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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 351 351
Rank change year-on-year -100 0 -18
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 182 176 232
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.60% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.14% 4.23% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 104 166
10th Percentile £350 £268 £325
25th Percentile £400 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £505 £684
90th Percentile £638 £584 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

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 5,797 4,162 5,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.01% 14.30% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,797 2,787 3,445
10th Percentile £350 £338 £353
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 71 207
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.00 £32.48
25th Percentile £56.40 £47.21 £46.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +5.69%
75th Percentile £71.94 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.96 £78.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%

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 21 May 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
Top 15 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 21 May 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 -93 156 £450 +5.88% 34
UK excluding London -99 99 £425 +6.25% 30
London -52 63 £475 +5.56% 8
Work from Home -40 56 £425 +3.66% 24
North of England -57 50 £426 +3.78% 7
Yorkshire -48 23 £500 +11.11% 1
West Midlands -43 21 £425 -12.01% 4
Midlands -58 21 £425 +57.99% 6
North West -33 18 £400 -2.68% 3
South West -25 14 £500 +117.39% 7
North East -20 9 £400 +2.56% 3
Scotland -2 6 £470 +17.50% 1
Wales -6 5 £425 - 1
South East -70 4 £600 +19.88% 7
East of England -25 1 £450 -14.29%

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 26 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.10%) Camunda
2 2 (1.10%) Mule
2 2 (1.10%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.55%) JBoss
3 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.55%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.55%) Mingle
1 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (4.40%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.10%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.55%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.55%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 83 (45.60%) AWS
2 61 (33.52%) Azure
3 56 (30.77%) GitHub
4 37 (20.33%) GCP
5 32 (17.58%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (8.24%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (8.24%) Serverless
8 11 (6.04%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (5.49%) SaaS
10 9 (4.95%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.40%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (3.85%) BrowserStack
13 6 (3.30%) OpenShift
14 5 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (2.20%) BlazeMeter
15 4 (2.20%) PaaS
16 3 (1.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 2 (1.10%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.10%) HTTP
2 1 (0.55%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.14%) MySQL
2 13 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.85%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.75%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.65%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.65%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.55%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.55%) DB2
8 1 (0.55%) HBase
8 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.55%) Redis
8 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 108 (59.34%) Selenium
2 82 (45.05%) Jenkins
3 59 (32.42%) JIRA
4 57 (31.32%) Git
5 56 (30.77%) JUnit
6 53 (29.12%) REST Assured
7 50 (27.47%) GitLab
7 50 (27.47%) Postman
8 36 (19.78%) JMeter
9 34 (18.68%) WebDriver
10 13 (7.14%) Cypress.io
10 13 (7.14%) Gatling
10 13 (7.14%) TestNG
11 10 (5.49%) Mockito
12 9 (4.95%) Maven
13 8 (4.40%) Gradle
13 8 (4.40%) SonarQube
13 8 (4.40%) TestRail
14 7 (3.85%) SpecFlow
15 6 (3.30%) SoapUI
General
1 53 (29.12%) Social Skills
2 45 (24.73%) Finance
3 28 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 26 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (10.99%) Banking
6 8 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.65%) Military
8 2 (1.10%) Back Office
8 2 (1.10%) Law
8 2 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.10%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (26.37%) Test Engineer
2 29 (15.93%) Developer
2 29 (15.93%) Tester
3 28 (15.38%) Senior
4 27 (14.84%) Test Automation Engineer
5 23 (12.64%) Lead
6 20 (10.99%) Automation Tester
7 17 (9.34%) Test Leader
8 13 (7.14%) Automation Test Lead
9 12 (6.59%) Software Engineer
10 11 (6.04%) Java Developer
10 11 (6.04%) QA Engineer
11 8 (4.40%) Salesforce Engineer
11 8 (4.40%) Senior Automation Tester
11 8 (4.40%) Senior Tester
12 7 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
13 6 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (3.30%) Senior Software Engineer
13 6 (3.30%) Senior Test Engineer
14 5 (2.75%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (24.18%) Playwright
2 43 (23.63%) REST
3 41 (22.53%) Spring
4 36 (19.78%) Gherkin
5 24 (13.19%) Spring Boot
6 22 (12.09%) WireMock
7 20 (10.99%) RESTful
8 19 (10.44%) Kafka
9 17 (9.34%) AngularJS
10 15 (8.24%) React
11 14 (7.69%) .NET
12 12 (6.59%) LDAP
12 12 (6.59%) OpenID
12 12 (6.59%) SailPoint
13 11 (6.04%) HTML
14 10 (5.49%) CSS
15 9 (4.95%) Node.js
15 9 (4.95%) SOAP
16 8 (4.40%) OAuth
17 7 (3.85%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.89%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (9.34%) Product Ownership
3 12 (6.59%) Distributed Architecture
4 11 (6.04%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.95%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.20%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.65%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.65%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.10%) Equities
8 2 (1.10%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.10%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.10%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.55%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.55%) PKI
9 1 (0.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.49%) Linux
2 4 (2.20%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.10%) Windows
4 1 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (78.57%) Test Automation
2 130 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 102 (56.04%) BDD
4 96 (52.75%) Agile
5 72 (39.56%) API Testing
6 58 (31.87%) DevOps
7 57 (31.32%) TDD
8 54 (29.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 54 (29.67%) Test Strategy
9 50 (27.47%) Microservices
10 32 (17.58%) Performance Testing
11 30 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (16.48%) Test Scripting
11 30 (16.48%) Validation
12 29 (15.93%) Scrum
13 27 (14.84%) Containerisation
13 27 (14.84%) End-to-End Testing
14 25 (13.74%) Software Testing
15 24 (13.19%) Observability
15 24 (13.19%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 120 (65.93%) Java
2 53 (29.12%) JavaScript
3 43 (23.63%) SQL
4 39 (21.43%) Python
5 24 (13.19%) C#
6 17 (9.34%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.14%) Ruby
8 7 (3.85%) Apex Code
9 6 (3.30%) PHP
10 5 (2.75%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.20%) Groovy
12 3 (1.65%) Bash
12 3 (1.65%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.65%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.65%) Scala
13 2 (1.10%) C++
13 2 (1.10%) Go
13 2 (1.10%) PromQL
13 2 (1.10%) VBA
13 2 (1.10%) XPath
Qualifications
1 42 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 38 (20.88%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 13 (7.14%) Degree
4 9 (4.95%) ISTQB
5 6 (3.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.10%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.55%) CFA
8 1 (0.55%) ISEB
8 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.55%) OCP
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (29.67%) QA
2 18 (9.89%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.20%) WCAG
4 2 (1.10%) NCSC
5 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.55%) SLA
5 1 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 46 (25.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 51 (28.02%) Kubernetes
2 22 (12.09%) Grafana
3 21 (11.54%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.85%) Terraform
5 6 (3.30%) Ansible
6 4 (2.20%) Istio
7 2 (1.10%) Consul
7 2 (1.10%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.10%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.55%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.55%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (9.34%) Oracle
2 14 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 8 (4.40%) Conga
3 8 (4.40%) GoCardless
3 8 (4.40%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.75%) Google
5 4 (2.20%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.65%) IBM
6 3 (1.65%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.65%) SAP
6 3 (1.65%) Splunk
6 3 (1.65%) Workday
7 2 (1.10%) Adobe
7 2 (1.10%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.10%) Pega
7 2 (1.10%) Solace
7 2 (1.10%) Sybase
8 1 (0.55%) Actian
8 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.55%) CA Agile Central