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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 359 363
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 -88
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 227 178 247
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.52% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.14% 3.95% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 102 179
10th Percentile £323 £305 £350
25th Percentile £363 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +2.15% -12.26%
75th Percentile £525 £576 £589
90th Percentile £613 £760 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £498 £440
% change year-on-year -14.57% +13.07% -7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £65.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +30.00%

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 5,477 4,501 5,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.91% 13.26% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,765 2,845 3,958
10th Percentile £341 £330 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.74% -3.93%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £638
90th Percentile £692 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £513
% change year-on-year -2.06% -5.41% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 84 212
10th Percentile £39.00 £41.63 £44.73
25th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £49.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £76.77
90th Percentile £84.20 £75.18 £88.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 December 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 December 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 December 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 +3 182 £424 -10.79% 20
UK excluding London +34 130 £425 -14.57% 19
London -16 71 £435 +1.05% 6
North of England -25 52 £413 -13.16% 8
Work from Home -5 50 £400 -11.11% 11
South East +20 39 £395 +21.54% 4
Yorkshire -38 23 £465 -20.13% 5
Wales +16 18 £475 -
North East +5 15 £425 +37.10% 1
North West -32 14 £375 +15.74% 2
Midlands -23 13 £430 -15.27% 2
West Midlands -21 9 £525 +3.45% 1
Scotland +4 5 - - 2
East Midlands - 4 £285 - 1
South West -23 2 £375 -31.82% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

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 22 (9.69%) Confluence
2 7 (3.08%) Appian
3 2 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.44%) JBoss
4 1 (0.44%) Mule
4 1 (0.44%) Mule ESB
4 1 (0.44%) nginx
4 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.32%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 87 (38.33%) AWS
2 58 (25.55%) Azure
3 47 (20.70%) GitHub
4 33 (14.54%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (11.89%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (9.25%) OpenShift
7 19 (8.37%) GCP
8 10 (4.41%) Serverless
9 9 (3.96%) Datadog
10 8 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.08%) Tricentis Tosca
12 5 (2.20%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.20%) SaaS
13 4 (1.76%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (1.76%) BrowserStack
14 3 (1.32%) npm
14 3 (1.32%) Snowflake
15 2 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
15 2 (0.88%) AWS Step Functions
15 2 (0.88%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.64%) HTTP
2 5 (2.20%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.88%) Internet
4 1 (0.44%) DSL
4 1 (0.44%) Multicast
4 1 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (13.22%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (7.05%) MongoDB
3 13 (5.73%) SQL Server
4 12 (5.29%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.52%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.52%) HBase
5 8 (3.52%) MySQL
6 6 (2.64%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.32%) DB2
7 3 (1.32%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.88%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.44%) Big Data
9 1 (0.44%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 114 (50.22%) Selenium
2 95 (41.85%) Jenkins
3 64 (28.19%) Postman
4 59 (25.99%) JIRA
5 57 (25.11%) GitLab
6 53 (23.35%) JUnit
7 49 (21.59%) REST Assured
8 48 (21.15%) Git
9 35 (15.42%) JMeter
10 25 (11.01%) Sonatype Nexus
11 21 (9.25%) Cypress.io
12 17 (7.49%) Bitbucket
12 17 (7.49%) TestRail
13 16 (7.05%) Gatling
13 16 (7.05%) SonarQube
13 16 (7.05%) Zephyr
14 15 (6.61%) Maven
14 15 (6.61%) WebDriver
15 14 (6.17%) Mockito
16 13 (5.73%) Gradle
General
1 66 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 56 (24.67%) Finance
3 32 (14.10%) Banking
4 31 (13.66%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.73%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.08%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.64%) Back Office
8 6 (2.64%) Front Office
