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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 342 404
Rank change year-on-year -129 +62 -28
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 211 213 170
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.64% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.33% 4.21% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 140 113
10th Percentile £306 £268 £324
25th Percentile £375 £340 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £448 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -10.50% -1.72%
75th Percentile £500 £519 £600
90th Percentile £538 £641 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £436 £415 £498
% change year-on-year +5.12% -16.67% +4.84%
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 6,331 5,063 5,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.54% 15.31% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,047 3,408 3,229
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 110 176
10th Percentile £22.68 £28.94 £28.62
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.17 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.75 £73.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 26 September 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 14 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 26 September 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 -97 189 £445 +4.71% 107
UK excluding London -96 122 £436 +5.12% 86
London -82 69 £475 -8.65% 38
Work from Home -45 59 £446 +0.22% 55
North of England -65 48 £420 -1.18% 32
West Midlands -6 41 £450 +50.00% 11
Midlands -25 41 £450 +67.29% 13
North West -42 21 £433 +20.98% 11
South West -23 20 £425 -10.53% 13
North East -35 15 £450 -1.10% 14
Yorkshire -41 12 £350 -17.65% 7
Scotland -22 7 £480 +3.78% 9
South East -99 7 £275 -33.33% 8
Wales -20 1 £288 -39.47% 2

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 22 (10.43%) Confluence
2 1 (0.47%) Camunda
2 1 (0.47%) JBoss
2 1 (0.47%) Mule
2 1 (0.47%) Mule ESB
2 1 (0.47%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 8 (3.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (3.79%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.42%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 88 (41.71%) AWS
2 66 (31.28%) GitHub
3 59 (27.96%) Azure
4 32 (15.17%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (15.17%) GitHub Actions
5 30 (14.22%) Serverless
6 21 (9.95%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (9.48%) GCP
8 13 (6.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (6.16%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (5.21%) Amazon S3
9 11 (5.21%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (4.74%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (4.74%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (4.74%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (4.74%) Power Automate
11 9 (4.27%) Azure Functions
12 8 (3.79%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (3.32%) OpenShift
14 6 (2.84%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.95%) Firewall
1 2 (0.95%) HTTP
2 1 (0.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (12.32%) MongoDB
2 21 (9.95%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.69%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.27%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.79%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.84%) MySQL
7 5 (2.37%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.90%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.42%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.42%) Redis
9 3 (1.42%) Weaviate
9 3 (1.42%) ZAP BI
10 2 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.95%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.95%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.47%) Cloud Spanner
11 1 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 133 (63.03%) Selenium
2 82 (38.86%) JUnit
3 72 (34.12%) GitLab
4 69 (32.70%) Git
4 69 (32.70%) Jenkins
5 54 (25.59%) Postman
6 52 (24.64%) REST Assured
7 44 (20.85%) Gatling
8 34 (16.11%) JMeter
9 33 (15.64%) WebDriver
10 31 (14.69%) JIRA
11 26 (12.32%) Cypress.io
12 25 (11.85%) SonarQube
13 19 (9.00%) Maven
14 18 (8.53%) Mockito
14 18 (8.53%) TestNG
15 12 (5.69%) Gradle
15 12 (5.69%) SpecFlow
16 9 (4.27%) SoapUI
16 9 (4.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 79 (37.44%) Social Skills
2 52 (24.64%) Public Sector
3 34 (16.11%) Finance
4 24 (11.37%) Banking
5 23 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (6.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (5.21%) Military
8 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.95%) Law
9 2 (0.95%) Police
10 1 (0.47%) Automotive
10 1 (0.47%) Marketing
