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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 363 355
Rank change year-on-year -14 -8 -34
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 240 160 253
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.55% 0.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.12% 3.96% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 95 176
10th Percentile £350 £305 £350
25th Percentile £375 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £534 £550 £650
90th Percentile £600 £700 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £465 £440
% change year-on-year -8.60% +5.68% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile £68.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - -

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 5,820 4,037 5,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.28% 13.86% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,918 2,698 3,507
10th Percentile £341 £337 £358
25th Percentile £405 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £586 £612 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 71 190
10th Percentile £39.00 £25.00 £37.44
25th Percentile £58.04 £47.75 £46.18
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £78.13 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £83.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £63.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.14% +1.20% +1.63%

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 24 March 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cucumber over the 6 months to 24 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Top 16 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 24 March 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 -41 201 £425 -1.28% 22
UK excluding London -35 133 £425 -8.60% 23
London -36 82 £425 -1.16% 3
Work from Home -16 63 £425 +6.25% 17
North of England -64 50 £413 +3.13% 9
South East -23 30 £410 +26.15% 4
West Midlands -39 28 £430 -10.97% 2
Midlands -49 28 £430 -10.97% 5
Yorkshire -54 26 £500 -18.38% 2
Wales +3 13 £425 - 1
North West -39 13 £400 - 6
North East -14 11 £413 +20.00% 1
South West -27 6 £463 +18.59%
Scotland +3 5 - - 2
East of England -28 1 £450 -14.29% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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 29 (12.08%) Confluence
2 2 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.83%) Camunda
3 1 (0.42%) Mule
3 1 (0.42%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.42%) nginx
3 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.42%) Mingle
1 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 124 (51.67%) AWS
2 79 (32.92%) Azure
3 75 (31.25%) GitHub
4 49 (20.42%) GitHub Actions
5 36 (15.00%) GCP
6 25 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (8.33%) Serverless
8 18 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (7.50%) OpenShift
9 11 (4.58%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (4.58%) Amazon S3
10 10 (4.17%) SaaS
11 9 (3.75%) Datadog
12 7 (2.92%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (2.50%) BrowserStack
14 5 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (1.67%) BlazeMeter
15 4 (1.67%) PaaS
16 3 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.92%) HTTP
2 5 (2.08%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.42%) Multicast
3 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (5.42%) MongoDB
3 12 (5.00%) DynamoDB
3 12 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.58%) MySQL
4 11 (4.58%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.33%) HBase
6 6 (2.50%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.25%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.42%) Big Data
10 1 (0.42%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.42%) DB2
10 1 (0.42%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 119 (49.58%) Selenium
2 110 (45.83%) Jenkins
3 79 (32.92%) Git
4 77 (32.08%) JUnit
5 75 (31.25%) JIRA
6 66 (27.50%) Postman
7 65 (27.08%) GitLab
8 47 (19.58%) REST Assured
9 44 (18.33%) JMeter
10 33 (13.75%) WebDriver
11 20 (8.33%) Mockito
12 19 (7.92%) Sonatype Nexus
13 16 (6.67%) Gradle
13 16 (6.67%) Maven
13 16 (6.67%) TestRail
14 14 (5.83%) Cypress.io
14 14 (5.83%) SpecFlow
15 12 (5.00%) Zephyr
16 11 (4.58%) Gatling
17 10 (4.17%) Artifactory
General
1 71 (29.58%) Social Skills
2 62 (25.83%) Finance
3 27 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 23 (9.58%) Banking
6 8 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.08%) Back Office
7 5 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.08%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.67%) Front Office
9 3 (1.25%) Military
10 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.83%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.42%) Billing
11 1 (0.42%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (24.58%) Test Engineer
2 56 (23.33%) Developer
3 38 (15.83%) Senior
4 36 (15.00%) Tester
5 35 (14.58%) Java Developer
6 32 (13.33%) Test Automation Engineer
7 28 (11.67%) Automation Tester
8 27 (11.25%) Lead
9 19 (7.92%) Test Leader
10 17 (7.08%) QA Engineer
11 15 (6.25%) Automation Test Lead
12 14 (5.83%) Java Engineer
13 12 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
13 12 (5.00%) Software Engineer
14 10 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
15 9 (3.75%) Senior Automation Tester
15 9 (3.75%) Senior Developer
15 9 (3.75%) Senior Java Developer
15 9 (3.75%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (29.58%) Spring
2 58 (24.17%) REST
3 57 (23.75%) Playwright
4 43 (17.92%) Gherkin
5 42 (17.50%) Spring Boot
6 30 (12.50%) Kafka
7 27 (11.25%) WireMock
8 21 (8.75%) React
9 20 (8.33%) JSON
10 19 (7.92%) AngularJS
10 19 (7.92%) Node.js
11 18 (7.50%) .NET
11 18 (7.50%) RESTful
12 17 (7.08%) OpenID
13 15 (6.25%) HTML
14 13 (5.42%) SOAP
14 13 (5.42%) XML
15 12 (5.00%) LDAP
15 12 (5.00%) SailPoint
16 10 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.42%) Product Ownership
2 18 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 10 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.25%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.83%) Derivative
8 2 (0.83%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (0.83%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.83%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.83%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.83%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.42%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.42%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.42%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.42%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.17%) Linux
2 3 (1.25%) Unix
3 2 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (70.83%) Test Automation
2 162 (67.50%) CI/CD
3 131 (54.58%) Agile
4 111 (46.25%) BDD
5 79 (32.92%) API Testing
6 67 (27.92%) Microservices
7 65 (27.08%) DevOps
7 65 (27.08%) Test Strategy
8 60 (25.00%) TDD
9 55 (22.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 45 (18.75%) Scrum
11 41 (17.08%) Test Scripting
12 39 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (15.00%) Manual Testing
13 36 (15.00%) Validation
14 34 (14.17%) Containerisation
14 34 (14.17%) Software Testing
15 33 (13.75%) Observability
15 33 (13.75%) Performance Testing
16 32 (13.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 161 (67.08%) Java
2 53 (22.08%) JavaScript
3 44 (18.33%) Python
4 41 (17.08%) SQL
5 33 (13.75%) C#
6 29 (12.08%) TypeScript
7 21 (8.75%) Ruby
8 9 (3.75%) XPath
9 6 (2.50%) PHP
10 5 (2.08%) Groovy
11 3 (1.25%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.25%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.25%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.83%) Bash
12 2 (0.83%) C++
12 2 (0.83%) Go
12 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.42%) C
13 1 (0.42%) VB6
Qualifications
1 46 (19.17%) Security Cleared
2 40 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.17%) OCP
3 10 (4.17%) Oracle Certification
4 8 (3.33%) Degree
4 8 (3.33%) ISTQB
5 7 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.83%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.42%) CFA
9 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.42%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (29.17%) QA
2 18 (7.50%) Accessibility
3 11 (4.58%) WCAG
4 2 (0.83%) NCSC
5 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.42%) SLA
5 1 (0.42%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 46 (19.17%) Docker
2 4 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (27.50%) Kubernetes
2 32 (13.33%) Grafana
3 17 (7.08%) Prometheus
4 13 (5.42%) Ansible
5 9 (3.75%) Progress Chef
6 7 (2.92%) Terraform
7 5 (2.08%) Kibana
8 2 (0.83%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.42%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 18 (7.50%) Oracle
2 14 (5.83%) ServiceNow
3 13 (5.42%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.75%) VMware
5 6 (2.50%) Splunk
6 5 (2.08%) Google
7 4 (1.67%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.67%) SAP
8 3 (1.25%) UiPath
8 3 (1.25%) Workday
9 2 (0.83%) Adobe
9 2 (0.83%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.42%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.42%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.42%) HP
10 1 (0.42%) IBM
10 1 (0.42%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.42%) MarketAxess
10 1 (0.42%) Sybase
10 1 (0.42%) Tradeweb