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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 356 353
Rank change year-on-year -90 -3 -19
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 183 173 246
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.59% 0.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.17% 4.18% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 102 176
10th Percentile £350 £268 £338
25th Percentile £400 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.43% -13.95% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £520 £678
90th Percentile £637 £646 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £424 £500
% change year-on-year +0.41% -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 5,772 4,134 5,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.15% 14.16% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,779 2,760 3,447
10th Percentile £347 £340 £353
25th Percentile £408 £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 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 71 204
10th Percentile £35.38 £26.04 £33.60
25th Percentile £59.19 £47.75 £46.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.19 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £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 12 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 12 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 -117 152 £450 +4.65% 28
UK excluding London -104 97 £425 +0.41% 21
London -44 66 £475 +10.40% 10
Work from Home -33 53 £425 +6.25% 17
North of England -61 46 £450 +6.64% 6
Yorkshire -51 22 £500 -3.80% 1
West Midlands -51 21 £425 -12.01% 2
Midlands -54 21 £425 +54.55% 4
North West -37 14 £400 -5.21% 3
Wales -3 10 £425 - 1
North East -15 10 £425 +8.97% 2
South West -31 7 £463 +101.09% 4
Scotland -1 6 £470 +17.50% 1
South East -69 6 £423 -15.58% 5
East of England -29 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 (15.30%) Confluence
2 2 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.09%) Camunda
2 2 (1.09%) Mule
2 2 (1.09%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.55%) JBoss
3 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.55%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.55%) Mingle
1 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.09%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.55%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.55%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 89 (48.63%) AWS
2 62 (33.88%) Azure
2 62 (33.88%) GitHub
3 40 (21.86%) GitHub Actions
4 34 (18.58%) GCP
5 16 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (8.74%) Serverless
6 15 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (5.46%) SaaS
9 9 (4.92%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.37%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.83%) BrowserStack
11 7 (3.83%) OpenShift
12 5 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.73%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (2.19%) BlazeMeter
13 4 (2.19%) PaaS
14 3 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (1.64%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.09%) HTTP
2 1 (0.55%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.75%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.10%) MySQL
2 13 (7.10%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.37%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.73%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.73%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.64%) HBase
6 3 (1.64%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.09%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.55%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.55%) DB2
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.55%) Redis
8 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 106 (57.92%) Selenium
2 82 (44.81%) Jenkins
3 61 (33.33%) JIRA
4 57 (31.15%) JUnit
5 54 (29.51%) Git
5 54 (29.51%) GitLab
6 50 (27.32%) Postman
7 44 (24.04%) REST Assured
8 37 (20.22%) JMeter
9 35 (19.13%) WebDriver
10 14 (7.65%) Cypress.io
11 13 (7.10%) TestNG
12 11 (6.01%) Gatling
13 9 (4.92%) Gradle
13 9 (4.92%) Maven
14 8 (4.37%) Mockito
14 8 (4.37%) TestRail
15 7 (3.83%) SonarQube
15 7 (3.83%) SpecFlow
16 6 (3.28%) Artifactory
General
1 51 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 43 (23.50%) Finance
3 26 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (13.66%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.74%) Banking
6 8 (4.37%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.64%) Military
8 2 (1.09%) Back Office
8 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.09%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (25.14%) Test Engineer
2 31 (16.94%) Developer
2 31 (16.94%) Tester
3 30 (16.39%) Test Automation Engineer
4 26 (14.21%) Senior
5 23 (12.57%) Lead
6 22 (12.02%) Automation Tester
7 17 (9.29%) Test Leader
8 13 (7.10%) Automation Test Lead
8 13 (7.10%) Software Engineer
9 12 (6.56%) Java Developer
9 12 (6.56%) QA Engineer
10 8 (4.37%) Quality Engineer
10 8 (4.37%) Senior Automation Tester
10 8 (4.37%) Senior Tester
11 7 (3.83%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (3.83%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (3.28%) Developer in Test
12 6 (3.28%) Java Engineer
12 6 (3.28%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (24.04%) Playwright
2 41 (22.40%) Spring
3 40 (21.86%) REST
4 35 (19.13%) Gherkin
5 23 (12.57%) Spring Boot
5 23 (12.57%) WireMock
6 20 (10.93%) Kafka
7 18 (9.84%) RESTful
8 17 (9.29%) AngularJS
9 14 (7.65%) .NET
10 12 (6.56%) HTML
10 12 (6.56%) LDAP
10 12 (6.56%) OpenID
10 12 (6.56%) SailPoint
11 11 (6.01%) CSS
12 9 (4.92%) Node.js
12 9 (4.92%) SOAP
13 7 (3.83%) Next.js
13 7 (3.83%) React
13 7 (3.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.57%) Product Ownership
2 18 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.56%) Distributed Architecture
4 11 (6.01%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.64%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.64%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.09%) Equities
7 2 (1.09%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.09%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.09%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.55%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.01%) Linux
2 4 (2.19%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.09%) Windows
4 1 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (78.14%) Test Automation
2 128 (69.95%) CI/CD
3 98 (53.55%) Agile
4 94 (51.37%) BDD
5 65 (35.52%) API Testing
6 61 (33.33%) Test Strategy
7 51 (27.87%) TDD
8 47 (25.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 47 (25.68%) DevOps
8 47 (25.68%) Microservices
9 33 (18.03%) Performance Testing
10 31 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (16.94%) Scrum
11 28 (15.30%) Test Scripting
12 27 (14.75%) End-to-End Testing
13 26 (14.21%) Containerisation
13 26 (14.21%) Manual Testing
13 26 (14.21%) Validation
14 24 (13.11%) Software Engineering
15 22 (12.02%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 115 (62.84%) Java
2 47 (25.68%) JavaScript
3 40 (21.86%) SQL
4 36 (19.67%) Python
5 24 (13.11%) C#
6 19 (10.38%) Ruby
6 19 (10.38%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.28%) PHP
8 5 (2.73%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.19%) Groovy
10 3 (1.64%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.64%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.64%) Scala
11 2 (1.09%) Bash
11 2 (1.09%) C++
11 2 (1.09%) Go
11 2 (1.09%) VBA
11 2 (1.09%) XPath
12 1 (0.55%) COBOL
12 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (22.95%) Security Cleared
2 39 (21.31%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.01%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.28%) Degree
5 4 (2.19%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.64%) OCP
6 3 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.09%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.55%) CFA
8 1 (0.55%) ISEB
8 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (33.88%) QA
2 18 (9.84%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.64%) WCAG
4 2 (1.09%) NCSC
5 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.55%) SLA
5 1 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 41 (22.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (26.78%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.93%) Grafana
3 17 (9.29%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.28%) Terraform
5 4 (2.19%) Ansible
6 2 (1.09%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.55%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.55%) Istio
7 1 (0.55%) Kibana
7 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 17 (9.29%) Oracle
2 14 (7.65%) ServiceNow
3 9 (4.92%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.73%) Google
5 4 (2.19%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.19%) Splunk
6 3 (1.64%) IBM
6 3 (1.64%) SAP
6 3 (1.64%) Workday
7 2 (1.09%) Adobe
7 2 (1.09%) Pega
7 2 (1.09%) Sybase
8 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.55%) Conga
8 1 (0.55%) GoCardless
8 1 (0.55%) HP
8 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.55%) Thales
8 1 (0.55%) UiPath
8 1 (0.55%) VMware