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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 353 335
Rank change year-on-year -55 -18 -14
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 222 168 261
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.58% 0.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.81% 4.14% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 100 187
10th Percentile £350 £302 £350
25th Percentile £388 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -9.55% -9.55%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £650
90th Percentile £600 £655 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £453 £440
% change year-on-year -6.08% +2.84% -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 5,826 4,061 5,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.99% 13.97% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,893 2,716 3,502
10th Percentile £343 £339 £358
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £581 £606 £625
90th Percentile £688 £716 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 73 179
10th Percentile £39.00 £25.41 £34.60
25th Percentile £59.00 £50.00 £45.44
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.95 £83.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +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 3 April 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 3 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cucumber in the UK

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 3 April 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 -57 185 £425 -1.22% 26
UK excluding London -70 120 £425 -6.08% 25
London -47 77 £425 -1.16% 5
Work from Home -23 60 £425 -1.16% 18
North of England -66 47 £413 +3.13% 9
West Midlands -44 28 £430 -10.97% 2
Midlands -49 28 £430 +1.18% 5
South East -41 22 £410 -0.67% 5
Yorkshire -60 22 £500 -18.05% 2
North West -48 14 £400 - 6
Wales +2 13 £425 - 1
North East -11 11 £413 +13.79% 1
South West -25 6 £463 +101.09% 1
Scotland +4 4 - - 2
East of England -37 1 £450 -14.29% 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 27 (12.16%) Confluence
2 2 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (0.90%) Camunda
3 1 (0.45%) Mule
3 1 (0.45%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.45%) nginx
3 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.45%) Mingle
1 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 112 (50.45%) AWS
2 76 (34.23%) Azure
3 74 (33.33%) GitHub
4 50 (22.52%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (15.32%) GCP
6 25 (11.26%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (8.56%) Serverless
8 18 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (6.76%) OpenShift
10 11 (4.95%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (4.50%) SaaS
12 8 (3.60%) Amazon S3
13 7 (3.15%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (2.70%) BrowserStack
15 5 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
16 4 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
16 4 (1.80%) BlazeMeter
16 4 (1.80%) Datadog
16 4 (1.80%) PaaS
17 3 (1.35%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.15%) HTTP
2 3 (1.35%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.45%) Multicast
3 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.41%) MySQL
3 11 (4.95%) SQL Server
4 10 (4.50%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.60%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.60%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.70%) HBase
7 5 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.25%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.35%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.90%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.45%) Big Data
10 1 (0.45%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.45%) DB2
10 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 118 (53.15%) Selenium
2 103 (46.40%) Jenkins
3 78 (35.14%) Git
4 73 (32.88%) JIRA
5 71 (31.98%) JUnit
6 65 (29.28%) Postman
7 62 (27.93%) GitLab
8 49 (22.07%) REST Assured
9 45 (20.27%) JMeter
10 34 (15.32%) WebDriver
11 18 (8.11%) Mockito
12 17 (7.66%) Sonatype Nexus
13 16 (7.21%) Maven
13 16 (7.21%) TestRail
14 15 (6.76%) Gradle
15 13 (5.86%) SpecFlow
16 12 (5.41%) Gatling
16 12 (5.41%) Zephyr
17 11 (4.95%) TestNG
18 10 (4.50%) Cypress.io
General
1 65 (29.28%) Social Skills
2 58 (26.13%) Finance
3 25 (11.26%) Public Sector
4 24 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (9.46%) Banking
6 8 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.80%) Back Office
7 4 (1.80%) Front Office
8 3 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.35%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.35%) Military
9 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.90%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 57 (25.68%) Test Engineer
2 46 (20.72%) Developer
3 35 (15.77%) Tester
4 34 (15.32%) Test Automation Engineer
5 31 (13.96%) Senior
6 27 (12.16%) Automation Tester
7 26 (11.71%) Lead
8 24 (10.81%) Java Developer
9 18 (8.11%) Test Leader
10 15 (6.76%) Automation Test Lead
11 12 (5.41%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (5.41%) QA Engineer
11 12 (5.41%) Software Engineer
12 11 (4.95%) Java Engineer
13 10 (4.50%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (3.60%) QA Automation Engineer
14 8 (3.60%) Quality Engineer
14 8 (3.60%) Senior Automation Tester
14 8 (3.60%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (27.48%) Spring
2 55 (24.77%) REST
3 54 (24.32%) Playwright
4 43 (19.37%) Gherkin
5 32 (14.41%) Spring Boot
6 29 (13.06%) Kafka
7 27 (12.16%) WireMock
8 20 (9.01%) React
9 18 (8.11%) JSON
9 18 (8.11%) RESTful
10 17 (7.66%) .NET
10 17 (7.66%) AngularJS
10 17 (7.66%) OpenID
11 15 (6.76%) HTML
11 15 (6.76%) Node.js
12 12 (5.41%) LDAP
12 12 (5.41%) SailPoint
12 12 (5.41%) SOAP
13 11 (4.95%) XML
14 10 (4.50%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.71%) Product Ownership
2 18 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.41%) Distributed Architecture
4 11 (4.95%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.35%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.90%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.90%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.90%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.45%) Derivative
9 1 (0.45%) Equities
9 1 (0.45%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.46%) Linux
2 2 (0.90%) Windows
3 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (73.87%) Test Automation
2 150 (67.57%) CI/CD
3 120 (54.05%) Agile
4 105 (47.30%) BDD
5 79 (35.59%) API Testing
6 65 (29.28%) Test Strategy
7 64 (28.83%) DevOps
8 58 (26.13%) Microservices
9 57 (25.68%) TDD
10 51 (22.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (18.02%) Scrum
12 37 (16.67%) Test Scripting
12 37 (16.67%) Validation
13 35 (15.77%) Performance Testing
14 34 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (14.41%) Manual Testing
16 30 (13.51%) Containerisation
16 30 (13.51%) End-to-End Testing
17 29 (13.06%) Software Engineering
18 28 (12.61%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 146 (65.77%) Java
2 49 (22.07%) JavaScript
3 43 (19.37%) Python
4 39 (17.57%) SQL
5 31 (13.96%) C#
6 23 (10.36%) TypeScript
7 21 (9.46%) Ruby
8 9 (4.05%) XPath
9 6 (2.70%) PHP
10 5 (2.25%) Groovy
11 3 (1.35%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.35%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.90%) Bash
12 2 (0.90%) C++
12 2 (0.90%) Go
12 2 (0.90%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.90%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.45%) C
13 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (19.82%) Security Cleared
2 39 (17.57%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (3.15%) Degree
3 7 (3.15%) OCP
3 7 (3.15%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (2.70%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.45%) CFA
8 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.45%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (28.38%) QA
2 14 (6.31%) Accessibility
3 11 (4.95%) WCAG
4 2 (0.90%) NCSC
5 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.45%) SLA
5 1 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 45 (20.27%) Docker
2 4 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (27.03%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.16%) Grafana
3 17 (7.66%) Prometheus
4 12 (5.41%) Ansible
5 9 (4.05%) Progress Chef
6 7 (3.15%) Terraform
7 5 (2.25%) Kibana
8 2 (0.90%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.45%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 15 (6.76%) Oracle
2 14 (6.31%) ServiceNow
3 13 (5.86%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.05%) VMware
5 5 (2.25%) Google
6 4 (1.80%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.80%) Splunk
7 3 (1.35%) SAP
7 3 (1.35%) Workday
8 2 (0.90%) Adobe
8 2 (0.90%) UiPath
9 1 (0.45%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.45%) HP
9 1 (0.45%) IBM
9 1 (0.45%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.45%) MarketAxess
9 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.45%) Sybase
9 1 (0.45%) Tradeweb