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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 364 386
Rank change year-on-year -129 +22 -38
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 199 198 177
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.60% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.14% 3.96% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 128 120
10th Percentile £306 £268 £323
25th Percentile £372 £340 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £500 £519 £603
90th Percentile £538 £638 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £408 £500
% change year-on-year +6.75% -18.50% +5.26%
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 6,347 4,998 5,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.57% 15.17% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,059 3,359 3,268
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £420
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 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 111 176
10th Percentile £25.19 £30.75 £28.62
25th Percentile £51.29 £50.50 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £83.00 £72.81
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 19 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 19 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 -109 177 £445 +4.71% 111
UK excluding London -104 116 £435 +6.75% 74
London -82 63 £473 -9.13% 55
Work from Home -57 59 £445 - 50
North of England -64 47 £401 -5.31% 18
West Midlands -16 36 £450 +24.14% 11
Midlands -35 36 £450 +67.91% 15
South West -19 20 £425 -10.53% 12
North West -54 20 £402 +12.45% 7
North East -43 15 £450 - 8
Yorkshire -38 12 £350 -17.65% 3
Scotland -16 7 £480 +3.78% 10
South East -82 7 £275 -42.11% 11
Wales -19 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 20 (10.05%) Confluence
2 1 (0.50%) Camunda
2 1 (0.50%) JBoss
2 1 (0.50%) Mule
2 1 (0.50%) Mule ESB
2 1 (0.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 8 (4.02%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (4.02%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.51%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 75 (37.69%) AWS
2 61 (30.65%) GitHub
3 57 (28.64%) Azure
4 31 (15.58%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (15.58%) GitHub Actions
5 28 (14.07%) Serverless
6 19 (9.55%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (9.05%) GCP
8 11 (5.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (5.03%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (5.03%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (5.03%) GitHub Copilot
9 10 (5.03%) Power Automate
10 9 (4.52%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (4.52%) Amazon S3
10 9 (4.52%) Azure Functions
11 8 (4.02%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (3.52%) OpenShift
13 6 (3.02%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (3.02%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.51%) HTTP
2 2 (1.01%) Firewall
3 1 (0.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.55%) MongoDB
2 20 (10.05%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.03%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.52%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.52%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.51%) MySQL
6 5 (2.51%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.01%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.51%) Pinecone
8 3 (1.51%) Weaviate
8 3 (1.51%) ZAP BI
9 2 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.01%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.01%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.01%) Redis
10 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.50%) Cloud Spanner
10 1 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 124 (62.31%) Selenium
2 74 (37.19%) JUnit
3 64 (32.16%) GitLab
3 64 (32.16%) Jenkins
4 63 (31.66%) Git
5 53 (26.63%) Postman
6 49 (24.62%) REST Assured
7 37 (18.59%) Gatling
8 34 (17.09%) WebDriver
9 30 (15.08%) JMeter
10 29 (14.57%) JIRA
11 24 (12.06%) Cypress.io
12 21 (10.55%) SonarQube
13 17 (8.54%) Maven
14 16 (8.04%) Mockito
14 16 (8.04%) TestNG
15 11 (5.53%) Gradle
15 11 (5.53%) SpecFlow
16 8 (4.02%) SoapUI
16 8 (4.02%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 70 (35.18%) Social Skills
2 45 (22.61%) Public Sector
3 33 (16.58%) Finance
4 23 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (11.06%) Banking
6 13 (6.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (5.03%) Military
8 3 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.01%) Law
10 1 (0.50%) Automotive
10 1 (0.50%) Back Office
10 1 (0.50%) Marketing
10 1 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 54 (27.14%) Test Engineer
2 43 (21.61%) Senior
