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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 367 384
Rank change year-on-year -139 +17 -17
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 180 183 187
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.57% 0.49%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.93% 3.72% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 118 129
10th Percentile £307 £268 £325
25th Percentile £397 £334 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £452 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -9.55% -2.44%
75th Percentile £500 £520 £613
90th Percentile £566 £649 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £426 £408 £500
% change year-on-year +4.42% -18.50% -
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 6,150 4,925 5,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.46% 15.24% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,968 3,320 3,250
10th Percentile £356 £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 £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 248 110 181
10th Percentile £35.00 £29.00 £28.00
25th Percentile £52.88 £50.25 £50.75
Median hourly rate £67.24 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £87.50 £71.50
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 4 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 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 4 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 -107 158 £447 +5.18% 83
UK excluding London -87 110 £426 +4.42% 62
Work from Home -49 60 £445 +2.30% 46
London -99 50 £475 -9.09% 50
North of England -66 47 £401 -4.52% 7
West Midlands -16 33 £448 +23.45% 7
Midlands -35 33 £448 +66.98% 11
North West -44 21 £401 +12.17% 3
North East -28 15 £450 -1.10% 2
South West -35 15 £438 -7.89% 12
Yorkshire -43 11 £350 -16.67% 2
Scotland -17 8 £480 +3.78% 9
South East -93 7 £275 -42.11% 10
Wales -21 1 £288 -39.47%
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 21 (11.67%) Confluence
2 1 (0.56%) Camunda
2 1 (0.56%) JBoss
2 1 (0.56%) Mule
2 1 (0.56%) Mule ESB
2 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 8 (4.44%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.67%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (38.89%) AWS
2 59 (32.78%) GitHub
3 50 (27.78%) Azure
4 32 (17.78%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (12.22%) Serverless
7 20 (11.11%) GCP
8 16 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.44%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (3.89%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.89%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (3.89%) Power Automate
12 6 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (3.33%) Azure Functions
12 6 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (2.78%) BrowserStack
13 5 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.67%) HTTP
2 2 (1.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.44%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.78%) MySQL
7 4 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (2.22%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.67%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.67%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.11%) Redis
9 2 (1.11%) ZAP BI
10 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.56%) Cloud Spanner
10 1 (0.56%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.56%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 110 (61.11%) Selenium
2 67 (37.22%) JUnit
3 61 (33.89%) Jenkins
4 59 (32.78%) GitLab
5 56 (31.11%) Git
6 49 (27.22%) Postman
7 46 (25.56%) REST Assured
8 37 (20.56%) WebDriver
9 33 (18.33%) JMeter
10 31 (17.22%) Gatling
10 31 (17.22%) JIRA
11 22 (12.22%) Cypress.io
12 16 (8.89%) SonarQube
13 14 (7.78%) TestNG
14 12 (6.67%) Maven
14 12 (6.67%) Mockito
15 11 (6.11%) SpecFlow
16 8 (4.44%) Gradle
16 8 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
17 7 (3.89%) SoapUI
General
1 61 (33.89%) Social Skills
2 41 (22.78%) Public Sector
3 27 (15.00%) Finance
4 20 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (10.00%) Banking
6 9 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.00%) Military
7 2 (1.11%) Back Office
7 2 (1.11%) Law
7 2 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.56%) Automotive
8 1 (0.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 48 (26.67%) Test Engineer
2 43 (23.89%) Senior
3 25 (13.89%) Test Automation Engineer
3 25 (13.89%) Tester
4 22 (12.22%) Developer
5 18 (10.00%) Automation Tester
5 18 (10.00%) QA Engineer
6 16 (8.89%) Quality Engineer
7 13 (7.22%) Automation Engineer
8 12 (6.67%) Lead
9 11 (6.11%) Analyst
9 11 (6.11%) Senior Test Engineer
10 10 (5.56%) Salesforce Engineer
10 10 (5.56%) Test Analyst
11 9 (5.00%) Java Developer
11 9 (5.00%) Senior Tester
11 9 (5.00%) Test Leader
12 8 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.89%) QA Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.89%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (38.33%) Playwright
2 42 (23.33%) Gherkin
2 42 (23.33%) REST
3 41 (22.78%) Spring
4 30 (16.67%) WireMock
5 28 (15.56%) Kafka
6 23 (12.78%) Spring Boot
7 22 (12.22%) Node.js
8 21 (11.67%) React
9 19 (10.56%) RESTful
10 14 (7.78%) HTML
11 12 (6.67%) .NET
12 11 (6.11%) JSON
12 11 (6.11%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (6.11%) SOAP
13 10 (5.56%) Terraform
14 9 (5.00%) OpenAPI
14 9 (5.00%) Swagger
15 8 (4.44%) AngularJS
15 8 (4.44%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.89%) Product Ownership
2 15 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (7.22%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.89%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.89%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.67%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.11%) Equities
8 2 (1.11%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.11%) PKI
8 2 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.56%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.56%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.89%) Linux
2 4 (2.22%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.11%) Android
4 2 (1.11%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (81.67%) Test Automation
2 132 (73.33%) CI/CD
3 113 (62.78%) BDD
4 109 (60.56%) Agile
5 64 (35.56%) TDD
6 61 (33.89%) API Testing
7 59 (32.78%) DevOps
8 55 (30.56%) Test Strategy
9 50 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (26.67%) Software Testing
11 47 (26.11%) Microservices
12 44 (24.44%) Scrum
13 37 (20.56%) Performance Testing
14 31 (17.22%) Stakeholder Management
15 29 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (16.11%) Security Testing
16 28 (15.56%) Containerisation
16 28 (15.56%) SDET
17 27 (15.00%) Mentoring
18 26 (14.44%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 119 (66.11%) Java
2 61 (33.89%) JavaScript
3 32 (17.78%) Python
4 27 (15.00%) C#
5 20 (11.11%) SQL
6 17 (9.44%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.56%) Bash
8 9 (5.00%) Scala
9 7 (3.89%) Apex Code
9 7 (3.89%) Ruby
10 4 (2.22%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.67%) Groovy
11 3 (1.67%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.11%) PromQL
12 2 (1.11%) R
13 1 (0.56%) COBOL
13 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 57 (31.67%) Security Cleared
2 47 (26.11%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (8.33%) ISTQB
5 13 (7.22%) Degree
6 8 (4.44%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.56%) ISEB
10 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (38.89%) QA
2 44 (24.44%) Accessibility
3 25 (13.89%) WCAG
4 6 (3.33%) GDPR
5 2 (1.11%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.56%) SEPA
6 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 59 (32.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 60 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.33%) Grafana
3 13 (7.22%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.44%) Ansible
5 7 (3.89%) Istio
6 3 (1.67%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.67%) Kibana
7 2 (1.11%) Consul
7 2 (1.11%) Packer
7 2 (1.11%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 18 (10.00%) Oracle
2 16 (8.89%) Salesforce
3 12 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.44%) Conga
4 8 (4.44%) GoCardless
5 5 (2.78%) Databricks
5 5 (2.78%) IBM
6 4 (2.22%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.67%) HP
8 2 (1.11%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.11%) Google
8 2 (1.11%) Pega
8 2 (1.11%) Solace
8 2 (1.11%) Splunk
8 2 (1.11%) Sybase
9 1 (0.56%) Confluent
9 1 (0.56%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.56%) UiPath
9 1 (0.56%) Veracode