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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 358 339
Rank change year-on-year -88 -19 +1
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 187 166 239
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.58% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.23% 3.99% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 101 171
10th Percentile £350 £268 £325
25th Percentile £400 £363 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £534 £519 £675
90th Percentile £638 £588 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 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 5,797 4,165 5,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 14.46% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,787 2,803 3,442
10th Percentile £350 £338 £353
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 72 216
10th Percentile £34.69 £21.27 £29.63
25th Percentile £53.75 £46.44 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.25 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.66 £77.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £58.88 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.95% -9.42% +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 25 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 25 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 -96 161 £450 +5.88% 28
UK excluding London -97 100 £425 +6.25% 22
London -64 67 £475 +5.56% 8
Work from Home -21 58 £425 +3.66% 15
North of England -63 51 £426 +6.38% 5
Yorkshire -57 22 £500 +11.11%
West Midlands -48 21 £425 -12.01% 4
Midlands -62 21 £425 +57.99% 5
North West -31 20 £400 +2.56% 3
South West -20 14 £500 - 6
North East -23 9 £400 +2.56% 2
Scotland 0 6 £470 +17.50%
Wales -7 5 £425 -
South East -74 4 £600 +19.88% 6
East of England -33 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 26 (13.90%) Confluence
2 2 (1.07%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.07%) Camunda
2 2 (1.07%) Mule
2 2 (1.07%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.53%) JBoss
3 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.53%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.53%) Mingle
1 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (4.28%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.07%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 88 (47.06%) AWS
2 61 (32.62%) Azure
3 57 (30.48%) GitHub
4 37 (19.79%) GCP
5 32 (17.11%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (9.63%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (9.63%) Serverless
7 16 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (6.42%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (5.35%) SaaS
10 9 (4.81%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.28%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (3.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (3.74%) BrowserStack
13 6 (3.21%) OpenShift
14 5 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (2.14%) BlazeMeter
15 4 (2.14%) PaaS
16 2 (1.07%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.07%) HTTP
2 1 (0.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (13.90%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.95%) MySQL
2 13 (6.95%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.35%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.67%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.67%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.14%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.60%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.53%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.53%) DB2
9 1 (0.53%) HBase
9 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.53%) Redis
9 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 108 (57.75%) Selenium
2 84 (44.92%) Jenkins
3 60 (32.09%) JIRA
4 58 (31.02%) Git
5 57 (30.48%) JUnit
5 57 (30.48%) REST Assured
6 51 (27.27%) Postman
7 50 (26.74%) GitLab
8 36 (19.25%) JMeter
8 36 (19.25%) WebDriver
9 16 (8.56%) Gatling
10 14 (7.49%) Cypress.io
11 13 (6.95%) TestNG
12 11 (5.88%) Mockito
13 8 (4.28%) Gradle
13 8 (4.28%) Maven
13 8 (4.28%) TestRail
14 7 (3.74%) SonarQube
14 7 (3.74%) SpecFlow
15 6 (3.21%) SoapUI
General
1 55 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 46 (24.60%) Finance
3 30 (16.04%) Public Sector
4 25 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (11.76%) Banking
6 8 (4.28%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.67%) Military
8 3 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.07%) Back Office
9 2 (1.07%) Law
9 2 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.07%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (27.81%) Test Engineer
2 30 (16.04%) Senior
3 29 (15.51%) Tester
4 28 (14.97%) Developer
4 28 (14.97%) Test Automation Engineer
5 22 (11.76%) Lead
6 20 (10.70%) Automation Tester
7 16 (8.56%) Test Leader
8 13 (6.95%) Automation Test Lead
8 13 (6.95%) QA Engineer
9 12 (6.42%) Software Engineer
10 10 (5.35%) Automation Engineer
10 10 (5.35%) Java Developer
11 8 (4.28%) Salesforce Engineer
11 8 (4.28%) Senior Automation Tester
11 8 (4.28%) Senior Test Engineer
11 8 (4.28%) Senior Tester
12 7 (3.74%) QA Automation Engineer
13 6 (3.21%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (3.21%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (25.13%) Playwright
2 45 (24.06%) REST
3 42 (22.46%) Spring
4 36 (19.25%) Gherkin
5 24 (12.83%) Spring Boot
6 23 (12.30%) WireMock
7 22 (11.76%) RESTful
8 21 (11.23%) Kafka
9 16 (8.56%) AngularJS
10 15 (8.02%) React
11 14 (7.49%) .NET
12 13 (6.95%) Node.js
13 12 (6.42%) LDAP
13 12 (6.42%) OpenID
13 12 (6.42%) SailPoint
14 11 (5.88%) HTML
15 10 (5.35%) CSS
15 10 (5.35%) SOAP
16 8 (4.28%) OAuth
17 7 (3.74%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.63%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 12 (6.42%) Distributed Architecture
4 11 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.81%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.14%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.60%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.07%) Equities
8 2 (1.07%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.07%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.07%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.53%) PKI
9 1 (0.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.35%) Linux
2 4 (2.14%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.07%) Windows
4 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (79.68%) Test Automation
2 132 (70.59%) CI/CD
3 104 (55.61%) BDD
4 102 (54.55%) Agile
5 78 (41.71%) API Testing
6 58 (31.02%) DevOps
6 58 (31.02%) Test Strategy
7 57 (30.48%) TDD
8 55 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 50 (26.74%) Microservices
10 32 (17.11%) Performance Testing
11 30 (16.04%) Validation
12 29 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (15.51%) Test Scripting
13 28 (14.97%) End-to-End Testing
13 28 (14.97%) Scrum
14 27 (14.44%) Containerisation
15 25 (13.37%) Software Testing
16 24 (12.83%) Observability
17 23 (12.30%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 124 (66.31%) Java
2 57 (30.48%) JavaScript
3 42 (22.46%) SQL
4 39 (20.86%) Python
5 25 (13.37%) C#
6 16 (8.56%) TypeScript
7 13 (6.95%) Ruby
8 7 (3.74%) Apex Code
9 6 (3.21%) PHP
9 6 (3.21%) Scala
10 5 (2.67%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.14%) Groovy
12 3 (1.60%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.07%) Bash
13 2 (1.07%) C++
13 2 (1.07%) Go
13 2 (1.07%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.07%) PromQL
13 2 (1.07%) VBA
13 2 (1.07%) XPath
Qualifications
1 44 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 38 (20.32%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (6.42%) Degree
5 9 (4.81%) ISTQB
6 6 (3.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.07%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.53%) CFA
9 1 (0.53%) ISEB
9 1 (0.53%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.53%) OCP
9 1 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (30.48%) QA
2 20 (10.70%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.14%) WCAG
4 2 (1.07%) NCSC
5 1 (0.53%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.53%) SLA
5 1 (0.53%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 46 (24.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 52 (27.81%) Kubernetes
2 22 (11.76%) Grafana
3 21 (11.23%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.28%) Terraform
5 6 (3.21%) Ansible
6 4 (2.14%) Istio
7 2 (1.07%) Consul
7 2 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.07%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.53%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.53%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.53%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (9.63%) Oracle
2 14 (7.49%) ServiceNow
3 8 (4.28%) Conga
3 8 (4.28%) GoCardless
3 8 (4.28%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.67%) Google
5 4 (2.14%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.60%) IBM
6 3 (1.60%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.60%) SAP
6 3 (1.60%) Splunk
6 3 (1.60%) Workday
7 2 (1.07%) Adobe
7 2 (1.07%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.07%) Pega
7 2 (1.07%) Solace
7 2 (1.07%) Sybase
8 1 (0.53%) Actian
8 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.53%) CA Agile Central