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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 143 183
Rank change year-on-year -45 +40 +10
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 20 13 29
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.36% 0.43% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.72% 3.63% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 15
10th Percentile £316 £470 £571
25th Percentile £360 £481 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £501 £650
Median % change year-on-year -21.58% -23.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £499 £501 £688
90th Percentile £606 - £720
England median daily rate £425 £455 £500
% change year-on-year -6.59% -9.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile £68.00 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 - -

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 538 358 545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 9.55% 11.97% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 216 344
10th Percentile £286 £350 £325
25th Percentile £363 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -6.32% -2.95%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £619
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 20 32
10th Percentile £54.00 £47.25 £37.70
25th Percentile £66.25 £50.30 £50.00
Median hourly rate £83.00 £57.63 £62.25
Median % change year-on-year +44.03% -7.43% +11.42%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.81 £65.00
90th Percentile - £71.63 £70.00
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.65% +3.20% +1.63%

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 9 April 2026.

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 9 April 2026.

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 9 April 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 - 16 £375 - 1
Thames Valley -57 3 £450 -10.14% 4
Berkshire -39 2 £600 +19.88% 3
Buckinghamshire - 1 £300 -
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 16 (80.00%) AWS
2 15 (75.00%) GitHub
3 9 (45.00%) GitHub Actions
3 9 (45.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (15.00%) Azure
4 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Datadog
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (70.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (30.00%) NoSQL
3 5 (25.00%) HBase
4 4 (20.00%) DynamoDB
5 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (5.00%) Big Data
6 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
6 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (85.00%) Jenkins
2 15 (75.00%) JUnit
3 14 (70.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (50.00%) JMeter
5 8 (40.00%) Gradle
6 5 (25.00%) Artifactory
7 4 (20.00%) Selenium
8 3 (15.00%) Gatling
8 3 (15.00%) Git
9 2 (10.00%) Postman
9 2 (10.00%) TestNG
10 1 (5.00%) JIRA
10 1 (5.00%) Maven
10 1 (5.00%) REST Assured
10 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
10 1 (5.00%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (60.00%) Finance
2 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Developer
1 12 (60.00%) Java Developer
2 7 (35.00%) Java Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (30.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 6 (30.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Developer
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Kafka Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Kafka Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Test Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Lead
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Digital Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (80.00%) Spring
2 13 (65.00%) Kafka
3 8 (40.00%) Spring Boot
4 7 (35.00%) Hibernate
5 3 (15.00%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (10.00%) Gherkin
7 1 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
7 1 (5.00%) JAXB
7 1 (5.00%) JPA
7 1 (5.00%) JWT
7 1 (5.00%) OAuth
7 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
7 1 (5.00%) REST
7 1 (5.00%) RESTful
7 1 (5.00%) SOAP
7 1 (5.00%) WebdriverIO
7 1 (5.00%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (55.00%) Test Automation
3 8 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (35.00%) Observability
4 7 (35.00%) Test Scripting
5 5 (25.00%) DevOps
6 4 (20.00%) Agile
6 4 (20.00%) Event-Driven
6 4 (20.00%) Microservices
6 4 (20.00%) Performance Testing
6 4 (20.00%) User Stories
7 3 (15.00%) Epics
7 3 (15.00%) SOA
7 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
8 2 (10.00%) API Testing
8 2 (10.00%) BDD
8 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
8 2 (10.00%) Manual Testing
8 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (5.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 18 (90.00%) Java
2 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) OCP
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
1 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (40.00%) Ansible
2 8 (40.00%) Progress Chef
3 3 (15.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) VMware
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft