Cucumber Contract Job Trends

Cucumber
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Cucumber skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 364 342
Rank change year-on-year -15 -22 -21
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 245 159 253
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.54% 0.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.20% 3.92% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 95 176
10th Percentile £350 £305 £350
25th Percentile £383 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £650
90th Percentile £600 £700 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £465 £440
% change year-on-year -8.60% +5.68% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile £68.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,839 4,060 5,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.42% 13.88% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,945 2,695 3,535
10th Percentile £341 £338 £358
25th Percentile £405 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 68 196
10th Percentile £35.00 £23.76 £37.19
25th Percentile £55.44 £47.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.75 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% +0.81% +0.81%
75th Percentile £79.38 £71.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.89 £81.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.20% - +1.63%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cucumber job vacancy trend in the UK

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cucumber over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 March 2026. 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
England -20 205 £425 -1.28% 26
UK excluding London -19 139 £425 -8.60% 26
London -28 82 £425 -1.16% 6
Work from Home -11 63 £425 +6.25% 22
North of England -64 53 £425 +6.25% 8
South East -29 31 £416 +28.08% 8
West Midlands -42 28 £430 -10.97% 2
Midlands -46 28 £430 -10.97% 5
Yorkshire -53 26 £500 -18.38% 2
Wales +3 14 £425 - 1
North East -8 14 £419 +21.82% 1
North West -37 13 £400 - 5
Scotland +6 6 - - 2
South West -25 6 £463 +18.59%
East of England -21 1 £450 -14.29% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 29 (11.84%) Confluence
2 3 (1.22%) Appian
3 2 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.82%) Camunda
4 1 (0.41%) Mule
4 1 (0.41%) Mule ESB
4 1 (0.41%) nginx
4 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.41%) Mingle
1 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 124 (50.61%) AWS
2 80 (32.65%) Azure
3 74 (30.20%) GitHub
4 48 (19.59%) GitHub Actions
5 37 (15.10%) GCP
6 26 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (8.16%) Serverless
8 18 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (7.35%) OpenShift
9 11 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (4.49%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.67%) Datadog
10 9 (3.67%) SaaS
11 7 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (2.45%) BrowserStack
13 5 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.04%) Tricentis Tosca
14 4 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (1.63%) BlazeMeter
14 4 (1.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.45%) HTTP
2 5 (2.04%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.41%) Multicast
3 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (5.31%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.90%) DynamoDB
3 12 (4.90%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.49%) MySQL
4 11 (4.49%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.27%) HBase
6 6 (2.45%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.22%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.82%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.41%) Big Data
10 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.41%) DB2
10 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.41%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 124 (50.61%) Selenium
2 108 (44.08%) Jenkins
3 77 (31.43%) Git
3 77 (31.43%) JIRA
4 74 (30.20%) JUnit
5 68 (27.76%) GitLab
5 68 (27.76%) Postman
6 50 (20.41%) REST Assured
7 46 (18.78%) JMeter
8 33 (13.47%) WebDriver
9 20 (8.16%) Mockito
10 19 (7.76%) Sonatype Nexus
11 16 (6.53%) Cypress.io
11 16 (6.53%) Gradle
11 16 (6.53%) Maven
11 16 (6.53%) TestRail
12 14 (5.71%) SpecFlow
13 13 (5.31%) Zephyr
14 11 (4.49%) Gatling
15 10 (4.08%) SonarQube
General
1 74 (30.20%) Social Skills
2 61 (24.90%) Finance
3 29 (11.84%) Public Sector
4 27 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (9.39%) Banking
6 8 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.04%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.63%) Back Office
8 4 (1.63%) Front Office
