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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 354 349
Rank change year-on-year -19 -5 -37
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 238 173 262
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.56% 0.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.24% 4.14% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 101 190
10th Percentile £330 £309 £348
25th Percentile £364 £378 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £533 £563 £650
90th Percentile £609 £734 £776
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £435
% change year-on-year -10.53% +9.20% -8.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile £68.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - £78.00
% 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 5,611 4,180 5,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.83% 13.63% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,836 2,661 3,710
10th Percentile £340 £331 £362
25th Percentile £405 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 65 218
10th Percentile £29.50 £25.65 £39.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £48.00 £48.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.60 £79.39 £85.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 18 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cucumber over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Top 16 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 18 February 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 -20 195 £425 -10.53% 19
UK excluding London -15 134 £425 -10.53% 17
London -30 76 £425 -3.46% 3
North of England -43 56 £425 +8.97% 6
Work from Home -14 54 £400 - 13
South East 0 32 £400 +23.08% 4
Yorkshire -41 27 £500 -18.70% 2
Midlands -42 20 £490 +1.45% 3
North East -2 18 £425 +23.64% 1
West Midlands -37 18 £510 +5.59% 2
Wales +9 14 £425 - 1
North West -36 11 £400 +23.46% 3
Scotland +5 6 - -
South West -24 5 £475 -34.26% 3
East Midlands - 2 £310 - 1
Northern Ireland - 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 21 (8.82%) Confluence
2 6 (2.52%) Appian
3 2 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.84%) Camunda
4 1 (0.42%) Mule
4 1 (0.42%) Mule ESB
4 1 (0.42%) nginx
4 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 116 (48.74%) AWS
2 66 (27.73%) Azure
3 64 (26.89%) GitHub
4 42 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
5 28 (11.76%) GCP
6 24 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (9.66%) OpenShift
8 16 (6.72%) Serverless
9 14 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (3.78%) Datadog
11 8 (3.36%) Amazon S3
11 8 (3.36%) BrowserStack
11 8 (3.36%) Tricentis Tosca
12 7 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (2.94%) SaaS
13 6 (2.52%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (1.68%) BlazeMeter
15 3 (1.26%) Amazon ECS
15 3 (1.26%) PaaS
15 3 (1.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.52%) HTTP
2 5 (2.10%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.42%) Multicast
3 1 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 12 (5.04%) NoSQL
4 10 (4.20%) MySQL
4 10 (4.20%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.78%) DynamoDB
6 8 (3.36%) HBase
7 6 (2.52%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.26%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.26%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.84%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.42%) Big Data
10 1 (0.42%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.42%) DB2
10 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 124 (52.10%) Selenium
2 110 (46.22%) Jenkins
3 73 (30.67%) Postman
4 72 (30.25%) GitLab
5 66 (27.73%) Git
6 64 (26.89%) JIRA
7 63 (26.47%) JUnit
8 57 (23.95%) REST Assured
9 43 (18.07%) JMeter
10 24 (10.08%) WebDriver
11 23 (9.66%) Sonatype Nexus
12 21 (8.82%) Cypress.io
13 18 (7.56%) Gatling
13 18 (7.56%) Mockito
14 17 (7.14%) Maven
14 17 (7.14%) TestRail
15 15 (6.30%) Gradle
15 15 (6.30%) SonarQube
15 15 (6.30%) Zephyr
16 14 (5.88%) SpecFlow
General
1 69 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 57 (23.95%) Finance
3 34 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 23 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.14%) Banking
6 7 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.52%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.52%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.68%) Front Office
8 4 (1.68%) Military
9 3 (1.26%) Back Office
9 3 (1.26%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.84%) Retail
11 1 (0.42%) Automotive
11 1 (0.42%) Billing
11 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (27.73%) Test Engineer
2 51 (21.43%) Developer
3 38 (15.97%) Java Developer
