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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 349 407
Rank change year-on-year -113 +58 -43
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 227 215 157
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.66% 0.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.57% 4.26% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 143 99
10th Percentile £306 £268 £316
25th Percentile £375 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £500 £520 £600
90th Percentile £538 £638 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £418 £488
% change year-on-year +2.99% -14.36% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 0
Median hourly rate £35.80 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.40% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.80 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -28.40% - -

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 6,356 5,044 5,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.63% 15.37% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,068 3,407 3,129
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 111 172
10th Percentile £22.68 £16.84 £31.43
25th Percentile £49.38 £46.88 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.00 £73.98
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 6 October 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 14 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 6 October 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 -89 207 £439 +3.24% 124
UK excluding London -96 130 £430 +2.99% 82
London -84 76 £475 -8.65% 53
Work from Home -59 62 £447 +2.76% 57
North of England -64 54 £420 -1.18% 36
West Midlands -4 44 £448 +49.17% 8
Midlands -18 44 £448 +66.36% 10
North West -45 22 £420 +12.00% 13
South West -19 20 £425 -10.53% 8
North East -31 16 £450 - 15
Yorkshire -36 16 £400 -15.79% 8
South East -80 7 £275 -35.29% 13
Scotland -25 6 £480 +3.78% 7
Wales -24 1 £288 -39.47% 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 24 (10.57%) Confluence
2 1 (0.44%) Camunda
2 1 (0.44%) JBoss
2 1 (0.44%) Mule
2 1 (0.44%) Mule ESB
2 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Mingle
2 1 (0.44%) CATIA
2 1 (0.44%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (3.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (3.08%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.32%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 94 (41.41%) AWS
2 72 (31.72%) GitHub
3 67 (29.52%) Azure
4 35 (15.42%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (15.42%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (13.66%) Serverless
6 23 (10.13%) GCP
7 22 (9.69%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (6.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (6.17%) GitHub Copilot
9 13 (5.73%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (5.29%) Amazon S3
11 11 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (4.85%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (4.41%) Power Automate
13 9 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (3.96%) Azure Functions
14 7 (3.08%) BrowserStack
14 7 (3.08%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.32%) Firewall
2 2 (0.88%) HTTP
2 2 (0.88%) Internet
3 1 (0.44%) BGP
3 1 (0.44%) DNS
3 1 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.44%) Network Security
3 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.44%) VPN
3 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.89%) MongoDB
2 23 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.29%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.96%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (3.96%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.64%) MySQL
6 5 (2.20%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.20%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.76%) ZAP BI
8 3 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.32%) Pinecone
8 3 (1.32%) Redis
8 3 (1.32%) Weaviate
9 2 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.88%) Power BI
10 1 (0.44%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.44%) Cloud Spanner
10 1 (0.44%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 141 (62.11%) Selenium
2 88 (38.77%) JUnit
3 75 (33.04%) GitLab
3 75 (33.04%) Jenkins
4 72 (31.72%) Git
5 58 (25.55%) Postman
6 53 (23.35%) REST Assured
7 45 (19.82%) Gatling
8 35 (15.42%) JIRA
8 35 (15.42%) JMeter
9 33 (14.54%) WebDriver
10 28 (12.33%) SonarQube
11 26 (11.45%) Cypress.io
12 20 (8.81%) Maven
12 20 (8.81%) Mockito
13 19 (8.37%) TestNG
14 13 (5.73%) SpecFlow
15 12 (5.29%) Gradle
15 12 (5.29%) SoapUI
16 9 (3.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 86 (37.89%) Social Skills
2 54 (23.79%) Public Sector
3 38 (16.74%) Finance
4 25 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.01%) Banking
