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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 369 389
Rank change year-on-year -126 +20 -40
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 176 187 179
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.57% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.87% 3.78% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 120 122
10th Percentile £319 £268 £350
25th Percentile £400 £330 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £500 £520 £609
90th Percentile £553 £653 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £408 £500
% change year-on-year +4.29% -18.50% -
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 6,139 4,948 5,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.44% 15.11% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,942 3,334 3,262
10th Percentile £355 £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 £594 £600 £623
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 115 191
10th Percentile £35.88 £28.13 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £50.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £74.69 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.35 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 25 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 25 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 -116 152 £447 +5.18% 23
UK excluding London -91 111 £425 +4.29% 21
Work from Home -52 61 £438 +3.31% 5
North of England -60 45 £401 -4.75% 2
London -86 45 £475 -9.52% 10
West Midlands -14 33 £425 +17.24% 5
Midlands -51 33 £425 +58.58% 5
North West -38 19 £401 +3.48% 1
South West -31 16 £450 -5.26% 6
North East -29 15 £450 -2.17% 1
Yorkshire -43 11 £350 -17.65%
Scotland -8 8 £480 +3.78% 1
South East -88 7 £438 -7.89% 4
Wales -19 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 (14.20%) 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 (4.55%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (3.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.70%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 71 (40.34%) AWS
2 62 (35.23%) GitHub
3 52 (29.55%) Azure
4 34 (19.32%) GitHub Actions
5 28 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (11.93%) GCP
6 21 (11.93%) Serverless
7 15 (8.52%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (5.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (5.11%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
10 7 (3.98%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.98%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (3.98%) Power Automate
11 6 (3.41%) Azure Functions
11 6 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (3.41%) SaaS
12 4 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (2.27%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.14%) Firewall
1 2 (1.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.95%) MongoDB
3 11 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 9 (5.11%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.27%) MySQL
6 3 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.70%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.70%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.14%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.14%) ZAP BI
8 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.57%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 108 (61.36%) Selenium
2 62 (35.23%) Jenkins
3 61 (34.66%) JUnit
4 56 (31.82%) GitLab
5 53 (30.11%) Git
6 48 (27.27%) Postman
7 43 (24.43%) REST Assured
8 39 (22.16%) WebDriver
9 34 (19.32%) JIRA
9 34 (19.32%) JMeter
10 28 (15.91%) Gatling
11 22 (12.50%) Cypress.io
12 14 (7.95%) SonarQube
13 12 (6.82%) TestNG
14 11 (6.25%) SpecFlow
15 9 (5.11%) Maven
16 8 (4.55%) Mockito
17 7 (3.98%) Gradle
17 7 (3.98%) Sonatype Nexus
18 6 (3.41%) SoapUI
General
1 55 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.30%) Public Sector
3 28 (15.91%) Finance
4 20 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (10.23%) Banking
6 9 (5.11%) Military
7 8 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.27%) 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 47 (26.70%) Test Engineer
2 42 (23.86%) Senior
3 28 (15.91%) Tester
4 25 (14.20%) Test Automation Engineer
5 23 (13.07%) Developer
6 18 (10.23%) Automation Tester
6 18 (10.23%) QA Engineer
7 14 (7.95%) Quality Engineer
8 13 (7.39%) Lead
9 12 (6.82%) Automation Engineer
10 10 (5.68%) Analyst
10 10 (5.68%) Salesforce Engineer
10 10 (5.68%) Senior Test Engineer
10 10 (5.68%) Senior Tester
10 10 (5.68%) Test Leader
11 9 (5.11%) Test Analyst
12 8 (4.55%) Java Developer
12 8 (4.55%) Senior Automation Tester
13 7 (3.98%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.98%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (38.64%) Playwright
2 41 (23.30%) REST
3 40 (22.73%) Spring
4 39 (22.16%) Gherkin
5 32 (18.18%) WireMock
6 26 (14.77%) Kafka
7 20 (11.36%) Node.js
8 19 (10.80%) RESTful
8 19 (10.80%) Spring Boot
9 17 (9.66%) React
10 11 (6.25%) .NET
10 11 (6.25%) HTML
10 11 (6.25%) SOAP
11 9 (5.11%) JSON
12 8 (4.55%) AngularJS
12 8 (4.55%) CSS
12 8 (4.55%) Terraform
13 7 (3.98%) OpenAPI
13 7 (3.98%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (3.98%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.23%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (7.95%) Product Ownership
3 13 (7.39%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (5.11%) Distributed Architecture
5 8 (4.55%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.41%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.70%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.70%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.14%) Equities
9 2 (1.14%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.14%) PKI
9 2 (1.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.57%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.57%) NHS
10 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.57%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.11%) Linux
2 4 (2.27%) 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
1 147 (83.52%) Test Automation
2 129 (73.30%) CI/CD
3 113 (64.20%) BDD
4 103 (58.52%) Agile
5 65 (36.93%) TDD
6 58 (32.95%) API Testing
6 58 (32.95%) DevOps
6 58 (32.95%) Test Strategy
7 53 (30.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (28.41%) Microservices
9 43 (24.43%) Software Testing
10 39 (22.16%) Scrum
11 31 (17.61%) Performance Testing
12 28 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (14.77%) Validation
15 25 (14.20%) Mentoring
15 25 (14.20%) Security Testing
16 24 (13.64%) SDET
16 24 (13.64%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 112 (63.64%) Java
2 61 (34.66%) JavaScript
3 34 (19.32%) Python
4 29 (16.48%) C#
5 21 (11.93%) SQL
6 20 (11.36%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.11%) Bash
8 8 (4.55%) Ruby
9 7 (3.98%) Apex Code
9 7 (3.98%) Scala
10 4 (2.27%) Groovy
10 4 (2.27%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.27%) 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 (30.11%) Security Cleared
2 43 (24.43%) SC Cleared
3 22 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (9.09%) ISTQB
5 11 (6.25%) Degree
6 6 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.14%) ISEB
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (37.50%) QA
2 39 (22.16%) Accessibility
3 20 (11.36%) WCAG
4 6 (3.41%) 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 54 (30.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 52 (29.55%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.66%) Grafana
3 16 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.98%) Ansible
4 7 (3.98%) Istio
5 3 (1.70%) 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 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 15 (8.52%) Oracle
3 13 (7.39%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.55%) Conga
4 8 (4.55%) GoCardless
5 5 (2.84%) IBM
6 4 (2.27%) Databricks
6 4 (2.27%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.70%) HP
7 3 (1.70%) 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