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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 374 391
Rank change year-on-year -126 +17 -31
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 174 185 182
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.56% 0.47%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.84% 3.74% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 119 125
10th Percentile £309 £268 £350
25th Percentile £400 £329 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £500 £520 £600
90th Percentile £560 £640 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £408 £500
% change year-on-year +4.29% -18.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £50.00 -

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 6,120 4,947 5,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.40% 15.10% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,928 3,335 3,261
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £623
90th Percentile £694 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 114 184
10th Percentile £35.13 £28.59 £28.98
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.58 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -106 152 £447 +5.18% 20
UK excluding London -95 108 £425 +4.29% 18
Work from Home -50 59 £438 +3.31% 9
North of England -62 46 £400 -4.99% 4
London -85 46 £475 -9.52% 7
West Midlands -21 30 £425 +17.24% 5
Midlands -45 30 £425 +58.58% 5
North West -44 20 £400 +11.89% 1
South West -31 16 £450 -5.26% 5
North East -31 15 £450 -2.17% 2
Yorkshire -53 11 £350 -17.65% 1
Scotland -11 8 £480 +3.78% 1
South East -77 8 £275 -42.11% 1
Wales -21 1 £288 -39.47%
East of England - 1 £450 -

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 (12.64%) Confluence
2 1 (0.57%) Camunda
2 1 (0.57%) JBoss
2 1 (0.57%) Mule
2 1 (0.57%) Mule ESB
2 1 (0.57%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 8 (4.60%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.72%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (37.93%) AWS
2 61 (35.06%) GitHub
3 50 (28.74%) Azure
4 33 (18.97%) GitHub Actions
5 28 (16.09%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (11.49%) Serverless
7 19 (10.92%) GCP
8 14 (8.05%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (4.60%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.60%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (4.02%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (4.02%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.02%) Power Automate
12 6 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (3.45%) Azure Functions
12 6 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (3.45%) SaaS
13 4 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.30%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.72%) HTTP
2 2 (1.15%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.49%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (8.05%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.75%) SQL Server
4 9 (5.17%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.87%) MySQL
6 4 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.30%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.72%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.15%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.15%) ZAP BI
9 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.57%) Cloud Spanner
9 1 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 107 (61.49%) Selenium
2 62 (35.63%) Jenkins
3 61 (35.06%) JUnit
4 56 (32.18%) GitLab
5 53 (30.46%) Git
6 48 (27.59%) Postman
7 44 (25.29%) REST Assured
8 37 (21.26%) WebDriver
9 32 (18.39%) JMeter
10 31 (17.82%) JIRA
11 29 (16.67%) Gatling
12 22 (12.64%) Cypress.io
13 15 (8.62%) SonarQube
14 13 (7.47%) TestNG
15 10 (5.75%) Maven
15 10 (5.75%) SpecFlow
16 8 (4.60%) Gradle
16 8 (4.60%) Mockito
17 7 (4.02%) Sonatype Nexus
18 6 (3.45%) SoapUI
General
1 54 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.56%) Public Sector
3 27 (15.52%) Finance
4 19 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (10.34%) Banking
6 9 (5.17%) Military
7 8 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.15%) Back Office
8 2 (1.15%) Law
8 2 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Automotive
9 1 (0.57%) Police
Job Titles
1 48 (27.59%) Test Engineer
2 42 (24.14%) Senior
3 26 (14.94%) Test Automation Engineer
4 25 (14.37%) Tester
5 21 (12.07%) Developer
6 18 (10.34%) Automation Tester
6 18 (10.34%) QA Engineer
7 15 (8.62%) Quality Engineer
8 12 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
8 12 (6.90%) Lead
9 10 (5.75%) Analyst
9 10 (5.75%) Salesforce Engineer
9 10 (5.75%) Senior Test Engineer
10 9 (5.17%) Java Developer
10 9 (5.17%) Senior Tester
10 9 (5.17%) Test Analyst
10 9 (5.17%) Test Leader
11 7 (4.02%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.02%) QA Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.02%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (39.08%) Playwright
2 42 (24.14%) REST
3 41 (23.56%) Gherkin
4 38 (21.84%) Spring
5 29 (16.67%) WireMock
6 26 (14.94%) Kafka
7 21 (12.07%) Node.js
8 20 (11.49%) RESTful
8 20 (11.49%) Spring Boot
9 18 (10.34%) React
10 12 (6.90%) HTML
10 12 (6.90%) SOAP
11 10 (5.75%) .NET
11 10 (5.75%) JSON
12 8 (4.60%) AngularJS
12 8 (4.60%) CSS
12 8 (4.60%) Terraform
13 7 (4.02%) OpenAPI
13 7 (4.02%) Swagger
13 7 (4.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.20%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (8.62%) Product Ownership
3 13 (7.47%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.60%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.02%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (3.45%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.72%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.72%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.15%) Equities
9 2 (1.15%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.15%) PKI
9 2 (1.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.57%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.57%) NHS
10 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.57%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.60%) Linux
2 4 (2.30%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.57%) Android
4 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (83.91%) Test Automation
2 129 (74.14%) CI/CD
3 112 (64.37%) BDD
4 103 (59.20%) Agile
5 63 (36.21%) TDD
6 59 (33.91%) API Testing
7 58 (33.33%) DevOps
8 56 (32.18%) Test Strategy
9 50 (28.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (27.01%) Microservices
11 45 (25.86%) Software Testing
12 40 (22.99%) Scrum
13 33 (18.97%) Performance Testing
14 28 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (16.09%) SDET
15 27 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
16 26 (14.94%) Security Testing
17 25 (14.37%) Containerisation
17 25 (14.37%) SDLC
17 25 (14.37%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 115 (66.09%) Java
2 61 (35.06%) JavaScript
3 33 (18.97%) Python
4 27 (15.52%) C#
5 21 (12.07%) SQL
6 17 (9.77%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.17%) Bash
8 7 (4.02%) Apex Code
8 7 (4.02%) Ruby
8 7 (4.02%) Scala
9 4 (2.30%) Groovy
9 4 (2.30%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.72%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.15%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.15%) PromQL
11 2 (1.15%) R
12 1 (0.57%) COBOL
12 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (31.61%) Security Cleared
2 45 (25.86%) SC Cleared
3 22 (12.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (9.20%) ISTQB
5 12 (6.90%) Degree
6 7 (4.02%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.15%) ISEB
10 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (39.08%) QA
2 41 (23.56%) Accessibility
3 21 (12.07%) WCAG
4 6 (3.45%) GDPR
5 2 (1.15%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.57%) SEPA
6 1 (0.57%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 53 (30.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 51 (29.31%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.05%) Grafana
3 13 (7.47%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.02%) Ansible
4 7 (4.02%) Istio
5 3 (1.72%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.15%) Consul
6 2 (1.15%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.57%) Kibana
7 1 (0.57%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (9.20%) Salesforce
2 15 (8.62%) Oracle
3 13 (7.47%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.60%) Conga
4 8 (4.60%) GoCardless
5 5 (2.87%) Databricks
5 5 (2.87%) IBM
6 4 (2.30%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.72%) HP
7 3 (1.72%) Splunk
8 2 (1.15%) Pega
8 2 (1.15%) Solace
8 2 (1.15%) Sybase
9 1 (0.57%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.57%) Confluent
9 1 (0.57%) Google
9 1 (0.57%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.57%) UiPath
9 1 (0.57%) Veracode