Cucumber Contracts in the Thames Valley

Cucumber
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 87 119 136
Rank change year-on-year +32 +17 +21
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 15 26 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.99% 0.97% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.47% 10.04% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 12
10th Percentile - £571 £405
25th Percentile £500 £613 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £650 £489
Median % change year-on-year -23.00% +32.99% +30.33%
75th Percentile £501 £688 £565
90th Percentile - £720 £586
South East median daily rate £501 £650 £488
% change year-on-year -23.00% +33.33% +21.88%

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 177 259 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.71% 9.64% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 158 212
10th Percentile £359 £329 £363
25th Percentile £452 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.04% +12.37%
75th Percentile £589 £650 £629
90th Percentile £638 £688 £723
South East median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 2
10th Percentile £26.28 - £53.13
25th Percentile £34.43 £46.25 £55.94
Median hourly rate £48.00 £55.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% -10.20% -6.49%
75th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £65.94
90th Percentile £73.60 - £68.38
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £62.50 £56.24
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.14% +2.25%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in the Thames Valley

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in the Thames Valley

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +21 15 £501 -23.00% 4
Cucumber
South East

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (86.67%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 13 (86.67%) GitLab
1 13 (86.67%) Jenkins
1 13 (86.67%) JIRA
1 13 (86.67%) REST Assured
1 13 (86.67%) Selenium
2 9 (60.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (13.33%) Git
3 2 (13.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 11 (73.33%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (53.33%) Law
4 4 (26.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Java Engineer
1 9 (60.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Java Developer
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (86.67%) Java EE
1 13 (86.67%) REST
2 9 (60.00%) ARM Templates
3 2 (13.33%) CSS
3 2 (13.33%) HTML
3 2 (13.33%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
1 15 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (86.67%) Configuration Management
2 13 (86.67%) Continuous Integration
2 13 (86.67%) Software Architecture
2 13 (86.67%) Software Engineering
2 13 (86.67%) Technical Leadership
3 9 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 9 (60.00%) Decision-Making
3 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Agile
6 2 (13.33%) API Testing
6 2 (13.33%) BDD
6 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 2 (13.33%) Load Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Scrum
6 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) SC Cleared
1 13 (86.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Ansible
1 9 (60.00%) Docker Swarm
1 9 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (60.00%) Podman
1 9 (60.00%) Terraform