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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 365 411
Rank change year-on-year -104 +46 -69
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 195 187 187
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.57% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.13% 3.94% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 118 133
10th Percentile £313 £266 £351
25th Percentile £391 £321 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £428 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -18.57% -
75th Percentile £508 £501 £650
90th Percentile £603 £590 £783
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £415 £500
% change year-on-year +2.41% -17.00% -
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 6,236 4,742 5,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.79% 14.57% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,007 3,193 3,481
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 £594 £625
90th Percentile £688 £689 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 103 238
10th Percentile £25.68 £22.64 £26.00
25th Percentile £55.94 £49.00 £46.20
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.60 £72.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +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 18 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 18 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 -104 168 £442 +4.43% 13
UK excluding London -110 112 £425 +2.41% 11
Work from Home -41 67 £425 +6.25% 6
London -51 64 £449 -13.12% 2
North of England -76 44 £426 +2.53% 5
West Midlands -34 32 £425 -6.39% 2
Midlands -51 32 £425 +57.99% 3
North West -47 21 £402 +3.08% 1
South West -27 16 £500 +5.26%
North East -26 14 £450 +15.38% 3
Scotland -8 9 £480 +3.78%
Yorkshire -50 9 £350 -22.22% 1
South East -72 7 £438 -12.59% 3
Wales -15 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 83 (42.56%) 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 22 (11.28%) Serverless
8 18 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (4.10%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.59%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (3.08%) SaaS
14 5 (2.56%) BrowserStack
14 5 (2.56%) Power Automate
15 4 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (2.05%) Azure Functions
15 4 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
16 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 13 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.64%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.10%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.05%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (2.05%) MySQL
7 3 (1.54%) MariaDB
7 3 (1.54%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.51%) Cloud Spanner
9 1 (0.51%) Db2
9 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.51%) Redis
9 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.51%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 112 (57.44%) Selenium
2 79 (40.51%) Jenkins
3 66 (33.85%) JUnit
4 57 (29.23%) Git
5 54 (27.69%) JIRA
6 50 (25.64%) REST Assured
7 49 (25.13%) GitLab
7 49 (25.13%) WebDriver
8 48 (24.62%) Postman
9 40 (20.51%) JMeter
10 21 (10.77%) Cypress.io
11 20 (10.26%) Gatling
12 13 (6.67%) TestNG
13 12 (6.15%) SpecFlow
14 11 (5.64%) Maven
15 10 (5.13%) Mockito
16 8 (4.10%) SonarQube
17 7 (3.59%) Sonatype Nexus
18 6 (3.08%) Mocha
18 6 (3.08%) MSTest
General
1 63 (32.31%) Social Skills
2 44 (22.56%) Finance
3 37 (18.97%) Public Sector
4 26 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (11.79%) 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 35 (17.95%) Tester
4 27 (13.85%) Test Automation Engineer
5 25 (12.82%) Developer
6 24 (12.31%) Automation Tester
7 20 (10.26%) Lead
8 18 (9.23%) QA Engineer
9 16 (8.21%) Test Leader
10 13 (6.67%) Senior Tester
11 12 (6.15%) Automation Engineer
12 11 (5.64%) Senior Automation Tester
12 11 (5.64%) Senior Test Engineer
13 10 (5.13%) Java Developer
13 10 (5.13%) Salesforce Engineer
14 9 (4.62%) Analyst
14 9 (4.62%) Test Analyst
15 8 (4.10%) Automation Test Lead
15 8 (4.10%) QA Automation Engineer
15 8 (4.10%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (30.26%) Playwright
2 44 (22.56%) Spring
3 42 (21.54%) REST
4 36 (18.46%) Gherkin
5 35 (17.95%) WireMock
6 27 (13.85%) Kafka
7 22 (11.28%) RESTful
8 21 (10.77%) Spring Boot
9 18 (9.23%) Node.js
10 15 (7.69%) React
11 13 (6.67%) SOAP
12 11 (5.64%) .NET
12 11 (5.64%) AngularJS
13 10 (5.13%) HTML
14 9 (4.62%) CSS
15 7 (3.59%) OAuth
15 7 (3.59%) Web Services
16 6 (3.08%) OAuth2
16 6 (3.08%) Swagger
17 5 (2.56%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.26%) 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
7 4 (2.05%) Public Cloud
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
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 9 (4.62%) 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
1 153 (78.46%) Test Automation
2 138 (70.77%) CI/CD
3 118 (60.51%) BDD
4 108 (55.38%) Agile
5 70 (35.90%) API Testing
6 64 (32.82%) TDD
7 63 (32.31%) DevOps
7 63 (32.31%) Test Strategy
8 59 (30.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (28.72%) Microservices
10 38 (19.49%) Validation
11 34 (17.44%) End-to-End Testing
12 32 (16.41%) Scrum
13 31 (15.90%) Performance Testing
13 31 (15.90%) Software Testing
14 30 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (14.36%) Observability
15 28 (14.36%) Test Scripting
16 26 (13.33%) Mentoring
17 25 (12.82%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 117 (60.00%) Java
2 62 (31.79%) JavaScript
3 33 (16.92%) C#
3 33 (16.92%) Python
4 31 (15.90%) SQL
5 26 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.13%) Ruby
7 7 (3.59%) Apex Code
7 7 (3.59%) Scala
8 6 (3.08%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.56%) Bash
10 4 (2.05%) Groovy
11 3 (1.54%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.54%) PowerShell
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 52 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 42 (21.54%) 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 67 (34.36%) 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%) SLA
6 1 (0.51%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (25.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (29.74%) 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 2 (1.03%) Consul
7 2 (1.03%) HP ALM
7 2 (1.03%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.51%) Kibana
8 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (7.69%) Oracle
1 15 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 9 (4.62%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.10%) Conga
3 8 (4.10%) GoCardless
4 4 (2.05%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.05%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.54%) Google
5 3 (1.54%) IBM
5 3 (1.54%) Splunk
5 3 (1.54%) Sybase
6 2 (1.03%) HP
6 2 (1.03%) Pega
6 2 (1.03%) Solace
7 1 (0.51%) Actian
7 1 (0.51%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.51%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.51%) Thales
7 1 (0.51%) UiPath
7 1 (0.51%) Veracode