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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 367 391
Rank change year-on-year -108 +24 -30
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 185 187 177
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.56% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.97% 3.77% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 118 121
10th Percentile £321 £266 £350
25th Percentile £400 £321 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £452 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -9.55% -
75th Percentile £500 £520 £625
90th Percentile £549 £641 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 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 6,231 4,956 4,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.64% 14.97% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,997 3,338 3,281
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 112 199
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.99 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.63
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.03 £73.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.00%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -105 162 £438 +2.94% 30
UK excluding London -92 114 £425 +6.25% 25
Work from Home -51 63 £425 +1.19% 10
London -82 52 £475 -9.52% 9
North of England -62 46 £401 -4.52% 3
West Midlands -18 36 £425 +17.24% 10
Midlands -34 36 £425 +58.58% 12
North West -38 20 £401 +3.48% 1
North East -31 15 £450 -1.10% 2
South West -32 15 £463 -2.63% 3
Yorkshire -39 11 £350 -17.65%
Scotland -6 8 £480 +3.78% 2
South East -83 7 £438 -10.30% 4
Wales -19 3 £425 -10.53%
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 (17.84%) Confluence
2 1 (0.54%) Camunda
2 1 (0.54%) JBoss
2 1 (0.54%) Mule
2 1 (0.54%) Mule ESB
2 1 (0.54%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 8 (4.32%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (3.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.62%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 74 (40.00%) AWS
2 64 (34.59%) GitHub
3 60 (32.43%) Azure
4 38 (20.54%) GitHub Actions
5 29 (15.68%) GCP
6 28 (15.14%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (10.81%) Serverless
8 14 (7.57%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.78%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.78%) Power Automate
12 6 (3.24%) Azure Functions
12 6 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (3.24%) SaaS
13 5 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (2.70%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (2.16%) BrowserStack
15 3 (1.62%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.08%) Firewall
1 2 (1.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (17.30%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.03%) MongoDB
3 11 (5.95%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.41%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.16%) MySQL
6 3 (1.62%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.62%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.08%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.08%) ZAP BI
8 1 (0.54%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.54%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 111 (60.00%) Selenium
2 70 (37.84%) JUnit
3 67 (36.22%) Jenkins
4 58 (31.35%) Git
5 52 (28.11%) GitLab
6 48 (25.95%) JIRA
6 48 (25.95%) Postman
7 47 (25.41%) WebDriver
8 42 (22.70%) REST Assured
9 40 (21.62%) JMeter
10 23 (12.43%) Gatling
11 20 (10.81%) Cypress.io
12 12 (6.49%) TestNG
13 10 (5.41%) SpecFlow
14 9 (4.86%) Maven
14 9 (4.86%) Mockito
14 9 (4.86%) SonarQube
15 7 (3.78%) Gradle
15 7 (3.78%) Sonatype Nexus
16 6 (3.24%) SoapUI
General
1 58 (31.35%) Social Skills
2 39 (21.08%) Public Sector
3 35 (18.92%) Finance
4 25 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (12.97%) Banking
6 10 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (4.86%) Military
8 8 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.08%) Back Office
9 2 (1.08%) Law
10 1 (0.54%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 48 (25.95%) Test Engineer
2 46 (24.86%) Senior
3 34 (18.38%) Tester
4 25 (13.51%) Test Automation Engineer
5 23 (12.43%) Automation Tester
6 22 (11.89%) Developer
7 21 (11.35%) Lead
8 17 (9.19%) QA Engineer
8 17 (9.19%) Test Leader
9 13 (7.03%) Automation Engineer
9 13 (7.03%) Senior Tester
10 12 (6.49%) Analyst
11 11 (5.95%) Senior Automation Tester
11 11 (5.95%) Senior Test Engineer
11 11 (5.95%) Test Analyst
12 10 (5.41%) Salesforce Engineer
13 9 (4.86%) Quality Engineer
14 8 (4.32%) Java Developer
15 7 (3.78%) Automation Test Lead
15 7 (3.78%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (33.51%) Playwright
2 44 (23.78%) Spring
3 41 (22.16%) REST
4 37 (20.00%) WireMock
5 35 (18.92%) Gherkin
6 32 (17.30%) Kafka
7 20 (10.81%) Node.js
7 20 (10.81%) RESTful
8 19 (10.27%) Spring Boot
9 17 (9.19%) React
10 12 (6.49%) SOAP
11 11 (5.95%) .NET
12 10 (5.41%) HTML
13 8 (4.32%) AngularJS
13 8 (4.32%) JSON
14 7 (3.78%) CSS
14 7 (3.78%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (3.78%) Swagger
15 6 (3.24%) OAuth2
15 6 (3.24%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.89%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (8.11%) Distributed Architecture
2 15 (8.11%) Product Ownership
3 13 (7.03%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.32%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.24%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.62%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.62%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.08%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.08%) Equities
8 2 (1.08%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.08%) PKI
8 2 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.54%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.54%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.86%) Linux
2 4 (2.16%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.54%) Android
4 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (83.24%) Test Automation
2 133 (71.89%) CI/CD
3 120 (64.86%) BDD
4 104 (56.22%) Agile
5 70 (37.84%) TDD
6 65 (35.14%) Test Strategy
7 64 (34.59%) API Testing
8 62 (33.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 57 (30.81%) DevOps
10 53 (28.65%) Microservices
11 39 (21.08%) Validation
12 37 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
12 37 (20.00%) Software Testing
13 34 (18.38%) Scrum
14 32 (17.30%) Performance Testing
15 30 (16.22%) Mentoring
16 29 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
17 28 (15.14%) Observability
17 28 (15.14%) Stakeholder Management
18 27 (14.59%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 113 (61.08%) Java
2 60 (32.43%) JavaScript
3 33 (17.84%) Python
4 30 (16.22%) C#
5 22 (11.89%) SQL
6 19 (10.27%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.86%) Bash
8 8 (4.32%) Ruby
9 7 (3.78%) Apex Code
9 7 (3.78%) Scala
10 4 (2.16%) Groovy
10 4 (2.16%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.16%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.08%) PromQL
11 2 (1.08%) R
12 1 (0.54%) COBOL
12 1 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 59 (31.89%) Security Cleared
2 49 (26.49%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (8.11%) ISTQB
5 11 (5.95%) Degree
6 6 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (2.16%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.54%) ISEB
9 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (34.59%) QA
2 34 (18.38%) Accessibility
3 15 (8.11%) WCAG
4 6 (3.24%) GDPR
5 2 (1.08%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.54%) SEPA
6 1 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 56 (30.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 60 (32.43%) Kubernetes
2 25 (13.51%) Grafana
3 24 (12.97%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.78%) Istio
4 7 (3.78%) Terraform
5 5 (2.70%) Ansible
6 3 (1.62%) HP ALM
7 2 (1.08%) Consul
7 2 (1.08%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (8.65%) Salesforce
2 14 (7.57%) Oracle
3 13 (7.03%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.32%) Conga
4 8 (4.32%) GoCardless
5 5 (2.70%) IBM
6 4 (2.16%) Databricks
6 4 (2.16%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.62%) HP
7 3 (1.62%) Splunk
8 2 (1.08%) Pega
8 2 (1.08%) Solace
8 2 (1.08%) Sybase
9 1 (0.54%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.54%) Confluent
9 1 (0.54%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.54%) UiPath
9 1 (0.54%) Veracode