3 29 (14.57%) Test Automation Engineer
4 23 (11.56%) Developer
5 22 (11.06%) Quality Engineer
5 22 (11.06%) Tester
6 21 (10.55%) QA Engineer
7 15 (7.54%) Automation Tester
8 14 (7.04%) Java Developer
8 14 (7.04%) Lead
9 13 (6.53%) Analyst
10 12 (6.03%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (6.03%) Senior Test Engineer
10 12 (6.03%) Test Analyst
11 10 (5.03%) Salesforce Engineer
11 10 (5.03%) Test Leader
12 8 (4.02%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.02%) Lead Test Analyst
12 8 (4.02%) Senior Analyst
12 8 (4.02%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (38.69%) Playwright
2 48 (24.12%) Spring
3 46 (23.12%) Gherkin
4 45 (22.61%) REST
5 35 (17.59%) Kafka
6 31 (15.58%) WireMock
7 29 (14.57%) Spring Boot
8 24 (12.06%) Node.js
9 23 (11.56%) React
10 20 (10.05%) RESTful
11 16 (8.04%) HTML
12 13 (6.53%) RabbitMQ
12 13 (6.53%) SOAP
13 12 (6.03%) JSON
13 12 (6.03%) OpenAPI
14 11 (5.53%) .NET
14 11 (5.53%) Swagger
15 9 (4.52%) CSS
15 9 (4.52%) Terraform
16 8 (4.02%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.54%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.53%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.52%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.52%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.51%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.51%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.51%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.51%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.01%) Equities
8 2 (1.01%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.01%) PKI
9 1 (0.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.50%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.54%) Linux
2 5 (2.51%) Unix
3 4 (2.01%) Mac OS
3 4 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.01%) Android
4 2 (1.01%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.50%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (80.40%) Test Automation
2 148 (74.37%) CI/CD
3 124 (62.31%) Agile
4 122 (61.31%) BDD
5 72 (36.18%) DevOps
6 71 (35.68%) TDD
7 66 (33.17%) API Testing
8 60 (30.15%) Test Strategy
9 58 (29.15%) Software Testing
10 55 (27.64%) Microservices
11 51 (25.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (25.63%) Scrum
12 43 (21.61%) Stakeholder Management
13 39 (19.60%) Problem-Solving
14 38 (19.10%) Containerisation
15 36 (18.09%) Performance Testing
15 36 (18.09%) Security Testing
16 34 (17.09%) SDLC
17 30 (15.08%) Coaching
17 30 (15.08%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 137 (68.84%) Java
2 68 (34.17%) JavaScript
3 34 (17.09%) Python
4 29 (14.57%) C#
5 21 (10.55%) SQL
6 20 (10.05%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.53%) Scala
8 10 (5.03%) Bash
9 7 (3.52%) Apex Code
9 7 (3.52%) Ruby
10 4 (2.01%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.01%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.51%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.51%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.01%) Groovy
12 2 (1.01%) PromQL
12 2 (1.01%) R
13 1 (0.50%) COBOL
13 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 62 (31.16%) Security Cleared
2 51 (25.63%) SC Cleared
3 27 (13.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (8.54%) Degree
4 17 (8.54%) ISTQB
5 11 (5.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.52%) DV Cleared
7 8 (4.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.50%) ISEB
10 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (42.21%) QA
2 55 (27.64%) Accessibility
3 32 (16.08%) WCAG
4 8 (4.02%) GDPR
5 4 (2.01%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.51%) SEPA
7 2 (1.01%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 69 (34.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 69 (34.67%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.54%) Grafana
3 13 (6.53%) Prometheus
4 10 (5.03%) Ansible
5 7 (3.52%) Istio
6 3 (1.51%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.51%) Kibana
7 2 (1.01%) Consul
7 2 (1.01%) Packer
7 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.01%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 22 (11.06%) Oracle
2 16 (8.04%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.04%) Salesforce
3 8 (4.02%) Conga
3 8 (4.02%) GoCardless
4 7 (3.52%) Databricks
4 7 (3.52%) HP
5 6 (3.02%) IBM
5 6 (3.02%) Splunk
6 4 (2.01%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.51%) Google
7 3 (1.51%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.01%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.01%) Pega
8 2 (1.01%) Solace
8 2 (1.01%) Sybase
9 1 (0.50%) F5
9 1 (0.50%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.50%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.50%) Veracode