Cucumber Contracts in Reading

Cucumber
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 48 66 77
Rank change year-on-year +18 +11 +17
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 12 25 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.01% 2.10% 0.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.79% 17.12% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 15 10
10th Percentile - £571 £398
25th Percentile - £613 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £650 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% +5.41%
75th Percentile - £688 £537
90th Percentile - £720 £568
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £650 £489
% change year-on-year -23.00% +32.99% +22.19%

All Development Application Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 87 146 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.57% 12.25% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 96 103
10th Percentile £409 £419 £400
25th Percentile £477 £501 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +15.57% +17.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £623
90th Percentile - £688 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -14.97% +12.00% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +6.87%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in Reading

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in Reading

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (83.33%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) GitLab
1 10 (83.33%) Jenkins
1 10 (83.33%) JIRA
1 10 (83.33%) REST Assured
1 10 (83.33%) Selenium
2 6 (50.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (16.67%) Git
3 2 (16.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 8 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (41.67%) Law
4 4 (33.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Java Engineer
1 9 (75.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) Java EE
1 10 (83.33%) REST
2 6 (50.00%) ARM Templates
3 2 (16.67%) CSS
3 2 (16.67%) HTML
3 2 (16.67%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
1 12 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 10 (83.33%) Configuration Management
2 10 (83.33%) Continuous Integration
2 10 (83.33%) Software Architecture
2 10 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 10 (83.33%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
6 2 (16.67%) API Testing
6 2 (16.67%) BDD
6 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 2 (16.67%) Load Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Scrum
6 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Ansible
1 6 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
1 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (50.00%) Podman
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform