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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 348 406
Rank change year-on-year -131 +58 -45
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 215 210 166
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.64% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.41% 4.20% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 137 109
10th Percentile £306 £268 £323
25th Percentile £375 £340 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -11.00% -0.50%
75th Percentile £500 £519 £600
90th Percentile £538 £653 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £436 £415 £500
% change year-on-year +5.12% -17.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £50.00 -

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 6,310 4,999 5,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.55% 15.33% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,033 3,371 3,172
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £693 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 111 171
10th Percentile £22.68 £22.05 £31.25
25th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 29 September 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 14 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 29 September 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 -111 193 £445 +4.71% 99
UK excluding London -94 125 £436 +5.12% 73
London -84 70 £475 -8.65% 36
Work from Home -52 60 £447 +2.76% 48
North of England -65 49 £423 -0.59% 28
West Midlands -3 43 £448 +49.17% 11
Midlands -20 43 £448 +66.36% 13
North West -48 21 £433 +20.98% 11
South West -23 20 £425 -10.53% 12
North East -34 16 £450 - 13
Yorkshire -39 12 £350 -22.22% 4
Scotland -25 7 £480 +3.78% 4
South East -97 7 £275 -33.33% 4
Wales -23 1 £288 -39.47% 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 22 (10.23%) Confluence
2 1 (0.47%) Camunda
2 1 (0.47%) JBoss
2 1 (0.47%) Mule
2 1 (0.47%) Mule ESB
2 1 (0.47%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 8 (3.72%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (3.72%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.40%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 90 (41.86%) AWS
2 67 (31.16%) GitHub
3 60 (27.91%) Azure
4 33 (15.35%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (14.88%) GitHub Actions
6 30 (13.95%) Serverless
7 21 (9.77%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (9.30%) GCP
9 13 (6.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (6.05%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (5.58%) GitHub Copilot
11 11 (5.12%) Amazon S3
12 10 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (4.65%) Power Automate
13 9 (4.19%) Azure Functions
14 8 (3.72%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (3.26%) OpenShift
16 6 (2.79%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.93%) Firewall
1 2 (0.93%) HTTP
2 1 (0.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (12.09%) MongoDB
2 21 (9.77%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.58%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.19%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.79%) MySQL
7 5 (2.33%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.86%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.40%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.40%) Redis
9 3 (1.40%) Weaviate
9 3 (1.40%) ZAP BI
10 2 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.93%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.93%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.47%) Cloud Spanner
11 1 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 136 (63.26%) Selenium
2 84 (39.07%) JUnit
3 74 (34.42%) GitLab
4 71 (33.02%) Git
5 69 (32.09%) Jenkins
6 54 (25.12%) Postman
7 53 (24.65%) REST Assured
8 45 (20.93%) Gatling
9 34 (15.81%) JMeter
10 33 (15.35%) WebDriver
11 32 (14.88%) JIRA
12 27 (12.56%) SonarQube
13 26 (12.09%) Cypress.io
14 19 (8.84%) Maven
15 18 (8.37%) Mockito
15 18 (8.37%) TestNG
16 13 (6.05%) SpecFlow
17 12 (5.58%) Gradle
18 9 (4.19%) SoapUI
18 9 (4.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 80 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 53 (24.65%) Public Sector
3 34 (15.81%) Finance
4 24 (11.16%) Banking
5 23 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (5.12%) Military
8 3 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Law
9 2 (0.93%) Police
10 1 (0.47%) Automotive
10 1 (0.47%) Marketing
10 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (27.44%) Test Engineer
2 46 (21.40%) Senior
3 30 (13.95%) Test Automation Engineer
4 28 (13.02%) Quality Engineer
5 24 (11.16%) Developer
5 24 (11.16%) Tester
6 22 (10.23%) QA Engineer
7 16 (7.44%) Automation Tester
7 16 (7.44%) Java Developer
8 14 (6.51%) Automation Engineer
8 14 (6.51%) Lead
8 14 (6.51%) Senior Test Engineer
9 12 (5.58%) Analyst
10 11 (5.12%) Test Analyst
11 10 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.65%) Java Engineer
11 10 (4.65%) Salesforce Engineer
11 10 (4.65%) Test Leader
12 8 (3.72%) Lead Test Analyst
12 8 (3.72%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (41.40%) Playwright
2 56 (26.05%) Spring
3 52 (24.19%) Gherkin
4 45 (20.93%) REST
5 38 (17.67%) Kafka
6 36 (16.74%) WireMock
7 33 (15.35%) Spring Boot
8 26 (12.09%) Node.js
9 25 (11.63%) React
10 23 (10.70%) RESTful
11 17 (7.91%) HTML
12 15 (6.98%) OpenAPI
12 15 (6.98%) RabbitMQ
13 14 (6.51%) SOAP
14 13 (6.05%) JSON
15 12 (5.58%) .NET
16 11 (5.12%) Swagger
17 10 (4.65%) CSS
17 10 (4.65%) Terraform
18 8 (3.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.05%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.65%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.19%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.79%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.40%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.40%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.93%) Equities
8 2 (0.93%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.93%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.93%) PKI
8 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.44%) Linux
2 6 (2.79%) Unix
3 4 (1.86%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.93%) Android
4 2 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.93%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (80.47%) Test Automation
2 163 (75.81%) CI/CD
3 136 (63.26%) Agile
4 132 (61.40%) BDD
5 80 (37.21%) TDD
6 76 (35.35%) DevOps
7 69 (32.09%) API Testing
8 68 (31.63%) Software Testing
9 66 (30.70%) Microservices
10 64 (29.77%) Test Strategy
11 59 (27.44%) Scrum
12 54 (25.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 50 (23.26%) Stakeholder Management
14 44 (20.47%) Containerisation
15 43 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
16 42 (19.53%) Security Testing
17 41 (19.07%) Performance Testing
18 38 (17.67%) SDLC
19 35 (16.28%) Coaching
19 35 (16.28%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 151 (70.23%) Java
2 71 (33.02%) JavaScript
3 35 (16.28%) Python
4 28 (13.02%) C#
5 22 (10.23%) SQL
5 22 (10.23%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.12%) Scala
7 10 (4.65%) Bash
8 7 (3.26%) Apex Code
8 7 (3.26%) Ruby
9 4 (1.86%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.86%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.40%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.40%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.93%) PromQL
11 2 (0.93%) R
12 1 (0.47%) COBOL
12 1 (0.47%) Groovy
12 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 72 (33.49%) Security Cleared
2 60 (27.91%) SC Cleared
3 34 (15.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (8.37%) Degree
4 18 (8.37%) ISTQB
5 12 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.58%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.93%) ISEB
10 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (42.79%) QA
2 64 (29.77%) Accessibility
3 39 (18.14%) WCAG
4 8 (3.72%) GDPR
5 4 (1.86%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.40%) SEPA
7 2 (0.93%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 84 (39.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 83 (38.60%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.44%) Grafana
3 13 (6.05%) Prometheus
4 12 (5.58%) Ansible
5 7 (3.26%) Istio
6 3 (1.40%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.40%) Kibana
6 3 (1.40%) Packer
7 2 (0.93%) Consul
7 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.93%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.47%) Argo
Vendors
1 24 (11.16%) Oracle
2 16 (7.44%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.44%) Salesforce
3 8 (3.72%) Conga
3 8 (3.72%) GoCardless
4 7 (3.26%) Databricks
4 7 (3.26%) HP
4 7 (3.26%) Splunk
5 6 (2.79%) IBM
6 4 (1.86%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.86%) Google
7 3 (1.40%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (1.40%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.93%) Pega
8 2 (0.93%) Solace
8 2 (0.93%) Sybase
9 1 (0.47%) F5
9 1 (0.47%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.47%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.47%) Veracode