Cucumber Contracts

Cucumber
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cucumber skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cucumber over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 359 327
Rank change year-on-year +7 -32 -46
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 172 251 455
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.58% 0.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.20% 4.85% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 179 361
10th Percentile £270 £330 £400
25th Percentile £380 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £663 £725
90th Percentile £660 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -4.62% -0.40% +8.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - £70.00
25th Percentile - - £70.94
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £77.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +17.90%

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 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cucumber.

Hourly rate trend for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Top 16 Contract 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 30 April 2025. 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 +17 143 £468 -6.50% 62
UK excluding London +58 92 £475 -4.62% 49
London -29 57 £430 -18.05% 19
Work from Home +13 41 £400 -19.35% 49
North of England +43 40 £468 +16.88% 18
Yorkshire +28 21 £535 +33.72% 8
South East +35 19 £501 -23.00% 9
Midlands +33 16 £348 -13.13% 6
North West +7 12 £475 +19.12% 8
West Midlands +20 8 £483 +60.33% 1
East Midlands +15 8 £226 -48.64% 5
South West +51 7 £230 -58.18% 8
North East +6 7 £390 +25.81% 2
Scotland -9 6 £400 -20.00% 2
Wales +3 2 - - 5
East of England - 2 £525 - 1

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 36 (20.93%) Confluence
2 4 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.16%) Apache
4 1 (0.58%) nginx
4 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 42 (24.42%) AWS
2 29 (16.86%) Azure
3 19 (11.05%) GitHub
4 18 (10.47%) Slack
5 15 (8.72%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (3.49%) Serverless
8 5 (2.91%) GCP
8 5 (2.91%) SaaS
9 4 (2.33%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.33%) OpenShift
9 4 (2.33%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.33%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.74%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (1.74%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (1.74%) BrowserStack
10 3 (1.74%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.81%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.70%) MongoDB
2 20 (11.63%) MySQL
2 20 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (11.05%) Apache Cassandra
4 11 (6.40%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.91%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.33%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.58%) Adabas
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.58%) Big Data
7 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.58%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.58%) IDMS
7 1 (0.58%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.58%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 71 (41.28%) Selenium
2 63 (36.63%) JIRA
3 57 (33.14%) Jenkins
4 50 (29.07%) Git
5 40 (23.26%) JUnit
6 31 (18.02%) REST Assured
7 24 (13.95%) Cypress.io
7 24 (13.95%) Postman
8 23 (13.37%) GitLab
9 19 (11.05%) Jasmine
10 15 (8.72%) Maven
10 15 (8.72%) WebDriver
11 13 (7.56%) SonarQube
12 11 (6.40%) Gradle
13 10 (5.81%) JMeter
14 9 (5.23%) Mockito
15 8 (4.65%) Visual Studio
16 7 (4.07%) SoapUI
16 7 (4.07%) SpecFlow
17 5 (2.91%) Bitbucket
General
1 46 (26.74%) Social Skills
2 33 (19.19%) Public Sector
3 28 (16.28%) Banking
4 27 (15.70%) Finance
5 24 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (9.88%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.65%) Law
8 4 (2.33%) Police
9 3 (1.74%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.74%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.16%) Electronics
10 2 (1.16%) Front Office
10 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.16%) Marketing
11 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Retail
11 1 (0.58%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 49 (28.49%) Developer
2 34 (19.77%) Senior
3 31 (18.02%) Java Developer
4 24 (13.95%) Tester
5 23 (13.37%) Test Engineer
6 22 (12.79%) Lead
7 19 (11.05%) Java Engineer
8 16 (9.30%) Automation Tester
9 14 (8.14%) Scala Developer
9 14 (8.14%) Senior Developer
9 14 (8.14%) Software Engineer
10 13 (7.56%) Senior Java Developer
11 12 (6.98%) Java Software Engineer
11 12 (6.98%) QA Engineer
12 10 (5.81%) Automation Engineer
12 10 (5.81%) Senior Test Engineer
13 7 (4.07%) Lead Developer
13 7 (4.07%) Lead Java Developer
14 6 (3.49%) QA Tester
14 6 (3.49%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (19.77%) Spring
2 30 (17.44%) REST
3 29 (16.86%) RESTful
3 29 (16.86%) Spring Boot
4 21 (12.21%) Swagger
5 19 (11.05%) Gherkin
6 18 (10.47%) OpenAPI
6 18 (10.47%) Spring Security
7 17 (9.88%) Spring Batch
8 14 (8.14%) Java EE
8 14 (8.14%) Playwright
9 12 (6.98%) HTML
10 9 (5.23%) ARM Templates
11 8 (4.65%) .NET
11 8 (4.65%) CSS
11 8 (4.65%) Kafka
12 7 (4.07%) Node.js
12 7 (4.07%) Web Services
13 6 (3.49%) JSON
13 6 (3.49%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 15 (8.72%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.74%) Client/Server
4 3 (1.74%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.74%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.74%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.74%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.58%) Derivative
6 1 (0.58%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.58%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (18.60%) Linux
2 23 (13.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.74%) Unix
4 1 (0.58%) AIX
4 1 (0.58%) VMS
4 1 (0.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (73.26%) Test Automation
2 84 (48.84%) Agile
2 84 (48.84%) BDD
3 70 (40.70%) CI/CD
4 55 (31.98%) TDD
5 48 (27.91%) Software Engineering
6 43 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
7 38 (22.09%) DevOps
8 29 (16.86%) Containerisation
8 29 (16.86%) Microservices
9 25 (14.53%) Scrum
10 24 (13.95%) Continuous Delivery
10 24 (13.95%) Technical Leadership
11 23 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (12.79%) Software Testing
13 21 (12.21%) API Testing
14 19 (11.05%) API Design
14 19 (11.05%) OWASP
14 19 (11.05%) Test Scripting
14 19 (11.05%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 101 (58.72%) Java
2 44 (25.58%) SQL
3 30 (17.44%) JavaScript
4 25 (14.53%) Python
5 21 (12.21%) Bash
6 17 (9.88%) Scala
7 12 (6.98%) C#
8 11 (6.40%) TypeScript
9 7 (4.07%) Ruby
10 5 (2.91%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.33%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.74%) C++
12 3 (1.74%) VBA
12 3 (1.74%) VBScript
13 1 (0.58%) COBOL
13 1 (0.58%) Go
13 1 (0.58%) Groovy
13 1 (0.58%) Natural
13 1 (0.58%) PHP
13 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (30.23%) Security Cleared
2 45 (26.16%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.81%) ISTQB
4 8 (4.65%) Degree
5 7 (4.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (2.91%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.33%) ISEB
9 3 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.58%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (27.33%) QA
2 14 (8.14%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.33%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.33%) WCAG
4 3 (1.74%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.58%) GDPR
5 1 (0.58%) SEPA
System Software
1 39 (22.67%) Docker
2 4 (2.33%) VirtualBox
3 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (22.09%) Kubernetes
2 37 (21.51%) Ansible
3 15 (8.72%) Terraform
4 9 (5.23%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (5.23%) Podman
5 4 (2.33%) Puppet
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (2.91%) Splunk
2 3 (1.74%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.74%) Oracle
2 3 (1.74%) Virgin Media
3 2 (1.16%) SAP
3 2 (1.16%) Veracode
4 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.58%) Confluent
4 1 (0.58%) Google
4 1 (0.58%) IBM
4 1 (0.58%) New Relic
4 1 (0.58%) Perfecto Mobile
4 1 (0.58%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.58%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.58%) Sybase
4 1 (0.58%) UiPath
4 1 (0.58%) VMware