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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 344 353
Rank change year-on-year -36 +9 -74
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 235 173 262
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.56% 0.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.23% 4.12% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 100 191
10th Percentile £332 £305 £331
25th Percentile £363 £379 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £650
90th Percentile £633 £734 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £480 £438
% change year-on-year -11.46% +9.71% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile £56.25 - -
90th Percentile £67.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +22.35%

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 5,556 4,196 5,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.00% 13.63% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,807 2,657 3,745
10th Percentile £343 £340 £363
25th Percentile £405 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £627
90th Percentile £691 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.55% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 63 207
10th Percentile £30.73 £25.45 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.59 £48.32
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £75.25
90th Percentile £82.90 £77.25 £88.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -14 193 £425 -10.53% 14
UK excluding London -12 132 £425 -11.46% 10
London -32 74 £425 -1.28% 5
North of England -42 57 £425 +0.59% 3
Work from Home -3 54 £400 -5.88% 11
South East -4 37 £395 +21.54% 4
Yorkshire -46 27 £500 -18.70% 1
North East -1 18 £425 +33.86%
Midlands -50 14 £483 -0.10%
Wales +10 12 £425 - 1
North West -34 12 £400 +23.46% 2
West Midlands -43 12 £508 +5.07%
Scotland +8 6 - -
South West -26 5 £475 -25.34% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £310 -

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 22 (9.36%) Confluence
2 7 (2.98%) Appian
3 2 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.85%) Camunda
4 1 (0.43%) Mule
4 1 (0.43%) Mule ESB
4 1 (0.43%) nginx
4 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 108 (45.96%) AWS
2 64 (27.23%) Azure
3 57 (24.26%) GitHub
4 39 (16.60%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (10.64%) GCP
6 24 (10.21%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (9.79%) OpenShift
8 15 (6.38%) Serverless
9 13 (5.53%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (3.83%) BrowserStack
10 9 (3.83%) Datadog
10 9 (3.83%) Tricentis Tosca
11 8 (3.40%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.98%) SaaS
13 6 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (1.70%) BlazeMeter
16 3 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
16 3 (1.28%) npm
16 3 (1.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.55%) HTTP
2 5 (2.13%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.43%) Multicast
3 1 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (13.62%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (5.96%) MongoDB
3 12 (5.11%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.68%) SQL Server
5 10 (4.26%) MySQL
6 9 (3.83%) DynamoDB
7 8 (3.40%) HBase
8 6 (2.55%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.28%) DB2
9 3 (1.28%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.28%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.85%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.43%) Big Data
11 1 (0.43%) CockroachDB
11 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 124 (52.77%) Selenium
2 109 (46.38%) Jenkins
3 73 (31.06%) Postman
4 70 (29.79%) GitLab
5 65 (27.66%) JIRA
6 61 (25.96%) Git
7 58 (24.68%) REST Assured
8 57 (24.26%) JUnit
9 40 (17.02%) JMeter
10 23 (9.79%) Sonatype Nexus
11 21 (8.94%) Cypress.io
11 21 (8.94%) WebDriver
12 18 (7.66%) Mockito
13 17 (7.23%) Gatling
13 17 (7.23%) TestRail
14 15 (6.38%) Gradle
14 15 (6.38%) Maven
14 15 (6.38%) SonarQube
15 14 (5.96%) Bitbucket
15 14 (5.96%) Zephyr
General
1 64 (27.23%) Social Skills
2 61 (25.96%) Finance
3 36 (15.32%) Public Sector
4 20 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (8.09%) Banking
6 7 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.98%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.55%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.70%) Front Office
8 4 (1.70%) Military
9 3 (1.28%) Automotive
9 3 (1.28%) Back Office
9 3 (1.28%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.85%) Retail
