Cucumber Contract Job Trends in Reading

Cucumber
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Cucumber skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 94 88
Rank change year-on-year +36 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 6 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.03% 0.37% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.68% 2.74% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile - £443 -
25th Percentile £724 £488 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £748 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +9.52% +27.27%
75th Percentile £771 £594 -
90th Percentile - £598 -
Berkshire median daily rate £624 £575 £545
% change year-on-year +8.52% +5.50% +42.95%

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 62 146 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 10.60% 13.38% 12.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 85 98
10th Percentile £359 £413 £400
25th Percentile £452 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.39% -2.50% +31.87%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £638
90th Percentile £638 £670 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £533 £575
% change year-on-year -6.10% -7.39% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £100.00 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £66.75 £58.49 -
% change year-on-year +14.12% - -

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Cucumber job vacancy trend in Reading

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 (33.33%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) GitLab
1 4 (66.67%) Selenium
2 3 (50.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (33.33%) Git
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) REST Assured
3 2 (33.33%) Robot Framework
3 2 (33.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (16.67%) Law
3 1 (16.67%) Police
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Head of Development
1 2 (33.33%) Java Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) CSS
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
1 2 (33.33%) Java EE
1 2 (33.33%) Jinja
1 2 (33.33%) JSON
1 2 (33.33%) NETCONF
1 2 (33.33%) Playwright
1 2 (33.33%) REST
1 2 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (16.67%) YANG
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) API Testing
3 2 (33.33%) BDD
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Load Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Podman
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 2 (33.33%) Veracode