5 13 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.41%) Military
7 3 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.88%) Automotive
8 2 (0.88%) Law
8 2 (0.88%) Police
9 1 (0.44%) Electronics
9 1 (0.44%) Marketing
9 1 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (25.99%) Test Engineer
2 49 (21.59%) Senior
3 28 (12.33%) Quality Engineer
3 28 (12.33%) Test Automation Engineer
4 27 (11.89%) Developer
5 26 (11.45%) Tester
6 23 (10.13%) QA Engineer
7 20 (8.81%) Java Developer
8 18 (7.93%) Automation Tester
9 16 (7.05%) Automation Engineer
9 16 (7.05%) Senior Test Engineer
10 15 (6.61%) Lead
11 12 (5.29%) Analyst
12 11 (4.85%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (4.85%) Test Analyst
13 10 (4.41%) Java Engineer
13 10 (4.41%) Salesforce Engineer
13 10 (4.41%) Test Leader
14 8 (3.52%) Lead Test Analyst
14 8 (3.52%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (39.21%) Playwright
2 57 (25.11%) Spring
3 52 (22.91%) Gherkin
4 44 (19.38%) REST
5 39 (17.18%) Kafka
6 36 (15.86%) WireMock
7 34 (14.98%) Spring Boot
8 29 (12.78%) RESTful
9 27 (11.89%) Node.js
10 26 (11.45%) React
11 20 (8.81%) HTML
12 15 (6.61%) OpenAPI
12 15 (6.61%) RabbitMQ
13 14 (6.17%) SOAP
14 13 (5.73%) JSON
14 13 (5.73%) Terraform
15 12 (5.29%) .NET
16 11 (4.85%) CSS
16 11 (4.85%) Swagger
17 9 (3.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.29%) Cloud Native
1 12 (5.29%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.96%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.08%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.76%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.32%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.88%) Equities
9 2 (0.88%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.88%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.88%) PKI
9 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.49%) Linux
2 7 (3.08%) Unix
3 4 (1.76%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.32%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.88%) Android
5 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (81.06%) Test Automation
2 174 (76.65%) CI/CD
3 150 (66.08%) Agile
4 139 (61.23%) BDD
5 84 (37.00%) TDD
6 81 (35.68%) DevOps
7 73 (32.16%) API Testing
7 73 (32.16%) Microservices
8 72 (31.72%) Software Testing
9 64 (28.19%) Test Strategy
10 61 (26.87%) Scrum
11 57 (25.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 50 (22.03%) Stakeholder Management
13 47 (20.70%) Containerisation
14 46 (20.26%) Problem-Solving
15 45 (19.82%) Security Testing
16 44 (19.38%) Performance Testing
17 42 (18.50%) SDLC
18 38 (16.74%) Coaching
19 37 (16.30%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 160 (70.48%) Java
2 73 (32.16%) JavaScript
3 41 (18.06%) Python
4 29 (12.78%) C#
5 23 (10.13%) TypeScript
6 22 (9.69%) SQL
7 11 (4.85%) Bash
7 11 (4.85%) Scala
8 7 (3.08%) Apex Code
8 7 (3.08%) Ruby
9 4 (1.76%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.76%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.32%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.32%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.88%) PromQL
11 2 (0.88%) R
12 1 (0.44%) Go
12 1 (0.44%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 79 (34.80%) Security Cleared
2 67 (29.52%) SC Cleared
3 34 (14.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 20 (8.81%) Degree
5 18 (7.93%) ISTQB
6 14 (6.17%) DV Cleared
7 13 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.20%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.88%) ISEB
13 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (43.17%) QA
2 67 (29.52%) Accessibility
3 39 (17.18%) WCAG
4 8 (3.52%) GDPR
5 3 (1.32%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.32%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.32%) SEPA
6 1 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 92 (40.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 91 (40.09%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.05%) Grafana
3 13 (5.73%) Prometheus
4 12 (5.29%) Ansible
5 7 (3.08%) Istio
6 3 (1.32%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.32%) Kibana
6 3 (1.32%) Packer
7 2 (0.88%) Consul
7 2 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.88%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.44%) Argo
Vendors
1 23 (10.13%) Oracle
2 17 (7.49%) Microsoft
3 16 (7.05%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.96%) Databricks
5 8 (3.52%) Conga
5 8 (3.52%) GoCardless
6 7 (3.08%) HP
6 7 (3.08%) IBM
7 6 (2.64%) Google
7 6 (2.64%) Splunk
8 4 (1.76%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.32%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.32%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.88%) OutSystems
10 2 (0.88%) Pega
10 2 (0.88%) Solace
10 2 (0.88%) Sybase
11 1 (0.44%) F5
11 1 (0.44%) Guidewire
11 1 (0.44%) Veracode