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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 367 383
Rank change year-on-year -130 +16 -20
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 183 193 181
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.59% 0.47%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.92% 3.90% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 123 123
10th Percentile £306 £268 £324
25th Percentile £369 £336 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £500 £515 £619
90th Percentile £543 £638 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £426 £408 £500
% change year-on-year +4.42% -18.50% +2.56%
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 6,259 4,949 5,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.50% 15.25% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,011 3,330 3,252
10th Percentile £354 £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 256 111 176
10th Percentile £25.40 £30.75 £28.62
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.50 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £87.50 £72.81
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 15 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 14 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 15 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 -118 161 £445 +4.71% 126
UK excluding London -107 109 £426 +4.42% 82
Work from Home -59 54 £445 +2.30% 63
London -94 54 £475 -8.65% 68
North of England -62 46 £402 -4.74% 19
West Midlands -21 32 £450 +24.14% 11
Midlands -33 32 £450 +67.91% 15
North West -44 20 £402 +12.45% 10
South West -36 18 £431 -9.21% 13
North East -30 15 £450 -1.10% 7
Yorkshire -33 11 £350 -17.65% 2
Scotland -15 7 £480 +3.78% 13
South East -86 7 £275 -42.11% 13
Wales -20 1 £288 -39.47% 3

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 19 (10.38%) Confluence
2 1 (0.55%) Camunda
2 1 (0.55%) JBoss
2 1 (0.55%) Mule
2 1 (0.55%) Mule ESB
2 1 (0.55%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 8 (4.37%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (3.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.64%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 68 (37.16%) AWS
2 55 (30.05%) GitHub
3 50 (27.32%) Azure
4 30 (16.39%) GitHub Actions
5 28 (15.30%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (13.11%) Serverless
7 18 (9.84%) GCP
8 16 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (4.92%) Power Automate
10 8 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.37%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.37%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (4.37%) Azure Functions
10 8 (4.37%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (4.37%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (2.73%) BrowserStack
13 5 (2.73%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.64%) HTTP
2 2 (1.09%) Firewall
3 1 (0.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.48%) MongoDB
2 20 (10.93%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (6.01%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.83%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.73%) MySQL
7 4 (2.19%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.19%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.09%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.09%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.09%) Redis
9 2 (1.09%) Weaviate
9 2 (1.09%) ZAP BI
10 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.55%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 113 (61.75%) Selenium
2 68 (37.16%) JUnit
3 60 (32.79%) Jenkins
4 58 (31.69%) GitLab
5 57 (31.15%) Git
6 49 (26.78%) Postman
7 48 (26.23%) REST Assured
8 34 (18.58%) WebDriver
9 33 (18.03%) Gatling
10 29 (15.85%) JMeter
11 27 (14.75%) JIRA
12 23 (12.57%) Cypress.io
13 17 (9.29%) SonarQube
14 16 (8.74%) TestNG
15 14 (7.65%) Maven
16 13 (7.10%) Mockito
17 11 (6.01%) SpecFlow
18 10 (5.46%) Gradle
19 8 (4.37%) Sonatype Nexus
20 7 (3.83%) SoapUI
General
1 63 (34.43%) Social Skills
2 43 (23.50%) Public Sector
3 27 (14.75%) Finance
4 22 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (10.38%) Banking
6 11 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (5.46%) Military
8 2 (1.09%) Law
8 2 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Automotive
9 1 (0.55%) Back Office
9 1 (0.55%) Marketing
9 1 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 51 (27.87%) Test Engineer
2 43 (23.50%) Senior
3 28 (15.30%) Test Automation Engineer
4 22 (12.02%) Developer
4 22 (12.02%) Tester
5 21 (11.48%) QA Engineer
6 17 (9.29%) Quality Engineer