10 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 58 (27.49%) Test Engineer
2 46 (21.80%) Senior
3 29 (13.74%) Test Automation Engineer
4 26 (12.32%) Quality Engineer
5 24 (11.37%) Developer
5 24 (11.37%) Tester
6 21 (9.95%) QA Engineer
7 16 (7.58%) Automation Tester
7 16 (7.58%) Java Developer
8 14 (6.64%) Lead
8 14 (6.64%) Senior Test Engineer
9 13 (6.16%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (5.69%) Analyst
11 11 (5.21%) Test Analyst
12 10 (4.74%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.74%) Salesforce Engineer
12 10 (4.74%) Test Leader
13 9 (4.27%) Java Engineer
14 8 (3.79%) Lead Test Analyst
14 8 (3.79%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (41.23%) Playwright
2 54 (25.59%) Spring
3 49 (23.22%) Gherkin
4 44 (20.85%) REST
5 37 (17.54%) Kafka
6 34 (16.11%) WireMock
7 32 (15.17%) Spring Boot
8 26 (12.32%) Node.js
9 25 (11.85%) React
10 23 (10.90%) RESTful
11 17 (8.06%) HTML
12 14 (6.64%) RabbitMQ
12 14 (6.64%) SOAP
13 13 (6.16%) JSON
13 13 (6.16%) OpenAPI
14 12 (5.69%) .NET
15 11 (5.21%) Swagger
16 10 (4.74%) CSS
16 10 (4.74%) Terraform
17 8 (3.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.16%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.74%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (4.74%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.27%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.84%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.42%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.42%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.95%) Equities
8 2 (0.95%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.95%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.95%) PKI
8 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.58%) Linux
2 6 (2.84%) Unix
3 4 (1.90%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.95%) Android
4 2 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.95%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (80.09%) Test Automation
2 160 (75.83%) CI/CD
3 133 (63.03%) Agile
4 130 (61.61%) BDD
5 78 (36.97%) TDD
6 74 (35.07%) DevOps
7 68 (32.23%) API Testing
8 65 (30.81%) Software Testing
9 64 (30.33%) Test Strategy
10 63 (29.86%) Microservices
11 57 (27.01%) Scrum
12 53 (25.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (23.22%) Stakeholder Management
14 43 (20.38%) Containerisation
14 43 (20.38%) Problem-Solving
15 41 (19.43%) Security Testing
16 40 (18.96%) Performance Testing
17 38 (18.01%) SDLC
18 34 (16.11%) Coaching
18 34 (16.11%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 148 (70.14%) Java
2 71 (33.65%) JavaScript
3 35 (16.59%) Python
4 27 (12.80%) C#
5 22 (10.43%) TypeScript
6 21 (9.95%) SQL
7 11 (5.21%) Scala
8 10 (4.74%) Bash
9 7 (3.32%) Apex Code
9 7 (3.32%) Ruby
10 4 (1.90%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.90%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.42%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.42%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.95%) PromQL
12 2 (0.95%) R
13 1 (0.47%) COBOL
13 1 (0.47%) Groovy
13 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 71 (33.65%) Security Cleared
2 59 (27.96%) SC Cleared
3 32 (15.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (8.53%) Degree
4 18 (8.53%) ISTQB
5 12 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.69%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.95%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.95%) ISEB
10 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (42.65%) QA
2 61 (28.91%) Accessibility
3 36 (17.06%) WCAG
4 8 (3.79%) GDPR
5 4 (1.90%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.42%) SEPA
7 2 (0.95%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 81 (38.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 81 (38.39%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.58%) Grafana
3 13 (6.16%) Prometheus
4 12 (5.69%) Ansible
5 7 (3.32%) Istio
6 3 (1.42%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.42%) Kibana
6 3 (1.42%) Packer
7 2 (0.95%) Consul
7 2 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.95%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.47%) Argo
Vendors
1 24 (11.37%) Oracle
2 16 (7.58%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.58%) Salesforce
3 8 (3.79%) Conga
3 8 (3.79%) GoCardless
4 7 (3.32%) Databricks
4 7 (3.32%) HP
4 7 (3.32%) Splunk
5 6 (2.84%) IBM
6 4 (1.90%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.90%) Google
7 3 (1.42%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.95%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.95%) Pega
8 2 (0.95%) Solace
8 2 (0.95%) Sybase
9 1 (0.47%) F5
9 1 (0.47%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.47%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.47%) Veracode