Cucumber Contract Job Trends in the South East

Cucumber
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Cucumber skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 169 192
Rank change year-on-year +26 +23 +28
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 34 10 25
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.88% 0.24% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.71% 1.90% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 6 11
10th Percentile £326 £284 £513
25th Percentile £360 £338 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% -13.04% +12.20%
75th Percentile £473 £588 £588
90th Percentile £608 £594 £738
England median daily rate £425 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £47.75 - £52.38
25th Percentile - - £54.06
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile £65.00 - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%

All Development Application Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 441 525 692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.36% 12.68% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 318 465
10th Percentile £259 £350 £386
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -8.88% -0.47%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £612
90th Percentile £630 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 31 35
10th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 £50.50
25th Percentile £52.00 £55.87 £54.44
Median hourly rate £60.50 £66.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.86% -9.23%
75th Percentile £79.38 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Cucumber job vacancy trend in the South East

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cucumber.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in the South East over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in the South East

Cucumber
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cucumber.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cucumber in the South East over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cucumber in the South East

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the South East region over the 6 months to 8 November 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
Hampshire +21 25 £385 -33.04% 4
Thames Valley -1 6 £600 +20.00% 21
Berkshire +12 5 £674 +17.17% 13
Surrey +1 2 £330 -
Buckinghamshire +7 1 £300 - 6
Middlesex - 1 - -
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (11.76%) Confluence
2 2 (5.88%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 16 (47.06%) AWS
2 12 (35.29%) GitHub
3 9 (26.47%) OpenShift
4 8 (23.53%) Datadog
5 6 (17.65%) Azure
5 6 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
6 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (8.82%) GCP
6 3 (8.82%) Snowflake
7 2 (5.88%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.94%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (41.18%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (20.59%) NoSQL
3 5 (14.71%) DynamoDB
3 5 (14.71%) HBase
3 5 (14.71%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.94%) Big Data
4 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (55.88%) Jenkins
2 14 (41.18%) Selenium
3 13 (38.24%) JUnit
4 11 (32.35%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (26.47%) JIRA
6 8 (23.53%) Gradle
7 7 (20.59%) Git
7 7 (20.59%) JMeter
8 6 (17.65%) Postman
9 5 (14.71%) Artifactory
9 5 (14.71%) REST Assured
9 5 (14.71%) WebDriver
10 4 (11.76%) Bitbucket
11 3 (8.82%) Gatling
11 3 (8.82%) SonarQube
12 2 (5.88%) GitLab
12 2 (5.88%) Robot Framework
12 2 (5.88%) TestNG
13 1 (2.94%) Cypress.io
13 1 (2.94%) Maven
General
1 12 (35.29%) Finance
2 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Automotive
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.94%) Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) Developer
2 14 (41.18%) Java Developer
3 7 (20.59%) Senior
4 6 (17.65%) Java Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) Automation Tester
5 5 (14.71%) AWS Developer
5 5 (14.71%) Senior Developer
5 5 (14.71%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (14.71%) Tester
6 4 (11.76%) Selenium Automation Tester
6 4 (11.76%) Selenium Tester
6 4 (11.76%) Software Test Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Test Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Backend Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Kafka Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (52.94%) Spring
2 12 (35.29%) Spring Boot
3 10 (29.41%) Kafka
3 10 (29.41%) REST
4 5 (14.71%) Hibernate
4 5 (14.71%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (14.71%) RESTful
5 4 (11.76%) .NET
5 4 (11.76%) SOAP
6 3 (8.82%) Spring Batch
7 2 (5.88%) Gherkin
7 2 (5.88%) Jinja
7 2 (5.88%) JSON
7 2 (5.88%) NETCONF
7 2 (5.88%) Playwright
7 2 (5.88%) Swagger
7 2 (5.88%) XML
8 1 (2.94%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (2.94%) Svelte
8 1 (2.94%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.94%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
2 3 (8.82%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 19 (55.88%) Test Automation
3 14 (41.18%) Observability
4 13 (38.24%) Agile
5 11 (32.35%) Software Testing
6 7 (20.59%) Microservices
6 7 (20.59%) Sprint Planning
7 5 (14.71%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (14.71%) Event-Driven
7 5 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (14.71%) Manual Testing
7 5 (14.71%) Regression Testing
7 5 (14.71%) Scrum
7 5 (14.71%) SOA
7 5 (14.71%) Test Scripting
8 4 (11.76%) Acceptance Criteria
8 4 (11.76%) DevOps
8 4 (11.76%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 4 (11.76%) Software Engineering
8 4 (11.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 25 (73.53%) Java
2 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
3 6 (17.65%) Python
4 4 (11.76%) C#
4 4 (11.76%) SQL
5 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) OCP
1 7 (20.59%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (32.35%) Kubernetes
2 7 (20.59%) Ansible
3 5 (14.71%) Grafana
3 5 (14.71%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) VMware
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle
3 2 (5.88%) Cisco
3 2 (5.88%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.88%) Veracode
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft