Cucumber Contracts in the North West

Cucumber
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 108 121 151
Rank change year-on-year +13 +30 +1
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 12 16 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.61% 0.58% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.38% 5.32% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 5
10th Percentile £265 £368 £455
25th Percentile £378 £375 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £399 £513
Median % change year-on-year +19.12% -22.20% +2.50%
75th Percentile £500 £466 £519
90th Percentile £508 £500 £553
England median daily rate £455 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -9.00% -13.04% +15.00%

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 274 301 417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.92% 10.93% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 231 322
10th Percentile £329 £375 £325
25th Percentile £391 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.28% +1.30%
75th Percentile £534 £600 £600
90th Percentile £600 £675 £656
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 13
10th Percentile £54.02 £40.52 £38.16
25th Percentile £63.25 £45.88 £42.81
Median hourly rate £75.00 £52.94 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% +6.15% +17.35%
75th Percentile £78.13 £74.63 £53.44
90th Percentile £81.35 £81.45 £56.38
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in the North West

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in the North West

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in the North West

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +13 11 £475 +19.12% 12
Cheshire - 1 £223 - 2
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (16.67%) Apache
1 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (16.67%) Slack
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Datadog
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (16.67%) MySQL
2 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Selenium
2 4 (33.33%) Maven
3 3 (25.00%) Git
3 3 (25.00%) GitLab
3 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (25.00%) JUnit
4 2 (16.67%) Eclipse
4 2 (16.67%) Jasmine
4 2 (16.67%) JIRA
4 2 (16.67%) REST Assured
4 2 (16.67%) WebDriver
5 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
5 1 (8.33%) Gatling
5 1 (8.33%) Gradle
5 1 (8.33%) JMeter
5 1 (8.33%) Mockito
5 1 (8.33%) Postman
General
1 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Investment Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
4 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) QA Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) QA Automation Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) QA Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior QA Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) RESTful
1 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (16.67%) Apache POI
2 2 (16.67%) JDBC
2 2 (16.67%) Node.js
2 2 (16.67%) OpenAPI
2 2 (16.67%) Spring
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Batch
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Security
2 2 (16.67%) Swagger
3 1 (8.33%) DOM
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) jQuery
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) Playwright
3 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) BDD
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (25.00%) Microservices
3 3 (25.00%) TDD
4 2 (16.67%) API Design
4 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Kernel Tuning
4 2 (16.67%) Manual Testing
4 2 (16.67%) OWASP
4 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 1 (8.33%) API Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven
5 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Bash
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) Scala
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Virgin Media
2 1 (8.33%) Confluent
2 1 (8.33%) New Relic