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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 359 389
Rank change year-on-year -109 +30 -51
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 194 188 194
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.58% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.13% 3.96% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 118 139
10th Percentile £319 £266 £354
25th Percentile £400 £321 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -17.07% -2.38%
75th Percentile £510 £501 £650
90th Percentile £606 £579 £795
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £415 £500
% change year-on-year +2.41% -17.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 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 6,199 4,744 5,307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.77% 14.59% 12.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,981 3,188 3,511
10th Percentile £350 £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 £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £689 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 103 239
10th Percentile £26.05 £22.64 £26.00
25th Percentile £56.25 £49.00 £46.22
Median hourly rate £66.50 £63.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.72% -2.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.60 £72.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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 17 July 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 July 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 -108 167 £447 +6.18% 14
UK excluding London -93 111 £425 +2.41% 12
Work from Home -38 67 £425 +7.59% 6
London -75 64 £449 -12.06% 2
North of England -70 44 £426 +2.53% 5
West Midlands -35 31 £425 -6.39% 3
Midlands -55 31 £425 +57.99% 4
North West -43 21 £402 +3.08% 1
South West -31 16 £500 +5.26%
North East -30 14 £450 +15.38% 3
Scotland -6 9 £480 +3.78%
Yorkshire -51 9 £350 -22.22% 1
South East -80 7 £438 -12.59% 3
Wales -14 5 £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 34 (17.53%) Confluence
2 2 (1.03%) Mule
2 2 (1.03%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.52%) Camunda
3 1 (0.52%) JBoss
3 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.52%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.52%) Mingle
1 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (4.12%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.55%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 83 (42.78%) AWS
2 67 (34.54%) GitHub
3 57 (29.38%) Azure
4 41 (21.13%) GitHub Actions
5 33 (17.01%) GCP
6 27 (13.92%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (10.82%) Serverless
8 18 (9.28%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (4.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (4.12%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (3.09%) SaaS
14 5 (2.58%) BrowserStack
15 4 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (2.06%) Power Automate
16 3 (1.55%) Azure Functions
16 3 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
16 3 (1.55%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.03%) Firewall
1 2 (1.03%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.98%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.19%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.67%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.12%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.58%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (2.06%) MySQL
7 3 (1.55%) MariaDB
7 3 (1.55%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.52%) Cloud Spanner
9 1 (0.52%) Db2
9 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.52%) Redis
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.52%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 111 (57.22%) Selenium
2 79 (40.72%) Jenkins
3 66 (34.02%) JUnit
4 57 (29.38%) Git
5 54 (27.84%) JIRA
6 50 (25.77%) REST Assured
7 49 (25.26%) GitLab
8 48 (24.74%) WebDriver
9 47 (24.23%) Postman
10 40 (20.62%) JMeter
11 20 (10.31%) Cypress.io
11 20 (10.31%) Gatling
12 13 (6.70%) TestNG
13 12 (6.19%) SpecFlow
14 11 (5.67%) Maven
15 10 (5.15%) Mockito
16 8 (4.12%) SonarQube
17 7 (3.61%) Sonatype Nexus
18 6 (3.09%) Mocha
18 6 (3.09%) tSQLt
General
1 62 (31.96%) Social Skills
2 44 (22.68%) Finance
3 36 (18.56%) Public Sector
4 25 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (11.86%) Banking
6 9 (4.64%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (4.12%) Military
8 5 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.03%) Back Office
9 2 (1.03%) Law
10 1 (0.52%) Automotive
10 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (25.77%) Test Engineer
2 44 (22.68%) Senior
3 35 (18.04%) Tester
4 27 (13.92%) Test Automation Engineer
5 25 (12.89%) Developer
6 24 (12.37%) Automation Tester
7 19 (9.79%) Lead
8 18 (9.28%) QA Engineer
9 15 (7.73%) Test Leader
10 13 (6.70%) Senior Tester
11 12 (6.19%) Automation Engineer
12 11 (5.67%) Senior Automation Tester
12 11 (5.67%) Senior Test Engineer
13 10 (5.15%) Java Developer
13 10 (5.15%) Salesforce Engineer
14 8 (4.12%) Analyst
14 8 (4.12%) Automation Test Lead
14 8 (4.12%) QA Automation Engineer
14 8 (4.12%) Software Engineer
14 8 (4.12%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (30.41%) Playwright
2 44 (22.68%) Spring
3 42 (21.65%) REST
4 35 (18.04%) Gherkin
4 35 (18.04%) WireMock
5 27 (13.92%) Kafka
6 22 (11.34%) RESTful
7 21 (10.82%) Spring Boot
8 18 (9.28%) Node.js
9 15 (7.73%) React
10 13 (6.70%) SOAP
11 11 (5.67%) .NET
11 11 (5.67%) AngularJS
12 10 (5.15%) HTML
13 9 (4.64%) CSS
14 7 (3.61%) OAuth
14 7 (3.61%) Web Services
15 6 (3.09%) OAuth2
15 6 (3.09%) Swagger
16 5 (2.58%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.31%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (7.73%) Distributed Architecture
3 14 (7.22%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.67%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.12%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.06%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.55%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.55%) Equities
8 3 (1.55%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.03%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.03%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.03%) PKI
9 2 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.52%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.64%) Linux
2 4 (2.06%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.52%) Android
3 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (78.35%) Test Automation
2 138 (71.13%) CI/CD
3 117 (60.31%) BDD
4 107 (55.15%) Agile
5 69 (35.57%) API Testing
6 64 (32.99%) TDD
7 62 (31.96%) DevOps
7 62 (31.96%) Test Strategy
8 58 (29.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (28.87%) Microservices
10 38 (19.59%) Validation
11 34 (17.53%) End-to-End Testing
12 32 (16.49%) Scrum
13 31 (15.98%) Performance Testing
13 31 (15.98%) Software Testing
14 29 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (14.43%) Observability
15 28 (14.43%) Test Scripting
16 25 (12.89%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 25 (12.89%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 117 (60.31%) Java
2 61 (31.44%) JavaScript
3 33 (17.01%) Python
4 32 (16.49%) C#
5 31 (15.98%) SQL
6 26 (13.40%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.15%) Ruby
8 7 (3.61%) Apex Code
8 7 (3.61%) Scala
9 6 (3.09%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.58%) Bash
11 4 (2.06%) Groovy
12 3 (1.55%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.55%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.03%) PromQL
13 2 (1.03%) VBA
14 1 (0.52%) R
14 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.52%) VB6
14 1 (0.52%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 52 (26.80%) Security Cleared
2 42 (21.65%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (6.70%) ISTQB
5 12 (6.19%) Degree
6 6 (3.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.58%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.52%) ISEB
9 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (34.02%) QA
2 27 (13.92%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.64%) WCAG
4 3 (1.55%) GDPR
5 2 (1.03%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.52%) SEPA
6 1 (0.52%) SLA
6 1 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (25.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (29.90%) Kubernetes
2 25 (12.89%) Grafana
3 24 (12.37%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.12%) Terraform
5 7 (3.61%) Istio
6 6 (3.09%) Ansible
7 2 (1.03%) Consul
7 2 (1.03%) HP ALM
7 2 (1.03%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.52%) Kibana
8 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (7.73%) Oracle
1 15 (7.73%) Salesforce
2 8 (4.12%) Conga
2 8 (4.12%) GoCardless
2 8 (4.12%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.06%) Dynatrace
3 4 (2.06%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.55%) Google
4 3 (1.55%) IBM
4 3 (1.55%) Splunk
4 3 (1.55%) Sybase
5 2 (1.03%) HP
5 2 (1.03%) Pega
5 2 (1.03%) Solace
6 1 (0.52%) Actian
6 1 (0.52%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.52%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.52%) Thales
6 1 (0.52%) UiPath
6 1 (0.52%) Veracode