Cucumber Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Cucumber
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Cucumber skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 41 50
Rank change year-on-year -36 +9 +9
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 10 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.30% 1.47% 0.90%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.97% 6.41% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 3
10th Percentile £374 £472 -
25th Percentile £398 £500 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £583 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.91% +45.63% -31.91%
75th Percentile £534 £623 £425
90th Percentile £588 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £465 £583 £400
% change year-on-year -20.13% +45.63% -20.00%

All Development Application Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 252 78 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 32.73% 22.87% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 54 41
10th Percentile £319 £413 £400
25th Percentile £397 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £529 £433
Median % change year-on-year -10.21% +22.31% -25.91%
75th Percentile £532 £600 £538
90th Percentile £600 £650 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £493 £445
% change year-on-year -1.12% +10.78% -15.23%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cucumber relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Cucumber job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in South Yorkshire

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Sheffield -42 9 £500 -14.16% 5
Cucumber
Yorkshire

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
1 8 (80.00%) GCP
2 5 (50.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) MySQL
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) REST Assured
1 9 (90.00%) Selenium
2 8 (80.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (70.00%) GitLab
3 7 (70.00%) JIRA
4 6 (60.00%) Postman
4 6 (60.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (20.00%) Banking
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 7 (70.00%) Test Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Lead
3 5 (50.00%) Automation Test Lead
4 4 (40.00%) Lead Test Engineer
5 3 (30.00%) Test Leader
6 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) LDAP
1 7 (70.00%) OpenID
1 7 (70.00%) REST
1 7 (70.00%) SailPoint
2 6 (60.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) API Testing
1 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (90.00%) Manual Testing
1 9 (90.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (70.00%) BDD
2 7 (70.00%) Scenario Testing
2 7 (70.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 7 (70.00%) Test Scripting
3 6 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
3 6 (60.00%) TDD
4 5 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
4 5 (50.00%) DevOps
4 5 (50.00%) ETL
4 5 (50.00%) GitOps
4 5 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 5 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
4 5 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (40.00%) Test Strategy
6 3 (30.00%) Agile
6 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Java
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (60.00%) PHP
2 6 (60.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) ServiceNow