11 1 (0.43%) Billing
11 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.43%) Games
Job Titles
1 67 (28.51%) Test Engineer
2 51 (21.70%) Developer
3 40 (17.02%) Java Developer
4 35 (14.89%) Test Automation Engineer
5 32 (13.62%) Tester
6 31 (13.19%) Senior
7 27 (11.49%) Automation Tester
8 18 (7.66%) Lead
8 18 (7.66%) QA Engineer
9 16 (6.81%) Java Engineer
10 12 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (4.68%) Test Leader
12 10 (4.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 10 (4.26%) Software Engineer
13 9 (3.83%) Automation Engineer
13 9 (3.83%) Automation Test Lead
13 9 (3.83%) Quality Engineer
13 9 (3.83%) Senior Developer
13 9 (3.83%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (3.83%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (28.09%) REST
2 58 (24.68%) Playwright
2 58 (24.68%) Spring
3 45 (19.15%) Spring Boot
4 37 (15.74%) Gherkin
5 31 (13.19%) JSON
6 26 (11.06%) React
7 24 (10.21%) Kafka
8 23 (9.79%) Node.js
9 22 (9.36%) XML
10 21 (8.94%) RESTful
11 20 (8.51%) .NET
12 18 (7.66%) SOAP
13 17 (7.23%) OpenID
14 16 (6.81%) HTML
15 15 (6.38%) Hibernate
15 15 (6.38%) WireMock
16 13 (5.53%) AngularJS
17 12 (5.11%) LDAP
17 12 (5.11%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.79%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.40%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (2.13%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.28%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.28%) Virtual Team
5 2 (0.85%) Client/Server
5 2 (0.85%) Data Structures
5 2 (0.85%) Derivative
5 2 (0.85%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (0.85%) Fixed Income
5 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (0.85%) Private Cloud
5 2 (0.85%) Public Cloud
5 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.43%) Equities
6 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.64%) Linux
2 5 (2.13%) Windows
3 4 (1.70%) Unix
4 1 (0.43%) Android
4 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (69.36%) CI/CD
1 163 (69.36%) Test Automation
2 135 (57.45%) Agile
3 97 (41.28%) BDD
4 79 (33.62%) API Testing
5 63 (26.81%) DevOps
6 58 (24.68%) Microservices
7 53 (22.55%) TDD
8 51 (21.70%) Scrum
9 49 (20.85%) Test Strategy
10 43 (18.30%) Test Scripting
11 41 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (17.02%) Performance Testing
13 37 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 36 (15.32%) Software Engineering
15 35 (14.89%) Software Testing
16 34 (14.47%) Manual Testing
17 32 (13.62%) Containerisation
18 30 (12.77%) Full-Stack Development
19 29 (12.34%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 165 (70.21%) Java
2 62 (26.38%) JavaScript
3 50 (21.28%) Python
4 43 (18.30%) SQL
5 26 (11.06%) C#
5 26 (11.06%) TypeScript
6 17 (7.23%) Ruby
7 9 (3.83%) XPath
8 6 (2.55%) PHP
9 4 (1.70%) Scala
10 3 (1.28%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.28%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.85%) Bash
11 2 (0.85%) C++
11 2 (0.85%) Go
11 2 (0.85%) Groovy
11 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.43%) C
12 1 (0.43%) VB6
12 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (16.60%) Security Cleared
2 30 (12.77%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.26%) ISTQB
3 10 (4.26%) OCP
3 10 (4.26%) Oracle Certification
4 8 (3.40%) Degree
5 7 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.43%) CFA
9 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.43%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (31.49%) QA
2 23 (9.79%) Accessibility
3 16 (6.81%) WCAG
4 2 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.85%) NCSC
5 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.43%) SLA
5 1 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 44 (18.72%) Docker
2 7 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (18.72%) Kubernetes
2 25 (10.64%) Ansible
3 16 (6.81%) Grafana
4 14 (5.96%) Progress Chef
5 6 (2.55%) Terraform
6 5 (2.13%) Kibana
7 2 (0.85%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (9.36%) Oracle
2 14 (5.96%) VMware
3 13 (5.53%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.53%) ServiceNow
4 8 (3.40%) Splunk
4 8 (3.40%) Veracode
5 7 (2.98%) Cisco
6 6 (2.55%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.13%) Google
8 4 (1.70%) SAP
9 3 (1.28%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.28%) UiPath
9 3 (1.28%) Workday
10 2 (0.85%) Adobe
10 2 (0.85%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.85%) Virgin Media
11 1 (0.43%) Actian
11 1 (0.43%) Conga
11 1 (0.43%) ION Trading
11 1 (0.43%) Thales