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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 360 349
Rank change year-on-year -2 -11 -59
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 232 174 264
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.57% 0.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.22% 4.16% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 100 193
10th Percentile £330 £305 £335
25th Percentile £363 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £537 £563 £650
90th Percentile £613 £734 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £480 £439
% change year-on-year -11.46% +9.40% -7.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile £56.25 - -
90th Percentile £67.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +22.35%

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 5,498 4,186 5,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.97% 13.64% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,774 2,637 3,768
10th Percentile £343 £340 £363
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £628
90th Percentile £689 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.55% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 62 207
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.28 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £47.25 £48.32
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £75.25
90th Percentile £83.00 £77.38 £88.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 10 February 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 -22 191 £425 -10.53% 14
UK excluding London -6 130 £425 -11.46% 11
London -36 73 £425 -1.28% 4
North of England -47 56 £425 +0.59% 3
Work from Home -14 53 £400 -5.88% 11
South East +12 37 £395 +21.54% 5
Yorkshire -44 27 £500 -18.70% 1
North East +1 18 £425 +33.86%
Midlands -48 14 £483 -0.10%
West Midlands -42 12 £508 +5.07%
Wales +4 11 £433 - 1
North West -35 11 £400 +23.46% 2
Scotland +7 6 - -
South West -20 5 £475 -25.34% 2
East Midlands - 2 £310 -
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

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 22 (9.48%) Confluence
2 7 (3.02%) Appian
3 2 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.86%) Camunda
4 1 (0.43%) nginx
4 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 107 (46.12%) AWS
2 64 (27.59%) Azure
3 57 (24.57%) GitHub
4 39 (16.81%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (10.78%) GCP
6 24 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (9.91%) OpenShift
8 15 (6.47%) Serverless
9 13 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (3.88%) BrowserStack
10 9 (3.88%) Datadog
10 9 (3.88%) Tricentis Tosca
11 8 (3.45%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.02%) SaaS
13 6 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (1.72%) BlazeMeter
16 3 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
16 3 (1.29%) npm
16 3 (1.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.59%) HTTP
2 5 (2.16%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.43%) Multicast
3 1 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.03%) MongoDB
3 12 (5.17%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.74%) SQL Server
5 10 (4.31%) MySQL
6 9 (3.88%) DynamoDB
7 8 (3.45%) HBase
8 6 (2.59%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.29%) DB2
9 3 (1.29%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.29%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.86%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.43%) Big Data
11 1 (0.43%) CockroachDB
11 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 123 (53.02%) Selenium
2 108 (46.55%) Jenkins
3 73 (31.47%) Postman
4 69 (29.74%) GitLab
5 65 (28.02%) JIRA
6 60 (25.86%) Git
7 57 (24.57%) REST Assured
8 56 (24.14%) JUnit
9 40 (17.24%) JMeter
10 23 (9.91%) Sonatype Nexus
11 21 (9.05%) Cypress.io
12 20 (8.62%) WebDriver
13 18 (7.76%) Mockito
14 17 (7.33%) Gatling
14 17 (7.33%) TestRail
15 15 (6.47%) Gradle
15 15 (6.47%) Maven
15 15 (6.47%) SonarQube
16 14 (6.03%) Bitbucket
16 14 (6.03%) Zephyr
General
1 63 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 60 (25.86%) Finance
3 36 (15.52%) Public Sector
4 20 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (8.19%) Banking
6 7 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.02%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.59%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.72%) Front Office
8 4 (1.72%) Military
9 3 (1.29%) Automotive
9 3 (1.29%) Back Office
9 3 (1.29%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.86%) Retail
11 1 (0.43%) Billing
11 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.43%) Games
Job Titles
1 67 (28.88%) Test Engineer
2 50 (21.55%) Developer
3 40 (17.24%) Java Developer
4 35 (15.09%) Test Automation Engineer
5 32 (13.79%) Tester
6 31 (13.36%) Senior
7 27 (11.64%) Automation Tester
8 18 (7.76%) Lead
8 18 (7.76%) QA Engineer
9 16 (6.90%) Java Engineer
10 12 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (4.74%) Test Leader
12 10 (4.31%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 10 (4.31%) Software Engineer
13 9 (3.88%) Automation Engineer
13 9 (3.88%) Automation Test Lead
13 9 (3.88%) Quality Engineer
13 9 (3.88%) Senior Developer
13 9 (3.88%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (3.88%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (28.45%) REST
2 58 (25.00%) Spring
3 57 (24.57%) Playwright
4 45 (19.40%) Spring Boot
5 37 (15.95%) Gherkin
6 30 (12.93%) JSON
7 26 (11.21%) React
8 24 (10.34%) Kafka
9 23 (9.91%) Node.js
10 21 (9.05%) RESTful
10 21 (9.05%) XML
11 20 (8.62%) .NET
12 18 (7.76%) SOAP
13 17 (7.33%) OpenID
14 16 (6.90%) HTML
15 15 (6.47%) Hibernate
15 15 (6.47%) WireMock
16 13 (5.60%) AngularJS
17 12 (5.17%) LDAP
17 12 (5.17%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.48%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (2.16%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.29%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.29%) Virtual Team
5 2 (0.86%) Client/Server
5 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
5 2 (0.86%) Derivative
5 2 (0.86%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (0.86%) Fixed Income
5 2 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (0.86%) Private Cloud
5 2 (0.86%) Public Cloud
5 2 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.43%) Equities
6 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.78%) Linux
2 5 (2.16%) Windows
3 4 (1.72%) Unix
4 1 (0.43%) Android
4 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (69.83%) Test Automation
2 161 (69.40%) CI/CD
3 133 (57.33%) Agile
4 96 (41.38%) BDD
5 79 (34.05%) API Testing
6 63 (27.16%) DevOps
7 57 (24.57%) Microservices
8 51 (21.98%) TDD
9 50 (21.55%) Scrum
10 49 (21.12%) Test Strategy
11 43 (18.53%) Test Scripting
12 41 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
13 39 (16.81%) Performance Testing
14 36 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (15.09%) Software Engineering
15 35 (15.09%) Software Testing
16 34 (14.66%) Manual Testing
17 32 (13.79%) Containerisation
18 30 (12.93%) Full-Stack Development
19 29 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 164 (70.69%) Java
2 61 (26.29%) JavaScript
3 50 (21.55%) Python
4 42 (18.10%) SQL
5 26 (11.21%) C#
6 25 (10.78%) TypeScript
7 16 (6.90%) Ruby
8 9 (3.88%) XPath
9 6 (2.59%) PHP
10 4 (1.72%) Scala
11 3 (1.29%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.29%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.86%) Bash
12 2 (0.86%) C++
12 2 (0.86%) Go
12 2 (0.86%) Groovy
12 2 (0.86%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.43%) VB
13 1 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 39 (16.81%) Security Cleared
2 30 (12.93%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.31%) ISTQB
3 10 (4.31%) OCP
3 10 (4.31%) Oracle Certification
4 8 (3.45%) Degree
5 7 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.43%) CFA
9 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.43%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (31.47%) QA
2 23 (9.91%) Accessibility
3 16 (6.90%) WCAG
4 2 (0.86%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.86%) NCSC
5 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.43%) SLA
5 1 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 44 (18.97%) Docker
2 7 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (18.97%) Kubernetes
2 25 (10.78%) Ansible
3 16 (6.90%) Grafana
4 14 (6.03%) Progress Chef
5 6 (2.59%) Terraform
6 5 (2.16%) Kibana
7 2 (0.86%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (9.05%) Oracle
2 14 (6.03%) VMware
3 13 (5.60%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.60%) ServiceNow
4 8 (3.45%) Splunk
4 8 (3.45%) Veracode
5 7 (3.02%) Cisco
6 6 (2.59%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.16%) Google
8 4 (1.72%) SAP
9 3 (1.29%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.29%) UiPath
9 3 (1.29%) Workday
10 2 (0.86%) Adobe
10 2 (0.86%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.86%) Virgin Media
11 1 (0.43%) Actian
11 1 (0.43%) Conga
11 1 (0.43%) ION Trading
11 1 (0.43%) Thales