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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 364 386
Rank change year-on-year -132 +22 -38
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 191 198 177
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.60% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.04% 3.96% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 128 120
10th Percentile £306 £268 £323
25th Percentile £363 £340 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £500 £519 £603
90th Percentile £538 £638 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £408 £500
% change year-on-year +6.75% -18.50% +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 6,291 4,998 5,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.56% 15.17% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,019 3,359 3,268
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 111 176
10th Percentile £25.05 £30.75 £28.62
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.50 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £83.00 £72.81
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 18 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 18 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 -97 169 £445 +4.71% 106
UK excluding London -104 114 £435 +6.75% 68
Work from Home -57 57 £445 - 43
London -82 57 £475 -8.65% 54
North of England -56 47 £401 -5.31% 15
West Midlands -13 34 £450 +24.14% 11
Midlands -34 34 £450 +67.91% 16
South West -19 20 £425 -10.53% 12
North West -48 20 £402 +12.45% 6
North East -39 15 £450 - 8
Yorkshire -37 12 £350 -17.65% 1
Scotland -20 7 £480 +3.78% 9
South East -85 7 £275 -42.11% 10
Wales -21 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 20 (10.47%) Confluence
2 1 (0.52%) Camunda
2 1 (0.52%) JBoss
2 1 (0.52%) Mule
2 1 (0.52%) Mule ESB
2 1 (0.52%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 8 (4.19%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (3.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.57%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 71 (37.17%) AWS
2 58 (30.37%) GitHub
3 52 (27.23%) Azure
4 30 (15.71%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (15.18%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (12.57%) Serverless
7 18 (9.42%) GCP
8 16 (8.38%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (4.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (4.71%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (4.71%) GitHub Copilot
9 9 (4.71%) Power Automate
10 8 (4.19%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.19%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.19%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (4.19%) Azure Functions
11 7 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (3.14%) BrowserStack
13 5 (2.62%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.57%) HTTP
2 2 (1.05%) Firewall
3 1 (0.52%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.47%) MongoDB
2 19 (9.95%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.76%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.66%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.62%) MySQL
7 4 (2.09%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.09%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.57%) ZAP BI
9 2 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.05%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.05%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.05%) Redis
9 2 (1.05%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.52%) Cloud Spanner
10 1 (0.52%) NonStop SQL
10 1 (0.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 119 (62.30%) Selenium
2 70 (36.65%) JUnit
3 62 (32.46%) GitLab
3 62 (32.46%) Jenkins
4 60 (31.41%) Git
5 51 (26.70%) Postman
6 49 (25.65%) REST Assured
7 36 (18.85%) Gatling
8 33 (17.28%) WebDriver
9 30 (15.71%) JMeter
10 29 (15.18%) JIRA
11 23 (12.04%) Cypress.io
12 20 (10.47%) SonarQube
13 16 (8.38%) TestNG
14 14 (7.33%) Maven
15 13 (6.81%) Mockito
16 11 (5.76%) SpecFlow
17 10 (5.24%) Gradle
18 8 (4.19%) Sonatype Nexus
19 7 (3.66%) SoapUI
General
1 67 (35.08%) Social Skills
2 44 (23.04%) Public Sector
3 30 (15.71%) Finance
4 22 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (10.47%) Banking
6 11 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (5.24%) Military
8 2 (1.05%) Law
8 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Automotive
9 1 (0.52%) Back Office
9 1 (0.52%) Marketing
9 1 (0.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 52 (27.23%) Test Engineer
2 42 (21.99%) Senior
3 29 (15.18%) Test Automation Engineer
4 22 (11.52%) Tester
5 21 (10.99%) Developer
5 21 (10.99%) QA Engineer
5 21 (10.99%) Quality Engineer
6 15 (7.85%) Automation Tester
7 13 (6.81%) Lead
8 12 (6.28%) Analyst
8 12 (6.28%) Java Developer
8 12 (6.28%) Senior Test Engineer
9 11 (5.76%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (5.76%) Test Analyst
10 10 (5.24%) Salesforce Engineer
11 9 (4.71%) Test Leader
12 8 (4.19%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.66%) QA Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.66%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (3.66%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (39.79%) Playwright
2 45 (23.56%) Spring
3 44 (23.04%) Gherkin
4 42 (21.99%) REST
5 31 (16.23%) Kafka
6 28 (14.66%) WireMock
7 27 (14.14%) Spring Boot
8 24 (12.57%) Node.js
9 23 (12.04%) React
10 20 (10.47%) RESTful
11 15 (7.85%) HTML
12 12 (6.28%) JSON
12 12 (6.28%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (5.76%) .NET
13 11 (5.76%) SOAP
14 10 (5.24%) OpenAPI
14 10 (5.24%) Swagger
15 9 (4.71%) CSS
15 9 (4.71%) Terraform
16 7 (3.66%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.85%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.76%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.19%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.19%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.09%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.57%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.57%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.57%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.05%) Equities
8 2 (1.05%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.05%) PKI
9 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.52%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.76%) Linux
2 4 (2.09%) Mac OS
2 4 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.57%) Unix
4 2 (1.05%) Android
4 2 (1.05%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.52%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (81.15%) Test Automation
2 142 (74.35%) CI/CD
3 117 (61.26%) Agile
4 116 (60.73%) BDD
5 67 (35.08%) DevOps
5 67 (35.08%) TDD
6 65 (34.03%) API Testing
7 57 (29.84%) Test Strategy
8 56 (29.32%) Software Testing
9 51 (26.70%) Microservices
10 48 (25.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (25.13%) Scrum
11 39 (20.42%) Stakeholder Management
12 38 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (18.85%) Containerisation
13 36 (18.85%) Performance Testing
14 34 (17.80%) Security Testing
15 32 (16.75%) SDLC
16 29 (15.18%) Coaching
16 29 (15.18%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 130 (68.06%) Java
2 67 (35.08%) JavaScript
3 32 (16.75%) Python
4 26 (13.61%) C#
5 20 (10.47%) TypeScript
6 19 (9.95%) SQL
7 10 (5.24%) Bash
7 10 (5.24%) Scala
8 7 (3.66%) Apex Code
8 7 (3.66%) Ruby
9 4 (2.09%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.57%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.05%) Groovy
11 2 (1.05%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.05%) PromQL
11 2 (1.05%) R
11 2 (1.05%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.52%) COBOL
12 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 59 (30.89%) Security Cleared
2 48 (25.13%) SC Cleared
3 26 (13.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (8.38%) Degree
4 16 (8.38%) ISTQB
5 10 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.71%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.52%) ISEB
10 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (42.41%) QA
2 53 (27.75%) Accessibility
3 30 (15.71%) WCAG
4 7 (3.66%) GDPR
5 4 (2.09%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.57%) SEPA
7 2 (1.05%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 66 (34.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 66 (34.55%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.33%) Grafana
3 12 (6.28%) Prometheus
4 10 (5.24%) Ansible
5 7 (3.66%) Istio
6 3 (1.57%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.57%) Kibana
7 2 (1.05%) Consul
7 2 (1.05%) Packer
7 2 (1.05%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 19 (9.95%) Oracle
2 16 (8.38%) Salesforce
3 14 (7.33%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.19%) Conga
4 8 (4.19%) GoCardless
5 7 (3.66%) Databricks
6 5 (2.62%) HP
6 5 (2.62%) IBM
7 4 (2.09%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.09%) Splunk
8 3 (1.57%) Google
9 2 (1.05%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (1.05%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.05%) Pega
9 2 (1.05%) Solace
9 2 (1.05%) Sybase
10 1 (0.52%) Confluent
10 1 (0.52%) OutSystems
10 1 (0.52%) UiPath
10 1 (0.52%) Veracode