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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 375 397
Rank change year-on-year -118 +22 -31
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 175 186 179
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.57% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.82% 3.77% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 118 122
10th Percentile £317 £268 £350
25th Percentile £400 £327 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £457 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.24% -8.55% -
75th Percentile £500 £520 £613
90th Percentile £560 £658 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% -
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 6,196 4,939 5,046
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.57% 15.07% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,980 3,328 3,270
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 £590 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 114 200
10th Percentile £35.00 £28.08 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.97 £84.58 £73.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +2.46%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -123 151 £442 +4.06% 24
UK excluding London -99 107 £425 +6.25% 19
Work from Home -56 60 £425 +1.01% 7
London -93 48 £475 -9.52% 7
North of England -69 46 £401 -4.52% 3
West Midlands -25 28 £425 +17.24% 9
Midlands -43 28 £425 +58.58% 9
North West -41 20 £401 +3.48% 1
South West -37 16 £450 -5.26% 2
North East -25 15 £450 -1.10% 2
Yorkshire -46 11 £350 -17.65%
Scotland -13 8 £480 +3.78%
South East -87 7 £438 -7.89% 4
Wales -21 3 £425 -10.53% 1
East of England - 1 £450 -

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 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (0.57%) Camunda
2 1 (0.57%) JBoss
2 1 (0.57%) Mule
2 1 (0.57%) Mule ESB
2 1 (0.57%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 8 (4.57%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (3.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.71%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 68 (38.86%) AWS
2 59 (33.71%) GitHub
3 53 (30.29%) Azure
4 34 (19.43%) GitHub Actions
5 29 (16.57%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (12.57%) Serverless
7 21 (12.00%) GCP
8 16 (9.14%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.57%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (4.57%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (4.00%) Power Automate
12 6 (3.43%) Azure Functions
12 6 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (3.43%) SaaS
13 5 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (2.29%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.14%) Firewall
1 2 (1.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.14%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (8.00%) MongoDB
3 11 (6.29%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.71%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (2.29%) MySQL
7 3 (1.71%) MariaDB
7 3 (1.71%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.14%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.14%) ZAP BI
9 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.57%) Cloud Spanner
9 1 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 105 (60.00%) Selenium
2 63 (36.00%) Jenkins
3 57 (32.57%) JUnit
4 52 (29.71%) GitLab
5 49 (28.00%) Git
5 49 (28.00%) Postman
6 44 (25.14%) REST Assured
7 39 (22.29%) WebDriver
8 35 (20.00%) JIRA
9 34 (19.43%) JMeter
10 23 (13.14%) Gatling
11 22 (12.57%) Cypress.io
12 12 (6.86%) TestNG
13 11 (6.29%) SpecFlow
14 9 (5.14%) Maven
14 9 (5.14%) Mockito
14 9 (5.14%) SonarQube
15 7 (4.00%) Gradle
15 7 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
16 6 (3.43%) SoapUI
General
1 50 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.86%) Public Sector
3 30 (17.14%) Finance
4 20 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (10.86%) Banking
6 9 (5.14%) Military
7 8 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Back Office
9 2 (1.14%) Law
10 1 (0.57%) Automotive
10 1 (0.57%) Police
Job Titles
1 48 (27.43%) Test Engineer
2 43 (24.57%) Senior
3 29 (16.57%) Tester
4 26 (14.86%) Test Automation Engineer
5 23 (13.14%) Developer
6 19 (10.86%) Automation Tester
7 18 (10.29%) QA Engineer
8 15 (8.57%) Lead
9 13 (7.43%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (6.29%) Senior Tester
10 11 (6.29%) Test Leader
11 10 (5.71%) Analyst
11 10 (5.71%) Salesforce Engineer
11 10 (5.71%) Senior Test Engineer
12 9 (5.14%) Quality Engineer
12 9 (5.14%) Senior Automation Tester
12 9 (5.14%) Test Analyst
13 8 (4.57%) Java Developer
14 7 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
14 7 (4.00%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (37.14%) Playwright
2 42 (24.00%) REST
3 36 (20.57%) Gherkin
3 36 (20.57%) Spring
4 28 (16.00%) Kafka
4 28 (16.00%) WireMock
5 20 (11.43%) Node.js
5 20 (11.43%) RESTful
5 20 (11.43%) Spring Boot
6 17 (9.71%) React
7 12 (6.86%) SOAP
8 11 (6.29%) .NET
8 11 (6.29%) HTML
9 9 (5.14%) JSON
10 8 (4.57%) AngularJS
10 8 (4.57%) CSS
10 8 (4.57%) Terraform
11 7 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (4.00%) Swagger
12 6 (3.43%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 13 (7.43%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (5.14%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.14%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (3.43%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.71%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.71%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.14%) Equities
8 2 (1.14%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.14%) PKI
8 2 (1.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.57%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.57%) NHS
9 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.57%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.14%) Linux
2 4 (2.29%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.57%) Android
4 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (83.43%) Test Automation
2 127 (72.57%) CI/CD
3 112 (64.00%) BDD
4 100 (57.14%) Agile
5 62 (35.43%) TDD
6 60 (34.29%) API Testing
7 59 (33.71%) DevOps
8 54 (30.86%) Test Strategy
9 53 (30.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 45 (25.71%) Microservices
11 38 (21.71%) Software Testing
12 34 (19.43%) Scrum
13 32 (18.29%) Performance Testing
14 27 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (14.86%) Validation
16 25 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
16 25 (14.29%) Mentoring
17 24 (13.71%) Containerisation
17 24 (13.71%) SDET
17 24 (13.71%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 110 (62.86%) Java
2 62 (35.43%) JavaScript
3 34 (19.43%) Python
4 30 (17.14%) C#
5 22 (12.57%) SQL
6 21 (12.00%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.14%) Bash
8 8 (4.57%) Ruby
9 7 (4.00%) Apex Code
9 7 (4.00%) Scala
10 4 (2.29%) Groovy
10 4 (2.29%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.29%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.14%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.14%) PromQL
11 2 (1.14%) R
12 1 (0.57%) COBOL
12 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 53 (30.29%) Security Cleared
2 43 (24.57%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (9.14%) ISTQB
5 11 (6.29%) Degree
6 6 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.86%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.14%) ISEB
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (36.00%) QA
2 34 (19.43%) Accessibility
3 15 (8.57%) WCAG
4 6 (3.43%) GDPR
5 2 (1.14%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.57%) SEPA
6 1 (0.57%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 50 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 49 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.71%) Grafana
3 16 (9.14%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.00%) Ansible
4 7 (4.00%) Istio
5 3 (1.71%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.14%) Consul
6 2 (1.14%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.57%) Kibana
7 1 (0.57%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (9.14%) Salesforce
2 15 (8.57%) Oracle
3 13 (7.43%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.57%) Conga
4 8 (4.57%) GoCardless
5 5 (2.86%) IBM
6 4 (2.29%) Databricks
6 4 (2.29%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.71%) HP
7 3 (1.71%) Splunk
8 2 (1.14%) Pega
8 2 (1.14%) Solace
8 2 (1.14%) Sybase
9 1 (0.57%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.57%) Confluent
9 1 (0.57%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.57%) UiPath
9 1 (0.57%) Veracode