Cucumber Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Cucumber
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Cucumber skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 121 137
Rank change year-on-year +14 +16 +27
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 8 6 8
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.47% 0.28% 0.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.52% 2.19% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £430 £302 £529
25th Percentile £475 £373 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £624 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year +24.80% -8.26% +17.84%
75th Percentile £771 £591 £555
90th Percentile - £596 £561
South East median daily rate £425 £425 £575
% change year-on-year - -26.09% +12.20%

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 177 274 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.41% 12.64% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 163 169
10th Percentile £286 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -3.23% +4.33%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £623
90th Percentile £621 £668 £675
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £538
% change year-on-year - -11.63% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 2
10th Percentile £59.20 - £20.48
25th Percentile £70.50 £55.87 £26.81
Median hourly rate £77.00 £58.49 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +31.65% +52.92% -40.63%
75th Percentile £89.63 £78.00 £49.31
90th Percentile - £94.00 £55.43
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £65.50 £59.50
% change year-on-year -16.03% +10.08% -8.46%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Cucumber job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cucumber.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 10 October 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 +22 8 £624 +8.52% 5
Cucumber
South East

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Tricentis Tosca
4 1 (12.50%) Datadog
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) GitLab
1 5 (62.50%) Selenium
2 4 (50.00%) SonarQube
3 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (37.50%) JIRA
3 3 (37.50%) REST Assured
4 2 (25.00%) Git
4 2 (25.00%) Robot Framework
4 2 (25.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Law
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Head of Development
1 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Backend Developer
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Java EE
1 3 (37.50%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) Jinja
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
2 2 (25.00%) NETCONF
2 2 (25.00%) Playwright
2 2 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Batch
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (12.50%) YANG
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
4 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) Software Architecture
4 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (25.00%) AI
5 2 (25.00%) API Testing
5 2 (25.00%) BDD
5 2 (25.00%) Load Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 2 (25.00%) Microservices
5 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
5 2 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Podman
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (25.00%) Veracode