Cucumber Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Cucumber
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Cucumber skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 1.55% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 8.89% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £238 - -
25th Percentile £250 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 - -
75th Percentile £312 - -
90th Percentile £313 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £285 - £440
% change year-on-year - - +0.57%

All Development Application Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 45 21 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 17.44% 13.04% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 18 2
10th Percentile £294 £340 £192
25th Percentile £330 £356 £237
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £358 £324
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% +10.58% -26.84%
75th Percentile £418 £438 £410
90th Percentile £446 £446 £454
East Midlands median daily rate £418 £425 £440
% change year-on-year -1.76% -3.41% -7.37%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Cucumber job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Cucumber.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
Northampton - 4 £285 -
Cucumber
East Midlands

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (50.00%) JIRA
3 2 (50.00%) Postman
4 1 (25.00%) JMeter
4 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
1 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) jQuery
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
1 2 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) DOM
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Testing
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft