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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 356 374
Rank change year-on-year -83 +18 -40
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 201 174 222
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.58% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.32% 3.94% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 105 160
10th Percentile £344 £268 £350
25th Percentile £400 £340 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £430 £510
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% -15.69% -5.99%
75th Percentile £525 £501 £675
90th Percentile £609 £583 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £418 £500
% change year-on-year +1.80% -16.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 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 6,050 4,416 5,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.89% 14.66% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,910 2,942 3,541
10th Percentile £350 £331 £355
25th Percentile £411 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £625
90th Percentile £688 £695 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 89 251
10th Percentile £26.20 £20.86 £28.00
25th Percentile £56.25 £46.92 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.59 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -94 172 £447 +5.18% 14
UK excluding London -99 113 £425 +1.80% 12
Work from Home -30 67 £425 +6.25% 6
London -55 67 £450 -11.11% 4
North of England -64 49 £438 +4.23% 3
West Midlands -32 31 £425 -12.01% 3
Midlands -54 31 £425 +57.41% 3
North West -30 23 £402 -1.35%
South West -33 16 £500 +5.26% 2
North East -28 14 £438 +12.24% 2
Yorkshire -60 12 £500 +11.11% 1
Scotland -8 9 £480 +2.95% 1
Wales -9 5 £425 -10.53%
South East -80 4 £600 +19.88% 3
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 33 (16.42%) Confluence
2 3 (1.49%) Camunda
3 2 (1.00%) Mule
3 2 (1.00%) Mule ESB
4 1 (0.50%) JBoss
4 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.50%) Mingle
1 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.98%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.00%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 93 (46.27%) AWS
2 64 (31.84%) GitHub
3 63 (31.34%) Azure
4 38 (18.91%) GitHub Actions
5 37 (18.41%) GCP
6 26 (12.94%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (10.95%) Serverless
8 20 (9.95%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (6.97%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (4.48%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.48%) BrowserStack
12 6 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (2.49%) OpenShift
13 5 (2.49%) SaaS
14 4 (1.99%) BlazeMeter
15 3 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
15 3 (1.49%) Power Platform
15 3 (1.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.00%) Firewall
1 2 (1.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (15.92%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.47%) DynamoDB
2 11 (5.47%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (3.48%) MySQL
4 6 (2.99%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.49%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (2.49%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.99%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.49%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.50%) Db2
9 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.50%) Redis
9 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 115 (57.21%) Selenium
2 83 (41.29%) Jenkins
3 70 (34.83%) JUnit
4 65 (32.34%) Git
5 55 (27.36%) JIRA
6 54 (26.87%) GitLab
6 54 (26.87%) REST Assured
7 53 (26.37%) Postman
8 46 (22.89%) WebDriver
9 44 (21.89%) JMeter
10 20 (9.95%) Cypress.io
11 19 (9.45%) Gatling
12 14 (6.97%) Mockito
12 14 (6.97%) TestNG
13 12 (5.97%) Maven
14 8 (3.98%) Gradle
14 8 (3.98%) SonarQube
14 8 (3.98%) SpecFlow
15 7 (3.48%) Sonatype Nexus
16 6 (2.99%) SoapUI
General
1 65 (32.34%) Social Skills
2 47 (23.38%) Finance
3 37 (18.41%) Public Sector
4 27 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (11.94%) Banking
6 9 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.98%) Military
8 5 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.00%) Back Office
9 2 (1.00%) Law
9 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (25.37%) Test Engineer
2 45 (22.39%) Senior
3 35 (17.41%) Tester
4 26 (12.94%) Developer
5 25 (12.44%) Test Automation Engineer
6 23 (11.44%) Automation Tester
7 19 (9.45%) Lead
8 18 (8.96%) QA Engineer
9 15 (7.46%) Test Leader
10 13 (6.47%) Senior Tester
11 12 (5.97%) Automation Engineer
12 11 (5.47%) Senior Automation Tester
12 11 (5.47%) Senior Test Engineer
12 11 (5.47%) Software Engineer
13 10 (4.98%) Salesforce Engineer
14 9 (4.48%) Java Developer
15 8 (3.98%) Automation Test Lead
15 8 (3.98%) QA Automation Engineer
16 7 (3.48%) Senior Software Engineer
16 7 (3.48%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (27.86%) Playwright
2 46 (22.89%) Spring
3 44 (21.89%) REST
4 37 (18.41%) Gherkin
5 33 (16.42%) WireMock
6 25 (12.44%) Kafka
7 23 (11.44%) Spring Boot
8 21 (10.45%) RESTful
9 17 (8.46%) React
10 15 (7.46%) Node.js
11 14 (6.97%) AngularJS
12 13 (6.47%) HTML
13 12 (5.97%) CSS
14 11 (5.47%) SOAP
15 10 (4.98%) .NET
16 7 (3.48%) Next.js
16 7 (3.48%) OAuth
17 6 (2.99%) OAuth2
18 5 (2.49%) SailPoint
18 5 (2.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.45%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (7.96%) Product Ownership
3 15 (7.46%) Distributed Architecture
4 11 (5.47%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.98%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.99%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.49%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.49%) Equities
8 3 (1.49%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.49%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.00%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.00%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.00%) PKI
9 2 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.50%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.48%) Linux
2 4 (1.99%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (78.11%) Test Automation
2 141 (70.15%) CI/CD
3 116 (57.71%) BDD
4 111 (55.22%) Agile
5 73 (36.32%) API Testing
6 65 (32.34%) Test Strategy
7 64 (31.84%) DevOps
8 62 (30.85%) TDD
9 57 (28.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 57 (28.36%) Microservices
10 36 (17.91%) Validation
11 33 (16.42%) End-to-End Testing
11 33 (16.42%) Performance Testing
12 32 (15.92%) Scrum
13 31 (15.42%) Software Testing
14 30 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (13.93%) Containerisation
16 27 (13.43%) Mentoring
16 27 (13.43%) Observability
16 27 (13.43%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 125 (62.19%) Java
2 62 (30.85%) JavaScript
3 37 (18.41%) SQL
4 32 (15.92%) Python
5 29 (14.43%) C#
6 21 (10.45%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.47%) Ruby
8 7 (3.48%) Apex Code
8 7 (3.48%) Scala
9 6 (2.99%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.99%) Groovy
11 3 (1.49%) Bash
11 3 (1.49%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.00%) Go
12 2 (1.00%) PromQL
12 2 (1.00%) VBA
13 1 (0.50%) C++
13 1 (0.50%) COBOL
13 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 58 (28.86%) Security Cleared
2 48 (23.88%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.46%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (6.47%) Degree
4 13 (6.47%) ISTQB
5 6 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 5 (2.49%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.50%) CFA
8 1 (0.50%) ISEB
8 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (31.84%) QA
2 26 (12.94%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.48%) WCAG
4 2 (1.00%) GDPR
4 2 (1.00%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.00%) NCSC
5 1 (0.50%) SEPA
5 1 (0.50%) SLA
5 1 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 52 (25.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 59 (29.35%) Kubernetes
2 25 (12.44%) Grafana
3 24 (11.94%) Prometheus
4 8 (3.98%) Terraform
5 6 (2.99%) Ansible
5 6 (2.99%) Istio
6 2 (1.00%) Consul
6 2 (1.00%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.50%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.50%) Kibana
7 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (6.97%) Oracle
2 11 (5.47%) Salesforce
3 8 (3.98%) Conga
3 8 (3.98%) GoCardless
4 7 (3.48%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.99%) Microsoft
6 5 (2.49%) Google
7 3 (1.49%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.49%) IBM
7 3 (1.49%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.49%) Sybase
8 2 (1.00%) Pega
8 2 (1.00%) SAP
8 2 (1.00%) Solace
8 2 (1.00%) Splunk
8 2 (1.00%) Workday
9 1 (0.50%) Actian
9 1 (0.50%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.50%) HP
9 1 (0.50%) Thales