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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 341 389
Rank change year-on-year -141 +48 -21
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 201 203 175
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.63% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.19% 4.10% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 133 119
10th Percentile £306 £268 £323
25th Percentile £375 £340 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £500 £519 £606
90th Percentile £538 £633 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £415 £500
% change year-on-year +4.82% -17.00% +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 6,305 4,948 5,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.55% 15.23% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,030 3,327 3,222
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £414 £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 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 108 176
10th Percentile £24.08 £29.00 £28.62
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.90 £73.88
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 22 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 22 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 -123 180 £445 +4.71% 101
UK excluding London -98 116 £435 +4.82% 74
London -78 66 £475 -8.65% 38
Work from Home -52 57 £446 +0.22% 43
North of England -63 47 £401 -5.65% 26
West Midlands -15 36 £450 +24.14% 11
Midlands -37 36 £450 +67.29% 13
South West -21 20 £425 -10.53% 13
North West -50 20 £402 +12.45% 9
North East -30 15 £450 -2.17% 13
Yorkshire -44 12 £350 -17.65% 4
Scotland -22 7 £480 +3.78% 7
South East -86 7 £275 -42.11% 8
Wales -18 1 £288 -39.47% 3

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 21 (10.45%) Confluence
2 1 (0.50%) Camunda
2 1 (0.50%) JBoss
2 1 (0.50%) Mule
2 1 (0.50%) Mule ESB
2 1 (0.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 8 (3.98%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (3.98%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.49%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 77 (38.31%) AWS
2 60 (29.85%) GitHub
3 57 (28.36%) Azure
4 30 (14.93%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (14.93%) GitHub Actions
5 28 (13.93%) Serverless
6 19 (9.45%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (9.45%) GCP
7 11 (5.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (4.98%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (4.98%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (4.98%) GitHub Copilot
8 10 (4.98%) Power Automate
9 9 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (4.48%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.48%) Azure Functions
10 8 (3.98%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.48%) OpenShift
12 6 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.99%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.00%) Firewall
1 2 (1.00%) HTTP
2 1 (0.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.95%) MongoDB
2 21 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.97%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.48%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.99%) MySQL
7 5 (2.49%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.49%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.49%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.49%) Weaviate
9 3 (1.49%) ZAP BI
10 2 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.00%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.00%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.00%) Redis
11 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.50%) Cloud Spanner
11 1 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 125 (62.19%) Selenium
2 75 (37.31%) JUnit
3 65 (32.34%) Git
3 65 (32.34%) Jenkins
4 63 (31.34%) GitLab
5 53 (26.37%) Postman
6 49 (24.38%) REST Assured
7 38 (18.91%) Gatling
8 33 (16.42%) WebDriver
9 32 (15.92%) JMeter
10 30 (14.93%) JIRA
11 24 (11.94%) Cypress.io
12 22 (10.95%) SonarQube
13 18 (8.96%) Maven
14 17 (8.46%) Mockito
14 17 (8.46%) TestNG
15 12 (5.97%) Gradle
16 11 (5.47%) SpecFlow
17 8 (3.98%) SoapUI
17 8 (3.98%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 72 (35.82%) Social Skills
2 47 (23.38%) Public Sector
3 32 (15.92%) Finance
4 22 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.95%) Banking
5 13 (6.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.98%) Military
7 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.00%) Law
9 1 (0.50%) Automotive
9 1 (0.50%) Back Office
9 1 (0.50%) Marketing
9 1 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 56 (27.86%) Test Engineer
