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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 343 342
Rank change year-on-year -78 -1 -19
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 200 179 253
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.61% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.47% 4.33% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 101 183
10th Percentile £350 £275 £335
25th Percentile £381 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% -9.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £650
90th Percentile £620 £650 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £468 £450
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.89% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 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 5,759 4,134 5,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.44% 14.04% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,834 2,779 3,454
10th Percentile £343 £337 £356
25th Percentile £404 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £625
90th Percentile £686 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 68 183
10th Percentile £39.53 £27.06 £31.97
25th Percentile £60.91 £51.77 £45.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £76.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.93 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -92 168 £425 -6.08% 15
UK excluding London -92 106 £425 -9.09% 16
London -50 72 £425 -1.16% 4
Work from Home -14 58 £425 +6.25% 13
North of England -63 46 £419 -8.47% 7
West Midlands -46 23 £425 -12.01%
Midlands -58 23 £425 -
Yorkshire -67 21 £513 -9.49% 1
North West -47 15 £400 -8.57% 5
South East -58 15 £393 -21.58% 2
Wales +1 11 £425 - 1
North East -12 10 £400 +6.31% 1
South West -29 7 £450 +95.65% 2
Scotland -2 3 - - 2
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 26 (13.00%) Confluence
2 2 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.00%) Camunda
2 2 (1.00%) Mule
2 2 (1.00%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.50%) JBoss
3 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.50%) Mingle
1 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 99 (49.50%) AWS
2 72 (36.00%) Azure
3 70 (35.00%) GitHub
4 47 (23.50%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (17.00%) GCP
6 21 (10.50%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (8.00%) Serverless
8 12 (6.00%) OpenShift
9 11 (5.50%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (5.00%) SaaS
11 8 (4.00%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.00%) BrowserStack
13 5 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (2.00%) BlazeMeter
14 4 (2.00%) PaaS
15 3 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 3 (1.50%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.50%) HTTP
2 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.00%) MySQL
3 11 (5.50%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.00%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.50%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.50%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.00%) HBase
8 3 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.00%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.50%) Big Data
10 1 (0.50%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.50%) DB2
10 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 111 (55.50%) Selenium
2 96 (48.00%) Jenkins
3 71 (35.50%) Git
3 71 (35.50%) JIRA
4 62 (31.00%) JUnit
4 62 (31.00%) Postman
5 55 (27.50%) GitLab
6 44 (22.00%) REST Assured
7 42 (21.00%) JMeter
8 35 (17.50%) WebDriver
9 16 (8.00%) TestRail
10 13 (6.50%) Gradle
10 13 (6.50%) SpecFlow
11 12 (6.00%) Gatling
11 12 (6.00%) Maven
11 12 (6.00%) Mockito
11 12 (6.00%) Sonatype Nexus
12 11 (5.50%) Cypress.io
12 11 (5.50%) TestNG
12 11 (5.50%) Zephyr
General
1 59 (29.50%) Social Skills
2 55 (27.50%) Finance
3 24 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.50%) Public Sector
5 18 (9.00%) Banking
6 8 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.50%) Back Office
7 3 (1.50%) Military
8 2 (1.00%) Front Office
8 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.00%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (26.00%) Test Engineer
2 36 (18.00%) Developer
3 34 (17.00%) Tester
4 33 (16.50%) Test Automation Engineer
5 26 (13.00%) Automation Tester
5 26 (13.00%) Lead
6 25 (12.50%) Senior
7 18 (9.00%) Java Developer
7 18 (9.00%) Test Leader
8 15 (7.50%) Automation Test Lead
9 13 (6.50%) QA Engineer
10 12 (6.00%) Software Engineer
11 11 (5.50%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (4.50%) Java Engineer
13 8 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (4.00%) QA Automation Engineer
13 8 (4.00%) Quality Engineer
13 8 (4.00%) Senior Automation Tester
13 8 (4.00%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (25.00%) Playwright
1 50 (25.00%) Spring
2 49 (24.50%) REST
3 39 (19.50%) Gherkin
4 25 (12.50%) Spring Boot
5 24 (12.00%) Kafka
5 24 (12.00%) WireMock
6 16 (8.00%) AngularJS
7 15 (7.50%) JSON
7 15 (7.50%) RESTful
8 14 (7.00%) .NET
8 14 (7.00%) OpenID
9 13 (6.50%) Node.js
9 13 (6.50%) React
10 12 (6.00%) HTML
10 12 (6.00%) LDAP
10 12 (6.00%) SailPoint
11 11 (5.50%) XML
12 9 (4.50%) CSS
12 9 (4.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.00%) Product Ownership
2 18 (9.00%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 11 (5.50%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.50%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.00%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.00%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.00%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.00%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.50%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.50%) Equities
9 1 (0.50%) NHS
9 1 (0.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.50%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.00%) Linux
2 2 (1.00%) Windows
3 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (76.50%) Test Automation
2 137 (68.50%) CI/CD
3 109 (54.50%) Agile
4 98 (49.00%) BDD
5 75 (37.50%) API Testing
6 63 (31.50%) Test Strategy
7 57 (28.50%) DevOps
8 54 (27.00%) TDD
9 48 (24.00%) Microservices
10 47 (23.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (18.00%) Validation
12 34 (17.00%) Scrum
13 33 (16.50%) Performance Testing
13 33 (16.50%) Test Scripting
14 31 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (15.00%) Manual Testing
16 29 (14.50%) End-to-End Testing
17 26 (13.00%) Containerisation
18 25 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
18 25 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 132 (66.00%) Java
2 46 (23.00%) JavaScript
3 44 (22.00%) Python
4 40 (20.00%) SQL
5 30 (15.00%) C#
6 20 (10.00%) Ruby
6 20 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.50%) XPath
8 6 (3.00%) PHP
9 4 (2.00%) Groovy
10 3 (1.50%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.50%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.50%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.00%) Bash
11 2 (1.00%) C++
11 2 (1.00%) Go
12 1 (0.50%) Rust
12 1 (0.50%) Scala
12 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.50%) VB6
Qualifications
1 42 (21.00%) Security Cleared
2 38 (19.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.50%) Degree
5 5 (2.50%) ISTQB
5 5 (2.50%) OCP
5 5 (2.50%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.50%) CFA
8 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.50%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (31.00%) QA
2 13 (6.50%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.00%) WCAG
4 2 (1.00%) NCSC
5 1 (0.50%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.50%) SLA
5 1 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 41 (20.50%) Docker
2 3 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (26.50%) Kubernetes
2 22 (11.00%) Grafana
3 16 (8.00%) Prometheus
4 9 (4.50%) Ansible
5 6 (3.00%) Progress Chef
5 6 (3.00%) Terraform
6 2 (1.00%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.00%) Kibana
6 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.50%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 14 (7.00%) Oracle
1 14 (7.00%) ServiceNow
2 13 (6.50%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.00%) VMware
4 5 (2.50%) Google
5 4 (2.00%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.00%) Splunk
6 3 (1.50%) SAP
6 3 (1.50%) Workday
7 2 (1.00%) Adobe
8 1 (0.50%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.50%) HP
8 1 (0.50%) IBM
8 1 (0.50%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.50%) MarketAxess
8 1 (0.50%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.50%) Sybase
8 1 (0.50%) Thales
8 1 (0.50%) Tradeweb