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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 345 346
Rank change year-on-year -96 +1 -9
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 185 175 246
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.60% 0.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.19% 4.19% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 102 176
10th Percentile £350 £268 £338
25th Percentile £400 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -13.95% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £520 £678
90th Percentile £635 £646 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £424 £500
% change year-on-year +0.35% -15.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

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 5,800 4,173 5,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.18% 14.19% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,804 2,787 3,445
10th Percentile £346 £340 £353
25th Percentile £407 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £704 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 72 204
10th Percentile £36.55 £26.19 £33.60
25th Percentile £59.19 £47.88 £46.63
Median hourly rate £66.75 £60.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.79% -7.31% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.19 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £79.75
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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -107 154 £450 +4.65% 31
UK excluding London -88 98 £425 +0.35% 23
London -39 67 £475 +10.40% 11
Work from Home -21 53 £425 +6.25% 18
North of England -63 46 £450 +6.64% 5
Yorkshire -50 22 £500 -3.80% 1
West Midlands -47 21 £425 -12.01% 2
Midlands -64 21 £425 +54.55% 4
North West -42 14 £400 -5.21% 3
Wales -4 10 £425 - 1
North East -14 10 £425 +8.97% 1
South West -33 7 £463 +101.09% 6
South East -69 7 £423 -15.58% 6
Scotland +4 6 £470 +17.50% 1
East of England -31 1 £450 -14.29%

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 (15.14%) Confluence
2 2 (1.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.08%) Camunda
2 2 (1.08%) Mule
2 2 (1.08%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.54%) JBoss
3 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.54%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.54%) Mingle
1 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.08%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.54%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.54%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 91 (49.19%) AWS
2 63 (34.05%) GitHub
3 62 (33.51%) Azure
4 41 (22.16%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (18.38%) GCP
6 16 (8.65%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (8.65%) Serverless
7 15 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (5.41%) SaaS
10 9 (4.86%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.32%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (4.32%) OpenShift
12 7 (3.78%) BrowserStack
13 5 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (2.16%) BlazeMeter
14 4 (2.16%) PaaS
15 3 (1.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 3 (1.62%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.08%) HTTP
2 1 (0.54%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.14%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.57%) MySQL
3 13 (7.03%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.32%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.70%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.70%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.62%) HBase
7 3 (1.62%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.08%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.54%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.54%) DB2
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.54%) Redis
9 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 106 (57.30%) Selenium
2 83 (44.86%) Jenkins
3 61 (32.97%) JIRA
4 58 (31.35%) JUnit
5 54 (29.19%) Git
5 54 (29.19%) GitLab
6 50 (27.03%) Postman
7 44 (23.78%) REST Assured
8 38 (20.54%) JMeter
9 35 (18.92%) WebDriver
10 14 (7.57%) Cypress.io
11 13 (7.03%) TestNG
12 11 (5.95%) Gatling
13 9 (4.86%) Gradle
13 9 (4.86%) Maven
14 8 (4.32%) Mockito
14 8 (4.32%) TestRail
15 7 (3.78%) SonarQube
15 7 (3.78%) SpecFlow
16 6 (3.24%) SoapUI
General
1 52 (28.11%) Social Skills
2 45 (24.32%) Finance
3 26 (14.05%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (13.51%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.65%) Banking
6 8 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.62%) Military
8 2 (1.08%) Back Office
8 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.08%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.54%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (24.86%) Test Engineer
2 32 (17.30%) Developer
3 31 (16.76%) Tester
4 30 (16.22%) Test Automation Engineer
5 26 (14.05%) Senior
6 23 (12.43%) Lead
7 22 (11.89%) Automation Tester
8 17 (9.19%) Test Leader
9 14 (7.57%) Software Engineer
10 13 (7.03%) Automation Test Lead
10 13 (7.03%) Java Developer
11 12 (6.49%) QA Engineer
12 8 (4.32%) Quality Engineer
12 8 (4.32%) Senior Automation Tester
12 8 (4.32%) Senior Tester
13 7 (3.78%) Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.78%) AWS Engineer
14 6 (3.24%) Developer in Test
14 6 (3.24%) Java Engineer
14 6 (3.24%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (23.78%) Playwright
2 43 (23.24%) Spring
3 41 (22.16%) REST
4 35 (18.92%) Gherkin
5 24 (12.97%) Spring Boot
6 23 (12.43%) WireMock
7 21 (11.35%) Kafka
8 18 (9.73%) AngularJS
8 18 (9.73%) RESTful
9 14 (7.57%) .NET
10 12 (6.49%) HTML
10 12 (6.49%) LDAP
10 12 (6.49%) OpenID
10 12 (6.49%) SailPoint
11 11 (5.95%) CSS
12 9 (4.86%) Node.js
12 9 (4.86%) SOAP
13 8 (4.32%) React
14 7 (3.78%) Next.js
14 7 (3.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.43%) Product Ownership
2 19 (10.27%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.49%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.49%) Distributed Architecture
4 5 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.16%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.62%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.08%) Equities
7 2 (1.08%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.08%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.08%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.08%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.54%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.49%) Linux
2 4 (2.16%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.08%) Windows
4 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (77.30%) Test Automation
2 130 (70.27%) CI/CD
3 100 (54.05%) Agile
4 95 (51.35%) BDD
5 65 (35.14%) API Testing
6 61 (32.97%) Test Strategy
7 51 (27.57%) TDD
8 48 (25.95%) DevOps
8 48 (25.95%) Microservices
9 47 (25.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (18.38%) Performance Testing
11 32 (17.30%) Scrum
12 31 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (15.68%) Test Scripting
14 27 (14.59%) End-to-End Testing
15 26 (14.05%) Containerisation
15 26 (14.05%) Manual Testing
15 26 (14.05%) Validation
16 25 (13.51%) Software Engineering
17 22 (11.89%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 117 (63.24%) Java
2 47 (25.41%) JavaScript
3 40 (21.62%) SQL
4 36 (19.46%) Python
5 24 (12.97%) C#
6 20 (10.81%) TypeScript
7 19 (10.27%) Ruby
8 6 (3.24%) PHP
9 5 (2.70%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.16%) Groovy
11 3 (1.62%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.62%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.62%) Scala
12 2 (1.08%) Bash
12 2 (1.08%) C++
12 2 (1.08%) Go
12 2 (1.08%) VBA
12 2 (1.08%) XPath
13 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.54%) VB6
Qualifications
1 42 (22.70%) Security Cleared
2 39 (21.08%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.24%) Degree
5 4 (2.16%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.62%) OCP
6 3 (1.62%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.08%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.54%) CFA
8 1 (0.54%) ISEB
8 1 (0.54%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (34.05%) QA
2 18 (9.73%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.62%) WCAG
4 2 (1.08%) NCSC
5 1 (0.54%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.54%) SLA
5 1 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 41 (22.16%) Docker
2 2 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (26.49%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.81%) Grafana
3 17 (9.19%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.24%) Terraform
5 5 (2.70%) Ansible
6 2 (1.08%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.08%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.54%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.54%) Istio
7 1 (0.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (9.19%) Oracle
2 14 (7.57%) ServiceNow
3 10 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.70%) Google
5 4 (2.16%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.16%) Splunk
6 3 (1.62%) IBM
6 3 (1.62%) SAP
6 3 (1.62%) Workday
7 2 (1.08%) Adobe
7 2 (1.08%) Pega
7 2 (1.08%) Sybase
7 2 (1.08%) VMware
8 1 (0.54%) Actian
8 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.54%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.54%) Conga
8 1 (0.54%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.54%) HP
8 1 (0.54%) Salesforce