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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 360 354
Rank change year-on-year -86 -6 -13
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 192 168 251
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.57% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.30% 4.05% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 96 180
10th Percentile £350 £270 £331
25th Percentile £400 £379 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% -9.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £524 £675
90th Percentile £630 £675 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £460 £498
% change year-on-year -7.61% -7.63% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

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 5,812 4,144 5,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.21% 14.14% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,837 2,765 3,466
10th Percentile £349 £340 £355
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £716 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £483 £500
% change year-on-year -1.66% -3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 72 202
10th Percentile £35.75 £27.54 £33.20
25th Percentile £59.25 £49.50 £46.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.10 £80.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -78 161 £431 -4.17% 22
UK excluding London -92 102 £425 -7.61% 16
London -34 70 £463 +7.56% 8
Work from Home -22 54 £425 +6.25% 16
North of England -54 45 £450 -2.17% 4
Yorkshire -55 22 £500 -3.80% 1
West Midlands -43 21 £425 -12.01% 2
Midlands -65 21 £425 +22.30% 3
North West -38 16 £400 -15.79% 1
South East -57 12 £410 -18.08% 5
Wales -7 10 £425 - 1
North East -19 7 £400 +2.56% 2
South West -33 7 £450 +95.65% 2
Scotland 0 6 £470 +17.50% 1
East of England -35 1 £450 -14.29%

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 28 (14.58%) Confluence
2 2 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.04%) Camunda
2 2 (1.04%) Mule
2 2 (1.04%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.52%) JBoss
3 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.52%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.52%) Mingle
1 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 95 (49.48%) AWS
2 68 (35.42%) GitHub
3 66 (34.38%) Azure
4 44 (22.92%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (17.71%) GCP
6 17 (8.85%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (8.85%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (8.85%) Serverless
7 13 (6.77%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (5.73%) OpenShift
9 10 (5.21%) SaaS
10 9 (4.69%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (3.65%) BrowserStack
13 5 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (2.60%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (2.08%) AWS CodePipeline
14 4 (2.08%) BlazeMeter
14 4 (2.08%) PaaS
15 3 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.56%) HTTP
2 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.29%) MySQL
3 13 (6.77%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.17%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.13%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.60%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.08%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.56%) HBase
8 3 (1.56%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.56%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.52%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.52%) DB2
10 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 109 (56.77%) Selenium
2 88 (45.83%) Jenkins
3 63 (32.81%) JIRA
4 61 (31.77%) JUnit
5 58 (30.21%) Git
6 54 (28.13%) GitLab
6 54 (28.13%) Postman
7 43 (22.40%) REST Assured
8 41 (21.35%) JMeter
9 36 (18.75%) WebDriver
10 14 (7.29%) Cypress.io
10 14 (7.29%) TestNG
11 13 (6.77%) Gatling
12 11 (5.73%) Gradle
13 10 (5.21%) TestRail
14 9 (4.69%) Maven
14 9 (4.69%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (4.69%) SpecFlow
15 8 (4.17%) Mockito
15 8 (4.17%) SonarQube
General
1 56 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 50 (26.04%) Finance
3 26 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.98%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.33%) Banking
6 8 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.56%) Military
8 2 (1.04%) Back Office
8 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.04%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 34 (17.71%) Developer
2 34 (17.71%) Tester
3 30 (15.63%) Test Automation Engineer
4 28 (14.58%) Senior
5 25 (13.02%) Lead
6 24 (12.50%) Automation Tester
7 17 (8.85%) Test Leader
8 15 (7.81%) Java Developer
9 14 (7.29%) Automation Test Lead
9 14 (7.29%) Software Engineer
10 11 (5.73%) QA Engineer
11 8 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (4.17%) Java Engineer
11 8 (4.17%) Quality Engineer
11 8 (4.17%) Senior Automation Tester
11 8 (4.17%) Senior Tester
12 7 (3.65%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (3.65%) Senior Test Engineer
13 6 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (23.96%) Spring
2 45 (23.44%) Playwright
3 42 (21.88%) REST
4 37 (19.27%) Gherkin
5 24 (12.50%) Spring Boot
6 22 (11.46%) Kafka
6 22 (11.46%) WireMock
7 18 (9.38%) AngularJS
7 18 (9.38%) RESTful
8 14 (7.29%) .NET
9 12 (6.25%) HTML
9 12 (6.25%) LDAP
9 12 (6.25%) OpenID
9 12 (6.25%) SailPoint
10 11 (5.73%) CSS
11 9 (4.69%) Node.js
11 9 (4.69%) SOAP
12 8 (4.17%) JSON
13 7 (3.65%) Next.js
13 7 (3.65%) React
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.98%) Product Ownership
2 19 (9.90%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
4 5 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.56%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.04%) Equities
7 2 (1.04%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.04%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.04%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.52%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.29%) Linux
2 4 (2.08%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.04%) Windows
4 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (76.56%) Test Automation
2 132 (68.75%) CI/CD
3 101 (52.60%) Agile
4 95 (49.48%) BDD
5 68 (35.42%) API Testing
6 62 (32.29%) Test Strategy
7 52 (27.08%) TDD
8 50 (26.04%) DevOps
9 47 (24.48%) Microservices
10 45 (23.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (17.71%) Performance Testing
12 32 (16.67%) Scrum
13 31 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (15.63%) Test Scripting
15 29 (15.10%) Manual Testing
16 28 (14.58%) Validation
17 27 (14.06%) End-to-End Testing
18 25 (13.02%) Containerisation
18 25 (13.02%) Software Engineering
19 22 (11.46%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 123 (64.06%) Java
2 47 (24.48%) JavaScript
3 41 (21.35%) SQL
4 38 (19.79%) Python
5 26 (13.54%) C#
6 20 (10.42%) TypeScript
7 19 (9.90%) Ruby
8 6 (3.13%) PHP
9 5 (2.60%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.08%) Groovy
10 4 (2.08%) XPath
11 3 (1.56%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.56%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.56%) Scala
12 2 (1.04%) Bash
12 2 (1.04%) C++
12 2 (1.04%) Go
12 2 (1.04%) VBA
13 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.52%) VB6
Qualifications
1 41 (21.35%) Security Cleared
2 38 (19.79%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.13%) Degree
5 4 (2.08%) ISTQB
5 4 (2.08%) OCP
5 4 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.52%) CFA
7 1 (0.52%) ISEB
7 1 (0.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (32.81%) QA
2 16 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.04%) NCSC
3 2 (1.04%) WCAG
4 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.52%) SLA
4 1 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 40 (20.83%) Docker
2 3 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (25.52%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.90%) Grafana
3 16 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.65%) Ansible
5 6 (3.13%) Terraform
6 4 (2.08%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.04%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.52%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 16 (8.33%) Oracle
2 14 (7.29%) ServiceNow
3 11 (5.73%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.60%) Google
5 4 (2.08%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.08%) Splunk
5 4 (2.08%) VMware
6 3 (1.56%) IBM
6 3 (1.56%) SAP
6 3 (1.56%) Workday
7 2 (1.04%) Adobe
7 2 (1.04%) Pega
7 2 (1.04%) Sybase
8 1 (0.52%) Actian
8 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.52%) HP
8 1 (0.52%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.52%) Thales
8 1 (0.52%) UiPath