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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 382 383
Rank change year-on-year -106 +1 -30
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 182 187 183
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.57% 0.47%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.90% 3.72% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 118 124
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 £552 £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 6,271 5,023 5,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.49% 15.21% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,024 3,390 3,273
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £414 £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 249 111 178
10th Percentile £33.74 £30.75 £27.40
25th Percentile £52.29 £50.50 £50.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.10 £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 11 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 11 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 -113 160 £445 +4.09% 47
UK excluding London -97 107 £426 +2.53% 35
Work from Home -71 56 £445 +5.08% 25
London -82 54 £475 -8.65% 26
North of England -60 47 £401 -4.98% 4
West Midlands -18 31 £450 +24.14% 6
Midlands -37 31 £450 +67.91% 8
North West -38 21 £401 +12.17% 1
South West -36 16 £438 -7.89% 7
North East -38 15 £450 -1.10% 2
Yorkshire -39 11 £350 -17.65% 1
Scotland -13 7 £480 +3.78% 5
South East -80 7 £275 -42.11% 8
Wales -22 1 £288 -39.47% 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 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 69 (37.91%) AWS
2 57 (31.32%) GitHub
3 50 (27.47%) Azure
4 31 (17.03%) 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
15 4 (2.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.65%) HTTP
2 2 (1.10%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (10.99%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.49%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.40%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.75%) MySQL
6 5 (2.75%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.20%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.10%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.10%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.10%) Redis
9 2 (1.10%) Weaviate
9 2 (1.10%) ZAP BI
10 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.55%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 109 (59.89%) Selenium
2 69 (37.91%) JUnit
3 63 (34.62%) Jenkins
4 59 (32.42%) Git
4 59 (32.42%) GitLab
5 50 (27.47%) Postman
6 47 (25.82%) REST Assured
7 34 (18.68%) WebDriver
8 32 (17.58%) Gatling
9 30 (16.48%) JMeter
10 29 (15.93%) JIRA
11 22 (12.09%) Cypress.io
12 17 (9.34%) SonarQube
13 16 (8.79%) TestNG
14 14 (7.69%) Maven
14 14 (7.69%) Mockito
15 11 (6.04%) SpecFlow
16 10 (5.49%) Gradle
17 8 (4.40%) Sonatype Nexus
18 7 (3.85%) SoapUI
General
1 61 (33.52%) Social Skills
2 42 (23.08%) 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
6 10 (5.49%) Military
7 2 (1.10%) Back Office
7 2 (1.10%) Law
7 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.55%) Automotive
8 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 23 (12.64%) Tester
5 22 (12.09%) Developer
6 21 (11.54%) QA Engineer
7 16 (8.79%) Automation Tester
7 16 (8.79%) Quality Engineer
8 12 (6.59%) Automation Engineer
8 12 (6.59%) Java Developer
8 12 (6.59%) Senior Test Engineer
9 11 (6.04%) Analyst
9 11 (6.04%) Lead
10 10 (5.49%) Salesforce Engineer
10 10 (5.49%) Test Analyst
11 8 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.40%) Test Leader
12 7 (3.85%) QA Automation Engineer
12 7 (3.85%) Senior Tester
12 7 (3.85%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (38.46%) Playwright
2 43 (23.63%) REST
3 42 (23.08%) Spring
4 41 (22.53%) Gherkin
5 31 (17.03%) Kafka
6 28 (15.38%) WireMock
7 26 (14.29%) Spring Boot
8 24 (13.19%) Node.js
9 22 (12.09%) React
10 20 (10.99%) RESTful
11 15 (8.24%) HTML
12 12 (6.59%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (6.59%) SOAP
13 11 (6.04%) .NET
13 11 (6.04%) JSON
14 10 (5.49%) OpenAPI
14 10 (5.49%) Swagger
15 9 (4.95%) CSS
15 9 (4.95%) Terraform
16 8 (4.40%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.79%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (6.59%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.75%) Distributed Architecture
5 5 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.65%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.65%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.10%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.10%) Equities
7 2 (1.10%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.10%) PKI
7 2 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.55%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.55%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.40%) Linux
2 4 (2.20%) Mac OS
2 4 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.65%) Unix
4 2 (1.10%) Android
4 2 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.55%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (81.32%) Test Automation
2 133 (73.08%) CI/CD
3 114 (62.64%) BDD
4 112 (61.54%) Agile
5 64 (35.16%) API Testing
5 64 (35.16%) TDD
6 61 (33.52%) DevOps
7 53 (29.12%) Test Strategy
8 49 (26.92%) Software Testing
9 48 (26.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (25.82%) Microservices
11 45 (24.73%) Scrum
12 34 (18.68%) Performance Testing
13 33 (18.13%) Containerisation
14 32 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (17.58%) Stakeholder Management
15 29 (15.93%) Security Testing
16 28 (15.38%) Test Scripting
17 27 (14.84%) Mentoring
17 27 (14.84%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 123 (67.58%) Java
2 63 (34.62%) JavaScript
3 33 (18.13%) Python
4 26 (14.29%) C#
5 19 (10.44%) TypeScript
6 18 (9.89%) SQL
7 10 (5.49%) Bash
7 10 (5.49%) Scala
8 7 (3.85%) Apex Code
8 7 (3.85%) Ruby
9 4 (2.20%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.65%) Groovy
10 3 (1.65%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.10%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.10%) PromQL
11 2 (1.10%) R
12 1 (0.55%) COBOL
12 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 60 (32.97%) Security Cleared
2 49 (26.92%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (8.24%) Degree
4 15 (8.24%) ISTQB
5 9 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.95%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.55%) ISEB
9 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 14 (7.69%) Grafana
3 12 (6.59%) 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%) Google
7 3 (1.65%) HP
8 2 (1.10%) CA Agile Central
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