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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 363 347
Rank change year-on-year -11 -16 -26
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 255 165 256
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.55% 0.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.42% 4.01% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 97 181
10th Percentile £330 £305 £350
25th Percentile £366 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £473
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -4.76% -14.09%
75th Percentile £526 £550 £650
90th Percentile £600 £717 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £436
% change year-on-year -10.53% +8.94% -10.79%
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 5,772 4,119 5,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.62% 13.70% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,913 2,676 3,623
10th Percentile £343 £330 £356
25th Percentile £405 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 70 210
10th Percentile £34.53 £24.59 £37.50
25th Percentile £53.44 £47.63 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -1.96% +3.66%
75th Percentile £73.88 £71.25 £73.73
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £83.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -10 210 £425 -1.28% 29
UK excluding London -21 140 £425 -10.53% 28
London -19 88 £425 -1.16% 8
Work from Home -13 61 £400 -5.88% 24
North of England -52 53 £425 +7.59% 7
South East -14 32 £410 +26.15% 10
Midlands -51 27 £475 -1.66% 4
Yorkshire -54 26 £500 -18.38% 2
West Midlands -38 25 £475 -1.66% 3
Wales +7 16 £425 - 1
North East -1 16 £425 +23.64% 1
North West -40 11 £400 +2.56% 4
Scotland +7 6 - - 2
South West -16 6 £463 -27.31% 1
East Midlands -31 2 £310 +54.23% 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 31 (12.16%) Confluence
2 4 (1.57%) Appian
3 2 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.78%) Camunda
4 1 (0.39%) Mule
4 1 (0.39%) Mule ESB
4 1 (0.39%) nginx
4 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 129 (50.59%) AWS
2 78 (30.59%) Azure
3 74 (29.02%) GitHub
4 49 (19.22%) GitHub Actions
5 35 (13.73%) GCP
6 27 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (9.02%) OpenShift
8 19 (7.45%) Serverless
9 17 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (3.92%) Amazon S3
11 9 (3.53%) Datadog
12 8 (3.14%) BrowserStack
12 8 (3.14%) SaaS
13 7 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (2.35%) Tricentis Tosca
15 5 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
16 4 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 4 (1.57%) Amazon ECS
16 4 (1.57%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.35%) HTTP
2 5 (1.96%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.39%) Multicast
3 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (16.86%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.71%) MongoDB
2 12 (4.71%) NoSQL
3 11 (4.31%) DynamoDB
3 11 (4.31%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.92%) MySQL
5 8 (3.14%) HBase
6 6 (2.35%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.18%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.18%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.78%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.39%) Big Data
10 1 (0.39%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.39%) DB2
10 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 129 (50.59%) Selenium
2 116 (45.49%) Jenkins
3 78 (30.59%) JIRA
4 77 (30.20%) JUnit
5 76 (29.80%) Git
6 73 (28.63%) Postman
7 72 (28.24%) GitLab
8 53 (20.78%) REST Assured
9 50 (19.61%) JMeter
10 30 (11.76%) WebDriver
11 24 (9.41%) Sonatype Nexus
12 21 (8.24%) Cypress.io
13 19 (7.45%) Mockito
14 17 (6.67%) Maven
15 16 (6.27%) Gradle
15 16 (6.27%) TestRail
16 15 (5.88%) Gatling
16 15 (5.88%) Zephyr
17 14 (5.49%) SpecFlow
18 13 (5.10%) SonarQube
General
1 77 (30.20%) Social Skills
2 64 (25.10%) Finance
3 31 (12.16%) Public Sector
4 28 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (9.41%) Banking
6 8 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.96%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.57%) Front Office
9 4 (1.57%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.18%) Back Office
10 3 (1.18%) Military
11 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.39%) Billing
12 1 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.39%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (25.88%) Test Engineer
2 55 (21.57%) Developer
3 39 (15.29%) Java Developer
4 37 (14.51%) Senior
5 35 (13.73%) Test Automation Engineer
5 35 (13.73%) Tester
6 27 (10.59%) Automation Tester
6 27 (10.59%) Lead
7 19 (7.45%) Test Leader
8 17 (6.67%) Java Engineer
8 17 (6.67%) QA Engineer
9 14 (5.49%) Automation Test Lead
10 12 (4.71%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (4.31%) Quality Engineer
11 11 (4.31%) Software Engineer
12 10 (3.92%) Automation Engineer
12 10 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (3.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 9 (3.53%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (3.53%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (29.02%) Spring
2 63 (24.71%) Playwright
3 61 (23.92%) REST
4 45 (17.65%) Spring Boot
5 40 (15.69%) Gherkin
6 31 (12.16%) Kafka
7 27 (10.59%) JSON
7 27 (10.59%) WireMock
8 23 (9.02%) React
9 20 (7.84%) Node.js
10 19 (7.45%) RESTful
11 18 (7.06%) .NET
11 18 (7.06%) XML
12 17 (6.67%) OpenID
13 16 (6.27%) HTML
14 15 (5.88%) AngularJS
14 15 (5.88%) Hibernate
14 15 (5.88%) SOAP
15 12 (4.71%) LDAP
15 12 (4.71%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.41%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.31%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.14%) Distributed Architecture
4 5 (1.96%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.18%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.18%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.78%) Derivative
6 2 (0.78%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (0.78%) Fixed Income
6 2 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.78%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.78%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.78%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.39%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.39%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.98%) Linux
2 4 (1.57%) Unix
3 2 (0.78%) Windows
4 1 (0.39%) Android
4 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (69.41%) CI/CD
1 177 (69.41%) Test Automation
2 140 (54.90%) Agile
3 112 (43.92%) BDD
4 84 (32.94%) API Testing
5 71 (27.84%) Microservices
6 70 (27.45%) DevOps
7 66 (25.88%) Test Strategy
8 63 (24.71%) TDD
9 51 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (19.22%) Scrum
11 44 (17.25%) Test Scripting
12 43 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (14.90%) Performance Testing
14 37 (14.51%) Containerisation
15 36 (14.12%) Manual Testing
16 34 (13.33%) Software Engineering
17 33 (12.94%) Observability
17 33 (12.94%) Software Testing
18 31 (12.16%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 172 (67.45%) Java
2 62 (24.31%) JavaScript
3 48 (18.82%) Python
4 42 (16.47%) SQL
5 32 (12.55%) TypeScript
6 27 (10.59%) C#
7 21 (8.24%) Ruby
8 9 (3.53%) XPath
9 6 (2.35%) PHP
10 3 (1.18%) Groovy
10 3 (1.18%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.18%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.18%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.78%) Bash
11 2 (0.78%) C++
11 2 (0.78%) Go
11 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.78%) Scala
11 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.39%) VB6
Qualifications
1 46 (18.04%) Security Cleared
2 39 (15.29%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.92%) ISTQB
3 10 (3.92%) OCP
3 10 (3.92%) Oracle Certification
4 8 (3.14%) Degree
5 7 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.78%) ISEB
8 2 (0.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.39%) CFA
9 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (30.20%) QA
2 21 (8.24%) Accessibility
3 14 (5.49%) WCAG
4 2 (0.78%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.78%) NCSC
5 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.39%) SLA
5 1 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 52 (20.39%) Docker
2 7 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 62 (24.31%) Kubernetes
2 28 (10.98%) Grafana
3 23 (9.02%) Ansible
4 14 (5.49%) Progress Chef
5 13 (5.10%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.35%) Terraform
7 5 (1.96%) Kibana
8 2 (0.78%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.39%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 21 (8.24%) Oracle
2 14 (5.49%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.49%) ServiceNow
2 14 (5.49%) VMware
3 8 (3.14%) Splunk
4 5 (1.96%) Google
4 5 (1.96%) Red Hat
4 5 (1.96%) Veracode
5 4 (1.57%) Cisco
5 4 (1.57%) SAP
6 3 (1.18%) UiPath
6 3 (1.18%) Workday
7 2 (0.78%) Adobe
7 2 (0.78%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.39%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.39%) HP
8 1 (0.39%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.39%) MarketAxess
8 1 (0.39%) Tradeweb