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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 397 365
Rank change year-on-year +53 -32 -77
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 219 160 277
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.43% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.23% 3.26% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 101 200
10th Percentile £281 £313 £363
25th Percentile £356 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £495 £517
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% -4.30% -1.48%
75th Percentile £520 £600 £656
90th Percentile £633 £734 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £473 £475
% change year-on-year -10.05% -0.53% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 10
10th Percentile £44.75 - £54.63
25th Percentile £48.13 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile £60.00 - £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%

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 5,177 4,903 6,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.47% 13.23% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,504 3,061 4,444
10th Percentile £329 £350 £363
25th Percentile £408 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -0.90%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £645
90th Percentile £688 £723 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £513
% change year-on-year -3.06% -4.39% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 163 238
10th Percentile £20.42 £26.30 £45.88
25th Percentile £44.13 £50.38 £50.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £69.06 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.25 £71.88 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 October 2025.

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 21 October 2025.

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 21 October 2025. 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 +55 175 £425 -15.00% 75
UK excluding London +57 122 £425 -10.05% 70
London +6 69 £516 -1.67% 20
Work from Home +28 54 £445 -11.00% 44
North of England +3 48 £425 -9.57% 10
South East +27 30 £400 -5.88% 31
Midlands - 24 £275 - 8
North West -4 20 £388 +22.24% 2
East Midlands - 17 £270 - 4
Yorkshire -22 15 £423 -15.50% 2
Wales +12 13 £475 +26.67% 4
North East +5 13 £445 -5.32% 6
Scotland -1 7 £466 +9.71% 2
West Midlands - 7 £475 - 4
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
South West -7 1 £475 -9.52% 10

