Cucumber Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Cucumber
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Cucumber skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 41 51
Rank change year-on-year +7 +10 +6
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.38% 0.59% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.03% 3.70% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £375 £638
Median % change year-on-year - -41.18% +10.87%
75th Percentile - - £644
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £475 £375 £638
% change year-on-year +26.67% -41.18% +10.87%

All Development Application Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 33 54 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 12.64% 16.02% 12.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 39 42
10th Percentile £233 £199 £413
25th Percentile £256 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £322 £503 £588
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% -14.47% +3.07%
75th Percentile £423 £544 £638
90th Percentile £503 £551 £699
Wales median daily rate £409 £503 £550
% change year-on-year -18.66% -8.64% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £20.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - -22.17% -
Wales median hourly rate - £20.24 £26.00
% change year-on-year - -22.17% -

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in South Wales

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Cucumber.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Cucumber.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 13 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
Cardiff 0 1 £375 -
Cucumber
Wales

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA