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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 370 375
Rank change year-on-year -95 +5 -39
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 199 189 214
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.58% 0.50%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.20% 4.04% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 118 153
10th Percentile £323 £268 £351
25th Percentile £391 £326 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% -14.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £513 £500 £650
90th Percentile £600 £575 £783
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £420 £500
% change year-on-year +1.19% -16.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 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 6,225 4,683 5,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.83% 14.47% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,012 3,148 3,569
10th Percentile £350 £330 £350
25th Percentile £413 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £689 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 100 251
10th Percentile £26.20 £21.93 £31.25
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.75 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £63.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.08% +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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -91 173 £438 +2.94% 28
UK excluding London -113 116 £425 +1.19% 26
Work from Home -33 67 £425 +7.59% 11
London -60 65 £450 -11.11% 7
North of England -74 47 £425 +2.41% 8
West Midlands -40 33 £425 -6.39% 4
Midlands -50 33 £425 +57.41% 5
North West -36 22 £401 +2.82% 2
South West -20 16 £500 +5.26% 4
North East -29 15 £438 +12.24% 5
Yorkshire -55 10 £350 -22.22% 1
Scotland -11 9 £480 +2.95% 3
South East -75 7 £438 -12.59% 7
Wales -15 5 £425 -10.53%
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 36 (18.09%) Confluence
2 2 (1.01%) Mule
2 2 (1.01%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.50%) Camunda
3 1 (0.50%) JBoss
3 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.50%) Mingle
1 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (4.02%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.51%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.01%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 86 (43.22%) AWS
2 64 (32.16%) GitHub
3 60 (30.15%) Azure
4 40 (20.10%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (17.09%) GCP
6 26 (13.07%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (10.55%) Serverless
8 18 (9.05%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (6.03%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (4.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.52%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.02%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (2.51%) BrowserStack
13 5 (2.51%) SaaS
14 4 (2.01%) Power Automate
15 3 (1.51%) Amazon ECS
15 3 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
15 3 (1.51%) Power Platform
15 3 (1.51%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.01%) Firewall
1 2 (1.01%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.08%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.03%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.53%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.52%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.01%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (2.01%) MySQL
7 3 (1.51%) MariaDB
7 3 (1.51%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.50%) Db2
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.50%) Redis
9 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.50%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 116 (58.29%) Selenium
2 80 (40.20%) Jenkins
3 69 (34.67%) JUnit
4 59 (29.65%) Git
5 58 (29.15%) JIRA
6 53 (26.63%) REST Assured
7 52 (26.13%) Postman
8 49 (24.62%) GitLab
9 47 (23.62%) WebDriver
10 41 (20.60%) JMeter
11 20 (10.05%) Cypress.io
12 19 (9.55%) Gatling
13 13 (6.53%) TestNG
14 12 (6.03%) Mockito
14 12 (6.03%) SpecFlow
15 11 (5.53%) Maven
16 8 (4.02%) SonarQube
17 7 (3.52%) Sonatype Nexus
18 6 (3.02%) Bitbucket
18 6 (3.02%) TeamCity
General
1 63 (31.66%) Social Skills
2 47 (23.62%) Finance
3 37 (18.59%) Public Sector
4 25 (12.56%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (11.56%) Banking
6 9 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (4.02%) Military
8 5 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.01%) Back Office
9 2 (1.01%) Law
10 1 (0.50%) Automotive
10 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (26.63%) Test Engineer
2 44 (22.11%) Senior
3 35 (17.59%) Tester
4 28 (14.07%) Test Automation Engineer
5 23 (11.56%) Automation Tester
5 23 (11.56%) Developer
6 20 (10.05%) Lead
7 18 (9.05%) QA Engineer
8 16 (8.04%) Test Leader
9 13 (6.53%) Senior Tester
10 12 (6.03%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (5.53%) Senior Automation Tester
11 11 (5.53%) Senior Test Engineer
12 10 (5.03%) Salesforce Engineer
13 9 (4.52%) Java Developer
13 9 (4.52%) Software Engineer
14 8 (4.02%) Analyst
14 8 (4.02%) Automation Test Lead
14 8 (4.02%) QA Automation Engineer
14 8 (4.02%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (31.16%) Playwright
2 43 (21.61%) REST
2 43 (21.61%) Spring
3 34 (17.09%) Gherkin
3 34 (17.09%) WireMock
4 25 (12.56%) Kafka
5 22 (11.06%) RESTful
6 20 (10.05%) Spring Boot
7 16 (8.04%) Node.js
8 15 (7.54%) React
8 15 (7.54%) SOAP
9 11 (5.53%) .NET
9 11 (5.53%) AngularJS
9 11 (5.53%) HTML
10 8 (4.02%) CSS
11 7 (3.52%) OAuth
12 6 (3.02%) OAuth2
12 6 (3.02%) Swagger
12 6 (3.02%) Web Services
13 5 (2.51%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.05%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (7.54%) Distributed Architecture
2 15 (7.54%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.53%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (4.52%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.01%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.51%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.51%) Equities
7 3 (1.51%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.51%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.01%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.01%) PKI
8 2 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.50%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.52%) Linux
2 4 (2.01%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (79.40%) Test Automation
2 138 (69.35%) CI/CD
3 120 (60.30%) BDD
4 109 (54.77%) Agile
5 70 (35.18%) API Testing
6 67 (33.67%) Test Strategy
7 63 (31.66%) TDD
8 62 (31.16%) DevOps
9 58 (29.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 57 (28.64%) Microservices
11 38 (19.10%) Validation
12 37 (18.59%) End-to-End Testing
13 33 (16.58%) Software Testing
14 31 (15.58%) Performance Testing
14 31 (15.58%) Scrum
15 29 (14.57%) Test Scripting
16 28 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
17 27 (13.57%) Observability
18 26 (13.07%) Mentoring
19 24 (12.06%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 121 (60.80%) Java
2 64 (32.16%) JavaScript
3 33 (16.58%) Python
4 32 (16.08%) C#
4 32 (16.08%) SQL
5 24 (12.06%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.03%) Ruby
7 7 (3.52%) Apex Code
7 7 (3.52%) Scala
8 6 (3.02%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.01%) Bash
9 4 (2.01%) Groovy
10 3 (1.51%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.01%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.01%) PromQL
11 2 (1.01%) VBA
12 1 (0.50%) R
12 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.50%) VB6
12 1 (0.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 55 (27.64%) Security Cleared
2 45 (22.61%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (6.53%) ISTQB
5 12 (6.03%) Degree
6 6 (3.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.51%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.50%) ISEB
9 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (32.66%) QA
2 26 (13.07%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.52%) WCAG
4 3 (1.51%) GDPR
5 2 (1.01%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.50%) SEPA
6 1 (0.50%) SLA
6 1 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 48 (24.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 57 (28.64%) Kubernetes
2 25 (12.56%) Grafana
3 24 (12.06%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.02%) Terraform
5 6 (3.02%) Ansible
5 6 (3.02%) Istio
6 2 (1.01%) Consul
6 2 (1.01%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.01%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.50%) Kibana
7 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (7.54%) Oracle
1 15 (7.54%) Salesforce
2 8 (4.02%) Conga
2 8 (4.02%) GoCardless
3 7 (3.52%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.51%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.01%) Google
6 3 (1.51%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.51%) IBM
6 3 (1.51%) Sybase
7 2 (1.01%) HP
7 2 (1.01%) Pega
7 2 (1.01%) SAP
7 2 (1.01%) Solace
7 2 (1.01%) Splunk
7 2 (1.01%) Workday
8 1 (0.50%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.50%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.50%) Thales
8 1 (0.50%) UiPath