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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 476 372 409
Rank change year-on-year -104 +37 -65
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 192 186 180
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.57% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.09% 3.87% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 116 127
10th Percentile £313 £264 £353
25th Percentile £388 £318 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £428 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -18.57% -
75th Percentile £500 £501 £650
90th Percentile £606 £591 £803
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £50.00 -

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 6,204 4,807 5,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.76% 14.71% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,984 3,237 3,406
10th Percentile £350 £325 £351
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 104 229
10th Percentile £26.10 £23.25 £27.60
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.80 £73.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -97 167 £438 +4.17% 20
UK excluding London -100 114 £425 +6.25% 16
Work from Home -39 64 £425 +6.25% 11
London -78 59 £447 -14.04% 4
North of England -58 47 £425 +6.31% 7
West Midlands -34 32 £425 -6.39% 6
Midlands -47 32 £425 +58.58% 7
North West -39 22 £402 +5.79% 3
North East -26 16 £450 +15.38% 4
South West -30 16 £500 +5.26% 1
Yorkshire -52 9 £350 -17.65%
Scotland -6 8 £480 +3.78%
South East -80 7 £438 -12.59% 1
Wales -18 5 £425 -10.53%
East of England - 1 £450 -

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 35 (18.23%) Confluence
2 2 (1.04%) Mule
2 2 (1.04%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.52%) Camunda
3 1 (0.52%) JBoss
3 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.52%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.52%) Mingle
1 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 81 (42.19%) AWS
2 67 (34.90%) GitHub
3 57 (29.69%) Azure
4 41 (21.35%) GitHub Actions
5 33 (17.19%) GCP
6 27 (14.06%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (10.94%) Serverless
8 17 (8.85%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (5.73%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (3.65%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.65%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (3.13%) SaaS
14 5 (2.60%) BrowserStack
14 5 (2.60%) Power Automate
15 4 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (2.08%) Azure Functions
15 4 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
16 3 (1.56%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.04%) Firewall
1 2 (1.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (16.15%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.21%) DynamoDB
4 9 (4.69%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.08%) MySQL
6 3 (1.56%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.56%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.04%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.52%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.52%) Db2
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.52%) Redis
8 1 (0.52%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 112 (58.33%) Selenium
2 76 (39.58%) Jenkins
3 65 (33.85%) JUnit
4 54 (28.13%) Git
4 54 (28.13%) JIRA
5 52 (27.08%) REST Assured
6 47 (24.48%) GitLab
6 47 (24.48%) Postman
6 47 (24.48%) WebDriver
7 40 (20.83%) JMeter
8 21 (10.94%) Gatling
9 20 (10.42%) Cypress.io
10 13 (6.77%) TestNG
11 12 (6.25%) SpecFlow
12 11 (5.73%) Maven
13 9 (4.69%) Mockito
14 8 (4.17%) SonarQube
15 7 (3.65%) Sonatype Nexus
16 6 (3.13%) Mocha
16 6 (3.13%) tSQLt
General
1 63 (32.81%) Social Skills
2 41 (21.35%) Finance
3 37 (19.27%) Public Sector
4 26 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (11.46%) Banking
6 9 (4.69%) Military
6 9 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.04%) Back Office
8 2 (1.04%) Law
9 1 (0.52%) Automotive
9 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (25.52%) Test Engineer
2 45 (23.44%) Senior
3 36 (18.75%) Tester
4 26 (13.54%) Developer
4 26 (13.54%) Test Automation Engineer
5 25 (13.02%) Automation Tester
6 19 (9.90%) Lead
7 16 (8.33%) QA Engineer
7 16 (8.33%) Test Leader
8 13 (6.77%) Senior Tester
9 11 (5.73%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (5.73%) Senior Automation Tester
9 11 (5.73%) Senior Test Engineer
10 10 (5.21%) Analyst
10 10 (5.21%) Salesforce Engineer
11 9 (4.69%) Java Developer
11 9 (4.69%) Test Analyst
12 8 (4.17%) Automation Test Lead
13 7 (3.65%) QA Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.65%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (30.21%) Playwright
2 42 (21.88%) Spring
3 41 (21.35%) REST
4 36 (18.75%) Gherkin
5 35 (18.23%) WireMock
6 27 (14.06%) Kafka
7 22 (11.46%) RESTful
8 21 (10.94%) Node.js
9 19 (9.90%) Spring Boot
10 15 (7.81%) React
11 12 (6.25%) SOAP
12 11 (5.73%) HTML
13 10 (5.21%) .NET
13 10 (5.21%) AngularJS
13 10 (5.21%) CSS
14 6 (3.13%) OAuth
14 6 (3.13%) OAuth2
14 6 (3.13%) Swagger
14 6 (3.13%) Web Services
15 5 (2.60%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.90%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (7.81%) Distributed Architecture
3 14 (7.29%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.73%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.17%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.08%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.56%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.56%) Equities
8 3 (1.56%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.56%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.04%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.04%) PKI
9 2 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.52%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.52%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.69%) Linux
2 4 (2.08%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.52%) Android
4 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (78.65%) Test Automation
2 135 (70.31%) CI/CD
3 115 (59.90%) BDD
4 107 (55.73%) Agile
5 70 (36.46%) API Testing
6 65 (33.85%) TDD
7 63 (32.81%) Test Strategy
8 60 (31.25%) DevOps
9 59 (30.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 55 (28.65%) Microservices
11 38 (19.79%) Validation
12 34 (17.71%) End-to-End Testing
13 33 (17.19%) Scrum
14 31 (16.15%) Performance Testing
14 31 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (16.15%) Software Testing
15 28 (14.58%) Test Scripting
16 27 (14.06%) Observability
17 26 (13.54%) Mentoring
18 25 (13.02%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 113 (58.85%) Java
2 62 (32.29%) JavaScript
3 33 (17.19%) Python
4 31 (16.15%) C#
5 28 (14.58%) SQL
6 26 (13.54%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.21%) Ruby
8 7 (3.65%) Apex Code
8 7 (3.65%) Scala
9 6 (3.13%) Bash
9 6 (3.13%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.08%) Groovy
10 4 (2.08%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.56%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.04%) PromQL
13 1 (0.52%) COBOL
13 1 (0.52%) R
13 1 (0.52%) VB
13 1 (0.52%) VB6
13 1 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (28.65%) Security Cleared
2 43 (22.40%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (7.29%) ISTQB
5 12 (6.25%) Degree
6 6 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.60%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.52%) ISEB
9 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (33.85%) QA
2 28 (14.58%) Accessibility
3 10 (5.21%) WCAG
4 4 (2.08%) GDPR
5 2 (1.04%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.52%) SEPA
6 1 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (25.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 56 (29.17%) Kubernetes
2 25 (13.02%) Grafana
3 24 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.17%) Terraform
5 7 (3.65%) Istio
6 5 (2.60%) Ansible
7 3 (1.56%) HP ALM
8 2 (1.04%) Consul
8 2 (1.04%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (7.81%) Salesforce
2 13 (6.77%) Oracle
3 9 (4.69%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.17%) Conga
4 8 (4.17%) GoCardless
5 4 (2.08%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.08%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.56%) Google
6 3 (1.56%) HP
6 3 (1.56%) Splunk
6 3 (1.56%) Sybase
7 2 (1.04%) IBM
7 2 (1.04%) Pega
7 2 (1.04%) Solace
8 1 (0.52%) Actian
8 1 (0.52%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.52%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.52%) Thales
8 1 (0.52%) UiPath
8 1 (0.52%) Veracode