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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 349 347
Rank change year-on-year -71 -2 -28
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 203 180 254
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.61% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.50% 4.37% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 101 185
10th Percentile £350 £275 £350
25th Percentile £388 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% -9.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £650
90th Percentile £614 £650 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £468 £450
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.89% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - -

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 5,792 4,121 5,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.56% 14.00% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,860 2,770 3,487
10th Percentile £343 £335 £356
25th Percentile £404 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £625
90th Percentile £684 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 67 181
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.32 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.23 £51.53 £45.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.31 £76.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £86.15 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £63.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.88% +2.00% +1.90%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -87 169 £425 -6.08% 19
UK excluding London -83 108 £425 -9.09% 19
London -33 72 £425 -1.16% 5
Work from Home -24 59 £425 +6.25% 13
North of England -70 46 £419 -8.47% 8
West Midlands -49 23 £425 -12.01% 1
Midlands -58 23 £425 - 2
Yorkshire -59 21 £513 -9.49% 1
South East -44 16 £410 -18.08% 2
North West -47 15 £400 -8.57% 5
Wales +3 12 £425 - 1
North East -11 10 £400 +6.31% 2
South West -27 7 £450 +95.65% 3
Scotland -1 3 - - 3
East of England -33 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 26 (12.81%) Confluence
2 2 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (0.99%) Camunda
2 2 (0.99%) Mule
2 2 (0.99%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.49%) JBoss
3 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.49%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.49%) Mingle
1 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.49%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.49%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 100 (49.26%) AWS
2 73 (35.96%) Azure
3 71 (34.98%) GitHub
4 47 (23.15%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (16.75%) GCP
6 22 (10.84%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (7.88%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (7.88%) Serverless
8 12 (5.91%) OpenShift
9 11 (5.42%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (4.93%) SaaS
11 8 (3.94%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.96%) BrowserStack
13 5 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (1.97%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (1.97%) BlazeMeter
14 4 (1.97%) PaaS
15 3 (1.48%) AWS CodePipeline
15 3 (1.48%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.45%) HTTP
2 2 (0.99%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.26%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.91%) MySQL
3 11 (5.42%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.43%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.96%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.46%) HBase
7 5 (2.46%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.99%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.49%) Big Data
10 1 (0.49%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.49%) DB2
10 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 112 (55.17%) Selenium
2 98 (48.28%) Jenkins
3 72 (35.47%) JIRA
4 71 (34.98%) Git
5 64 (31.53%) JUnit
6 63 (31.03%) Postman
7 56 (27.59%) GitLab
8 45 (22.17%) REST Assured
9 42 (20.69%) JMeter
10 35 (17.24%) WebDriver
11 16 (7.88%) TestRail
12 14 (6.90%) Gradle
13 13 (6.40%) Sonatype Nexus
13 13 (6.40%) SpecFlow
14 12 (5.91%) Gatling
14 12 (5.91%) Maven
14 12 (5.91%) Mockito
14 12 (5.91%) TestNG
14 12 (5.91%) Zephyr
15 11 (5.42%) Cypress.io
General
1 59 (29.06%) Social Skills
2 55 (27.09%) Finance
3 24 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.33%) Public Sector
5 18 (8.87%) Banking
6 8 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.48%) Back Office
7 3 (1.48%) Military
8 2 (0.99%) Front Office
8 2 (0.99%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.99%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.49%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (25.62%) Test Engineer
2 38 (18.72%) Developer
3 35 (17.24%) Tester
4 33 (16.26%) Test Automation Engineer
5 27 (13.30%) Automation Tester
6 26 (12.81%) Lead
6 26 (12.81%) Senior
7 19 (9.36%) Java Developer
8 18 (8.87%) Test Leader
9 15 (7.39%) Automation Test Lead
10 13 (6.40%) QA Engineer
11 12 (5.91%) Software Engineer
12 11 (5.42%) Automation Engineer
13 9 (4.43%) Java Engineer
14 8 (3.94%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (3.94%) Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (3.94%) QA Automation Engineer
14 8 (3.94%) Quality Engineer
14 8 (3.94%) Senior Automation Tester
14 8 (3.94%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (25.12%) Spring
2 50 (24.63%) Playwright
3 49 (24.14%) REST
4 39 (19.21%) Gherkin
5 26 (12.81%) Spring Boot
6 25 (12.32%) Kafka
7 24 (11.82%) WireMock
8 16 (7.88%) AngularJS
8 16 (7.88%) RESTful
9 15 (7.39%) JSON
10 14 (6.90%) .NET
10 14 (6.90%) OpenID
11 13 (6.40%) Node.js
11 13 (6.40%) React
12 12 (5.91%) HTML
12 12 (5.91%) LDAP
12 12 (5.91%) SailPoint
13 11 (5.42%) XML
14 9 (4.43%) CSS
14 9 (4.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.81%) Product Ownership
2 18 (8.87%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.91%) Distributed Architecture
4 11 (5.42%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.48%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.99%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.99%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.99%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.99%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.49%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.49%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.49%) Equities
9 1 (0.49%) NHS
9 1 (0.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.88%) Linux
2 2 (0.99%) Windows
3 1 (0.49%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (75.86%) Test Automation
2 139 (68.47%) CI/CD
3 110 (54.19%) Agile
4 99 (48.77%) BDD
5 76 (37.44%) API Testing
6 64 (31.53%) Test Strategy
7 58 (28.57%) DevOps
8 55 (27.09%) TDD
9 49 (24.14%) Microservices
10 47 (23.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (17.73%) Validation
12 35 (17.24%) Scrum
13 34 (16.75%) Test Scripting
14 33 (16.26%) Performance Testing
15 31 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
16 30 (14.78%) Manual Testing
17 29 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
18 26 (12.81%) Containerisation
19 25 (12.32%) Scenario Testing
19 25 (12.32%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 134 (66.01%) Java
2 46 (22.66%) JavaScript
3 44 (21.67%) Python
4 40 (19.70%) SQL
5 30 (14.78%) C#
6 21 (10.34%) Ruby
7 20 (9.85%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.43%) XPath
9 6 (2.96%) PHP
10 4 (1.97%) Groovy
11 3 (1.48%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.48%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.48%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.99%) Bash
12 2 (0.99%) C++
12 2 (0.99%) Go
13 1 (0.49%) Rust
13 1 (0.49%) Scala
13 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.49%) VB6
Qualifications
1 42 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 38 (18.72%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.45%) Degree
5 6 (2.96%) OCP
5 6 (2.96%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (2.46%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.99%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.49%) CFA
9 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.49%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (30.54%) QA
2 13 (6.40%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.96%) WCAG
4 2 (0.99%) NCSC
5 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.49%) SLA
5 1 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 41 (20.20%) Docker
2 3 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (26.60%) Kubernetes
2 23 (11.33%) Grafana
3 16 (7.88%) Prometheus
4 9 (4.43%) Ansible
5 6 (2.96%) Progress Chef
5 6 (2.96%) Terraform
6 2 (0.99%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.99%) Kibana
6 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.49%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 14 (6.90%) Oracle
1 14 (6.90%) ServiceNow
2 13 (6.40%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.96%) VMware
4 5 (2.46%) Google
5 4 (1.97%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.97%) Splunk
6 3 (1.48%) SAP
6 3 (1.48%) Workday
7 2 (0.99%) Adobe
8 1 (0.49%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.49%) HP
8 1 (0.49%) IBM
8 1 (0.49%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.49%) MarketAxess
8 1 (0.49%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.49%) Sybase
8 1 (0.49%) Thales
8 1 (0.49%) Tradeweb