Cucumber Contracts

Cucumber
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cucumber skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cucumber over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 385 333
Rank change year-on-year +25 -52 -27
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 177 217 401
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.50% 0.72%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.94% 4.09% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 156 304
10th Percentile £267 £353 £388
25th Percentile £340 £428 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £505 £536
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% -5.83% +4.38%
75th Percentile £501 £675 £725
90th Percentile £578 £825 £820
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 18
10th Percentile £44.38 - £55.00
25th Percentile £47.19 - £70.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.25
90th Percentile - - £81.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +52.63%

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 4,492 5,306 7,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.58% 12.29% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,999 3,522 5,519
10th Percentile £331 £353 £363
25th Percentile £409 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £590 £625 £650
90th Percentile £695 £725 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 251 232
10th Percentile £20.86 £31.25 £46.19
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £73.13 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £86.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cucumber.

Hourly rate trend for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Top 15 Contract 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 1 July 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 +28 145 £425 -20.26% 282
UK excluding London +57 100 £421 -15.80% 236
London -3 55 £510 -2.86% 97
Work from Home +29 48 £408 -18.50% 126
North of England +27 37 £421 -13.20% 54
Midlands +39 27 £269 -31.03% 33
South East +41 22 £501 -23.00% 56
East Midlands +24 21 £268 -29.47% 12
Yorkshire +7 17 £450 -10.00% 15
North West +16 13 £415 -4.82% 37
North East +6 7 £390 -17.02% 2
Scotland -6 7 £466 -6.38% 29
West Midlands +12 6 £483 +20.75% 21
South West +32 5 £475 +4.40% 26
Wales +10 4 £475 +26.67% 12

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (9.60%) Confluence
2 5 (2.82%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.69%) CICS
4 1 (0.56%) JBoss
4 1 (0.56%) nginx
4 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 50 (28.25%) AWS
2 27 (15.25%) GitHub
3 25 (14.12%) Azure
4 13 (7.34%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (7.34%) Serverless
5 11 (6.21%) Amazon S3
6 10 (5.65%) Amazon Kinesis
6 10 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (4.52%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (4.52%) OpenShift
9 6 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (3.39%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.26%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (1.69%) BrowserStack
13 2 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (1.13%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.13%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.56%) HTTP
2 1 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.60%) Relational Database
2 9 (5.08%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.95%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.95%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.39%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.26%) DB2
7 2 (1.13%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.13%) MySQL
7 2 (1.13%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.13%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.56%) Big Data
8 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.56%) Redis
8 1 (0.56%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 82 (46.33%) Selenium
2 74 (41.81%) Jenkins
3 47 (26.55%) JIRA
4 41 (23.16%) JUnit
5 39 (22.03%) Git
6 34 (19.21%) GitLab
6 34 (19.21%) REST Assured
7 32 (18.08%) Maven
8 27 (15.25%) Postman
9 21 (11.86%) Cypress.io
10 16 (9.04%) SonarQube
10 16 (9.04%) WebDriver
11 13 (7.34%) JMeter
11 13 (7.34%) Mockito
12 11 (6.21%) Gradle
13 9 (5.08%) IntelliJ
14 8 (4.52%) Bitbucket
14 8 (4.52%) Eclipse
14 8 (4.52%) Visual Studio
15 6 (3.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 50 (28.25%) Social Skills
2 39 (22.03%) Banking
3 30 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (14.69%) Finance
5 18 (10.17%) Investment Banking
6 17 (9.60%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.52%) Law
8 5 (2.82%) Front Office
9 4 (2.26%) Police
10 3 (1.69%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.13%) Back Office
12 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.56%) Aviation
12 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (34.46%) Developer
2 32 (18.08%) Tester
3 31 (17.51%) Java Developer
4 24 (13.56%) Automation Tester
5 22 (12.43%) Test Engineer
6 20 (11.30%) Senior
7 16 (9.04%) Java Engineer
8 15 (8.47%) Scala Developer
9 13 (7.34%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (6.78%) Lead
10 12 (6.78%) QA Engineer
11 9 (5.08%) Java Software Engineer
11 9 (5.08%) Software Engineer
12 8 (4.52%) AWS Developer
12 8 (4.52%) QA Tester
13 7 (3.95%) Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (3.95%) Senior Test Engineer
14 6 (3.39%) Senior Developer
14 6 (3.39%) Test Leader
15 5 (2.82%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (22.03%) REST
2 38 (21.47%) Spring
3 33 (18.64%) Spring Boot
4 20 (11.30%) HTML
4 20 (11.30%) RESTful
5 19 (10.73%) Gherkin
6 18 (10.17%) Playwright
7 15 (8.47%) Java EE
7 15 (8.47%) Kafka
7 15 (8.47%) React
8 13 (7.34%) Jest
8 13 (7.34%) jQuery
9 11 (6.21%) CSS
9 11 (6.21%) Node.js
10 10 (5.65%) DOM
10 10 (5.65%) JPA
11 9 (5.08%) ARM Templates
11 9 (5.08%) Hibernate
12 8 (4.52%) .NET
13 7 (3.95%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.60%) Algorithms
2 5 (2.82%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.26%) Client/Server
3 4 (2.26%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.26%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.69%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.69%) VSAM
5 2 (1.13%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.56%) Derivative
6 1 (0.56%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.91%) Linux
2 3 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.13%) Unix
4 1 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (66.10%) Test Automation
2 112 (63.28%) Agile
3 69 (38.98%) BDD
4 65 (36.72%) CI/CD
5 54 (30.51%) TDD
6 46 (25.99%) DevOps
7 39 (22.03%) Software Engineering
8 38 (21.47%) Scrum
9 34 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (14.69%) Continuous Integration
10 26 (14.69%) Software Testing
11 25 (14.12%) API Testing
11 25 (14.12%) Microservices
12 24 (13.56%) Test Strategy
13 22 (12.43%) Test Scripting
14 21 (11.86%) Clean Code
14 21 (11.86%) Code Quality
14 21 (11.86%) OO
15 18 (10.17%) Containerisation
15 18 (10.17%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 124 (70.06%) Java
2 39 (22.03%) SQL
3 36 (20.34%) JavaScript
4 28 (15.82%) Python
5 18 (10.17%) Scala
6 15 (8.47%) TypeScript
7 11 (6.21%) C#
8 8 (4.52%) Ruby
9 7 (3.95%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.69%) COBOL
10 3 (1.69%) JCL
10 3 (1.69%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.13%) Bash
11 2 (1.13%) C++
11 2 (1.13%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.13%) VBA
11 2 (1.13%) VBScript
12 1 (0.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 38 (21.47%) Security Cleared
2 31 (17.51%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.95%) Degree
5 4 (2.26%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.26%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.13%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (31.64%) QA
2 15 (8.47%) Accessibility
3 9 (5.08%) WCAG
4 5 (2.82%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.13%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.56%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) SEPA
System Software
1 40 (22.60%) Docker
2 3 (1.69%) VirtualBox
3 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (21.47%) Ansible
2 27 (15.25%) Kubernetes
3 16 (9.04%) Terraform
4 9 (5.08%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (5.08%) Podman
5 3 (1.69%) Puppet
6 1 (0.56%) Grafana
6 1 (0.56%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (3.39%) CA Agile Central
1 6 (3.39%) Microsoft
1 6 (3.39%) Veracode
2 5 (2.82%) Oracle
2 5 (2.82%) ServiceNow
2 5 (2.82%) Splunk
3 2 (1.13%) Sybase
3 2 (1.13%) UiPath
4 1 (0.56%) IBM
4 1 (0.56%) Salesforce