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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 350 342
Rank change year-on-year -22 -8 -57
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 225 176 268
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.57% 0.60%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.11% 4.18% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 100 194
10th Percentile £350 £305 £350
25th Percentile £375 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £473 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.05% -0.53% -11.83%
75th Percentile £538 £568 £638
90th Percentile £613 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £480 £439
% change year-on-year -11.46% +9.40% -5.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile £56.25 - -
90th Percentile £67.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +27.35%

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 5,468 4,215 5,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.36% 13.56% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,754 2,647 3,772
10th Percentile £350 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 70 213
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.48 £41.92
25th Percentile £52.50 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.38 £89.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 27 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cucumber over the 6 months to 27 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cucumber in the UK

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 27 January 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 -28 184 £425 -10.53% 21
UK excluding London -6 127 £425 -11.46% 18
London -28 70 £445 +3.49% 5
North of England -39 55 £425 -10.53% 2
Work from Home -11 52 £400 -5.88% 12
South East +2 37 £395 +21.54% 10
Yorkshire -36 26 £500 -18.38%
North East -2 17 £425 +37.10% 1
North West -35 12 £400 +23.46% 1
Midlands -45 12 £500 +3.09% 4
Wales +6 11 £433 -
West Midlands -27 10 £531 +9.54% 2
Scotland +7 6 - -
South West -22 5 £475 -25.34% 2
East Midlands - 2 £310 - 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

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 20 (8.89%) Confluence
2 7 (3.11%) Appian
3 2 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.89%) Camunda
3 2 (0.89%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.44%) JBoss
4 1 (0.44%) Mule
4 1 (0.44%) Mule ESB
4 1 (0.44%) nginx
4 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.44%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 102 (45.33%) AWS
2 61 (27.11%) Azure
3 52 (23.11%) GitHub
4 34 (15.11%) GitHub Actions
5 24 (10.67%) OpenShift
6 23 (10.22%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (10.22%) GCP
7 14 (6.22%) Serverless
8 12 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (4.00%) Datadog
9 9 (4.00%) Tricentis Tosca
10 8 (3.56%) Amazon S3
10 8 (3.56%) BrowserStack
11 7 (3.11%) SaaS
12 5 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.78%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (1.78%) BlazeMeter
14 3 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (1.33%) PaaS
14 3 (1.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.67%) HTTP
2 5 (2.22%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.44%) Multicast
3 1 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.22%) MongoDB
3 12 (5.33%) NoSQL
4 10 (4.44%) MySQL
5 9 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 9 (4.00%) SQL Server
6 8 (3.56%) HBase
7 6 (2.67%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.33%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.33%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.89%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.89%) DB2
10 1 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.44%) Big Data
10 1 (0.44%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 117 (52.00%) Selenium
2 102 (45.33%) Jenkins
3 70 (31.11%) Postman
4 66 (29.33%) GitLab
5 61 (27.11%) JIRA
6 60 (26.67%) Git
7 56 (24.89%) JUnit
8 52 (23.11%) REST Assured
9 38 (16.89%) JMeter
10 23 (10.22%) Sonatype Nexus
11 19 (8.44%) Cypress.io
12 18 (8.00%) Mockito
12 18 (8.00%) WebDriver
13 17 (7.56%) TestRail
14 16 (7.11%) Gatling
15 15 (6.67%) Gradle
15 15 (6.67%) Maven
15 15 (6.67%) SonarQube
16 14 (6.22%) Zephyr
17 13 (5.78%) Bitbucket
General
1 61 (27.11%) Social Skills
2 59 (26.22%) Finance
3 35 (15.56%) Public Sector
4 22 (9.78%) Banking
5 18 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.56%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.11%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.78%) Front Office
8 4 (1.78%) Military
9 3 (1.33%) Automotive
9 3 (1.33%) Back Office
9 3 (1.33%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.89%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.89%) Retail
11 1 (0.44%) Billing
11 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.44%) Games
Job Titles
1 66 (29.33%) Test Engineer
2 53 (23.56%) Developer
3 40 (17.78%) Java Developer
4 34 (15.11%) Test Automation Engineer
5 29 (12.89%) Senior
6 27 (12.00%) Tester
7 22 (9.78%) Automation Tester
8 18 (8.00%) QA Engineer
9 17 (7.56%) Lead
10 16 (7.11%) Java Engineer
11 12 (5.33%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (4.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 10 (4.44%) Software Engineer
12 10 (4.44%) Test Leader
13 9 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
13 9 (4.00%) Quality Engineer
13 9 (4.00%) Senior Developer
13 9 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
14 8 (3.56%) Automation Test Lead
14 8 (3.56%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (29.33%) REST
2 59 (26.22%) Spring
3 54 (24.00%) Playwright
4 45 (20.00%) Spring Boot
5 33 (14.67%) Gherkin
6 31 (13.78%) JSON
7 25 (11.11%) React
8 24 (10.67%) Kafka
9 22 (9.78%) Node.js
9 22 (9.78%) XML
10 20 (8.89%) RESTful
11 19 (8.44%) .NET
12 18 (8.00%) SOAP
13 16 (7.11%) OpenID
14 15 (6.67%) Hibernate
14 15 (6.67%) WireMock
15 14 (6.22%) HTML
16 12 (5.33%) AngularJS
17 11 (4.89%) LDAP
17 11 (4.89%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.78%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.56%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.33%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.33%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.89%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.89%) Client/Server
6 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.89%) Derivative
6 2 (0.89%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.89%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.89%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.44%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.44%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.11%) Linux
2 5 (2.22%) Windows
3 4 (1.78%) Unix
4 1 (0.44%) Android
4 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (68.44%) Test Automation
2 152 (67.56%) CI/CD
3 128 (56.89%) Agile
4 95 (42.22%) BDD
5 71 (31.56%) API Testing
6 60 (26.67%) DevOps
7 57 (25.33%) Microservices
8 53 (23.56%) TDD
9 50 (22.22%) Scrum
10 46 (20.44%) Test Strategy
11 41 (18.22%) Test Scripting
12 39 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (16.89%) Performance Testing
14 36 (16.00%) Software Engineering
15 35 (15.56%) Software Testing
16 34 (15.11%) Continuous Improvement
17 33 (14.67%) Manual Testing
18 31 (13.78%) Containerisation
18 31 (13.78%) Full-Stack Development
19 29 (12.89%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 158 (70.22%) Java
2 56 (24.89%) JavaScript
3 49 (21.78%) Python
4 41 (18.22%) SQL
5 25 (11.11%) C#
6 22 (9.78%) TypeScript
7 16 (7.11%) Ruby
8 9 (4.00%) XPath
9 6 (2.67%) PHP
9 6 (2.67%) Scala
10 3 (1.33%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.33%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.89%) Bash
11 2 (0.89%) C++
11 2 (0.89%) Go
11 2 (0.89%) Groovy
11 2 (0.89%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.44%) Rust
12 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 29 (12.89%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.44%) OCP
3 10 (4.44%) Oracle Certification
4 9 (4.00%) ISTQB
5 8 (3.56%) Degree
6 5 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.44%) CFA
9 1 (0.44%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (29.78%) QA
2 21 (9.33%) Accessibility
3 16 (7.11%) WCAG
4 2 (0.89%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.89%) NCSC
5 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.44%) SLA
5 1 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 42 (18.67%) Docker
2 7 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (19.11%) Kubernetes
2 28 (12.44%) Ansible
3 16 (7.11%) Grafana
4 14 (6.22%) Progress Chef
5 6 (2.67%) Terraform
6 5 (2.22%) Kibana
7 2 (0.89%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.44%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (10.22%) Oracle
2 14 (6.22%) VMware
3 12 (5.33%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.89%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.00%) Splunk
6 8 (3.56%) Veracode
7 7 (3.11%) Cisco
8 6 (2.67%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.78%) SAP
10 3 (1.33%) Google
10 3 (1.33%) UiPath
10 3 (1.33%) Workday
11 2 (0.89%) Adobe
11 2 (0.89%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.89%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.89%) Virgin Media
12 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.44%) HP
12 1 (0.44%) IBM
12 1 (0.44%) Mercator