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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 358 345
Rank change year-on-year -62 -13 -19
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 204 176 251
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.60% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.51% 4.28% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 102 180
10th Percentile £350 £271 £331
25th Percentile £375 £378 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% -8.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £536 £538 £650
90th Percentile £631 £647 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -10.53% -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

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 5,809 4,110 5,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.43% 14.00% 11.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,866 2,758 3,466
10th Percentile £343 £340 £356
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £625
90th Percentile £687 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 67 190
10th Percentile £36.95 £26.92 £31.71
25th Percentile £59.19 £51.53 £45.96
Median hourly rate £66.75 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £73.19 £75.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £86.15 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -71 171 £425 -6.59% 15
UK excluding London -71 109 £425 -10.53% 14
London -55 73 £425 -1.16% 4
Work from Home -5 60 £400 - 13
North of England -64 49 £413 -11.76% 4
Yorkshire -61 24 £500 -9.09% 1
West Midlands -44 21 £425 -12.01% 2
Midlands -52 21 £425 +22.30% 2
South East -66 16 £393 -21.58% 5
North West -32 15 £400 -15.79% 1
Wales +1 11 £425 - 1
North East -16 10 £400 +6.31% 2
South West -30 7 £450 +95.65% 1
Scotland +7 4 £470 +17.50%
East of England -34 1 £450 -14.29%

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 27 (13.24%) Confluence
2 2 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (0.98%) Camunda
2 2 (0.98%) Mule
2 2 (0.98%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.49%) JBoss
3 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.49%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.49%) Mingle
1 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.49%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.49%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 99 (48.53%) AWS
2 74 (36.27%) GitHub
3 72 (35.29%) Azure
4 49 (24.02%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (16.67%) GCP
6 21 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (8.33%) Serverless
8 12 (5.88%) OpenShift
9 11 (5.39%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (4.90%) SaaS
11 9 (4.41%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.43%) BrowserStack
13 6 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.45%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.45%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (1.96%) AWS CodePipeline
15 4 (1.96%) BlazeMeter
15 4 (1.96%) PaaS
16 3 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.43%) HTTP
2 1 (0.49%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (15.69%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.37%) MySQL
3 11 (5.39%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.41%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.94%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.45%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.45%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.96%) HBase
8 3 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.47%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.49%) Big Data
10 1 (0.49%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.49%) DB2
10 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 113 (55.39%) Selenium
2 97 (47.55%) Jenkins
3 72 (35.29%) JIRA
4 69 (33.82%) Git
5 62 (30.39%) JUnit
5 62 (30.39%) Postman
6 53 (25.98%) GitLab
7 45 (22.06%) REST Assured
8 43 (21.08%) JMeter
9 37 (18.14%) WebDriver
10 16 (7.84%) TestRail
11 14 (6.86%) Cypress.io
12 13 (6.37%) Gatling
12 13 (6.37%) Gradle
12 13 (6.37%) SpecFlow
12 13 (6.37%) TestNG
13 12 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (5.39%) Zephyr
15 10 (4.90%) Maven
15 10 (4.90%) Mockito
General
1 58 (28.43%) Social Skills
2 55 (26.96%) Finance
3 24 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 18 (8.82%) Banking
5 8 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.47%) Back Office
6 3 (1.47%) Military
7 2 (0.98%) Front Office
7 2 (0.98%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.98%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.49%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (26.47%) Test Engineer
2 36 (17.65%) Developer
2 36 (17.65%) Tester
3 34 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
4 27 (13.24%) Lead
5 26 (12.75%) Automation Tester
6 25 (12.25%) Senior
7 19 (9.31%) Test Leader
8 18 (8.82%) Java Developer
9 15 (7.35%) Automation Test Lead
10 13 (6.37%) QA Engineer
11 12 (5.88%) Software Engineer
12 11 (5.39%) Automation Engineer
13 9 (4.41%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (4.41%) Java Engineer
14 8 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (3.92%) QA Automation Engineer
14 8 (3.92%) Quality Engineer
14 8 (3.92%) Senior Automation Tester
14 8 (3.92%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (24.51%) REST
2 49 (24.02%) Playwright
2 49 (24.02%) Spring
3 39 (19.12%) Gherkin
4 24 (11.76%) Kafka
4 24 (11.76%) Spring Boot
4 24 (11.76%) WireMock
5 16 (7.84%) AngularJS
5 16 (7.84%) RESTful
6 14 (6.86%) .NET
6 14 (6.86%) Node.js
7 13 (6.37%) JSON
8 12 (5.88%) LDAP
8 12 (5.88%) OpenID
8 12 (5.88%) SailPoint
9 11 (5.39%) React
9 11 (5.39%) XML
10 10 (4.90%) HTML
10 10 (4.90%) SOAP
11 9 (4.41%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.75%) Product Ownership
2 19 (9.31%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
4 5 (2.45%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.47%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (0.98%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.98%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.98%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.98%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.49%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.49%) Equities
8 1 (0.49%) NHS
8 1 (0.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.84%) Linux
2 3 (1.47%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (77.45%) Test Automation
2 141 (69.12%) CI/CD
3 109 (53.43%) Agile
4 101 (49.51%) BDD
5 76 (37.25%) API Testing
6 64 (31.37%) Test Strategy
7 58 (28.43%) DevOps
8 54 (26.47%) TDD
9 48 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (23.04%) Microservices
11 36 (17.65%) Validation
12 34 (16.67%) Performance Testing
13 33 (16.18%) Scrum
13 33 (16.18%) Test Scripting
14 32 (15.69%) Manual Testing
14 32 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (14.22%) End-to-End Testing
16 27 (13.24%) Containerisation
17 25 (12.25%) Scenario Testing
17 25 (12.25%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 134 (65.69%) Java
2 48 (23.53%) JavaScript
3 44 (21.57%) Python
4 40 (19.61%) SQL
5 30 (14.71%) C#
6 21 (10.29%) TypeScript
7 20 (9.80%) Ruby
8 9 (4.41%) XPath
9 6 (2.94%) PHP
10 4 (1.96%) Groovy
11 3 (1.47%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.47%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.47%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.98%) Bash
12 2 (0.98%) C++
12 2 (0.98%) Go
12 2 (0.98%) Scala
13 1 (0.49%) C
13 1 (0.49%) Rust
13 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (20.10%) Security Cleared
2 37 (18.14%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.43%) Degree
5 5 (2.45%) ISTQB
5 5 (2.45%) OCP
5 5 (2.45%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.98%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (0.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.49%) CFA
8 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.49%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (32.35%) QA
2 16 (7.84%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.96%) WCAG
4 2 (0.98%) NCSC
5 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.49%) SLA
5 1 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 42 (20.59%) Docker
2 3 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 20 (9.80%) Grafana
3 16 (7.84%) Prometheus
4 9 (4.41%) Ansible
5 6 (2.94%) Progress Chef
5 6 (2.94%) Terraform
6 2 (0.98%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.49%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 15 (7.35%) Oracle
2 14 (6.86%) ServiceNow
3 13 (6.37%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.94%) VMware
5 5 (2.45%) Google
6 4 (1.96%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.96%) Splunk
7 3 (1.47%) SAP
7 3 (1.47%) Workday
8 2 (0.98%) Adobe
9 1 (0.49%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.49%) HP
9 1 (0.49%) IBM
9 1 (0.49%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.49%) MarketAxess
9 1 (0.49%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.49%) Sybase
9 1 (0.49%) Thales
9 1 (0.49%) Tradeweb