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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 354 392
Rank change year-on-year -128 +38 -25
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 203 204 174
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.62% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.20% 4.09% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 134 118
10th Percentile £306 £268 £322
25th Percentile £369 £340 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £500 £517 £600
90th Percentile £538 £630 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £418 £500
% change year-on-year +3.05% -16.50% +5.26%
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 6,341 4,984 5,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.56% 15.24% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,050 3,353 3,183
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £414 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 109 175
10th Percentile £24.11 £28.88 £28.09
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £51.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.60 £73.90
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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -95 182 £445 +4.71% 115
UK excluding London -105 117 £430 +3.05% 85
London -83 67 £473 -9.13% 42
Work from Home -60 57 £446 +0.22% 53
North of England -71 48 £402 -5.41% 32
West Midlands -7 36 £450 +24.14% 12
Midlands -36 36 £450 +67.29% 15
North West -47 21 £411 +14.97% 10
South West -21 20 £425 -10.53% 14
North East -33 15 £450 -2.17% 15
Yorkshire -45 12 £350 -17.65% 7
Scotland -19 7 £480 +3.78% 9
South East -86 7 £275 -42.11% 8
Wales -22 1 £288 -39.47% 3

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 21 (10.34%) Confluence
2 1 (0.49%) Camunda
2 1 (0.49%) JBoss
2 1 (0.49%) Mule
2 1 (0.49%) Mule ESB
2 1 (0.49%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 8 (3.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (3.94%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.48%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (38.42%) AWS
2 62 (30.54%) GitHub
3 59 (29.06%) Azure
4 32 (15.76%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (15.27%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (13.79%) Serverless
7 20 (9.85%) GCP
8 19 (9.36%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (5.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (4.93%) Amazon SQS
10 10 (4.93%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (4.93%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (4.93%) Power Automate
11 9 (4.43%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (4.43%) Amazon S3
11 9 (4.43%) Azure Functions
12 8 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (3.45%) OpenShift
14 6 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (2.96%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.99%) Firewall
1 2 (0.99%) HTTP
2 1 (0.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.84%) MongoDB
2 21 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.91%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.43%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.96%) MySQL
7 5 (2.46%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.46%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.48%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.48%) Weaviate
9 3 (1.48%) ZAP BI
10 2 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.99%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.99%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.99%) Redis
11 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.49%) Cloud Spanner
11 1 (0.49%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 127 (62.56%) Selenium
2 76 (37.44%) JUnit
3 67 (33.00%) Jenkins
4 65 (32.02%) Git
5 63 (31.03%) GitLab
6 54 (26.60%) Postman
7 50 (24.63%) REST Assured
8 38 (18.72%) Gatling
9 33 (16.26%) WebDriver
10 32 (15.76%) JMeter
11 30 (14.78%) JIRA
12 24 (11.82%) Cypress.io
13 22 (10.84%) SonarQube
14 18 (8.87%) Maven
14 18 (8.87%) TestNG
15 17 (8.37%) Mockito
16 12 (5.91%) Gradle
17 11 (5.42%) SpecFlow
18 9 (4.43%) SoapUI
19 8 (3.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 73 (35.96%) Social Skills
2 48 (23.65%) Public Sector
3 33 (16.26%) Finance
4 23 (11.33%) Banking
5 22 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.93%) Military
8 3 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.99%) Law
10 1 (0.49%) Automotive
10 1 (0.49%) Back Office
10 1 (0.49%) Marketing
10 1 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 57 (28.08%) Test Engineer
2 44 (21.67%) Senior
