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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 122 144
Rank change year-on-year +16 +22 +11
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Cucumber 5 13 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.26% 0.48% 0.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.36% 3.49% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 11
10th Percentile - £435 £363
25th Percentile £450 £451 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £522
Median % change year-on-year - -9.00% +16.00%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £675
90th Percentile - £530 £709
England median daily rate £425 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -19.05% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +50.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 212 373 404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.99% 13.63% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 192 283
10th Percentile £305 £425 £365
25th Percentile £414 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +2.38% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £590 £638
90th Percentile £663 £652 £705
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 61 49
10th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £48.32
25th Percentile £65.00 £66.25 £56.49
Median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% +1.09%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.25 £78.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.44 £80.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cucumber

Cucumber
DemandTrendContract 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 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucestershire +20 4 - - 1
Wiltshire - 1 £475 - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (80.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Maven
3 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Lead
1 4 (80.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Software Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) SOLID
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared