree
3 2 (3.77%) ISTQB
3 2 (3.77%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (35.85%) QA
2 11 (20.75%) Accessibility
3 7 (13.21%) WCAG
4 1 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 10 (18.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.43%) Grafana
2 2 (3.77%) HP Fortify
2 2 (3.77%) Terraform
3 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (13.21%) ServiceNow
2 6 (11.32%) Splunk
3 4 (7.55%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.66%) Veracode
5 2 (3.77%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.89%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.89%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.89%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle