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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 369 348
Rank change year-on-year -21 -21 -21
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 252 160 252
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.54% 0.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.33% 3.94% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 97 174
10th Percentile £350 £305 £337
25th Percentile £375 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £474
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.01% -13.86%
75th Percentile £537 £550 £650
90th Percentile £600 £703 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £465 £438
% change year-on-year -8.60% +6.29% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile £68.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - -

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 5,821 4,060 5,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.50% 13.73% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,911 2,695 3,560
10th Percentile £343 £331 £356
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 £613 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 68 200
10th Percentile £35.00 £23.76 £37.44
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £77.50 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £83.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +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 16 March 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 16 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Top 17 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 16 March 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 -19 211 £425 -1.28% 26
UK excluding London -26 142 £425 -8.60% 24
London -25 86 £425 -1.16% 9
Work from Home -4 64 £425 +6.25% 23
North of England -50 54 £425 +7.59% 7
South East -19 31 £416 +28.08% 8
Midlands -39 29 £430 -10.97% 5
West Midlands -40 28 £453 -6.31% 2
Yorkshire -51 26 £500 -18.38% 1
Wales +7 15 £425 - 1
North East -4 15 £425 +23.64% 1
North West -44 13 £400 +2.56% 5
Scotland +7 6 - - 2
South West -25 6 £463 -15.91%
East of England -30 1 £450 -14.29%
East Midlands -32 1 £308 +52.99% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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 32 (12.70%) Confluence
2 3 (1.19%) Appian
3 2 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.79%) Camunda
4 1 (0.40%) Mule
4 1 (0.40%) Mule ESB
4 1 (0.40%) nginx
4 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.40%) Mingle
1 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 128 (50.79%) AWS
2 79 (31.35%) Azure
3 74 (29.37%) GitHub
4 48 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
5 37 (14.68%) GCP
6 26 (10.32%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (7.94%) Serverless
8 19 (7.54%) OpenShift
9 18 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (4.37%) Amazon S3
11 9 (3.57%) Datadog
11 9 (3.57%) SaaS
12 7 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (2.38%) BrowserStack
14 5 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (1.98%) Tricentis Tosca
15 4 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (1.59%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.38%) HTTP
2 5 (1.98%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.40%) Multicast
3 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (5.16%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.76%) DynamoDB
3 12 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.37%) MySQL
4 11 (4.37%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.17%) HBase
6 7 (2.78%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.19%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.19%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.79%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.40%) Big Data
10 1 (0.40%) DB2
10 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 129 (51.19%) Selenium
2 113 (44.84%) Jenkins
3 81 (32.14%) JIRA
4 78 (30.95%) JUnit
5 77 (30.56%) Git
6 71 (28.17%) GitLab
6 71 (28.17%) Postman
7 51 (20.24%) REST Assured
8 48 (19.05%) JMeter
9 33 (13.10%) WebDriver
10 20 (7.94%) Mockito
10 20 (7.94%) Sonatype Nexus
11 18 (7.14%) Cypress.io
12 16 (6.35%) Gradle
12 16 (6.35%) Maven
12 16 (6.35%) TestRail
13 14 (5.56%) Gatling
13 14 (5.56%) SpecFlow
13 14 (5.56%) Zephyr
14 12 (4.76%) SonarQube
General
1 76 (30.16%) Social Skills
2 62 (24.60%) Finance
3 31 (12.30%) Public Sector
4 27 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (9.13%) Banking
6 8 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.98%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.59%) Back Office
8 4 (1.59%) Front Office
9 3 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.19%) Military
9 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.79%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Billing
11 1 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (24.60%) Test Engineer
2 54 (21.43%) Developer
3 40 (15.87%) Senior
4 37 (14.68%) Tester
5 35 (13.89%) Java Developer
6 32 (12.70%) Test Automation Engineer
7 29 (11.51%) Automation Tester
8 28 (11.11%) Lead
9 20 (7.94%) Test Leader
10 18 (7.14%) QA Engineer
11 15 (5.95%) Automation Test Lead
11 15 (5.95%) Java Engineer
12 12 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
13 11 (4.37%) Quality Engineer
13 11 (4.37%) Software Engineer
14 10 (3.97%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (3.97%) Full-Stack Developer
15 9 (3.57%) Senior Automation Tester
15 9 (3.57%) Senior Java Developer
15 9 (3.57%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (28.97%) Spring
2 61 (24.21%) Playwright
2 61 (24.21%) REST
3 45 (17.86%) Spring Boot
4 44 (17.46%) Gherkin
5 31 (12.30%) WireMock
6 29 (11.51%) Kafka
7 26 (10.32%) JSON
8 22 (8.73%) React
9 19 (7.54%) .NET
9 19 (7.54%) Node.js
10 18 (7.14%) RESTful
11 17 (6.75%) AngularJS
11 17 (6.75%) OpenID
11 17 (6.75%) XML
12 16 (6.35%) HTML
13 15 (5.95%) SOAP
14 12 (4.76%) LDAP
14 12 (4.76%) SailPoint
15 11 (4.37%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.37%) Distributed Architecture
4 10 (3.97%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.98%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.19%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.79%) Derivative
7 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.79%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (0.79%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.79%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.79%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.79%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.40%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.92%) Linux
2 4 (1.59%) Unix
3 2 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (70.63%) Test Automation
2 173 (68.65%) CI/CD
3 140 (55.56%) Agile
4 118 (46.83%) BDD
5 85 (33.73%) API Testing
6 71 (28.17%) Microservices
7 69 (27.38%) DevOps
7 69 (27.38%) Test Strategy
8 66 (26.19%) TDD
9 56 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (19.05%) Scrum
11 41 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (16.27%) Test Scripting
12 38 (15.08%) Performance Testing
13 37 (14.68%) Containerisation
14 36 (14.29%) Manual Testing
15 34 (13.49%) Software Testing
15 34 (13.49%) Validation
16 33 (13.10%) Observability
16 33 (13.10%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 168 (66.67%) Java
2 60 (23.81%) JavaScript
3 47 (18.65%) Python
4 43 (17.06%) SQL
5 30 (11.90%) C#
6 29 (11.51%) TypeScript
7 21 (8.33%) Ruby
8 9 (3.57%) XPath
9 6 (2.38%) PHP
10 4 (1.59%) Groovy
11 3 (1.19%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.19%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.19%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.79%) Bash
12 2 (0.79%) C++
12 2 (0.79%) Go
12 2 (0.79%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.40%) Scala
13 1 (0.40%) VB6
Qualifications
1 49 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 42 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.97%) ISTQB
3 10 (3.97%) OCP
3 10 (3.97%) Oracle Certification
4 8 (3.17%) Degree
5 7 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.79%) ISEB
8 2 (0.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.40%) CFA
9 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (30.16%) QA
2 21 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 14 (5.56%) WCAG
4 2 (0.79%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.79%) NCSC
5 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.40%) SLA
5 1 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 54 (21.43%) Docker
2 4 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 65 (25.79%) Kubernetes
2 31 (12.30%) Grafana
3 17 (6.75%) Ansible
4 16 (6.35%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.97%) Progress Chef
6 6 (2.38%) Terraform
7 5 (1.98%) Kibana
8 2 (0.79%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.40%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 21 (8.33%) Oracle
2 14 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 13 (5.16%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.97%) VMware
5 8 (3.17%) Splunk
6 5 (1.98%) Google
6 5 (1.98%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.59%) SAP
7 4 (1.59%) Veracode
8 3 (1.19%) Cisco
8 3 (1.19%) UiPath
8 3 (1.19%) Workday
9 2 (0.79%) Adobe
9 2 (0.79%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.40%) HP
10 1 (0.40%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.40%) MarketAxess
10 1 (0.40%) Tradeweb