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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 134 174
Rank change year-on-year -73 +40 +10
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 3 19 28
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.051% 0.64% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.59% 5.29% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 16
10th Percentile - - £553
25th Percentile £550 £463 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £501 £650
Median % change year-on-year +19.88% -23.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £650 £501 £688
90th Percentile - - £719
England median daily rate £456 £430 £513
% change year-on-year +6.10% -16.10% -13.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

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 511 359 532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.68% 12.07% 9.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 219 328
10th Percentile £280 £350 £311
25th Percentile £366 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £619
90th Percentile £654 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.10% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 21 34
10th Percentile £58.00 £47.50 £39.60
25th Percentile £70.00 £50.00 £51.81
Median hourly rate £83.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.91% -12.00% +10.91%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile - £65.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £67.75 £60.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.45% -7.31% +5.69%

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
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
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 14 May 2026. 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 -27 1 - - 1
Thames Valley -54 1 - - 3
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (33.33%) HBase
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (33.33%) Gradle
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
2 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (33.33%) JAXB
2 1 (33.33%) JWT
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) API Design
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) SDET
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) OCP
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes