Cucumber Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cucumber
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 311 305
Rank change year-on-year +62 -6 -21
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 90 88 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.70% 0.42% 0.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.22% 3.88% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 56 106
10th Percentile £238 £356 £379
25th Percentile £356 £386 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% -0.40% +8.93%
75th Percentile £501 £608 £575
90th Percentile £560 £688 £742
UK median daily rate £460 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -8.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £69.25
25th Percentile - - £72.19
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.43%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,725 2,267 3,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.48% 10.92% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,140 1,468 2,388
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 170 181
10th Percentile £46.50 £40.85 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.18 £55.00 £52.38
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.28 £85.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in the UK excluding London

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in the UK excluding London

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in the UK excluding London

Cucumber
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cucumber in the UK excluding London

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +37 39 £460 +15.00% 20
Yorkshire +19 20 £520 +29.94% 8
South East +38 19 £501 -23.00% 20
Midlands +29 16 £348 -10.90% 7
North West +10 12 £475 +19.12% 10
East Midlands +20 8 £226 -44.88% 5
West Midlands +19 8 £483 +60.33% 1
North East +4 7 £390 +25.81% 2
South West +47 6 £230 -54.00% 12
Scotland -5 6 £400 -20.00% 3
Wales +2 2 - - 6
East of England - 2 £525 - 2
Cucumber
UK

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (22.22%) Confluence
2 2 (2.22%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 24 (26.67%) Azure
2 20 (22.22%) AWS
3 9 (10.00%) GitHub
3 9 (10.00%) Slack
4 7 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.78%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (4.44%) GCP
5 4 (4.44%) SaaS
6 3 (3.33%) IaaS
6 3 (3.33%) PaaS
6 3 (3.33%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.33%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.22%) Serverless
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.11%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.11%) Datadog
8 1 (1.11%) Sauce Labs
8 1 (1.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.56%) MongoDB
2 10 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
2 10 (11.11%) MySQL
2 10 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.44%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.11%) Adabas
5 1 (1.11%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.11%) IDMS
5 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.11%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 44 (48.89%) JIRA
1 44 (48.89%) Selenium
2 36 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 31 (34.44%) Git
4 26 (28.89%) JUnit
5 20 (22.22%) REST Assured
6 18 (20.00%) GitLab
7 13 (14.44%) Maven
8 11 (12.22%) SonarQube
9 10 (11.11%) Cypress.io
9 10 (11.11%) Jasmine
10 9 (10.00%) Postman
11 8 (8.89%) Gradle
11 8 (8.89%) Mockito
12 7 (7.78%) Visual Studio
12 7 (7.78%) WebDriver
13 4 (4.44%) HP UFT
13 4 (4.44%) IntelliJ
13 4 (4.44%) JMeter
13 4 (4.44%) Subversion
General
1 19 (21.11%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 16 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (16.67%) Finance
5 8 (8.89%) Banking
5 8 (8.89%) Law
6 4 (4.44%) Police
7 3 (3.33%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.22%) Electronics
8 2 (2.22%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.22%) Marketing
9 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.11%) Retail
9 1 (1.11%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 18 (20.00%) Developer
1 18 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 15 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 14 (15.56%) Senior
4 12 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 11 (12.22%) Tester
6 10 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
6 10 (11.11%) Lead
6 10 (11.11%) Test Engineer
7 9 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 9 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (7.78%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) QA Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Automation Tester
10 5 (5.56%) QA Tester
11 4 (4.44%) Analyst
11 4 (4.44%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 4 (4.44%) Test Automation Engineer
11 4 (4.44%) Test Leader
12 3 (3.33%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (22.22%) REST
2 16 (17.78%) RESTful
3 14 (15.56%) Java EE
3 14 (15.56%) Spring
4 13 (14.44%) Spring Boot
5 11 (12.22%) Gherkin
6 10 (11.11%) Swagger
7 9 (10.00%) ARM Templates
7 9 (10.00%) OpenAPI
7 9 (10.00%) Playwright
7 9 (10.00%) Spring Security
8 8 (8.89%) Spring Batch
9 7 (7.78%) HTML
10 5 (5.56%) .NET
11 4 (4.44%) CSS
11 4 (4.44%) DOM
11 4 (4.44%) Node.js
12 3 (3.33%) JPA
12 3 (3.33%) jQuery
12 3 (3.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (3.33%) Client/Server
2 3 (3.33%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.78%) Linux
2 10 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.33%) Unix
4 1 (1.11%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 43 (47.78%) Agile
3 37 (41.11%) CI/CD
4 32 (35.56%) BDD
5 31 (34.44%) DevOps
6 28 (31.11%) Continuous Integration
7 23 (25.56%) Software Engineering
7 23 (25.56%) TDD
8 21 (23.33%) Technical Leadership
9 18 (20.00%) Containerisation
10 14 (15.56%) Configuration Management
10 14 (15.56%) Continuous Delivery
10 14 (15.56%) Microservices
10 14 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (15.56%) Software Testing
11 13 (14.44%) Software Architecture
12 10 (11.11%) API Testing
12 10 (11.11%) Test Scripting
12 10 (11.11%) Validation
13 9 (10.00%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 62 (68.89%) Java
2 26 (28.89%) SQL
3 16 (17.78%) JavaScript
4 10 (11.11%) Bash
5 9 (10.00%) C#
5 9 (10.00%) Python
6 5 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.44%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.44%) Ruby
7 4 (4.44%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.33%) C++
8 3 (3.33%) VBA
8 3 (3.33%) VBScript
9 2 (2.22%) Scala
10 1 (1.11%) COBOL
10 1 (1.11%) Natural
Qualifications
1 29 (32.22%) Security Cleared
2 24 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.89%) ISTQB
4 5 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (4.44%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.44%) ISEB
6 2 (2.22%) Degree
7 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (23.33%) QA
2 4 (4.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (23.33%) Docker
2 3 (3.33%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 19 (21.11%) Kubernetes
2 18 (20.00%) Ansible
3 9 (10.00%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (10.00%) Podman
3 9 (10.00%) Terraform
4 3 (3.33%) Puppet
5 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (3.33%) Splunk
2 2 (2.22%) SAP
2 2 (2.22%) Veracode
2 2 (2.22%) Virgin Media
3 1 (1.11%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.11%) Confluent
3 1 (1.11%) Google
3 1 (1.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.11%) New Relic
3 1 (1.11%) Perfecto Mobile
3 1 (1.11%) Sybase