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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 160 187
Rank change year-on-year +15 +27 +13
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 37 4 14
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.86% 0.12% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.87% 0.90% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 1 9
10th Percentile £327 - -
25th Percentile £360 £313 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £325 £575
Median % change year-on-year +21.54% -43.48% +14.71%
75th Percentile £472 £338 £588
90th Percentile £601 - £745
England median daily rate £425 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -10.53% -4.04% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £56.25 - -
90th Percentile £67.50 - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +24.80%

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 470 442 590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.89% 12.92% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 259 400
10th Percentile £259 £349 £381
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £550 £589 £615
90th Percentile £646 £650 £672
England median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 20 29
10th Percentile £43.75 £51.23 £51.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £54.56 £55.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £59.02 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.08% -5.57% -1.96%
75th Percentile £89.63 £62.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £97.00 £67.44 £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 9 January 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 January 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 January 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 - 29 £388 - 2
Thames Valley -11 6 £600 - 8
Berkshire - 5 £674 - 3
Surrey -5 2 £330 - 2
Buckinghamshire +2 1 £300 - 2
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 (10.81%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 23 (62.16%) AWS
2 18 (48.65%) GitHub
3 13 (35.14%) OpenShift
4 9 (24.32%) Datadog
4 9 (24.32%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (16.22%) Azure
6 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
6 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (8.11%) GCP
6 3 (8.11%) Snowflake
7 2 (5.41%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.70%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (56.76%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (24.32%) NoSQL
3 8 (21.62%) HBase
4 6 (16.22%) DynamoDB
4 6 (16.22%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.70%) Big Data
5 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (67.57%) Jenkins
2 20 (54.05%) JUnit
3 18 (48.65%) Sonatype Nexus
4 11 (29.73%) Gradle
4 11 (29.73%) JMeter
4 11 (29.73%) Selenium
5 8 (21.62%) Artifactory
6 6 (16.22%) JIRA
7 5 (13.51%) REST Assured
8 4 (10.81%) Bitbucket
8 4 (10.81%) Git
9 3 (8.11%) Gatling
9 3 (8.11%) Postman
9 3 (8.11%) SonarQube
10 2 (5.41%) GitLab
10 2 (5.41%) Robot Framework
10 2 (5.41%) TestNG
10 2 (5.41%) WebDriver
11 1 (2.70%) Maven
General
1 18 (48.65%) Finance
2 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Automotive
4 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.70%) Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 22 (59.46%) Developer
2 21 (56.76%) Java Developer
3 8 (21.62%) Java Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) Senior
4 7 (18.92%) AWS Developer
4 7 (18.92%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (18.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 6 (16.22%) Senior Developer
5 6 (16.22%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (13.51%) Automation Tester
6 5 (13.51%) Tester
7 4 (10.81%) Selenium Automation Tester
7 4 (10.81%) Selenium Tester
8 3 (8.11%) Backend Developer
8 3 (8.11%) Kafka Developer
9 2 (5.41%) Analyst
9 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (5.41%) Head of Development
9 2 (5.41%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (67.57%) Spring
2 17 (45.95%) Kafka
3 16 (43.24%) Spring Boot
4 8 (21.62%) Hibernate
5 6 (16.22%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (16.22%) REST
6 4 (10.81%) .NET
6 4 (10.81%) RESTful
6 4 (10.81%) SOAP
7 3 (8.11%) Spring Batch
8 2 (5.41%) Gherkin
8 2 (5.41%) Jinja
8 2 (5.41%) JSON
8 2 (5.41%) NETCONF
8 2 (5.41%) Swagger
8 2 (5.41%) XML
9 1 (2.70%) React
9 1 (2.70%) RxJS
9 1 (2.70%) Vue
9 1 (2.70%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.70%) Client/Server
1 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
1 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (2.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (24.32%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Windows
3 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (75.68%) CI/CD
2 17 (45.95%) Test Automation
3 16 (43.24%) Observability
4 12 (32.43%) Agile
5 9 (24.32%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (21.62%) Microservices
6 8 (21.62%) Software Testing
6 8 (21.62%) Test Scripting
7 6 (16.22%) Event-Driven
7 6 (16.22%) SOA
7 6 (16.22%) User Stories
8 5 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (13.51%) Performance Testing
8 5 (13.51%) Regression Testing
9 4 (10.81%) Acceptance Criteria
9 4 (10.81%) Containerisation
9 4 (10.81%) DevOps
9 4 (10.81%) Epics
9 4 (10.81%) Scenario Testing
9 4 (10.81%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 28 (75.68%) Java
2 6 (16.22%) JavaScript
2 6 (16.22%) Python
3 4 (10.81%) C#
3 4 (10.81%) SQL
4 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) OCP
1 10 (27.03%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Docker
1 4 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (40.54%) Kubernetes
2 11 (29.73%) Ansible
3 9 (24.32%) Progress Chef
4 6 (16.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (24.32%) VMware
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.11%) Oracle
3 2 (5.41%) Cisco
3 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.41%) Veracode