Cucumber Contract Job Trends

Cucumber
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Cucumber skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 385 362
Rank change year-on-year +11 -23 -74
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 196 179 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.46% 0.62%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.92% 3.50% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 122 226
10th Percentile £268 £324 £361
25th Percentile £340 £413 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.72% -2.63%
75th Percentile £519 £622 £650
90th Percentile £638 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £408 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -18.50% +5.26% +2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 14
10th Percentile £44.75 - £55.00
25th Percentile £48.13 - £70.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - £86.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +20.83%

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 5,003 5,115 6,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.18% 13.28% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,364 3,269 4,608
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 176 245
10th Percentile £31.28 £28.62 £46.00
25th Percentile £50.75 £51.19 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £87.05 £72.81 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber 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 September 2025.

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 16 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 September 2025. 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 +36 160 £425 -19.05% 39
UK excluding London +38 107 £408 -18.50% 31
London 0 64 £523 -0.48% 14
Work from Home +30 51 £445 -11.00% 22
North of England +9 39 £424 -15.30% 4
South East +36 30 £475 -24.00% 14
Midlands +4 21 £268 -33.00% 7
North West 0 19 £358 -13.23% 2
East Midlands - 19 £268 - 2
Yorkshire -12 12 £425 -15.00% 1
Wales +12 9 £475 +26.67% 1
North East +4 8 £450 -4.26% 1
Scotland -9 5 £463 +0.43% 2
South West +14 4 £475 -5.00% 2
West Midlands -9 2 £363 -9.38% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (12.24%) Confluence
2 4 (2.04%) Appian
3 3 (1.53%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.53%) CICS
4 2 (1.02%) JBoss
4 2 (1.02%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.02%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.51%) Mule
5 1 (0.51%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.51%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 54 (27.55%) AWS
2 37 (18.88%) Azure
3 29 (14.80%) GitHub
4 17 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (5.10%) OpenShift
6 10 (5.10%) Serverless
7 9 (4.59%) Amazon S3
8 8 (4.08%) Amazon Kinesis
8 8 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (3.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (3.06%) AWS Fargate
10 6 (3.06%) GCP
11 5 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.04%) BrowserStack
12 4 (2.04%) Tricentis Tosca
13 2 (1.02%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.02%) Internet
1 2 (1.02%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.51%) DSL
2 1 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.16%) SQL Server
2 14 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.61%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.57%) DB2
5 6 (3.06%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.06%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.55%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.02%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.02%) MySQL
8 2 (1.02%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.51%) Big Data
9 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 106 (54.08%) Selenium
2 83 (42.35%) Jenkins
3 57 (29.08%) JIRA
4 49 (25.00%) GitLab
5 45 (22.96%) REST Assured
6 43 (21.94%) JUnit
7 42 (21.43%) Git
8 34 (17.35%) Postman
9 31 (15.82%) Maven
10 24 (12.24%) Cypress.io
10 24 (12.24%) JMeter
11 23 (11.73%) SonarQube
12 19 (9.69%) Bitbucket
13 18 (9.18%) WebDriver
14 12 (6.12%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (5.10%) Gatling
15 10 (5.10%) Mockito
16 9 (4.59%) SpecFlow
17 8 (4.08%) Eclipse
17 8 (4.08%) TestNG
General
1 60 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 42 (21.43%) Banking
3 36 (18.37%) Finance
4 28 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (10.20%) Public Sector
6 18 (9.18%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.08%) Law
8 5 (2.55%) Front Office
9 4 (2.04%) Police