7 15 (8.20%) Automation Tester
8 12 (6.56%) Analyst
8 12 (6.56%) Java Developer
8 12 (6.56%) Lead
8 12 (6.56%) Senior Test Engineer
9 11 (6.01%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (6.01%) Test Analyst
10 10 (5.46%) Salesforce Engineer
11 9 (4.92%) Test Leader
12 8 (4.37%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.83%) Lead Test Analyst
13 7 (3.83%) QA Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.83%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (39.34%) Playwright
2 43 (23.50%) REST
3 42 (22.95%) Spring
4 41 (22.40%) Gherkin
5 30 (16.39%) Kafka
6 26 (14.21%) Spring Boot
6 26 (14.21%) WireMock
7 24 (13.11%) Node.js
8 23 (12.57%) React
9 20 (10.93%) RESTful
10 15 (8.20%) HTML
11 13 (7.10%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (6.56%) .NET
12 12 (6.56%) JSON
13 11 (6.01%) SOAP
14 10 (5.46%) OpenAPI
14 10 (5.46%) Swagger
15 9 (4.92%) CSS
15 9 (4.92%) Terraform
16 7 (3.83%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.20%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.01%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (6.01%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.37%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.83%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.19%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.64%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.64%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.64%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.09%) Equities
8 2 (1.09%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.09%) PKI
9 1 (0.55%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.55%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.92%) Linux
2 4 (2.19%) Mac OS
2 4 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.64%) Unix
4 2 (1.09%) Android
4 2 (1.09%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.55%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (81.42%) Test Automation
2 135 (73.77%) CI/CD
3 113 (61.75%) BDD
4 111 (60.66%) Agile
5 65 (35.52%) TDD
6 64 (34.97%) API Testing
7 63 (34.43%) DevOps
8 54 (29.51%) Test Strategy
9 51 (27.87%) Software Testing
10 48 (26.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (25.14%) Microservices
12 45 (24.59%) Scrum
13 36 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (19.67%) Stakeholder Management
14 35 (19.13%) Containerisation
15 34 (18.58%) Performance Testing
16 30 (16.39%) Security Testing
17 29 (15.85%) Mentoring
17 29 (15.85%) SDLC
18 28 (15.30%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 123 (67.21%) Java
2 65 (35.52%) JavaScript
3 32 (17.49%) Python
4 26 (14.21%) C#
5 19 (10.38%) SQL
5 19 (10.38%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.46%) Bash
6 10 (5.46%) Scala
7 7 (3.83%) Apex Code
7 7 (3.83%) Ruby
8 4 (2.19%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.64%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.09%) Groovy
10 2 (1.09%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.09%) PromQL
10 2 (1.09%) R
11 1 (0.55%) COBOL
11 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 58 (31.69%) Security Cleared
2 47 (25.68%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (8.74%) Degree
4 16 (8.74%) ISTQB
5 10 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.92%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.55%) ISEB
10 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (41.53%) QA
2 48 (26.23%) Accessibility
3 27 (14.75%) WCAG
4 7 (3.83%) GDPR
5 3 (1.64%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.09%) SEPA
7 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 62 (33.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 62 (33.88%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.10%) Grafana
3 11 (6.01%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.37%) Ansible
5 7 (3.83%) Istio
6 3 (1.64%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.64%) Kibana
7 2 (1.09%) Consul
7 2 (1.09%) Packer
7 2 (1.09%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 19 (10.38%) Oracle
2 16 (8.74%) Salesforce
3 13 (7.10%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.37%) Conga
4 8 (4.37%) GoCardless
5 6 (3.28%) Databricks
6 5 (2.73%) IBM
7 4 (2.19%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.64%) Google
8 3 (1.64%) HP
9 2 (1.09%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (1.09%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.09%) Pega
9 2 (1.09%) Solace
9 2 (1.09%) Splunk
9 2 (1.09%) Sybase
10 1 (0.55%) Confluent
10 1 (0.55%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.55%) UiPath
10 1 (0.55%) Veracode