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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 362 348
Rank change year-on-year -29 -14 -28
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 234 160 255
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.55% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.01% 3.97% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 97 179
10th Percentile £350 £293 £346
25th Percentile £397 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £431 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -9.37% -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £663
90th Percentile £600 £670 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £438 £440
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.57% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile £68.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - -

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 5,837 4,030 5,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.24% 13.88% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,907 2,707 3,499
10th Percentile £343 £339 £358
25th Percentile £405 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £608 £630
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 72 184
10th Percentile £39.00 £25.33 £35.53
25th Percentile £59.75 £50.30 £45.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.25
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +0.40% +1.22%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £82.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +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 27 March 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cucumber over the 6 months to 27 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Top 16 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 March 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 -49 195 £425 -1.16% 26
UK excluding London -48 129 £425 -2.86% 25
London -46 80 £425 -1.16% 5
Work from Home -20 63 £425 +6.25% 18
North of England -63 51 £413 +4.43% 9
West Midlands -38 28 £430 -10.97% 2
Midlands -51 28 £430 +1.18% 5
Yorkshire -49 26 £500 -18.05% 2
South East -28 25 £423 +30.00% 5
North West -36 14 £400 - 6
Wales +2 13 £425 - 1
North East -9 11 £413 +20.00% 1
South West -20 6 £463 +101.09% 1
Scotland 0 5 - - 2
East of England -32 1 £450 -14.29% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 28 (11.97%) Confluence
2 2 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.85%) Camunda
3 1 (0.43%) Mule
3 1 (0.43%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.43%) nginx
3 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.43%) Mingle
1 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 120 (51.28%) AWS
2 77 (32.91%) Azure
3 75 (32.05%) GitHub
4 49 (20.94%) GitHub Actions
5 33 (14.10%) GCP
6 25 (10.68%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (8.55%) Serverless
8 18 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (6.41%) OpenShift
10 11 (4.70%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (4.27%) SaaS
12 8 (3.42%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (2.56%) BrowserStack
14 6 (2.56%) Datadog
15 5 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
16 4 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
16 4 (1.71%) BlazeMeter
16 4 (1.71%) PaaS
17 3 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.99%) HTTP
2 5 (2.14%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.43%) Multicast
3 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 12 (5.13%) DynamoDB
3 12 (5.13%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.70%) MySQL
4 11 (4.70%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.42%) HBase
6 6 (2.56%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.28%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.43%) Big Data
10 1 (0.43%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.43%) DB2
10 1 (0.43%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 118 (50.43%) Selenium
2 108 (46.15%) Jenkins
3 78 (33.33%) Git
4 76 (32.48%) JUnit
5 74 (31.62%) JIRA
6 67 (28.63%) Postman
7 65 (27.78%) GitLab
8 47 (20.09%) REST Assured
9 44 (18.80%) JMeter
10 33 (14.10%) WebDriver
11 20 (8.55%) Mockito
12 19 (8.12%) Sonatype Nexus
13 16 (6.84%) Gradle
13 16 (6.84%) Maven
13 16 (6.84%) TestRail
14 14 (5.98%) Cypress.io
14 14 (5.98%) SpecFlow
15 12 (5.13%) Zephyr
16 11 (4.70%) Gatling
17 10 (4.27%) Artifactory
General
1 70 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 60 (25.64%) Finance
3 27 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 23 (9.83%) Banking
6 8 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.14%) Back Office
7 5 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.14%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.71%) Front Office
9 3 (1.28%) Military
