Cucumber Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Cucumber
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Cucumber skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 104 118
Rank change year-on-year -5 +14 +29
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 8 11 27
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.50% 0.59% 1.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.33% 4.30% 6.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 17
10th Percentile £411 £375 £408
25th Percentile £428 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% -13.16% +5.09%
75th Percentile £469 £499 £488
90th Percentile £470 £500 -
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £522
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.21% -0.57%

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 343 256 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.40% 13.65% 16.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 163 266
10th Percentile £375 £334 £381
25th Percentile £423 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £564
90th Percentile £600 £670 £681
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 5
10th Percentile £16.49 - £58.11
25th Percentile £16.84 - £59.03
Median hourly rate £17.45 - £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.92%
75th Percentile £61.25 - £66.56
90th Percentile £66.50 - £70.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Cucumber job vacancy trend in Scotland

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Cucumber.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Cucumber

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 3 October 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 +13 4 £400 +2.56% 1
Glasgow -19 4 £466 -6.38% 1
Cucumber
UK

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (25.00%) IaaS
4 2 (25.00%) PaaS
4 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (25.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (25.00%) SaaS
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (12.50%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (12.50%) MariaDB
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Selenium
2 4 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 4 (50.00%) WebDriver
3 3 (37.50%) Git
3 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (37.50%) JIRA
3 3 (37.50%) Postman
4 2 (25.00%) JUnit
4 2 (25.00%) Mockito
4 2 (25.00%) Subversion
4 2 (25.00%) TeamCity
5 1 (12.50%) Maven
5 1 (12.50%) webpack
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer in Test
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Officer
3 1 (12.50%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Spring
1 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (25.00%) Gherkin
2 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (25.00%) J2EE
2 2 (25.00%) JPA
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
2 2 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Jest
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
1 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) BDD
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 3 (37.50%) Microservices
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Community of Practice
5 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (25.00%) Operational Stability
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) SDET
5 2 (25.00%) SDLC
5 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
1 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) C++
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) VBA
2 2 (25.00%) VBScript
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) ISEB
1 3 (37.50%) ISTQB
2 2 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle