Cucumber Contracts in the North of England

Cucumber
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 166 174
Rank change year-on-year +36 +8 +10
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 38 20 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.16% 0.43% 0.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.32% 4.06% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 14 29
10th Percentile £320 £374 £398
25th Percentile £367 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £435 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -20.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £494 £500 £775
90th Percentile £520 £535 £848
England median daily rate £425 £525 £596
% change year-on-year -19.05% -11.95% +19.25%

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 519 493 745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.78% 10.70% 13.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 356 567
10th Percentile £347 £371 £350
25th Percentile £400 £423 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £486 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.40% -7.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £530 £575 £625
90th Percentile £588 £645 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 14
10th Percentile £52.13 £38.38 £37.80
25th Percentile £54.48 £45.88 £40.40
Median hourly rate £73.75 £53.09 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year +38.92% +1.84% -22.77%
75th Percentile £77.81 £74.17 £56.29
90th Percentile £80.70 £80.82 £63.60
England median hourly rate £57.75 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -11.15% +5.69% +21.78%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in the North of England

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in the North of England

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 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in the North of England

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 22 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
Yorkshire +18 18 £450 +1.69% 30
North West +15 13 £411 -5.73% 31
North East +9 7 £390 +25.81% 3
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (26.32%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) Apache
3 1 (2.63%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.68%) GitHub
2 4 (10.53%) AWS
3 3 (7.89%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (7.89%) Slack
4 2 (5.26%) Azure
4 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.63%) Datadog
5 1 (2.63%) GCP
5 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 3 (7.89%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (7.89%) MySQL
2 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.63%) DB2
3 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (52.63%) Selenium
2 18 (47.37%) Jenkins
3 15 (39.47%) JUnit
4 14 (36.84%) Maven
5 13 (34.21%) Git
5 13 (34.21%) JIRA
6 11 (28.95%) REST Assured
7 9 (23.68%) GitLab
8 8 (21.05%) Postman
9 7 (18.42%) Cypress.io
9 7 (18.42%) JMeter
9 7 (18.42%) Visual Studio
10 6 (15.79%) TestNG
11 5 (13.16%) Gradle
11 5 (13.16%) IntelliJ
12 4 (10.53%) HP UFT
13 3 (7.89%) Eclipse
13 3 (7.89%) Jasmine
13 3 (7.89%) Vagrant
14 2 (5.26%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (28.95%) Public Sector
2 7 (18.42%) Finance
3 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Banking
5 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.26%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Test Engineer
2 9 (23.68%) Tester
3 8 (21.05%) Senior
4 5 (13.16%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Automation Tester
5 4 (10.53%) QA Tester
6 3 (7.89%) Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Java Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Test Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Test Manager
7 2 (5.26%) Java Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Lead
7 2 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Data Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) QA Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) QA Automation Tester
8 1 (2.63%) QA Test Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) Gherkin
1 7 (18.42%) Playwright
2 5 (13.16%) RESTful
3 4 (10.53%) Spring Boot
3 4 (10.53%) WireMock
4 3 (7.89%) OpenAPI
4 3 (7.89%) Spring
4 3 (7.89%) Spring Batch
4 3 (7.89%) Spring Security
4 3 (7.89%) Swagger
5 2 (5.26%) Apache POI
5 2 (5.26%) JDBC
5 2 (5.26%) Node.js
5 2 (5.26%) REST
6 1 (2.63%) DOM
6 1 (2.63%) HTML
6 1 (2.63%) jQuery
6 1 (2.63%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.63%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.63%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Linux
1 3 (7.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (78.95%) Test Automation
2 24 (63.16%) Agile
3 23 (60.53%) CI/CD
4 18 (47.37%) BDD
5 14 (36.84%) TDD
6 9 (23.68%) API Testing
6 9 (23.68%) Non-Functional Testing
6 9 (23.68%) Test Strategy
7 8 (21.05%) Test Scripting
8 7 (18.42%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (15.79%) QA Automation
10 5 (13.16%) Code Quality
10 5 (13.16%) DevOps
10 5 (13.16%) Mentoring
10 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (13.16%) Software Testing
11 4 (10.53%) Data Privacy
11 4 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 26 (68.42%) Java
2 8 (21.05%) JavaScript
3 7 (18.42%) Python
4 4 (10.53%) SQL
5 3 (7.89%) Bash
5 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
5 3 (7.89%) Ruby
6 1 (2.63%) COBOL
6 1 (2.63%) JCL
6 1 (2.63%) Scala
6 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 10 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (34.21%) QA
2 8 (21.05%) Accessibility
3 6 (15.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (31.58%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Ansible
2 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.89%) Puppet
4 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (7.89%) Splunk
2 2 (5.26%) Virgin Media
3 1 (2.63%) Confluent
3 1 (2.63%) New Relic
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle