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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 124 138
Rank change year-on-year +10 +14 +10
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 19 3 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.86% 0.12% 0.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.40% 1.30% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 2 11
10th Percentile £268 - £388
25th Percentile £303 - £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% - -
75th Percentile £454 - £528
90th Percentile £475 - £550
England median daily rate £425 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -19.66% -3.82% +4.76%

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 352 230 335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.95% 9.57% 11.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 151 240
10th Percentile £313 £325 £362
25th Percentile £363 £379 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% -9.52% +2.44%
75th Percentile £538 £558 £625
90th Percentile £636 £650 £656
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 27
10th Percentile £62.87 £27.73 £38.88
25th Percentile £70.08 £37.55 £46.03
Median hourly rate £75.00 £43.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +73.40% -6.34% -38.43%
75th Percentile £78.13 £48.11 £64.38
90th Percentile £81.35 £53.82 £77.70
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +13.04%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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
Cheshire - 15 £415 - 2
Manchester -1 2 £388 -22.50% 1
Merseyside - 1 £300 -
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 3 (15.79%) Confluence
2 2 (10.53%) CICS
3 1 (5.26%) JBoss
3 1 (5.26%) Mule
3 1 (5.26%) Mule ESB
3 1 (5.26%) Tomcat
3 1 (5.26%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) AWS
1 6 (31.58%) GitHub
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) GCP
2 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) DB2
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database
2 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (57.89%) Jenkins
2 10 (52.63%) JUnit
2 10 (52.63%) Selenium
3 9 (47.37%) GitLab
4 8 (42.11%) JIRA
5 7 (36.84%) Git
6 5 (26.32%) Maven
6 5 (26.32%) REST Assured
7 3 (15.79%) Bitbucket
7 3 (15.79%) Mockito
7 3 (15.79%) SonarQube
7 3 (15.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (10.53%) Eclipse
8 2 (10.53%) Gatling
8 2 (10.53%) IntelliJ
9 1 (5.26%) Appium
9 1 (5.26%) HP UFT
9 1 (5.26%) JMeter
9 1 (5.26%) Postman
General
1 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Developer
1 9 (47.37%) Java Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Automation Tester
2 3 (15.79%) Test Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Tester
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Mainframe Tester
4 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (52.63%) Spring Boot
2 9 (47.37%) React
3 7 (36.84%) REST
3 7 (36.84%) RESTful
3 7 (36.84%) Spring
4 6 (31.58%) Kafka
5 4 (21.05%) HTML
6 3 (15.79%) CSS
6 3 (15.79%) Hibernate
6 3 (15.79%) Jest
6 3 (15.79%) JPA
6 3 (15.79%) Node.js
6 3 (15.79%) Redux
7 2 (10.53%) jQuery
8 1 (5.26%) DOM
8 1 (5.26%) J2EE
8 1 (5.26%) JSON
8 1 (5.26%) Middleware
8 1 (5.26%) Web Services
8 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Mainframe
1 2 (10.53%) VSAM
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Agile
2 11 (57.89%) TDD
2 11 (57.89%) Test Automation
3 10 (52.63%) Microservices
4 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
5 7 (36.84%) DevOps
5 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (31.58%) Acceptance Criteria
6 6 (31.58%) Scrum
6 6 (31.58%) Sprint Planning
7 5 (26.32%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (26.32%) Migration
7 5 (26.32%) Performance Optimisation
7 5 (26.32%) Release Management
7 5 (26.32%) Sprint Retrospective
8 4 (21.05%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (21.05%) SDLC
8 4 (21.05%) Test Strategy
8 4 (21.05%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (15.79%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (63.16%) SQL
3 4 (21.05%) Python
4 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.53%) COBOL
5 2 (10.53%) JCL
6 1 (5.26%) C#
6 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (42.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
1 3 (15.79%) Veracode
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) AppDynamics
3 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk
3 1 (5.26%) Virgin Media