Cucumber Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Cucumber
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Cucumber skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 37 48
Rank change year-on-year -39 +11 +9
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 9 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.26% 1.61% 1.02%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.60% 6.85% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 3
10th Percentile £410 £472 -
25th Percentile £468 £500 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £583 £400
Median % change year-on-year -14.16% +45.63% -31.91%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £425
90th Percentile £598 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £484 £583 £400
% change year-on-year -16.91% +45.63% -31.91%

All Development Application Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 250 73 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 35.01% 23.47% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 52 34
10th Percentile £319 £421 £383
25th Percentile £400 £463 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £534 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.97% +21.77% -25.43%
75th Percentile £534 £600 £547
90th Percentile £600 £650 £600
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £529 £433
% change year-on-year -10.21% +22.31% -25.91%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Cucumber job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in Sheffield over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in Sheffield

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
1 8 (88.89%) GCP
2 5 (55.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) MySQL
1 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 9 (100.00%) Selenium
2 8 (88.89%) Jenkins
3 7 (77.78%) GitLab
3 7 (77.78%) JIRA
4 6 (66.67%) Postman
4 6 (66.67%) TestRail
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Test Automation Engineer
1 7 (77.78%) Test Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Lead
3 5 (55.56%) Automation Test Lead
4 4 (44.44%) Lead Test Engineer
5 3 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) LDAP
1 7 (77.78%) OpenID
1 7 (77.78%) REST
1 7 (77.78%) SailPoint
2 6 (66.67%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) API Testing
1 9 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 7 (77.78%) Scenario Testing
3 7 (77.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 7 (77.78%) Test Scripting
4 6 (66.67%) BDD
4 6 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
4 6 (66.67%) TDD
5 5 (55.56%) Data Ingestion
5 5 (55.56%) DevOps
5 5 (55.56%) ETL
5 5 (55.56%) GitOps
5 5 (55.56%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 5 (55.56%) System Integration Testing
5 5 (55.56%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy
7 3 (33.33%) Agile
7 3 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 6 (66.67%) PHP
2 6 (66.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) ServiceNow