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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 157 182
Rank change year-on-year -12 +25 +14
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 32 3 24
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.62% 0.100% 0.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.99% 0.78% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 1 8
10th Percentile £325 - £559
25th Percentile £360 £313 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £325 £663
Median % change year-on-year +26.15% -50.94% +38.74%
75th Percentile £473 £338 £725
90th Percentile £605 - £729
England median daily rate £425 £431 £500
% change year-on-year -1.28% -13.90% -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 534 385 591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.37% 12.77% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 219 363
10th Percentile £283 £350 £350
25th Percentile £362 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £560 £592 £615
90th Percentile £647 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £507 £525
% change year-on-year -1.47% -3.34% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 23 37
10th Percentile £53.00 £47.50 £46.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £51.16 £55.00
Median hourly rate £83.58 £57.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.72% -7.60% +12.61%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in the South East over the 6 months to 10 March 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 10 March 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 10 March 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 - 24 £410 - 3
Thames Valley - 5 £500 - 1
Berkshire - 4 £600 -
Surrey -10 2 £330 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 24 (75.00%) AWS
2 19 (59.38%) GitHub
3 13 (40.63%) OpenShift
4 10 (31.25%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (28.13%) Datadog
6 6 (18.75%) Azure
7 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
8 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (9.38%) GCP
8 3 (9.38%) Snowflake
9 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (3.13%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (3.13%) npm
9 1 (3.13%) Serverless
9 1 (3.13%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (65.63%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (28.13%) NoSQL
3 8 (25.00%) HBase
4 7 (21.88%) DynamoDB
5 6 (18.75%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.13%) Big Data
6 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (68.75%) Jenkins
2 20 (62.50%) JUnit
3 18 (56.25%) Sonatype Nexus
4 11 (34.38%) Gradle
4 11 (34.38%) JMeter
5 8 (25.00%) Artifactory
6 5 (15.63%) Selenium
7 3 (9.38%) Gatling
7 3 (9.38%) Git
8 2 (6.25%) Postman
8 2 (6.25%) SonarQube
8 2 (6.25%) TestNG
9 1 (3.13%) GitLab
9 1 (3.13%) JIRA
9 1 (3.13%) Maven
9 1 (3.13%) REST Assured
9 1 (3.13%) Robot Framework
9 1 (3.13%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (43.75%) Finance
2 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Banking
3 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (68.75%) Developer
2 21 (65.63%) Java Developer
3 9 (28.13%) Java Engineer
3 9 (28.13%) Senior
4 7 (21.88%) AWS Developer
4 7 (21.88%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (21.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 6 (18.75%) Senior Developer
5 6 (18.75%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Backend Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Kafka Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Kafka Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Senior Java Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Test Analyst
8 1 (3.13%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (81.25%) Spring
2 17 (53.13%) Kafka
2 17 (53.13%) Spring Boot
3 8 (25.00%) Hibernate
4 6 (18.75%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (9.38%) Spring Batch
6 2 (6.25%) Gherkin
7 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
7 1 (3.13%) CSS3
7 1 (3.13%) HTML
7 1 (3.13%) HTML5
7 1 (3.13%) JAXB
7 1 (3.13%) Jinja
7 1 (3.13%) Node.js
7 1 (3.13%) OAuth2
7 1 (3.13%) React
7 1 (3.13%) REST
7 1 (3.13%) RxJS
7 1 (3.13%) Vue
7 1 (3.13%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (81.25%) CI/CD
2 16 (50.00%) Observability
3 13 (40.63%) Test Automation
4 9 (28.13%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (25.00%) Microservices
5 8 (25.00%) Test Scripting
6 7 (21.88%) Agile
6 7 (21.88%) Event-Driven
6 7 (21.88%) Software Testing
7 6 (18.75%) SOA
7 6 (18.75%) User Stories
8 5 (15.63%) Containerisation
8 5 (15.63%) DevOps
8 5 (15.63%) Performance Testing
9 4 (12.50%) Epics
10 3 (9.38%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (9.38%) Software Engineering
11 2 (6.25%) AI
11 2 (6.25%) Manual Testing
11 2 (6.25%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 28 (87.50%) Java
2 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.13%) Python
3 1 (3.13%) SQL
3 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) OCP
1 10 (31.25%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Docker
1 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (46.88%) Kubernetes
2 10 (31.25%) Ansible
3 9 (28.13%) Progress Chef
4 6 (18.75%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) VMware
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.13%) Veracode