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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 367 381
Rank change year-on-year -124 +14 -26
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 182 185 182
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.56% 0.48%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.92% 3.69% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 118 124
10th Percentile £308 £268 £324
25th Percentile £400 £334 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £452 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% -9.55% -2.44%
75th Percentile £500 £520 £625
90th Percentile £551 £649 £736
UK excluding London median daily rate £426 £415 £500
% change year-on-year +2.53% -17.00% -
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 6,243 5,018 5,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.46% 15.21% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,009 3,389 3,252
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 111 178
10th Percentile £34.59 £30.75 £27.40
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.50 £50.81
Median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.70 £87.50 £71.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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 10 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 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 10 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 -111 160 £445 +4.09% 38
UK excluding London -110 108 £426 +2.53% 32
Work from Home -58 58 £445 +5.08% 19
London -86 53 £475 -8.65% 17
North of England -61 46 £401 -4.98% 4
West Midlands -13 32 £450 +24.14% 6
Midlands -42 32 £450 +67.91% 8
North West -53 20 £401 +12.17%
South West -31 16 £438 -7.89% 8
North East -37 15 £450 -1.10% 2
Yorkshire -45 11 £350 -17.65% 2
Scotland -37 7 £480 +3.78% 3
South East -87 7 £275 -42.11% 5
Wales -19 1 £288 -39.47% 1
East of England - 1 £450 -

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 20 (10.99%) Confluence
2 1 (0.55%) Camunda
2 1 (0.55%) JBoss
2 1 (0.55%) Mule
2 1 (0.55%) Mule ESB
2 1 (0.55%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 8 (4.40%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.65%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (38.46%) AWS
2 59 (32.42%) GitHub
3 50 (27.47%) Azure
4 32 (17.58%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (14.84%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (12.64%) Serverless
7 19 (10.44%) GCP
8 17 (9.34%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (5.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (4.95%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (4.95%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.40%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (4.40%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (3.85%) Power Automate
13 6 (3.30%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (3.30%) Azure Functions
13 6 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (2.75%) BrowserStack
14 5 (2.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.65%) HTTP
2 2 (1.10%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (10.44%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.49%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.40%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.20%) MySQL
6 4 (2.20%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.20%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.10%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.10%) Pinecone
8 2 (1.10%) Redis
8 2 (1.10%) Weaviate
8 2 (1.10%) ZAP BI
9 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.55%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 111 (60.99%) Selenium
2 69 (37.91%) JUnit
3 64 (35.16%) Jenkins
4 60 (32.97%) GitLab
5 58 (31.87%) Git
6 50 (27.47%) Postman
7 47 (25.82%) REST Assured
8 35 (19.23%) WebDriver
9 32 (17.58%) Gatling
9 32 (17.58%) JMeter
10 30 (16.48%) JIRA
11 22 (12.09%) Cypress.io
12 16 (8.79%) SonarQube
12 16 (8.79%) TestNG
13 13 (7.14%) Maven
13 13 (7.14%) Mockito
14 11 (6.04%) SpecFlow
15 9 (4.95%) Gradle
16 8 (4.40%) Sonatype Nexus
17 7 (3.85%) SoapUI
General
1 61 (33.52%) Social Skills
2 41 (22.53%) Public Sector
3 26 (14.29%) Finance
4 20 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (9.89%) Banking
6 10 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.95%) Military
8 2 (1.10%) Back Office
8 2 (1.10%) Law
8 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Automotive
9 1 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 50 (27.47%) Test Engineer
2 43 (23.63%) Senior
3 26 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
4 24 (13.19%) Tester
5 22 (12.09%) Developer
6 21 (11.54%) QA Engineer
7 17 (9.34%) Automation Tester
8 16 (8.79%) Quality Engineer
9 12 (6.59%) Automation Engineer
9 12 (6.59%) Senior Test Engineer
10 11 (6.04%) Analyst
10 11 (6.04%) Java Developer
10 11 (6.04%) Lead
11 10 (5.49%) Salesforce Engineer
11 10 (5.49%) Test Analyst
12 8 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.40%) Senior Tester
12 8 (4.40%) Test Leader
13 7 (3.85%) QA Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.85%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (38.46%) Playwright
2 42 (23.08%) REST
2 42 (23.08%) Spring
3 41 (22.53%) Gherkin
4 30 (16.48%) Kafka
5 29 (15.93%) WireMock
6 25 (13.74%) Spring Boot
7 22 (12.09%) Node.js
8 21 (11.54%) React
9 19 (10.44%) RESTful
10 14 (7.69%) HTML
11 12 (6.59%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (6.04%) .NET
12 11 (6.04%) JSON
12 11 (6.04%) SOAP
13 10 (5.49%) OpenAPI
13 10 (5.49%) Swagger
14 9 (4.95%) Terraform
15 8 (4.40%) CSS
16 7 (3.85%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.79%) Product Ownership
2 13 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.59%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.30%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (3.30%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.65%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.65%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.10%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.10%) Equities
8 2 (1.10%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.10%) PKI
8 2 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.55%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.55%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.55%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.30%) Linux
2 4 (2.20%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.10%) Android
4 2 (1.10%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (81.32%) Test Automation
2 133 (73.08%) CI/CD
3 113 (62.09%) BDD
4 112 (61.54%) Agile
5 64 (35.16%) API Testing
6 63 (34.62%) TDD
7 60 (32.97%) DevOps
8 54 (29.67%) Test Strategy
9 49 (26.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 49 (26.92%) Software Testing
10 46 (25.27%) Microservices
10 46 (25.27%) Scrum
11 36 (19.78%) Performance Testing
12 32 (17.58%) Containerisation
12 32 (17.58%) Stakeholder Management
13 31 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (15.93%) Security Testing
15 28 (15.38%) Test Scripting
16 27 (14.84%) Mentoring
16 27 (14.84%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 123 (67.58%) Java
2 62 (34.07%) JavaScript
3 33 (18.13%) Python
4 26 (14.29%) C#
5 19 (10.44%) SQL
5 19 (10.44%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.49%) Bash
6 10 (5.49%) Scala
7 7 (3.85%) Apex Code
7 7 (3.85%) Ruby
8 4 (2.20%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.65%) Groovy
9 3 (1.65%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.10%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.10%) PromQL
10 2 (1.10%) R
11 1 (0.55%) COBOL
11 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 60 (32.97%) Security Cleared
2 50 (27.47%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (8.24%) ISTQB
5 14 (7.69%) Degree
6 8 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.40%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.55%) ISEB
10 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (41.21%) QA
2 46 (25.27%) Accessibility
3 25 (13.74%) WCAG
4 6 (3.30%) GDPR
5 2 (1.10%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.55%) SEPA
6 1 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 62 (34.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 63 (34.62%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.24%) Grafana
3 13 (7.14%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.40%) Ansible
5 7 (3.85%) Istio
6 3 (1.65%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.65%) Kibana
7 2 (1.10%) Consul
7 2 (1.10%) Packer
7 2 (1.10%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 18 (9.89%) Oracle
2 16 (8.79%) Salesforce
3 12 (6.59%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.40%) Conga
4 8 (4.40%) GoCardless
5 5 (2.75%) Databricks
5 5 (2.75%) IBM
6 4 (2.20%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.65%) HP
8 2 (1.10%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.10%) Google
8 2 (1.10%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.10%) Pega
8 2 (1.10%) Solace
8 2 (1.10%) Splunk
8 2 (1.10%) Sybase
9 1 (0.55%) Confluent
9 1 (0.55%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.55%) UiPath
9 1 (0.55%) Veracode