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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 375 405
Rank change year-on-year -112 +30 -60
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 192 182 171
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.55% 0.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.09% 3.76% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 117 121
10th Percentile £331 £265 £350
25th Percentile £400 £320 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £430 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% -18.10% -
75th Percentile £500 £511 £630
90th Percentile £600 £600 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% -
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 6,211 4,843 5,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.70% 14.77% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,984 3,286 3,316
10th Percentile £350 £322 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 107 221
10th Percentile £26.15 £24.44 £28.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.86 £84.35 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.84%

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 31 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 31 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 -106 167 £447 +6.18% 19
UK excluding London -69 117 £425 +6.25% 14
Work from Home -31 65 £425 +6.31% 7
London -67 57 £473 -9.57% 5
North of England -65 47 £425 +2.47% 4
West Midlands -26 37 £425 +17.24% 5
Midlands -39 37 £425 +58.58% 6
North West -49 22 £402 +0.50% 2
North East -34 16 £450 +15.38% 2
South West -32 14 £481 +1.32% 1
Yorkshire -59 9 £350 -17.65%
Scotland -5 8 £480 +3.78%
South East -80 7 £438 -12.59% 3
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 35 (18.23%) Confluence
2 2 (1.04%) Mule
2 2 (1.04%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.52%) Camunda
3 1 (0.52%) JBoss
3 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.52%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.52%) Mingle
1 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 82 (42.71%) AWS
2 66 (34.38%) GitHub
3 57 (29.69%) Azure
4 37 (19.27%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (16.15%) GCP
6 27 (14.06%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (10.94%) Serverless
8 16 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (5.73%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (3.65%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.65%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (3.13%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (3.13%) Power Automate
13 6 (3.13%) SaaS
14 5 (2.60%) Azure Functions
14 5 (2.60%) BrowserStack
14 5 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
15 3 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.04%) Firewall
1 2 (1.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (17.19%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.77%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.73%) MongoDB
4 10 (5.21%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.08%) MySQL
6 3 (1.56%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.56%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.04%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.04%) ZAP BI
8 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.52%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.52%) Db2
8 1 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 115 (59.90%) Selenium
2 72 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 72 (37.50%) JUnit
3 58 (30.21%) Git
4 54 (28.13%) GitLab
5 52 (27.08%) JIRA
6 48 (25.00%) REST Assured
7 47 (24.48%) Postman
7 47 (24.48%) WebDriver
8 41 (21.35%) JMeter
9 24 (12.50%) Gatling
10 19 (9.90%) Cypress.io
11 13 (6.77%) TestNG
12 12 (6.25%) SpecFlow
13 10 (5.21%) Maven
13 10 (5.21%) SonarQube
14 8 (4.17%) Mockito
15 7 (3.65%) Sonatype Nexus
16 6 (3.13%) Gradle
16 6 (3.13%) tSQLt
General
1 62 (32.29%) Social Skills
2 39 (20.31%) Finance
2 39 (20.31%) Public Sector
3 26 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.98%) Banking
5 9 (4.69%) Military
5 9 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.04%) Back Office
7 2 (1.04%) Law
8 1 (0.52%) Automotive
8 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (25.52%) Test Engineer
2 46 (23.96%) Senior
3 35 (18.23%) Tester
4 25 (13.02%) Developer
4 25 (13.02%) Test Automation Engineer
5 24 (12.50%) Automation Tester
6 20 (10.42%) Lead
7 17 (8.85%) Test Leader
8 16 (8.33%) QA Engineer
9 13 (6.77%) Senior Tester
10 12 (6.25%) Senior Test Engineer
11 11 (5.73%) Analyst
11 11 (5.73%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (5.73%) Senior Automation Tester
12 10 (5.21%) Quality Engineer
12 10 (5.21%) Salesforce Engineer
12 10 (5.21%) Test Analyst
13 8 (4.17%) Automation Test Lead
13 8 (4.17%) Java Developer
14 7 (3.65%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (32.81%) Playwright
2 44 (22.92%) Spring
3 42 (21.88%) REST
4 38 (19.79%) Gherkin
4 38 (19.79%) WireMock
5 27 (14.06%) Kafka
6 23 (11.98%) RESTful
7 21 (10.94%) Node.js
8 19 (9.90%) Spring Boot
9 17 (8.85%) React
10 12 (6.25%) .NET
10 12 (6.25%) SOAP
11 11 (5.73%) HTML
12 10 (5.21%) AngularJS
12 10 (5.21%) CSS
13 7 (3.65%) JSON
13 7 (3.65%) Swagger
14 6 (3.13%) OAuth
14 6 (3.13%) OAuth2
14 6 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.94%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (7.81%) Distributed Architecture
3 14 (7.29%) Product Ownership
4 12 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.17%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.60%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.56%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.56%) Equities
7 3 (1.56%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.56%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.04%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.04%) PKI
8 2 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.52%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.52%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.69%) Linux
2 4 (2.08%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.52%) Android
4 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (80.21%) Test Automation
2 137 (71.35%) CI/CD
3 120 (62.50%) BDD
4 107 (55.73%) Agile
5 72 (37.50%) TDD
6 66 (34.38%) API Testing
7 63 (32.81%) Test Strategy
8 62 (32.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 60 (31.25%) DevOps
10 58 (30.21%) Microservices
11 38 (19.79%) Validation
12 36 (18.75%) Scrum
12 36 (18.75%) Software Testing
13 34 (17.71%) End-to-End Testing
14 33 (17.19%) Performance Testing
15 30 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
16 29 (15.10%) Mentoring
17 28 (14.58%) Observability
18 27 (14.06%) Stakeholder Management
18 27 (14.06%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 116 (60.42%) Java
2 62 (32.29%) JavaScript
3 33 (17.19%) Python
4 32 (16.67%) C#
5 25 (13.02%) SQL
6 22 (11.46%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.21%) Ruby
8 8 (4.17%) Bash
9 7 (3.65%) Apex Code
9 7 (3.65%) Scala
10 6 (3.13%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.08%) Groovy
11 4 (2.08%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.56%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.04%) PromQL
13 2 (1.04%) R
14 1 (0.52%) COBOL
14 1 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 56 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 44 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (7.29%) ISTQB
5 12 (6.25%) Degree
6 5 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.08%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.52%) ISEB
8 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (33.33%) QA
2 33 (17.19%) Accessibility
3 15 (7.81%) WCAG
4 5 (2.60%) GDPR
5 2 (1.04%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.52%) SEPA
6 1 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 54 (28.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 59 (30.73%) Kubernetes
2 25 (13.02%) Grafana
3 24 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.65%) Istio
4 7 (3.65%) Terraform
5 5 (2.60%) Ansible
6 3 (1.56%) HP ALM
7 2 (1.04%) Consul
7 2 (1.04%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (7.81%) Salesforce
2 14 (7.29%) Oracle
3 10 (5.21%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.17%) Conga
4 8 (4.17%) GoCardless
5 4 (2.08%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.56%) HP
6 3 (1.56%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.56%) Splunk
6 3 (1.56%) Sybase
7 2 (1.04%) Databricks
7 2 (1.04%) Google
7 2 (1.04%) IBM
7 2 (1.04%) Pega
7 2 (1.04%) Solace
8 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.52%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.52%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.52%) UiPath
8 1 (0.52%) Veracode