10 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.85%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.43%) Billing
11 1 (0.43%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 60 (25.64%) Test Engineer
2 51 (21.79%) Developer
3 38 (16.24%) Senior
4 36 (15.38%) Tester
5 33 (14.10%) Test Automation Engineer
6 30 (12.82%) Java Developer
7 28 (11.97%) Automation Tester
8 27 (11.54%) Lead
9 19 (8.12%) Test Leader
10 16 (6.84%) QA Engineer
11 15 (6.41%) Automation Test Lead
12 12 (5.13%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (5.13%) Java Engineer
12 12 (5.13%) Software Engineer
13 10 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (4.27%) Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (3.85%) Senior Automation Tester
14 9 (3.85%) Senior Developer
14 9 (3.85%) Senior Java Developer
14 9 (3.85%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (28.21%) Spring
2 57 (24.36%) Playwright
3 56 (23.93%) REST
4 43 (18.38%) Gherkin
5 37 (15.81%) Spring Boot
6 30 (12.82%) Kafka
7 27 (11.54%) WireMock
8 21 (8.97%) React
9 19 (8.12%) AngularJS
9 19 (8.12%) JSON
9 19 (8.12%) Node.js
10 18 (7.69%) .NET
10 18 (7.69%) RESTful
11 17 (7.26%) OpenID
12 15 (6.41%) HTML
13 12 (5.13%) LDAP
13 12 (5.13%) SailPoint
13 12 (5.13%) SOAP
13 12 (5.13%) XML
14 10 (4.27%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 18 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.13%) Distributed Architecture
4 10 (4.27%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.14%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.28%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.85%) Derivative
8 2 (0.85%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (0.85%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.85%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.85%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.85%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.43%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.43%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.43%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.97%) Linux
2 2 (0.85%) Unix
2 2 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (71.79%) Test Automation
2 158 (67.52%) CI/CD
3 128 (54.70%) Agile
4 110 (47.01%) BDD
5 80 (34.19%) API Testing
6 66 (28.21%) Microservices
6 66 (28.21%) Test Strategy
7 64 (27.35%) DevOps
8 58 (24.79%) TDD
9 55 (23.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (18.80%) Scrum
11 42 (17.95%) Test Scripting
12 39 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (15.38%) Manual Testing
13 36 (15.38%) Validation
14 33 (14.10%) Performance Testing
15 31 (13.25%) Containerisation
15 31 (13.25%) End-to-End Testing
16 30 (12.82%) Scenario Testing
16 30 (12.82%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 154 (65.81%) Java
2 54 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 44 (18.80%) Python
4 39 (16.67%) SQL
5 33 (14.10%) C#
6 29 (12.39%) TypeScript
7 21 (8.97%) Ruby
8 9 (3.85%) XPath
9 6 (2.56%) PHP
10 5 (2.14%) Groovy
11 3 (1.28%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.28%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.28%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.85%) Bash
12 2 (0.85%) C++
12 2 (0.85%) Go
12 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.43%) C
13 1 (0.43%) VB6
Qualifications
1 46 (19.66%) Security Cleared
2 40 (17.09%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.27%) OCP
3 10 (4.27%) Oracle Certification
4 8 (3.42%) Degree
5 7 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.99%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.43%) CFA
8 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.43%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (29.49%) QA
2 18 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 11 (4.70%) WCAG
4 2 (0.85%) NCSC
5 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.43%) SLA
5 1 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 46 (19.66%) Docker
2 4 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (26.92%) Kubernetes
2 32 (13.68%) Grafana
3 17 (7.26%) Prometheus
4 12 (5.13%) Ansible
5 9 (3.85%) Progress Chef
6 7 (2.99%) Terraform
7 5 (2.14%) Kibana
8 2 (0.85%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 16 (6.84%) Oracle
2 14 (5.98%) ServiceNow
3 13 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.85%) VMware
5 6 (2.56%) Splunk
6 5 (2.14%) Google
7 4 (1.71%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.71%) SAP
8 3 (1.28%) UiPath
8 3 (1.28%) Workday
9 2 (0.85%) Adobe
9 2 (0.85%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.43%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.43%) HP
10 1 (0.43%) IBM
10 1 (0.43%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.43%) MarketAxess
10 1 (0.43%) Sybase
10 1 (0.43%) Tradeweb