8 6 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.76%) Military
10 3 (1.32%) Automotive
10 3 (1.32%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.88%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Billing
12 1 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.44%) Games
12 1 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 63 (27.75%) Developer
2 60 (26.43%) Test Engineer
3 40 (17.62%) Java Developer
4 31 (13.66%) Test Automation Engineer
4 31 (13.66%) Tester
5 28 (12.33%) Senior
6 27 (11.89%) Automation Tester
7 16 (7.05%) QA Engineer
8 15 (6.61%) Java Engineer
8 15 (6.61%) Lead
9 11 (4.85%) Automation Engineer
10 10 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (4.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 9 (3.96%) Senior Developer
11 9 (3.96%) Test Leader
12 8 (3.52%) Automation Test Lead
12 8 (3.52%) Quality Engineer
12 8 (3.52%) Senior Java Developer
12 8 (3.52%) Senior Test Engineer
13 7 (3.08%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (25.99%) REST
2 58 (25.55%) Spring
3 48 (21.15%) Playwright
3 48 (21.15%) Spring Boot
4 32 (14.10%) JSON
5 29 (12.78%) Gherkin
6 25 (11.01%) Node.js
6 25 (11.01%) React
7 24 (10.57%) Kafka
8 23 (10.13%) RESTful
8 23 (10.13%) XML
9 21 (9.25%) .NET
10 17 (7.49%) Hibernate
10 17 (7.49%) SOAP
11 15 (6.61%) HTML
12 14 (6.17%) WireMock
13 12 (5.29%) OpenID
14 10 (4.41%) JPA
14 10 (4.41%) Web Services
15 9 (3.96%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.13%) Product Ownership
2 6 (2.64%) Algorithms
2 6 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (1.76%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.32%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
5 2 (0.88%) Derivative
5 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.88%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (0.88%) Mobile App
5 2 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.44%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.44%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.44%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.44%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.01%) Linux
2 6 (2.64%) Unix
3 5 (2.20%) Windows
4 1 (0.44%) Android
4 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (66.96%) Test Automation
2 144 (63.44%) CI/CD
3 127 (55.95%) Agile
4 87 (38.33%) BDD
5 62 (27.31%) DevOps
6 61 (26.87%) API Testing
7 57 (25.11%) Microservices
8 56 (24.67%) Scrum
9 55 (24.23%) TDD
10 47 (20.70%) Test Strategy
11 44 (19.38%) Test Scripting
12 42 (18.50%) Software Engineering
13 38 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (16.74%) Software Testing
14 36 (15.86%) Performance Testing
15 31 (13.66%) Manual Testing
16 30 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
17 29 (12.78%) Scenario Testing
18 28 (12.33%) Regression Testing
19 27 (11.89%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 157 (69.16%) Java
2 55 (24.23%) JavaScript
3 45 (19.82%) Python
4 38 (16.74%) SQL
5 25 (11.01%) C#
6 21 (9.25%) Ruby
7 19 (8.37%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.41%) Scala
9 9 (3.96%) XPath
10 6 (2.64%) PHP
11 5 (2.20%) VB.NET
12 3 (1.32%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.88%) Bash
13 2 (0.88%) Groovy
13 2 (0.88%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.44%) C
14 1 (0.44%) C++
14 1 (0.44%) Rust
14 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (13.66%) Security Cleared
2 23 (10.13%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.85%) Degree
4 10 (4.41%) ISTQB
4 10 (4.41%) OCP
4 10 (4.41%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.88%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.44%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (31.72%) QA
2 17 (7.49%) Accessibility
3 16 (7.05%) WCAG
4 2 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.88%) SLA
5 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 44 (19.38%) Docker
2 7 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (21.15%) Kubernetes
2 30 (13.22%) Ansible
3 16 (7.05%) Grafana
4 14 (6.17%) Progress Chef
5 5 (2.20%) Kibana
5 5 (2.20%) Terraform
6 2 (0.88%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (8.37%) Oracle
2 14 (6.17%) VMware
3 13 (5.73%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.41%) Veracode
5 9 (3.96%) Splunk
6 7 (3.08%) Cisco
6 7 (3.08%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.64%) UiPath
8 3 (1.32%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.32%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.88%) Adobe
9 2 (0.88%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.88%) SAP
9 2 (0.88%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.44%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.44%) Databricks
10 1 (0.44%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.44%) MarketAxess
10 1 (0.44%) Tradeweb
10 1 (0.44%) Workday