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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 350 359
Rank change year-on-year -100 +9 -31
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 196 171 251
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.59% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.36% 4.17% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 98 179
10th Percentile £350 £270 £330
25th Percentile £400 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% -7.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £663
90th Percentile £638 £665 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £498
% change year-on-year -10.53% -4.62% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 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 5,825 4,097 5,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.35% 14.02% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,858 2,742 3,476
10th Percentile £347 £340 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £716 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 66 195
10th Percentile £37.93 £26.77 £32.23
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.30 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.69 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £86.38 £81.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.40% -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 30 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
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 30 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 -83 166 £425 -7.61% 14
UK excluding London -90 103 £425 -10.53% 12
London -33 73 £438 +1.74% 5
Work from Home -22 56 £425 +6.25% 10
North of England -71 45 £425 -9.09% 3
Yorkshire -56 22 £500 -6.52% 1
West Midlands -46 21 £425 -12.01% 2
Midlands -64 21 £425 +22.30% 2
North West -35 15 £400 -15.79% 1
South East -55 14 £393 -21.58% 4
Wales -3 10 £425 - 1
North East -16 8 £400 +2.56% 1
South West -31 7 £450 +95.65% 1
Scotland -2 5 £480 +20.00%
East of England -39 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 28 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.02%) Camunda
2 2 (1.02%) Mule
2 2 (1.02%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.51%) JBoss
3 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.51%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.51%) Mingle
1 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.51%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 98 (50.00%) AWS
2 69 (35.20%) GitHub
3 68 (34.69%) Azure
4 45 (22.96%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (17.35%) GCP
6 18 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (8.16%) Serverless
8 12 (6.12%) OpenShift
9 11 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (5.10%) SaaS
11 9 (4.59%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.57%) BrowserStack
13 6 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (2.04%) AWS CodePipeline
15 4 (2.04%) BlazeMeter
15 4 (2.04%) PaaS
16 3 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.53%) HTTP
2 1 (0.51%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.31%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.14%) MySQL
3 11 (5.61%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.08%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.06%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.55%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.04%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.04%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.53%) HBase
8 3 (1.53%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.51%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.51%) DB2
10 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 110 (56.12%) Selenium
2 90 (45.92%) Jenkins
3 65 (33.16%) JIRA
4 62 (31.63%) Git
4 62 (31.63%) JUnit
5 56 (28.57%) Postman
6 53 (27.04%) GitLab
7 46 (23.47%) REST Assured
8 42 (21.43%) JMeter
9 37 (18.88%) WebDriver
10 15 (7.65%) TestNG
11 14 (7.14%) Cypress.io
12 13 (6.63%) Gatling
13 12 (6.12%) Gradle
14 10 (5.10%) Maven
14 10 (5.10%) Sonatype Nexus
14 10 (5.10%) TestRail
15 9 (4.59%) Mockito
15 9 (4.59%) SpecFlow
16 8 (4.08%) SonarQube
General
1 56 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 54 (27.55%) Finance
3 25 (12.76%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.73%) Public Sector
5 18 (9.18%) Banking
6 8 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.53%) Back Office
7 3 (1.53%) Military
8 2 (1.02%) Front Office
8 2 (1.02%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.02%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (26.02%) Test Engineer
2 35 (17.86%) Developer
3 34 (17.35%) Tester
4 32 (16.33%) Test Automation Engineer
5 25 (12.76%) Lead
6 24 (12.24%) Automation Tester
6 24 (12.24%) Senior
7 17 (8.67%) Test Leader
8 16 (8.16%) Java Developer
9 14 (7.14%) Automation Test Lead
10 12 (6.12%) Software Engineer
11 11 (5.61%) QA Engineer
12 10 (5.10%) Automation Engineer
13 9 (4.59%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (4.08%) Java Engineer
14 8 (4.08%) Quality Engineer
14 8 (4.08%) Senior Automation Tester
14 8 (4.08%) Senior Tester
15 7 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
16 6 (3.06%) Developer in Test
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (23.98%) Spring
2 45 (22.96%) REST
3 44 (22.45%) Playwright
4 38 (19.39%) Gherkin
5 23 (11.73%) Kafka
5 23 (11.73%) Spring Boot
5 23 (11.73%) WireMock
6 16 (8.16%) AngularJS
6 16 (8.16%) RESTful
7 14 (7.14%) .NET
8 12 (6.12%) LDAP
8 12 (6.12%) OpenID
8 12 (6.12%) SailPoint
9 11 (5.61%) Node.js
10 10 (5.10%) HTML
10 10 (5.10%) SOAP
11 9 (4.59%) CSS
11 9 (4.59%) React
12 8 (4.08%) JSON
13 7 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.24%) Product Ownership
2 19 (9.69%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.12%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.12%) Distributed Architecture
4 5 (2.55%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.53%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.02%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.02%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.02%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.02%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.51%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.51%) Equities
8 1 (0.51%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.51%) NHS
8 1 (0.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.65%) Linux
2 4 (2.04%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.02%) Windows
4 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (78.06%) Test Automation
2 136 (69.39%) CI/CD
3 102 (52.04%) Agile
4 98 (50.00%) BDD
5 70 (35.71%) API Testing
6 64 (32.65%) Test Strategy
7 53 (27.04%) DevOps
7 53 (27.04%) TDD
8 46 (23.47%) Microservices
9 45 (22.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (17.86%) Performance Testing
11 33 (16.84%) Scrum
12 32 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (16.33%) Test Scripting
13 31 (15.82%) Validation
14 30 (15.31%) End-to-End Testing
14 30 (15.31%) Manual Testing
15 27 (13.78%) Containerisation
16 24 (12.24%) Scenario Testing
16 24 (12.24%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 127 (64.80%) Java
2 46 (23.47%) JavaScript
3 41 (20.92%) SQL
4 39 (19.90%) Python
5 26 (13.27%) C#
6 20 (10.20%) TypeScript
7 19 (9.69%) Ruby
8 6 (3.06%) PHP
9 4 (2.04%) Groovy
9 4 (2.04%) XPath
10 3 (1.53%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.53%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.53%) Scala
10 3 (1.53%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.02%) Bash
11 2 (1.02%) C++
11 2 (1.02%) Go
11 2 (1.02%) VBA
12 1 (0.51%) COBOL
12 1 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 42 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 38 (19.39%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.57%) Degree
5 4 (2.04%) ISTQB
5 4 (2.04%) OCP
5 4 (2.04%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.02%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.51%) CFA
8 1 (0.51%) ISEB
8 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (33.16%) QA
2 16 (8.16%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.53%) WCAG
4 2 (1.02%) NCSC
5 1 (0.51%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.51%) SLA
5 1 (0.51%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 43 (21.94%) Docker
2 3 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (26.02%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.69%) Grafana
3 16 (8.16%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.08%) Ansible
5 6 (3.06%) Terraform
6 5 (2.55%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.02%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.51%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 16 (8.16%) Oracle
2 14 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 11 (5.61%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.55%) Google
4 5 (2.55%) VMware
5 4 (2.04%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.04%) Splunk
6 3 (1.53%) IBM
6 3 (1.53%) SAP
6 3 (1.53%) Workday
7 2 (1.02%) Adobe
7 2 (1.02%) UiPath
8 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.51%) HP
8 1 (0.51%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.51%) Pega
8 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.51%) Sybase
8 1 (0.51%) Tradeweb