4 36 (15.13%) Test Automation Engineer
5 33 (13.87%) Senior
6 32 (13.45%) Tester
7 27 (11.34%) Automation Tester
8 20 (8.40%) Lead
9 17 (7.14%) QA Engineer
10 16 (6.72%) Java Engineer
11 13 (5.46%) Test Leader
12 12 (5.04%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (4.62%) Automation Test Lead
13 11 (4.62%) Quality Engineer
13 11 (4.62%) Software Engineer
14 10 (4.20%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 9 (3.78%) Automation Engineer
15 9 (3.78%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (3.78%) Senior Developer
15 9 (3.78%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (26.89%) Spring
2 62 (26.05%) REST
3 59 (24.79%) Playwright
4 45 (18.91%) Spring Boot
5 37 (15.55%) Gherkin
6 29 (12.18%) JSON
7 24 (10.08%) Kafka
7 24 (10.08%) React
8 20 (8.40%) Node.js
8 20 (8.40%) WireMock
8 20 (8.40%) XML
9 18 (7.56%) .NET
10 17 (7.14%) OpenID
10 17 (7.14%) RESTful
11 15 (6.30%) Hibernate
11 15 (6.30%) HTML
12 14 (5.88%) AngularJS
12 14 (5.88%) SOAP
13 12 (5.04%) LDAP
13 12 (5.04%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.66%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.36%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.68%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.26%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.84%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.84%) Derivative
6 2 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (0.84%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (0.84%) Fixed Income
6 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.84%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.84%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.42%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.42%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.42%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.42%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.50%) Linux
2 4 (1.68%) Unix
3 3 (1.26%) Windows
4 1 (0.42%) Android
4 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (70.59%) CI/CD
2 164 (68.91%) Test Automation
3 135 (56.72%) Agile
4 99 (41.60%) BDD
5 82 (34.45%) API Testing
6 64 (26.89%) DevOps
7 62 (26.05%) Microservices
8 54 (22.69%) Test Strategy
9 53 (22.27%) TDD
10 49 (20.59%) Scrum
11 43 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (18.07%) Test Scripting
12 41 (17.23%) Performance Testing
13 40 (16.81%) Continuous Improvement
14 36 (15.13%) Software Testing
15 34 (14.29%) Manual Testing
15 34 (14.29%) Software Engineering
16 33 (13.87%) Containerisation
17 30 (12.61%) Full-Stack Development
18 27 (11.34%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 164 (68.91%) Java
2 59 (24.79%) JavaScript
3 47 (19.75%) Python
4 39 (16.39%) SQL
5 27 (11.34%) TypeScript
6 25 (10.50%) C#
7 19 (7.98%) Ruby
8 9 (3.78%) XPath
9 6 (2.52%) PHP
10 4 (1.68%) Scala
11 3 (1.26%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.26%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.84%) Bash
12 2 (0.84%) C++
12 2 (0.84%) Go
12 2 (0.84%) Groovy
12 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.84%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.42%) C
13 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (16.81%) Security Cleared
2 32 (13.45%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.20%) ISTQB
3 10 (4.20%) OCP
3 10 (4.20%) Oracle Certification
4 8 (3.36%) Degree
5 7 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.42%) CFA
9 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.42%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (31.09%) QA
2 24 (10.08%) Accessibility
3 18 (7.56%) WCAG
4 2 (0.84%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.84%) NCSC
5 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.42%) SLA
5 1 (0.42%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 46 (19.33%) Docker
2 7 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (19.75%) Kubernetes
2 24 (10.08%) Ansible
3 19 (7.98%) Grafana
4 14 (5.88%) Progress Chef
5 6 (2.52%) Terraform
6 5 (2.10%) Kibana
7 4 (1.68%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.84%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.42%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 20 (8.40%) Oracle
2 14 (5.88%) VMware
3 13 (5.46%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.46%) ServiceNow
4 8 (3.36%) Splunk
5 7 (2.94%) Veracode
6 6 (2.52%) Cisco
7 5 (2.10%) Google
7 5 (2.10%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.68%) SAP
9 3 (1.26%) UiPath
9 3 (1.26%) Workday
10 2 (0.84%) Adobe
10 2 (0.84%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.42%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.42%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.42%) HP
11 1 (0.42%) IBM
11 1 (0.42%) Mercator
11 1 (0.42%) Sybase