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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 341 411
Rank change year-on-year -112 +70 -57
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 231 221 161
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.67% 0.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.62% 4.32% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 151 102
10th Percentile £306 £270 £310
25th Percentile £381 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £500 £520 £600
90th Percentile £538 £638 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £421 £470
% change year-on-year +2.14% -10.43% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 0
Median hourly rate £35.80 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.40% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.80 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -28.40% - -

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 6,389 5,110 5,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.70% 15.43% 13.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,092 3,463 3,163
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £522
Median % change year-on-year - -4.21% -5.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.75% -3.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 110 173
10th Percentile £22.68 £16.84 £27.04
25th Percentile £48.75 £43.81 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -1.15% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.30 £75.25 £73.95
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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -90 211 £445 +4.71% 110
UK excluding London -78 130 £430 +2.14% 67
London -75 80 £475 -8.65% 52
Work from Home -54 61 £449 +0.79% 49
North of England -71 52 £420 -1.18% 26
West Midlands -3 46 £448 +4.07% 9
Midlands -19 46 £448 +65.74% 12
North West -50 21 £420 +12.00% 8
South West -10 20 £425 -10.53% 5
Yorkshire -30 16 £400 -11.11% 5
North East -38 15 £450 +0.56% 13
South East -91 7 £275 -35.29% 10
Scotland -22 6 £480 +3.78% 5
Wales -21 1 £288 -39.47% 1

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 25 (10.82%) Confluence
2 1 (0.43%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Mingle
2 1 (0.43%) CATIA
2 1 (0.43%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (3.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (3.03%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.30%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 97 (41.99%) AWS
2 74 (32.03%) GitHub
3 68 (29.44%) Azure
4 35 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (15.15%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (13.42%) Serverless
6 24 (10.39%) GCP
7 22 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (6.93%) GitHub Copilot
9 14 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (5.63%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (5.19%) Amazon S3
12 11 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (4.33%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (4.33%) Power Automate
14 9 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (3.90%) Azure Functions
15 7 (3.03%) BrowserStack
15 7 (3.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.30%) Firewall
2 2 (0.87%) HTTP
2 2 (0.87%) Internet
3 1 (0.43%) BGP
3 1 (0.43%) DNS
3 1 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.43%) Network Security
3 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.43%) VPN
3 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (12.99%) MongoDB
2 24 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.19%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (3.90%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.03%) MySQL
5 7 (3.03%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.60%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.73%) ZAP BI
8 3 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.30%) Pinecone
8 3 (1.30%) Redis
8 3 (1.30%) Weaviate
9 2 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.87%) Power BI
10 1 (0.43%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.43%) Cloud Spanner
10 1 (0.43%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 144 (62.34%) Selenium
2 91 (39.39%) JUnit
3 78 (33.77%) Jenkins
4 77 (33.33%) Git
4 77 (33.33%) GitLab
5 58 (25.11%) Postman
6 53 (22.94%) REST Assured
7 47 (20.35%) Gatling
8 36 (15.58%) JIRA
9 35 (15.15%) JMeter
10 32 (13.85%) WebDriver
11 31 (13.42%) SonarQube
12 26 (11.26%) Cypress.io
13 21 (9.09%) Maven
13 21 (9.09%) Mockito
14 20 (8.66%) TestNG
15 13 (5.63%) Gradle
15 13 (5.63%) SpecFlow
16 12 (5.19%) SoapUI
17 9 (3.90%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 89 (38.53%) Social Skills
2 54 (23.38%) Public Sector
3 39 (16.88%) Finance
4 26 (11.26%) Banking
5 25 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.33%) Military
8 3 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.87%) Automotive
