Cucumber Contracts in the South West

Cucumber
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Cucumber skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cucumber over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 155 157
Rank change year-on-year +50 +2 -12
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 6 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.36% 0.063% 0.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.37% 0.58% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile - £458 £338
25th Percentile - £469 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £230 £500 £395
Median % change year-on-year -54.00% +26.58% -14.59%
75th Percentile - £544 £519
90th Percentile - £563 £681
England median daily rate £455 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -9.00% -13.04% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.43%

All Development Application Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 178 343 463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.61% 10.72% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 209 320
10th Percentile £354 £425 £374
25th Percentile £450 £475 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +5.37% +1.59%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £619
90th Percentile £695 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 51 55
10th Percentile £62.50 £40.00 £50.48
25th Percentile £65.63 £59.32 £56.13
Median hourly rate £75.00 £67.25 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.52% +9.35% +10.14%
75th Percentile £80.23 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £80.00 £81.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in the South West

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in the South West

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Gloucestershire +20 4 - - 8
Bristol - 2 £230 - 5
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Cypress.io
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Lead
1 4 (66.67%) Test Leader
2 2 (33.33%) Development Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Development Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Test Development Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible