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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 360 348
Rank change year-on-year -93 -12 -8
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 193 165 232
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.57% 0.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.27% 3.87% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 99 165
10th Percentile £350 £268 £325
25th Percentile £400 £358 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £528 £501 £688
90th Percentile £638 £565 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £426 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -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 5,901 4,260 5,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.01% 14.63% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,843 2,856 3,456
10th Percentile £350 £340 £350
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 £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 257 74 223
10th Percentile £35.00 £22.10 £26.59
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.75 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.07 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.20% -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 31 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 31 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 -83 167 £450 +5.88% 18
UK excluding London -79 106 £426 +6.38% 17
London -60 67 £475 +7.89% 2
Work from Home -40 58 £425 +1.19% 11
North of England -56 54 £450 +12.50% 3
West Midlands -41 24 £425 -12.01% 3
Midlands -53 24 £425 +58.58% 4
North West -29 21 £401 +5.53% 3
Yorkshire -55 21 £500 +11.11%
South West -21 14 £500 - 6
North East -19 12 £426 +9.10%
Scotland -3 6 £470 +17.50%
Wales -10 5 £425 -
South East -72 4 £600 +19.88% 4
East of England -32 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 29 (15.03%) Confluence
2 3 (1.55%) Camunda
3 2 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.04%) Mule
3 2 (1.04%) Mule ESB
4 1 (0.52%) JBoss
4 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
4 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 (4.15%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.04%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 93 (48.19%) AWS
2 65 (33.68%) Azure
3 59 (30.57%) GitHub
4 39 (20.21%) GCP
5 34 (17.62%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (9.33%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (9.33%) Serverless
7 17 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (6.22%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (5.18%) SaaS
10 8 (4.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (4.15%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (4.15%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.63%) BrowserStack
12 6 (3.11%) OpenShift
13 5 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (2.07%) BlazeMeter
14 4 (2.07%) PaaS
15 3 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
16 2 (1.04%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.52%) Firewall
1 1 (0.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (15.03%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.74%) MySQL
2 13 (6.74%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.18%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.59%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.59%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.07%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.55%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.52%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.52%) DB2
9 1 (0.52%) HBase
9 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.52%) Redis
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 113 (58.55%) Selenium
2 88 (45.60%) Jenkins
3 62 (32.12%) JIRA
4 60 (31.09%) JUnit
5 59 (30.57%) Git
6 58 (30.05%) REST Assured
7 55 (28.50%) GitLab
8 51 (26.42%) Postman
9 41 (21.24%) WebDriver
10 39 (20.21%) JMeter
11 17 (8.81%) Gatling
12 13 (6.74%) Cypress.io
12 13 (6.74%) TestNG
13 11 (5.70%) Mockito
14 8 (4.15%) Gradle
15 7 (3.63%) Maven
15 7 (3.63%) TestRail
16 6 (3.11%) SoapUI
16 6 (3.11%) Sonatype Nexus
16 6 (3.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 60 (31.09%) Social Skills
2 47 (24.35%) Finance
3 31 (16.06%) Public Sector
4 25 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (11.92%) Banking
6 9 (4.66%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.59%) Military
8 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.04%) Back Office
9 2 (1.04%) Law
9 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.04%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (26.94%) Test Engineer
2 35 (18.13%) Senior
3 32 (16.58%) Tester
4 28 (14.51%) Test Automation Engineer
5 27 (13.99%) Developer
6 21 (10.88%) Lead
7 20 (10.36%) Automation Tester
8 16 (8.29%) QA Engineer
8 16 (8.29%) Test Leader
9 13 (6.74%) Automation Test Lead
10 12 (6.22%) Software Engineer
11 10 (5.18%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (5.18%) Java Developer
11 10 (5.18%) Senior Tester
12 8 (4.15%) Salesforce Engineer
12 8 (4.15%) Senior Automation Tester
12 8 (4.15%) Senior Test Engineer
13 7 (3.63%) QA Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.63%) Systems Tester
14 6 (3.11%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (24.87%) Playwright
2 44 (22.80%) REST
3 43 (22.28%) Spring
4 35 (18.13%) Gherkin
5 26 (13.47%) WireMock
6 23 (11.92%) RESTful
6 23 (11.92%) Spring Boot
7 21 (10.88%) Kafka
8 15 (7.77%) AngularJS
8 15 (7.77%) React
9 14 (7.25%) .NET
10 13 (6.74%) Node.js
11 12 (6.22%) LDAP
11 12 (6.22%) OpenID
11 12 (6.22%) SailPoint
12 11 (5.70%) HTML
13 10 (5.18%) CSS
13 10 (5.18%) SOAP
14 8 (4.15%) OAuth
15 7 (3.63%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (9.33%) Product Ownership
3 14 (7.25%) Distributed Architecture
4 11 (5.70%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.66%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.07%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.55%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.55%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.04%) Equities
8 2 (1.04%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.04%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.04%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.52%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.52%) PKI
9 1 (0.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.18%) Linux
2 4 (2.07%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.04%) Windows
4 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (80.83%) Test Automation
2 138 (71.50%) CI/CD
3 108 (55.96%) Agile
4 107 (55.44%) BDD
5 79 (40.93%) API Testing
6 64 (33.16%) Test Strategy
7 61 (31.61%) TDD
8 60 (31.09%) DevOps
9 56 (29.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 53 (27.46%) Microservices
11 34 (17.62%) Performance Testing
11 34 (17.62%) Validation
12 31 (16.06%) Scrum
12 31 (16.06%) Test Scripting
13 30 (15.54%) End-to-End Testing
14 29 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (14.51%) Containerisation
16 26 (13.47%) Software Testing
17 25 (12.95%) Observability
18 24 (12.44%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 127 (65.80%) Java
2 59 (30.57%) JavaScript
3 44 (22.80%) SQL
4 39 (20.21%) Python
5 24 (12.44%) C#
6 15 (7.77%) TypeScript
7 13 (6.74%) Ruby
8 7 (3.63%) Apex Code
8 7 (3.63%) Scala
9 6 (3.11%) PHP
10 5 (2.59%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.07%) Groovy
12 3 (1.55%) Bash
12 3 (1.55%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.04%) C++
13 2 (1.04%) Go
13 2 (1.04%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.04%) PromQL
13 2 (1.04%) VBA
14 1 (0.52%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 46 (23.83%) Security Cleared
2 40 (20.73%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (6.74%) Degree
5 9 (4.66%) ISTQB
6 6 (3.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.52%) CFA
9 1 (0.52%) ISEB
9 1 (0.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.52%) OCP
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (32.12%) QA
2 21 (10.88%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.07%) WCAG
4 2 (1.04%) NCSC
5 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.52%) SLA
5 1 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 47 (24.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 54 (27.98%) Kubernetes
2 23 (11.92%) Grafana
3 22 (11.40%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.15%) Terraform
5 6 (3.11%) Ansible
6 4 (2.07%) Istio
7 2 (1.04%) Consul
7 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.04%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.52%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (9.33%) Oracle
2 14 (7.25%) ServiceNow
3 8 (4.15%) Conga
3 8 (4.15%) GoCardless
3 8 (4.15%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.59%) Google
5 4 (2.07%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.55%) IBM
6 3 (1.55%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.55%) SAP
6 3 (1.55%) Splunk
6 3 (1.55%) Workday
7 2 (1.04%) Adobe
7 2 (1.04%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.04%) Pega
7 2 (1.04%) Solace
7 2 (1.04%) Sybase
8 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.52%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.52%) Veracode