Cucumber Contracts in the South East

Cucumber
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 140 178 190
Rank change year-on-year +38 +12 +36
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 19 27 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.63% 0.49% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.32% 4.98% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 16
10th Percentile - £571 £405
25th Percentile £463 £613 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £650 £488
Median % change year-on-year -23.00% +33.33% +21.88%
75th Percentile £501 £688 £548
90th Percentile - £720 £580
England median daily rate £455 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -9.00% -13.04% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £67.00
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.43%

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 357 542 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.86% 9.75% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 334 481
10th Percentile £361 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £586 £619 £628
90th Percentile £638 £675 £698
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 33 39
10th Percentile £47.25 £38.65 £35.74
25th Percentile £49.50 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 £62.50 £56.24
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.14% +2.25%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.63 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in the South East

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in the South East

Cucumber
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in the South East.

Hourly rate trend 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 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
Thames Valley +32 15 £501 -23.00% 7
Berkshire +21 15 £501 -23.00% 4
West Sussex - 2 £475 - 1
Hampshire - 1 - - 8
Surrey - 1 - - 3
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 16 (84.21%) Azure
2 14 (73.68%) AWS
3 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) GCP
4 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 15 (78.95%) JIRA
2 14 (73.68%) Selenium
3 13 (68.42%) GitLab
3 13 (68.42%) Jenkins
3 13 (68.42%) REST Assured
4 9 (47.37%) SonarQube
5 5 (26.32%) Git
6 3 (15.79%) Postman
6 3 (15.79%) SpecFlow
7 2 (10.53%) SoapUI
8 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
8 1 (5.26%) JMeter
8 1 (5.26%) Mocha
8 1 (5.26%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (57.89%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
3 8 (42.11%) Law
4 4 (21.05%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Java Engineer
1 9 (47.37%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (47.37%) Software Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Java Developer
2 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Test Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Software Test Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (73.68%) REST
2 13 (68.42%) Java EE
3 9 (47.37%) ARM Templates
4 5 (26.32%) Playwright
5 2 (10.53%) CSS
5 2 (10.53%) HTML
6 1 (5.26%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
1 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 16 (84.21%) DevOps
3 14 (73.68%) Continuous Integration
4 13 (68.42%) Configuration Management
4 13 (68.42%) Software Architecture
4 13 (68.42%) Software Engineering
4 13 (68.42%) Technical Leadership
5 9 (47.37%) Containerisation
5 9 (47.37%) Decision-Making
5 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (36.84%) Agile
8 5 (26.32%) BDD
9 4 (21.05%) API Testing
10 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
10 3 (15.79%) Manual Testing
10 3 (15.79%) Scrum
11 2 (10.53%) OOP
11 2 (10.53%) Software Testing
11 2 (10.53%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) Java
2 4 (21.05%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) C#
3 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (68.42%) SC Cleared
1 13 (68.42%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Ansible
1 9 (47.37%) Docker Swarm
1 9 (47.37%) Kubernetes
1 9 (47.37%) Podman
1 9 (47.37%) Terraform