9 2 (0.87%) Law
9 2 (0.87%) Police
10 1 (0.43%) Electronics
10 1 (0.43%) Marketing
10 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (25.54%) Test Engineer
2 51 (22.08%) Senior
3 30 (12.99%) Quality Engineer
4 28 (12.12%) Developer
4 28 (12.12%) Test Automation Engineer
5 26 (11.26%) Tester
6 23 (9.96%) QA Engineer
7 20 (8.66%) Java Developer
8 18 (7.79%) Automation Tester
9 16 (6.93%) Automation Engineer
9 16 (6.93%) Senior Test Engineer
10 15 (6.49%) Lead
11 12 (5.19%) Analyst
12 11 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (4.76%) Test Analyst
13 10 (4.33%) Java Engineer
13 10 (4.33%) Salesforce Engineer
13 10 (4.33%) Test Leader
14 8 (3.46%) Lead Test Analyst
14 8 (3.46%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (39.39%) Playwright
2 58 (25.11%) Spring
3 54 (23.38%) Gherkin
4 45 (19.48%) REST
5 40 (17.32%) Kafka
6 38 (16.45%) WireMock
7 35 (15.15%) Spring Boot
8 31 (13.42%) RESTful
9 28 (12.12%) React
10 26 (11.26%) Node.js
11 20 (8.66%) HTML
12 18 (7.79%) RabbitMQ
13 16 (6.93%) OpenAPI
14 15 (6.49%) SOAP
15 14 (6.06%) JSON
16 13 (5.63%) .NET
16 13 (5.63%) Terraform
17 12 (5.19%) Swagger
18 11 (4.76%) CSS
19 9 (3.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.06%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.63%) Product Ownership
3 12 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.90%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.03%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.73%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.73%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.30%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.30%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.87%) Equities
9 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.87%) PKI
9 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.79%) Linux
2 8 (3.46%) Unix
3 5 (2.16%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.30%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.87%) Android
6 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (82.25%) Test Automation
2 178 (77.06%) CI/CD
3 155 (67.10%) Agile
4 144 (62.34%) BDD
5 86 (37.23%) TDD
6 82 (35.50%) DevOps
7 76 (32.90%) Microservices
8 75 (32.47%) API Testing
8 75 (32.47%) Software Testing
9 65 (28.14%) Test Strategy
10 64 (27.71%) Scrum
11 57 (24.68%) Continuous Improvement
12 54 (23.38%) Stakeholder Management
13 50 (21.65%) Containerisation
14 48 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
15 47 (20.35%) Security Testing
16 44 (19.05%) Performance Testing
17 43 (18.61%) SDLC
18 40 (17.32%) Coaching
19 38 (16.45%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 162 (70.13%) Java
2 77 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 44 (19.05%) Python
4 29 (12.55%) C#
5 25 (10.82%) SQL
6 24 (10.39%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.76%) Bash
7 11 (4.76%) Scala
8 7 (3.03%) Apex Code
8 7 (3.03%) Ruby
9 4 (1.73%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.73%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.30%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.30%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.87%) PromQL
11 2 (0.87%) R
12 1 (0.43%) Go
12 1 (0.43%) Groovy
12 1 (0.43%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 80 (34.63%) Security Cleared
2 68 (29.44%) SC Cleared
3 33 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 20 (8.66%) Degree
5 18 (7.79%) ISTQB
6 15 (6.49%) DV Cleared
7 14 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.16%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.87%) ISEB
13 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (43.72%) QA
2 70 (30.30%) Accessibility
3 41 (17.75%) WCAG
4 8 (3.46%) GDPR
5 3 (1.30%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.30%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.30%) SEPA
6 1 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 97 (41.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 95 (41.13%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.93%) Grafana
3 13 (5.63%) Prometheus
4 12 (5.19%) Ansible
5 7 (3.03%) Istio
6 3 (1.30%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.30%) Kibana
6 3 (1.30%) Packer
7 2 (0.87%) Consul
7 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.87%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.43%) Argo
Vendors
1 24 (10.39%) Oracle
2 18 (7.79%) Microsoft
3 17 (7.36%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.90%) Databricks
5 8 (3.46%) Conga
5 8 (3.46%) GoCardless
6 7 (3.03%) Google
6 7 (3.03%) HP
6 7 (3.03%) IBM
7 6 (2.60%) Splunk
8 4 (1.73%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.30%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.30%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.87%) OutSystems
10 2 (0.87%) Pega
10 2 (0.87%) Solace
10 2 (0.87%) Sybase
11 1 (0.43%) F5
11 1 (0.43%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.43%) TIBCO