9 3 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.22%) Military
9 3 (1.22%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.82%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.41%) Billing
11 1 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (24.90%) Test Engineer
2 55 (22.45%) Developer
3 39 (15.92%) Senior
4 37 (15.10%) Tester
5 35 (14.29%) Java Developer
6 32 (13.06%) Test Automation Engineer
7 29 (11.84%) Automation Tester
8 27 (11.02%) Lead
9 19 (7.76%) Test Leader
10 17 (6.94%) QA Engineer
11 15 (6.12%) Automation Test Lead
12 14 (5.71%) Java Engineer
13 12 (4.90%) Automation Engineer
14 11 (4.49%) Software Engineer
15 10 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
15 10 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
16 9 (3.67%) Senior Automation Tester
16 9 (3.67%) Senior Developer
16 9 (3.67%) Senior Java Developer
16 9 (3.67%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (29.39%) Spring
2 59 (24.08%) REST
3 58 (23.67%) Playwright
4 44 (17.96%) Spring Boot
5 43 (17.55%) Gherkin
6 29 (11.84%) Kafka
6 29 (11.84%) WireMock
7 23 (9.39%) JSON
8 21 (8.57%) React
9 19 (7.76%) Node.js
10 18 (7.35%) .NET
10 18 (7.35%) AngularJS
10 18 (7.35%) RESTful
11 17 (6.94%) OpenID
12 16 (6.53%) XML
13 15 (6.12%) HTML
14 13 (5.31%) SOAP
15 12 (4.90%) LDAP
15 12 (4.90%) SailPoint
16 10 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.80%) Product Ownership
2 17 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.90%) Distributed Architecture
4 10 (4.08%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.22%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.82%) Derivative
7 2 (0.82%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (0.82%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.82%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.82%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.82%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.41%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.41%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.98%) Linux
2 3 (1.22%) Unix
3 2 (0.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (70.20%) Test Automation
2 167 (68.16%) CI/CD
3 135 (55.10%) Agile
4 113 (46.12%) BDD
5 81 (33.06%) API Testing
6 69 (28.16%) Microservices
7 67 (27.35%) Test Strategy
8 66 (26.94%) DevOps
9 63 (25.71%) TDD
10 55 (22.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (18.78%) Scrum
12 40 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (16.33%) Test Scripting
13 36 (14.69%) Manual Testing
13 36 (14.69%) Performance Testing
14 35 (14.29%) Containerisation
14 35 (14.29%) Validation
15 33 (13.47%) Observability
15 33 (13.47%) Software Testing
16 32 (13.06%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 161 (65.71%) Java
2 57 (23.27%) JavaScript
3 47 (19.18%) Python
4 42 (17.14%) SQL
5 31 (12.65%) C#
6 29 (11.84%) TypeScript
7 21 (8.57%) Ruby
8 9 (3.67%) XPath
9 6 (2.45%) PHP
10 4 (1.63%) Groovy
11 3 (1.22%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.22%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.22%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.82%) Bash
12 2 (0.82%) C++
12 2 (0.82%) Go
12 2 (0.82%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.41%) Scala
13 1 (0.41%) VB6
Qualifications
1 47 (19.18%) Security Cleared
2 41 (16.73%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.08%) OCP
3 10 (4.08%) Oracle Certification
4 9 (3.67%) ISTQB
5 8 (3.27%) Degree
6 7 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.82%) ISEB
9 2 (0.82%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.41%) CFA
10 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (29.39%) QA
2 20 (8.16%) Accessibility
3 13 (5.31%) WCAG
4 2 (0.82%) NCSC
5 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.41%) SLA
5 1 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 51 (20.82%) Docker
2 4 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 65 (26.53%) Kubernetes
2 32 (13.06%) Grafana
3 17 (6.94%) Prometheus
4 16 (6.53%) Ansible
5 9 (3.67%) Progress Chef
6 7 (2.86%) Terraform
7 5 (2.04%) Kibana
8 2 (0.82%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.41%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 19 (7.76%) Oracle
2 14 (5.71%) ServiceNow
3 13 (5.31%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.67%) VMware
5 6 (2.45%) Splunk
6 5 (2.04%) Google
6 5 (2.04%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.63%) SAP
7 4 (1.63%) Veracode
8 3 (1.22%) Cisco
8 3 (1.22%) UiPath
8 3 (1.22%) Workday
9 2 (0.82%) Adobe
9 2 (0.82%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.41%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.41%) HP
10 1 (0.41%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.41%) MarketAxess
10 1 (0.41%) Tradeweb