Cucumber Contracts in Northamptonshire

Cucumber
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 28 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 15 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 8.62% 0.45% -
As % of the Development Applications category 31.91% 3.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 0
10th Percentile £200 - -
25th Percentile £219 £355 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £268 £380 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.47% - -
75th Percentile £270 £405 -
90th Percentile £278 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £268 £380 £415
% change year-on-year -29.47% -8.43% +15.28%

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 47 30 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 27.01% 13.39% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 27 33
10th Percentile £252 £356 £231
25th Percentile £270 £381 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £445 £315
Median % change year-on-year -19.55% +41.27% -32.26%
75th Percentile £438 £509 £330
90th Percentile £484 £593 £380
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -3.53% +6.25% -11.11%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in Northamptonshire

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in Northamptonshire

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in Northamptonshire

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 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
Northampton +13 15 £268 -29.47% 4
Cucumber
East Midlands

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) DB2
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (93.33%) Selenium
2 7 (46.67%) Jenkins
3 5 (33.33%) REST Assured
4 3 (20.00%) JIRA
4 3 (20.00%) Maven
5 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
5 2 (13.33%) GitLab
5 2 (13.33%) JUnit
5 2 (13.33%) Mockito
5 2 (13.33%) SonarQube
5 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (6.67%) Eclipse
6 1 (6.67%) Git
6 1 (6.67%) IntelliJ
General
1 8 (53.33%) Banking
2 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Tester
2 8 (53.33%) Automation Tester
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Junior
3 2 (13.33%) Test Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (6.67%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
4 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Junior Automation Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Junior Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Junior Test Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Junior Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Product Tester
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) jQuery
2 7 (46.67%) HTML
3 5 (33.33%) DOM
4 4 (26.67%) REST
5 2 (13.33%) CSS
5 2 (13.33%) Hibernate
5 2 (13.33%) Jest
5 2 (13.33%) JPA
5 2 (13.33%) Node.js
5 2 (13.33%) Playwright
5 2 (13.33%) React
5 2 (13.33%) Redux
5 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
6 1 (6.67%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
1 1 (6.67%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Test Automation
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) API Testing
4 4 (26.67%) Test Strategy
5 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Manual Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
5 3 (20.00%) TDD
6 2 (13.33%) Coaching
6 2 (13.33%) Code Quality
6 2 (13.33%) Microservices
6 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (13.33%) User Experience
7 1 (6.67%) BDD
7 1 (6.67%) Requirements Analysis
7 1 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) COBOL
4 1 (6.67%) JCL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Veracode
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle