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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 360 373
Rank change year-on-year -88 +13 -41
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 190 161 223
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.54% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.20% 3.74% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 95 161
10th Percentile £350 £268 £350
25th Percentile £400 £335 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £525 £506 £675
90th Percentile £630 £583 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £390 £500
% change year-on-year +8.97% -22.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 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 5,931 4,308 5,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.81% 14.54% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,841 2,876 3,504
10th Percentile £350 £331 £353
25th Percentile £410 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 83 243
10th Percentile £26.25 £20.85 £28.65
25th Percentile £57.40 £46.59 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +4.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £59.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.45% -8.46% +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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -88 161 £449 +5.53% 18
UK excluding London -87 106 £425 +8.97% 15
London -65 64 £470 -6.70% 7
Work from Home -17 61 £425 +3.66% 6
North of England -58 46 £438 +12.24% 2
West Midlands -35 29 £425 -12.01% 1
Midlands -53 29 £425 +57.41% 1
North West -27 21 £426 +25.29% 2
South West -17 15 £481 +1.32% 7
North East -27 13 £426 +9.10%
Yorkshire -60 12 £500 +11.11%
Scotland -5 9 £480 +9.09% 2
Wales -9 5 £425 -
South East -76 3 £600 +19.88% 3
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 30 (15.79%) Confluence
2 3 (1.58%) Camunda
3 2 (1.05%) Mule
3 2 (1.05%) Mule ESB
4 1 (0.53%) JBoss
4 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.53%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.53%) Mingle
1 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (4.21%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.05%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 86 (45.26%) AWS
2 65 (34.21%) GitHub
3 62 (32.63%) Azure
4 40 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
5 38 (20.00%) GCP
6 24 (12.63%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (10.53%) Serverless
8 19 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (6.84%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (4.74%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (4.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (4.21%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.68%) BrowserStack
13 6 (3.16%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (2.63%) SaaS
15 4 (2.11%) BlazeMeter
15 4 (2.11%) OpenShift
16 3 (1.58%) Amazon ECS
16 3 (1.58%) Power Platform
16 3 (1.58%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.05%) Firewall
1 2 (1.05%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.26%) DynamoDB
3 9 (4.74%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.68%) MySQL
5 6 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.63%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.63%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.58%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.53%) Db2
10 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.53%) Redis
10 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 110 (57.89%) Selenium
2 81 (42.63%) Jenkins
3 66 (34.74%) JUnit
4 62 (32.63%) Git
5 53 (27.89%) REST Assured
6 51 (26.84%) JIRA
7 50 (26.32%) GitLab
8 47 (24.74%) Postman
8 47 (24.74%) WebDriver
9 40 (21.05%) JMeter
10 19 (10.00%) Gatling
11 18 (9.47%) Cypress.io
12 13 (6.84%) TestNG
13 12 (6.32%) Mockito
14 9 (4.74%) Maven
15 8 (4.21%) Gradle
15 8 (4.21%) SonarQube
15 8 (4.21%) SpecFlow
16 7 (3.68%) Sonatype Nexus
17 6 (3.16%) tSQLt
General
1 63 (33.16%) Social Skills
2 45 (23.68%) Finance
3 33 (17.37%) Public Sector
4 28 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (11.58%) Banking
6 9 (4.74%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (3.68%) Military
8 4 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.05%) Back Office
9 2 (1.05%) Law
9 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (25.79%) Test Engineer
2 41 (21.58%) Senior
3 33 (17.37%) Tester
4 25 (13.16%) Developer
5 24 (12.63%) Test Automation Engineer
6 21 (11.05%) Automation Tester
7 17 (8.95%) Lead
7 17 (8.95%) QA Engineer
8 14 (7.37%) Test Leader
9 12 (6.32%) Senior Tester
10 11 (5.79%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (5.79%) Software Engineer
11 10 (5.26%) Salesforce Engineer
11 10 (5.26%) Senior Automation Tester
11 10 (5.26%) Senior Test Engineer
12 9 (4.74%) Java Developer
13 8 (4.21%) Automation Test Lead
13 8 (4.21%) QA Automation Engineer
14 7 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
14 7 (3.68%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (28.42%) Playwright
2 40 (21.05%) Spring
3 38 (20.00%) REST
4 34 (17.89%) Gherkin
5 28 (14.74%) WireMock
6 23 (12.11%) Kafka
7 21 (11.05%) RESTful
8 20 (10.53%) Spring Boot
9 15 (7.89%) React
10 14 (7.37%) AngularJS
10 14 (7.37%) Node.js
11 12 (6.32%) HTML
12 11 (5.79%) CSS
13 10 (5.26%) SOAP
14 9 (4.74%) .NET
15 7 (3.68%) Next.js
15 7 (3.68%) OAuth
16 6 (3.16%) OAuth2
16 6 (3.16%) Web Services
17 5 (2.63%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.05%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (7.89%) Distributed Architecture
3 14 (7.37%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.26%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.74%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.11%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.58%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.58%) Equities
8 3 (1.58%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.58%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.05%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.05%) PKI
10 1 (0.53%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.53%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.21%) Linux
2 4 (2.11%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (78.42%) Test Automation
2 136 (71.58%) CI/CD
3 107 (56.32%) BDD
4 105 (55.26%) Agile
5 71 (37.37%) API Testing
6 60 (31.58%) DevOps
6 60 (31.58%) Test Strategy
7 59 (31.05%) TDD
8 57 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 55 (28.95%) Microservices
10 36 (18.95%) Validation
11 33 (17.37%) End-to-End Testing
11 33 (17.37%) Performance Testing
12 32 (16.84%) Scrum
13 30 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (15.79%) Software Testing
14 28 (14.74%) Containerisation
15 27 (14.21%) Observability
16 26 (13.68%) Test Scripting
17 24 (12.63%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 117 (61.58%) Java
2 56 (29.47%) JavaScript
3 35 (18.42%) SQL
4 33 (17.37%) Python
5 27 (14.21%) C#
6 20 (10.53%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.79%) Ruby
8 7 (3.68%) Apex Code
8 7 (3.68%) Scala
9 6 (3.16%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.11%) Groovy
11 3 (1.58%) Bash
11 3 (1.58%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.05%) Go
12 2 (1.05%) PromQL
12 2 (1.05%) VBA
13 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.53%) VB6
13 1 (0.53%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 55 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 46 (24.21%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (6.84%) Degree
5 12 (6.32%) ISTQB
6 6 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.53%) CFA
8 1 (0.53%) ISEB
8 1 (0.53%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (30.53%) QA
2 24 (12.63%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.63%) WCAG
4 2 (1.05%) NCSC
5 1 (0.53%) GDPR
5 1 (0.53%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.53%) SLA
5 1 (0.53%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 51 (26.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 55 (28.95%) Kubernetes
2 25 (13.16%) Grafana
3 24 (12.63%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.21%) Terraform
5 7 (3.68%) Ansible
6 6 (3.16%) Istio
7 2 (1.05%) Consul
7 2 (1.05%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.53%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.53%) Kibana
8 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (7.37%) Oracle
2 11 (5.79%) Salesforce
3 8 (4.21%) Conga
3 8 (4.21%) GoCardless
4 7 (3.68%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.63%) Google
5 5 (2.63%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.58%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.58%) IBM
6 3 (1.58%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.58%) Sybase
7 2 (1.05%) Pega
7 2 (1.05%) SAP
7 2 (1.05%) Solace
7 2 (1.05%) Splunk
7 2 (1.05%) Workday
8 1 (0.53%) Actian
8 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.53%) HP
8 1 (0.53%) Thales