Cucumber Contracts in Scotland

Cucumber
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 110 105 125
Rank change year-on-year -5 +20 +6
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 6 24 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 1.08% 1.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.90% 5.77% 6.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 36
10th Percentile £322 £418 £350
25th Percentile - £460 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £480 - £545
90th Percentile - £516 £550
UK median daily rate £460 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -8.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 316 416 569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 19.45% 18.76% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 261 439
10th Percentile £313 £375 £393
25th Percentile £400 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £588 £538
90th Percentile £575 £644 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 5
10th Percentile £23.77 £35.00 £54.36
25th Percentile £29.81 £37.97 £59.03
Median hourly rate £39.92 £40.94 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -32.39% +15.33%
75th Percentile £49.98 - £66.56
90th Percentile £55.99 - £67.88
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in Scotland

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in Scotland

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in Scotland

Cucumber
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Cucumber in Scotland

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Edinburgh +4 3 £400 -5.88% 1
Glasgow -2 3 £480 -4.00% 1
Cucumber
UK

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) IaaS
1 3 (50.00%) PaaS
1 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (50.00%) PowerApps
1 3 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) Selenium
1 4 (66.67%) Subversion
2 3 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 3 (50.00%) Postman
2 3 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 3 (50.00%) WebDriver
3 2 (33.33%) JUnit
3 2 (33.33%) Mockito
4 1 (16.67%) Mercurial
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Junior
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) DOM
2 1 (16.67%) EJB
2 1 (16.67%) Java EE
2 1 (16.67%) JAX-RS
2 1 (16.67%) JDBC
2 1 (16.67%) JPA
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) ATDD
3 3 (50.00%) BDD
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Feature Driven Development
3 3 (50.00%) Kanban
3 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) SOA
3 3 (50.00%) Software Delivery
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (50.00%) TDD
3 3 (50.00%) Validation
3 3 (50.00%) V-Model
3 3 (50.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (33.33%) Community of Practice
4 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) C#
3 3 (50.00%) C++
3 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (50.00%) VBA
3 3 (50.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) ISEB
1 3 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft