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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 472 365 390
Rank change year-on-year -107 +25 -50
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 195 190 183
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.58% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.15% 3.99% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 120 130
10th Percentile £313 £267 £350
25th Percentile £388 £324 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £440 £519
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% -15.18% -1.19%
75th Percentile £508 £501 £645
90th Percentile £603 £595 £791
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £418 £500
% change year-on-year +1.80% -16.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 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 6,197 4,759 5,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 14.60% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,974 3,197 3,430
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £596 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 102 234
10th Percentile £26.20 £22.45 £26.60
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £66.75 £64.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -1.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.68 £73.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - +5.69%

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 July 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 July 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 -74 168 £438 +2.94% 24
UK excluding London -103 114 £425 +1.80% 19
Work from Home -42 66 £425 +6.25% 13
London -60 61 £449 -13.75% 5
North of England -67 46 £425 +2.47% 8
West Midlands -28 32 £425 -6.39% 2
Midlands -44 32 £425 +57.99% 4
North West -42 21 £402 +3.08% 4
South West -26 16 £500 +5.26% 3
North East -33 16 £450 +15.38% 3
Scotland -13 9 £480 +3.78%
Yorkshire -61 9 £350 -22.22% 1
South East -86 7 £438 -12.59% 4
Wales -18 5 £425 -10.53%
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 34 (17.44%) Confluence
2 2 (1.03%) Mule
2 2 (1.03%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.51%) Camunda
3 1 (0.51%) JBoss
3 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.51%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.51%) Mingle
1 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (4.10%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.54%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 81 (41.54%) AWS
2 67 (34.36%) GitHub
3 58 (29.74%) Azure
4 41 (21.03%) GitHub Actions
5 33 (16.92%) GCP
6 28 (14.36%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (10.77%) Serverless
8 17 (8.72%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (5.64%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (3.59%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.59%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (3.59%) SaaS
13 5 (2.56%) BrowserStack
13 5 (2.56%) Power Automate
14 4 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (2.05%) Azure Functions
14 4 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
15 3 (1.54%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.03%) Firewall
1 2 (1.03%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.90%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.15%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.13%) DynamoDB
4 9 (4.62%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (2.05%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.05%) MySQL
6 3 (1.54%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.54%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.03%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.51%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.51%) Db2
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.51%) Redis
8 1 (0.51%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 114 (58.46%) Selenium
2 78 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 65 (33.33%) JUnit
4 56 (28.72%) Git
5 54 (27.69%) JIRA
6 52 (26.67%) REST Assured
7 49 (25.13%) WebDriver
8 48 (24.62%) GitLab
9 47 (24.10%) Postman
10 40 (20.51%) JMeter
11 21 (10.77%) Cypress.io
11 21 (10.77%) Gatling
12 13 (6.67%) TestNG
13 12 (6.15%) SpecFlow
14 11 (5.64%) Maven
15 9 (4.62%) Mockito
16 8 (4.10%) SonarQube
17 7 (3.59%) Sonatype Nexus
18 6 (3.08%) Bitbucket
18 6 (3.08%) Gradle
General
1 63 (32.31%) Social Skills
2 41 (21.03%) Finance
3 37 (18.97%) Public Sector
4 26 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (11.28%) Banking
6 9 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (4.10%) Military
8 6 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.03%) Back Office
9 2 (1.03%) Law
10 1 (0.51%) Automotive
10 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (25.64%) Test Engineer
2 45 (23.08%) Senior
3 36 (18.46%) Tester
4 27 (13.85%) Test Automation Engineer
5 26 (13.33%) Developer
6 25 (12.82%) Automation Tester
7 19 (9.74%) Lead
8 18 (9.23%) QA Engineer
9 16 (8.21%) Test Leader
10 13 (6.67%) Senior Tester
11 11 (5.64%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (5.64%) Senior Automation Tester
11 11 (5.64%) Senior Test Engineer
12 10 (5.13%) Analyst
12 10 (5.13%) Java Developer
12 10 (5.13%) Salesforce Engineer
13 9 (4.62%) Test Analyst
14 8 (4.10%) Automation Test Lead
14 8 (4.10%) QA Automation Engineer
15 7 (3.59%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (30.77%) Playwright
2 42 (21.54%) Spring
3 41 (21.03%) REST
4 37 (18.97%) Gherkin
5 35 (17.95%) WireMock
6 27 (13.85%) Kafka
7 22 (11.28%) RESTful
8 20 (10.26%) Node.js
9 19 (9.74%) Spring Boot
10 15 (7.69%) React
11 12 (6.15%) SOAP
12 11 (5.64%) .NET
12 11 (5.64%) HTML
13 10 (5.13%) AngularJS
13 10 (5.13%) CSS
14 7 (3.59%) Web Services
15 6 (3.08%) OAuth
15 6 (3.08%) OAuth2
15 6 (3.08%) Swagger
16 5 (2.56%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.74%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
3 14 (7.18%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.64%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.10%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.05%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.54%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.54%) Equities
8 3 (1.54%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.54%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.03%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.03%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.03%) PKI
9 2 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.51%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.10%) Linux
2 4 (2.05%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.51%) Android
3 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (78.97%) Test Automation
2 138 (70.77%) CI/CD
3 118 (60.51%) BDD
4 109 (55.90%) Agile
5 70 (35.90%) API Testing
6 66 (33.85%) TDD
7 63 (32.31%) Test Strategy
8 62 (31.79%) DevOps
9 59 (30.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 55 (28.21%) Microservices
11 38 (19.49%) Validation
12 34 (17.44%) End-to-End Testing
12 34 (17.44%) Scrum
13 31 (15.90%) Performance Testing
13 31 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (15.90%) Software Testing
14 28 (14.36%) Test Scripting
15 27 (13.85%) Observability
16 26 (13.33%) Mentoring
17 25 (12.82%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 115 (58.97%) Java
2 63 (32.31%) JavaScript
3 34 (17.44%) Python
4 32 (16.41%) C#
5 30 (15.38%) SQL
6 27 (13.85%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.13%) Ruby
8 7 (3.59%) Apex Code
8 7 (3.59%) Scala
9 6 (3.08%) Bash
9 6 (3.08%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.05%) Groovy
10 4 (2.05%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.54%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.03%) PromQL
12 2 (1.03%) VBA
13 1 (0.51%) R
13 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.51%) VB6
13 1 (0.51%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 54 (27.69%) Security Cleared
2 43 (22.05%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (7.18%) ISTQB
5 12 (6.15%) Degree
6 6 (3.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.56%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.51%) ISEB
9 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (34.87%) QA
2 28 (14.36%) Accessibility
3 10 (5.13%) WCAG
4 4 (2.05%) GDPR
5 2 (1.03%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.51%) SEPA
6 1 (0.51%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (25.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 56 (28.72%) Kubernetes
2 25 (12.82%) Grafana
3 24 (12.31%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.10%) Terraform
5 7 (3.59%) Istio
6 6 (3.08%) Ansible
7 3 (1.54%) HP ALM
8 2 (1.03%) Consul
8 2 (1.03%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.51%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 14 (7.18%) Oracle
3 9 (4.62%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.10%) Conga
4 8 (4.10%) GoCardless
5 4 (2.05%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.05%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.54%) Google
6 3 (1.54%) HP
6 3 (1.54%) Splunk
6 3 (1.54%) Sybase
7 2 (1.03%) IBM
7 2 (1.03%) Pega
7 2 (1.03%) Solace
8 1 (0.51%) Actian
8 1 (0.51%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.51%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.51%) Thales
8 1 (0.51%) UiPath
8 1 (0.51%) Veracode