3 29 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
4 23 (11.33%) Developer
4 23 (11.33%) Tester
5 22 (10.84%) Quality Engineer
6 21 (10.34%) QA Engineer
7 16 (7.88%) Automation Tester
8 15 (7.39%) Java Developer
9 14 (6.90%) Lead
10 13 (6.40%) Automation Engineer
10 13 (6.40%) Senior Test Engineer
11 12 (5.91%) Analyst
12 11 (5.42%) Test Analyst
13 10 (4.93%) Salesforce Engineer
13 10 (4.93%) Test Leader
14 8 (3.94%) DevOps Engineer
14 8 (3.94%) Lead Test Analyst
14 8 (3.94%) Senior Analyst
14 8 (3.94%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (38.92%) Playwright
2 49 (24.14%) Spring
3 46 (22.66%) Gherkin
4 44 (21.67%) REST
5 35 (17.24%) Kafka
6 31 (15.27%) WireMock
7 30 (14.78%) Spring Boot
8 25 (12.32%) Node.js
9 24 (11.82%) React
10 23 (11.33%) RESTful
11 17 (8.37%) HTML
12 14 (6.90%) SOAP
13 13 (6.40%) RabbitMQ
14 12 (5.91%) JSON
14 12 (5.91%) OpenAPI
15 11 (5.42%) .NET
15 11 (5.42%) Swagger
16 10 (4.93%) CSS
17 9 (4.43%) Terraform
18 8 (3.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.42%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.43%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.43%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.46%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.48%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.48%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.99%) Equities
8 2 (0.99%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.99%) PKI
8 2 (0.99%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.49%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.88%) Linux
2 6 (2.96%) Unix
3 4 (1.97%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.99%) Android
4 2 (0.99%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.99%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (80.79%) Test Automation
2 151 (74.38%) CI/CD
3 129 (63.55%) Agile
4 124 (61.08%) BDD
5 73 (35.96%) DevOps
6 72 (35.47%) TDD
7 68 (33.50%) API Testing
8 62 (30.54%) Test Strategy
9 60 (29.56%) Software Testing
10 56 (27.59%) Microservices
11 52 (25.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 52 (25.62%) Scrum
12 44 (21.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 42 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (19.70%) Containerisation
15 39 (19.21%) Performance Testing
16 37 (18.23%) SDLC
16 37 (18.23%) Security Testing
17 31 (15.27%) Non-Functional Testing
18 30 (14.78%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 141 (69.46%) Java
2 70 (34.48%) JavaScript
3 35 (17.24%) Python
4 28 (13.79%) C#
5 21 (10.34%) SQL
5 21 (10.34%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.42%) Scala
7 10 (4.93%) Bash
8 7 (3.45%) Apex Code
8 7 (3.45%) Ruby
9 4 (1.97%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.97%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.48%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.48%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.99%) Groovy
11 2 (0.99%) PromQL
11 2 (0.99%) R
12 1 (0.49%) COBOL
12 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 66 (32.51%) Security Cleared
2 55 (27.09%) SC Cleared
3 28 (13.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (8.87%) Degree
5 17 (8.37%) ISTQB
6 12 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (5.42%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.49%) ISEB
11 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (42.86%) QA
2 56 (27.59%) Accessibility
3 32 (15.76%) WCAG
4 8 (3.94%) GDPR
5 4 (1.97%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.48%) SEPA
7 2 (0.99%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 73 (35.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 72 (35.47%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.39%) Grafana
3 13 (6.40%) Prometheus
4 10 (4.93%) Ansible
5 7 (3.45%) Istio
6 3 (1.48%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.48%) Kibana
7 2 (0.99%) Consul
7 2 (0.99%) Packer
7 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.99%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 22 (10.84%) Oracle
2 16 (7.88%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.88%) Salesforce
3 8 (3.94%) Conga
3 8 (3.94%) GoCardless
4 7 (3.45%) Databricks
4 7 (3.45%) HP
5 6 (2.96%) IBM
5 6 (2.96%) Splunk
6 4 (1.97%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.97%) Google
7 3 (1.48%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.99%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.99%) Pega
8 2 (0.99%) Solace
8 2 (0.99%) Sybase
9 1 (0.49%) F5
9 1 (0.49%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.49%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.49%) Veracode