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 (11.87%) Confluence
2 7 (3.20%) Appian
3 3 (1.37%) CICS
4 2 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.91%) JBoss
4 2 (0.91%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.46%) Mule
5 1 (0.46%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.46%) nginx
5 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.37%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 70 (31.96%) AWS
2 35 (15.98%) Azure
3 33 (15.07%) GitHub
4 22 (10.05%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (7.76%) OpenShift
6 16 (7.31%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (5.94%) Serverless
8 11 (5.02%) Amazon S3
8 11 (5.02%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (5.02%) GCP
9 9 (4.11%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (3.65%) Amazon Kinesis
11 7 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (3.20%) Datadog
11 7 (3.20%) Tricentis Tosca
12 6 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.74%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.83%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.74%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.91%) Internet
3 1 (0.46%) DSL
3 1 (0.46%) Multicast
3 1 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.42%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.39%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.94%) MongoDB
4 12 (5.48%) Relational Database
5 10 (4.57%) DynamoDB
5 10 (4.57%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.20%) DB2
7 4 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.83%) HBase
7 4 (1.83%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.37%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.91%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.91%) MySQL
10 1 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.46%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 109 (49.77%) Selenium
2 80 (36.53%) Jenkins
3 60 (27.40%) JUnit
4 52 (23.74%) GitLab
5 46 (21.00%) JIRA
6 43 (19.63%) Git
7 40 (18.26%) REST Assured
8 39 (17.81%) Postman
9 33 (15.07%) Maven
10 32 (14.61%) JMeter
11 25 (11.42%) Cypress.io
12 20 (9.13%) Bitbucket
13 19 (8.68%) Sonatype Nexus
14 16 (7.31%) Mockito
14 16 (7.31%) SonarQube
15 14 (6.39%) WebDriver
16 11 (5.02%) Gatling
17 9 (4.11%) TestNG
18 8 (3.65%) Eclipse
18 8 (3.65%) IntelliJ
General
1 62 (28.31%) Social Skills
2 42 (19.18%) Banking
2 42 (19.18%) Finance
3 28 (12.79%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (8.68%) Investment Banking
6 7 (3.20%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.74%) Front Office
7 6 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.28%) Back Office
9 4 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.37%) Automotive
10 3 (1.37%) Military
11 2 (0.91%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.46%) Billing
12 1 (0.46%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.46%) Games
12 1 (0.46%) Retail
12 1 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (36.99%) Developer
2 44 (20.09%) Java Developer
2 44 (20.09%) Test Engineer
3 32 (14.61%) Tester
4 29 (13.24%) Automation Tester
5 28 (12.79%) Senior
6 15 (6.85%) QA Engineer
6 15 (6.85%) Test Automation Engineer
7 13 (5.94%) AWS Developer
8 12 (5.48%) Scala Developer
9 11 (5.02%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (4.57%) Java Engineer
11 8 (3.65%) Senior Developer
11 8 (3.65%) Senior Test Engineer
12 7 (3.20%) Analyst
12 7 (3.20%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (3.20%) Test Analyst
13 6 (2.74%) Automation Engineer
13 6 (2.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 6 (2.74%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (26.48%) Spring
2 55 (25.11%) Spring Boot
3 50 (22.83%) REST
4 36 (16.44%) Playwright
5 30 (13.70%) RESTful
6 27 (12.33%) React
7 25 (11.42%) HTML
8 23 (10.50%) Kafka
9 22 (10.05%) JSON
9 22 (10.05%) Node.js
10 20 (9.13%) Gherkin
11 19 (8.68%) Hibernate
12 17 (7.76%) CSS
13 16 (7.31%) SOAP
14 15 (6.85%) .NET
14 15 (6.85%) Jest
14 15 (6.85%) JPA
14 15 (6.85%) XML
15 12 (5.48%) Web Services
16 11 (5.02%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.94%) Algorithms
2 11 (5.02%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.28%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.83%) Mainframe
5 4 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.37%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.37%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.37%) VSAM
7 2 (0.91%) Derivative
7 2 (0.91%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.91%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.91%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.46%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.22%) Linux
2 7 (3.20%) Unix
3 3 (1.37%) Windows
4 1 (0.46%) Android
4 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (64.84%) Test Automation
2 138 (63.01%) Agile
3 125 (57.08%) CI/CD
4 84 (38.36%) BDD
5 67 (30.59%) TDD
6 61 (27.85%) Microservices
7 60 (27.40%) Scrum
8 53 (24.20%) DevOps
9 43 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
10 42 (19.18%) Software Engineering
11 39 (17.81%) Software Testing
12 38 (17.35%) Test Strategy
13 36 (16.44%) API Testing
14 35 (15.98%) Test Scripting
15 31 (14.16%) Performance Testing
16 30 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
17 29 (13.24%) Non-Functional Testing
18 26 (11.87%) Sprint Planning
19 25 (11.42%) Containerisation
20 23 (10.50%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 152 (69.41%) Java
2 58 (26.48%) JavaScript
3 47 (21.46%) SQL
4 31 (14.16%) Python
5 21 (9.59%) TypeScript
6 17 (7.76%) C#
7 16 (7.31%) Scala
8 12 (5.48%) Ruby
9 5 (2.28%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.83%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.37%) COBOL
11 3 (1.37%) JCL
12 2 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.46%) Groovy
13 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (15.07%) Security Cleared
2 26 (11.87%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (4.57%) Degree
3 10 (4.57%) ISTQB
4 5 (2.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 5 (2.28%) OCP
4 5 (2.28%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.46%) ISEB
6 1 (0.46%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (31.05%) QA
2 23 (10.50%) Accessibility
3 19 (8.68%) WCAG
4 3 (1.37%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.91%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.91%) SLA
6 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.46%) GDPR
System Software
1 53 (24.20%) Docker
2 4 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (17.35%) Kubernetes
2 34 (15.53%) Ansible
3 12 (5.48%) Grafana
4 8 (3.65%) Progress Chef
5 5 (2.28%) Terraform
6 3 (1.37%) Kibana
7 1 (0.46%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (8.22%) Oracle
2 15 (6.85%) Veracode
3 8 (3.65%) Splunk
3 8 (3.65%) VMware
4 7 (3.20%) Cisco
5 6 (2.74%) CA Agile Central
5 6 (2.74%) Microsoft
5 6 (2.74%) UiPath
6 5 (2.28%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.37%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.91%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.46%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.46%) Conga
9 1 (0.46%) Databricks
9 1 (0.46%) Mercator
9 1 (0.46%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.46%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.46%) SAP
9 1 (0.46%) Sybase
9 1 (0.46%) Virgin Media