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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 171 188
Rank change year-on-year +32 +17 +27
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 28 9 26
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.77% 0.21% 0.47%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.80% 1.67% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 12
10th Percentile £330 £290 £514
25th Percentile £360 £356 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -26.09% +12.20%
75th Percentile £473 £588 £588
90th Percentile £669 £593 £723
England median daily rate £425 £500 £535
% change year-on-year -15.00% -6.54% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 5
10th Percentile £48.13 - £52.75
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £73.00
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 412 538 711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.40% 12.60% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 325 477
10th Percentile £259 £348 £400
25th Percentile £375 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -11.63% +2.38%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £613
90th Percentile £619 £650 £666
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 33 39
10th Percentile - £51.05 £47.32
25th Percentile £50.00 £55.87 £53.44
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78.13 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £73.00 £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 17 October 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
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 17 October 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 +24 19 £388 -32.61% 3
Berkshire +14 6 £674 +17.17% 4
Thames Valley +2 6 £674 +34.75% 4
Surrey - 2 £330 - 2
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 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (7.14%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) AWS
2 6 (21.43%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) Datadog
2 6 (21.43%) GitHub
3 5 (17.86%) OpenShift
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
4 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.71%) GCP
4 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (10.71%) Snowflake
5 2 (7.14%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (3.57%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.71%) DynamoDB
2 3 (10.71%) HBase
2 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
2 3 (10.71%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (46.43%) Selenium
2 11 (39.29%) Jenkins
3 10 (35.71%) JIRA
4 8 (28.57%) Git
5 6 (21.43%) JUnit
5 6 (21.43%) Postman
5 6 (21.43%) WebDriver
6 5 (17.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (14.29%) Bitbucket
7 4 (14.29%) REST Assured
8 3 (10.71%) Artifactory
8 3 (10.71%) Gradle
9 2 (7.14%) GitLab
9 2 (7.14%) JMeter
9 2 (7.14%) Robot Framework
9 2 (7.14%) SonarQube
9 2 (7.14%) SpecFlow
10 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
General
1 7 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Automotive
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Java Developer
3 6 (21.43%) Software Test Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Test Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Automation Tester
4 4 (14.29%) AWS Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Selenium Automation Tester
4 4 (14.29%) Selenium Tester
4 4 (14.29%) Senior
4 4 (14.29%) Tester
5 3 (10.71%) Java Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Backend Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Head of Development
7 1 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (39.29%) REST
1 11 (39.29%) Spring
2 9 (32.14%) Spring Boot
3 5 (17.86%) Kafka
3 5 (17.86%) RESTful
4 4 (14.29%) .NET
4 4 (14.29%) Playwright
4 4 (14.29%) SOAP
5 3 (10.71%) CSS
5 3 (10.71%) HTML
5 3 (10.71%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (10.71%) Spring Batch
6 2 (7.14%) Hibernate
6 2 (7.14%) Jinja
6 2 (7.14%) JSON
6 2 (7.14%) NETCONF
6 2 (7.14%) Swagger
6 2 (7.14%) XML
7 1 (3.57%) RxJS
7 1 (3.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.57%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Windows
2 2 (7.14%) Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Agile
1 16 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 15 (53.57%) Test Automation
3 11 (39.29%) Software Testing
4 10 (35.71%) Observability
5 9 (32.14%) Scrum
6 8 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
7 6 (21.43%) Code Quality
7 6 (21.43%) Exploratory Testing
7 6 (21.43%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 5 (17.86%) Manual Testing
8 5 (17.86%) Microservices
8 5 (17.86%) SDLC
9 4 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (14.29%) Regression Testing
9 4 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
9 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 4 (14.29%) Test Scripting
10 3 (10.71%) Acceptance Criteria
10 3 (10.71%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) Java
2 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (21.43%) C#
3 6 (21.43%) Python
4 5 (17.86%) SQL
5 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) OCP
1 4 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.29%) Ansible
3 3 (10.71%) Grafana
4 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Oracle
2 2 (7.14%) Cisco
2 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
2 2 (7.14%) Veracode
2 2 (7.14%) VMware