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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 349 408
Rank change year-on-year -117 +59 -31
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 218 211 163
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.64% 0.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.43% 4.17% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 137 106
10th Percentile £306 £268 £321
25th Percentile £375 £340 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -11.00% -1.72%
75th Percentile £500 £519 £600
90th Percentile £537 £653 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £436 £415 £498
% change year-on-year +5.12% -16.67% +4.84%
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 6,348 5,056 4,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.57% 15.40% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,059 3,413 3,134
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £690 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 111 171
10th Percentile £22.68 £22.05 £31.25
25th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 30 September 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 14 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 30 September 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 -98 196 £445 +4.71% 100
UK excluding London -91 127 £436 +5.12% 77
London -80 71 £475 -8.65% 35
Work from Home -64 60 £447 +2.76% 51
North of England -70 51 £423 -0.59% 28
West Midlands -5 43 £448 +49.17% 11
Midlands -17 43 £448 +66.36% 13
North West -46 22 £420 +17.48% 12
South West -23 20 £425 -10.53% 11
North East -33 16 £450 - 13
Yorkshire -41 13 £350 -22.22% 3
Scotland -18 7 £480 +3.78% 6
South East -88 7 £275 -33.33% 7
Wales -22 1 £288 -39.47% 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 24 (11.01%) Confluence
2 1 (0.46%) Camunda
2 1 (0.46%) JBoss
2 1 (0.46%) Mule
2 1 (0.46%) Mule ESB
2 1 (0.46%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 8 (3.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (3.67%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.38%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 91 (41.74%) AWS
2 69 (31.65%) GitHub
3 61 (27.98%) Azure
4 34 (15.60%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (15.14%) GitHub Actions
6 30 (13.76%) Serverless
7 21 (9.63%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (9.63%) GCP
8 13 (5.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (5.96%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (5.96%) GitHub Copilot
9 11 (5.05%) Amazon S3
10 10 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (4.59%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (4.59%) Power Automate
11 9 (4.13%) Azure Functions
12 8 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (3.21%) OpenShift
14 6 (2.75%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.92%) Firewall
1 2 (0.92%) HTTP
2 1 (0.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.93%) MongoDB
2 22 (10.09%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.50%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.13%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.75%) MySQL
7 5 (2.29%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.83%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.38%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.38%) Redis
9 3 (1.38%) Weaviate
9 3 (1.38%) ZAP BI
10 2 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.92%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.92%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.46%) Cloud Spanner
11 1 (0.46%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 137 (62.84%) Selenium
2 86 (39.45%) JUnit
3 74 (33.94%) GitLab
4 71 (32.57%) Git
5 70 (32.11%) Jenkins
6 54 (24.77%) Postman
6 54 (24.77%) REST Assured
7 45 (20.64%) Gatling
8 34 (15.60%) JIRA
8 34 (15.60%) JMeter
9 33 (15.14%) WebDriver
10 27 (12.39%) SonarQube
11 26 (11.93%) Cypress.io
12 20 (9.17%) Maven
13 19 (8.72%) Mockito
13 19 (8.72%) TestNG
14 13 (5.96%) SpecFlow
15 12 (5.50%) Gradle
16 9 (4.13%) SoapUI
16 9 (4.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 82 (37.61%) Social Skills
2 54 (24.77%) Public Sector
3 34 (15.60%) Finance
4 25 (11.47%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (11.01%) Banking
6 13 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (5.05%) Military
8 3 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.92%) Law
9 2 (0.92%) Police
10 1 (0.46%) Automotive
10 1 (0.46%) Marketing
10 1 (0.46%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (27.98%) Test Engineer
2 47 (21.56%) Senior
3 30 (13.76%) Test Automation Engineer
4 28 (12.84%) Quality Engineer
5 25 (11.47%) Developer
6 24 (11.01%) Tester
7 22 (10.09%) QA Engineer
8 17 (7.80%) Java Developer
9 16 (7.34%) Automation Tester
10 15 (6.88%) Senior Test Engineer
11 14 (6.42%) Automation Engineer
11 14 (6.42%) Lead
12 12 (5.50%) Analyst
13 11 (5.05%) Test Analyst
14 10 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
14 10 (4.59%) Java Engineer
14 10 (4.59%) Salesforce Engineer
14 10 (4.59%) Test Leader
15 8 (3.67%) Lead Test Analyst
15 8 (3.67%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (41.28%) Playwright
2 56 (25.69%) Spring
3 52 (23.85%) Gherkin
4 46 (21.10%) REST
5 38 (17.43%) Kafka
6 36 (16.51%) WireMock
7 33 (15.14%) Spring Boot
8 26 (11.93%) Node.js
9 25 (11.47%) React
9 25 (11.47%) RESTful
10 18 (8.26%) HTML
11 15 (6.88%) OpenAPI
11 15 (6.88%) RabbitMQ
12 14 (6.42%) SOAP
13 13 (5.96%) JSON
14 12 (5.50%) .NET
15 11 (5.05%) Swagger
16 10 (4.59%) CSS
16 10 (4.59%) Terraform
17 8 (3.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.96%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.59%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (4.59%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.13%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.75%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.38%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.38%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.92%) Equities
8 2 (0.92%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.92%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.92%) PKI
8 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.34%) Linux
2 6 (2.75%) Unix
3 4 (1.83%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.92%) Android
4 2 (0.92%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.92%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (80.73%) Test Automation
2 165 (75.69%) CI/CD
3 139 (63.76%) Agile
4 134 (61.47%) BDD
5 81 (37.16%) TDD
6 77 (35.32%) DevOps
7 69 (31.65%) API Testing
7 69 (31.65%) Software Testing
8 68 (31.19%) Microservices
9 65 (29.82%) Test Strategy
10 61 (27.98%) Scrum
11 55 (25.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 50 (22.94%) Stakeholder Management
13 44 (20.18%) Containerisation
13 44 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (19.27%) Performance Testing
14 42 (19.27%) Security Testing
15 39 (17.89%) SDLC
16 36 (16.51%) Non-Functional Testing
17 35 (16.06%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 154 (70.64%) Java
2 72 (33.03%) JavaScript
3 35 (16.06%) Python
4 28 (12.84%) C#
5 22 (10.09%) SQL
5 22 (10.09%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.05%) Scala
7 10 (4.59%) Bash
8 7 (3.21%) Apex Code
8 7 (3.21%) Ruby
9 4 (1.83%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.83%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.38%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.38%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.92%) PromQL
11 2 (0.92%) R
12 1 (0.46%) COBOL
12 1 (0.46%) Groovy
12 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (33.49%) Security Cleared
2 61 (27.98%) SC Cleared
3 34 (15.60%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (8.26%) Degree
4 18 (8.26%) ISTQB
5 12 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.50%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.92%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.92%) ISEB
10 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (43.12%) QA
2 64 (29.36%) Accessibility
3 39 (17.89%) WCAG
4 8 (3.67%) GDPR
5 4 (1.83%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.38%) SEPA
7 2 (0.92%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.46%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 84 (38.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 83 (38.07%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.34%) Grafana
3 13 (5.96%) Prometheus
4 12 (5.50%) Ansible
5 7 (3.21%) Istio
6 3 (1.38%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.38%) Kibana
6 3 (1.38%) Packer
7 2 (0.92%) Consul
7 2 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.92%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.46%) Argo
Vendors
1 24 (11.01%) Oracle
2 16 (7.34%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.34%) Salesforce
3 8 (3.67%) Conga
3 8 (3.67%) GoCardless
4 7 (3.21%) Databricks
4 7 (3.21%) HP
4 7 (3.21%) Splunk
5 6 (2.75%) IBM
6 4 (1.83%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.83%) Google
7 3 (1.38%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (1.38%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.92%) Pega
8 2 (0.92%) Solace
8 2 (0.92%) Sybase
9 1 (0.46%) F5
9 1 (0.46%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.46%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.46%) Veracode