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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 166 180
Rank change year-on-year +36 +14 +39
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 30 14 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.87% 0.31% 0.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.77% 2.57% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 15
10th Percentile £367 £401 £505
25th Percentile £378 £525 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £501 £688 £588
90th Percentile £528 - £688
England median daily rate £425 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -19.05% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £48.13 - £53.50
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

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 386 545 706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.21% 11.93% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 349 464
10th Percentile £279 £325 £363
25th Percentile £384 £398 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -6.98% +2.38%
75th Percentile £550 £603 £615
90th Percentile £616 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 32 41
10th Percentile - £45.12 £48.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.56 £52.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.03% +11.02% -6.72%
75th Percentile £76.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.97 £73.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber 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 16 September 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 16 September 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
Berkshire +23 16 £501 -23.00% 2
Thames Valley +17 16 £501 -23.00% 6
Hampshire +21 11 £380 -33.91% 2
West Sussex -1 2 £475 +18.75%
Middlesex - 1 - -
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) Azure
2 14 (46.67%) AWS
3 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.67%) GitHub
3 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (80.00%) Selenium
2 23 (76.67%) JIRA
3 19 (63.33%) Jenkins
4 17 (56.67%) REST Assured
5 14 (46.67%) GitLab
6 10 (33.33%) Git
6 10 (33.33%) SonarQube
7 8 (26.67%) Postman
8 6 (20.00%) WebDriver
9 4 (13.33%) Bitbucket
10 2 (6.67%) SoapUI
10 2 (6.67%) SpecFlow
11 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
11 1 (3.33%) JMeter
11 1 (3.33%) JUnit
11 1 (3.33%) Robot Framework
11 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (36.67%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 8 (26.67%) Law
4 4 (13.33%) Finance
4 4 (13.33%) Police
5 3 (10.00%) Automotive
6 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.33%) Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Java Engineer
1 9 (30.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (30.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Software Test Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Test Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Automation Tester
4 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Selenium Automation Tester
4 4 (13.33%) Selenium Tester
4 4 (13.33%) Tester
5 2 (6.67%) Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Test Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Head of Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (80.00%) REST
2 13 (43.33%) Java EE
3 9 (30.00%) ARM Templates
4 5 (16.67%) Playwright
4 5 (16.67%) RESTful
5 4 (13.33%) .NET
5 4 (13.33%) SOAP
6 2 (6.67%) CSS
6 2 (6.67%) HTML
6 2 (6.67%) Swagger
7 1 (3.33%) Hibernate
7 1 (3.33%) Jinja
7 1 (3.33%) JSON
7 1 (3.33%) Kafka
7 1 (3.33%) NETCONF
7 1 (3.33%) Spring
7 1 (3.33%) XML
7 1 (3.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.33%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (90.00%) Test Automation
2 17 (56.67%) Agile
3 15 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 15 (50.00%) DevOps
3 15 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 13 (43.33%) Configuration Management
4 13 (43.33%) Software Architecture
4 13 (43.33%) Technical Leadership
5 10 (33.33%) Decision-Making
6 9 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (30.00%) Scrum
7 8 (26.67%) Sprint Planning
8 7 (23.33%) CI/CD
8 7 (23.33%) Manual Testing
8 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (20.00%) Code Quality
9 6 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
9 6 (20.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 6 (20.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (70.00%) Java
2 7 (23.33%) SQL
3 6 (20.00%) C#
4 5 (16.67%) Python
5 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 15 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 10 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (36.67%) Ansible
2 10 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 9 (30.00%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (30.00%) Podman
3 9 (30.00%) Terraform
4 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (3.33%) Cisco
2 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.33%) Veracode
2 1 (3.33%) VMware