2 44 (21.89%) Senior
3 29 (14.43%) Test Automation Engineer
4 23 (11.44%) Developer
4 23 (11.44%) Tester
5 22 (10.95%) Quality Engineer
6 21 (10.45%) QA Engineer
7 16 (7.96%) Automation Tester
8 15 (7.46%) Java Developer
9 14 (6.97%) Lead
10 13 (6.47%) Senior Test Engineer
11 12 (5.97%) Analyst
11 12 (5.97%) Automation Engineer
12 11 (5.47%) Test Analyst
13 10 (4.98%) Salesforce Engineer
13 10 (4.98%) Test Leader
14 8 (3.98%) DevOps Engineer
14 8 (3.98%) Lead Test Analyst
14 8 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
14 8 (3.98%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (38.81%) Playwright
2 49 (24.38%) Spring
3 46 (22.89%) Gherkin
4 44 (21.89%) REST
5 35 (17.41%) Kafka
6 31 (15.42%) WireMock
7 30 (14.93%) Spring Boot
8 25 (12.44%) Node.js
9 24 (11.94%) React
10 22 (10.95%) RESTful
11 17 (8.46%) HTML
12 14 (6.97%) SOAP
13 13 (6.47%) RabbitMQ
14 12 (5.97%) JSON
14 12 (5.97%) OpenAPI
15 11 (5.47%) .NET
15 11 (5.47%) Swagger
16 10 (4.98%) CSS
17 9 (4.48%) Terraform
18 8 (3.98%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.97%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.47%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.48%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.48%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.49%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.49%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.49%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.00%) Equities
8 2 (1.00%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.00%) PKI
8 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.96%) Linux
2 6 (2.99%) Unix
3 4 (1.99%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.00%) Android
4 2 (1.00%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.00%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (80.60%) Test Automation
2 149 (74.13%) CI/CD
3 127 (63.18%) Agile
4 123 (61.19%) BDD
5 72 (35.82%) DevOps
5 72 (35.82%) TDD
6 67 (33.33%) API Testing
7 61 (30.35%) Test Strategy
8 60 (29.85%) Software Testing
9 55 (27.36%) Microservices
10 51 (25.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 51 (25.37%) Scrum
11 44 (21.89%) Stakeholder Management
12 42 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
13 40 (19.90%) Containerisation
14 38 (18.91%) Performance Testing
15 36 (17.91%) SDLC
15 36 (17.91%) Security Testing
16 30 (14.93%) Mentoring
16 30 (14.93%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 139 (69.15%) Java
2 70 (34.83%) JavaScript
3 34 (16.92%) Python
4 28 (13.93%) C#
5 21 (10.45%) SQL
5 21 (10.45%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.47%) Scala
7 10 (4.98%) Bash
8 7 (3.48%) Apex Code
8 7 (3.48%) Ruby
9 4 (1.99%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.99%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.49%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.49%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.00%) Groovy
11 2 (1.00%) PromQL
11 2 (1.00%) R
12 1 (0.50%) COBOL
12 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 64 (31.84%) Security Cleared
2 53 (26.37%) SC Cleared
3 28 (13.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (8.96%) Degree
5 17 (8.46%) ISTQB
6 12 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (5.47%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.50%) ISEB
11 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (42.79%) QA
2 56 (27.86%) Accessibility
3 32 (15.92%) WCAG
4 8 (3.98%) GDPR
5 4 (1.99%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.49%) SEPA
7 2 (1.00%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 72 (35.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 71 (35.32%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.46%) Grafana
3 13 (6.47%) Prometheus
4 10 (4.98%) Ansible
5 7 (3.48%) Istio
6 3 (1.49%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.49%) Kibana
7 2 (1.00%) Consul
7 2 (1.00%) Packer
7 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.00%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 22 (10.95%) Oracle
2 16 (7.96%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.96%) Salesforce
3 8 (3.98%) Conga
3 8 (3.98%) GoCardless
4 7 (3.48%) Databricks
4 7 (3.48%) HP
5 6 (2.99%) IBM
5 6 (2.99%) Splunk
6 4 (1.99%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.99%) Google
7 3 (1.49%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.00%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.00%) Pega
8 2 (1.00%) Solace
8 2 (1.00%) Sybase
9 1 (0.50%) F5
9 1 (0.50%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.50%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.50%) Veracode