9 4 (2.04%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.53%) Automotive
10 3 (1.53%) Back Office
11 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.02%) Military
11 2 (1.02%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.51%) Aviation
12 1 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (34.18%) Developer
2 33 (16.84%) Tester
3 32 (16.33%) Test Engineer
4 31 (15.82%) Java Developer
5 29 (14.80%) Automation Tester
6 17 (8.67%) Senior
7 14 (7.14%) Java Engineer
7 14 (7.14%) Scala Developer
8 12 (6.12%) QA Engineer
9 11 (5.61%) Software Engineer
9 11 (5.61%) Test Automation Engineer
10 9 (4.59%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (4.59%) Java Software Engineer
11 8 (4.08%) AWS Developer
12 7 (3.57%) Lead
13 6 (3.06%) Analyst
13 6 (3.06%) Automation Engineer
13 6 (3.06%) Software Test Engineer
14 5 (2.55%) QA Tester
14 5 (2.55%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (26.02%) REST
2 38 (19.39%) Spring Boot
3 37 (18.88%) Spring
4 29 (14.80%) RESTful
5 24 (12.24%) HTML
6 22 (11.22%) Playwright
7 21 (10.71%) React
8 17 (8.67%) CSS
8 17 (8.67%) Kafka
8 17 (8.67%) Node.js
9 16 (8.16%) Gherkin
9 16 (8.16%) Jest
10 15 (7.65%) Hibernate
11 14 (7.14%) Java EE
12 13 (6.63%) jQuery
13 12 (6.12%) .NET
14 11 (5.61%) JPA
15 10 (5.10%) JSON
15 10 (5.10%) SOAP
16 9 (4.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.65%) Algorithms
2 11 (5.61%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.55%) Client/Server
4 5 (2.55%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.04%) Mainframe
5 4 (2.04%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.53%) VSAM
7 2 (1.02%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.63%) Linux
2 3 (1.53%) Unix
2 3 (1.53%) Windows
3 1 (0.51%) Android
3 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (72.45%) Test Automation
2 129 (65.82%) Agile
3 89 (45.41%) CI/CD
4 72 (36.73%) BDD
5 62 (31.63%) TDD
6 61 (31.12%) DevOps
7 51 (26.02%) Scrum
8 48 (24.49%) Software Engineering
9 40 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (19.39%) Microservices
11 36 (18.37%) Software Testing
12 34 (17.35%) Test Strategy
13 29 (14.80%) API Testing
13 29 (14.80%) Continuous Integration
14 28 (14.29%) Test Scripting
15 25 (12.76%) Code Quality
15 25 (12.76%) Performance Testing
16 24 (12.24%) Sprint Planning
17 22 (11.22%) Containerisation
17 22 (11.22%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 135 (68.88%) Java
2 49 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 47 (23.98%) SQL
4 28 (14.29%) Python
5 19 (9.69%) Scala
6 18 (9.18%) C#
7 16 (8.16%) TypeScript
8 11 (5.61%) Ruby
9 5 (2.55%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.53%) COBOL
10 3 (1.53%) JCL
10 3 (1.53%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.02%) C++
11 2 (1.02%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.02%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.02%) VBA
11 2 (1.02%) VBScript
12 1 (0.51%) Bash
12 1 (0.51%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 43 (21.94%) Security Cleared
2 35 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (4.59%) Degree
5 7 (3.57%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.53%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.02%) ISEB
8 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (31.63%) QA
2 16 (8.16%) Accessibility
3 12 (6.12%) WCAG
4 3 (1.53%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.02%) SLA
6 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.51%) GDPR
System Software
1 50 (25.51%) Docker
2 3 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.51%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 39 (19.90%) Ansible
2 33 (16.84%) Kubernetes
3 13 (6.63%) Terraform
4 9 (4.59%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (4.59%) Podman
5 4 (2.04%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.02%) Grafana
7 1 (0.51%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.51%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (6.12%) Veracode
2 10 (5.10%) Oracle
3 6 (3.06%) CA Agile Central
3 6 (3.06%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.06%) Splunk
4 5 (2.55%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.04%) Cisco
5 4 (2.04%) UiPath
5 4 (2.04%) VMware
6 3 (1.53%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.51%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.51%) Databricks
7 1 (0.51%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.51%) Mercator
7 1 (0.51%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.51%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.51%) Sybase
7 1 (0.51%) Virgin Media