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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 347 354
Rank change year-on-year -93 +7 -14
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 187 173 244
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.60% 0.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.24% 4.17% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 101 174
10th Percentile £350 £268 £333
25th Percentile £400 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -14.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £520 £675
90th Percentile £638 £650 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +3.53% -15.00% +2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

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 5,777 4,146 5,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.11% 14.26% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,778 2,775 3,435
10th Percentile £349 £338 £354
25th Percentile £408 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 72 204
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.33 £32.10
25th Percentile £59.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £79.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £61.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.76% -5.38% +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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -107 157 £465 +8.20% 41
UK excluding London -84 104 £440 +3.53% 30
London -57 64 £475 +10.40% 14
Work from Home -13 56 £425 +6.25% 26
North of England -53 50 £450 +6.26% 9
Yorkshire -56 22 £500 -3.80% 3
West Midlands -48 21 £425 -12.01% 3
Midlands -65 21 £425 +54.55% 4
North West -29 17 £400 -2.68% 4
South West -22 14 £500 +117.39% 5
North East -14 11 £425 +9.04% 2
Wales +1 10 £425 - 1
Scotland +2 6 £470 +17.50% 1
South East -72 4 £600 +19.88% 10
East of England -33 1 £450 -14.29%

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 27 (14.44%) Confluence
2 2 (1.07%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.07%) Camunda
2 2 (1.07%) Mule
2 2 (1.07%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.53%) JBoss
3 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.53%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.53%) Mingle
1 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (4.28%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.07%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 86 (45.99%) AWS
2 63 (33.69%) Azure
3 60 (32.09%) GitHub
4 39 (20.86%) GitHub Actions
5 37 (19.79%) GCP
6 16 (8.56%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (8.56%) Serverless
7 12 (6.42%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (5.35%) SaaS
9 9 (4.81%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.28%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.74%) BrowserStack
12 6 (3.21%) OpenShift
13 5 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (2.14%) BlazeMeter
14 4 (2.14%) PaaS
15 3 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 3 (1.60%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.07%) HTTP
2 1 (0.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.83%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.95%) MySQL
2 13 (6.95%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.74%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.67%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.14%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.14%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.60%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.53%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.53%) DB2
8 1 (0.53%) HBase
8 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.53%) Redis
8 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 107 (57.22%) Selenium
2 81 (43.32%) Jenkins
3 60 (32.09%) JIRA
4 57 (30.48%) Postman
5 56 (29.95%) Git
6 55 (29.41%) JUnit
7 52 (27.81%) GitLab
7 52 (27.81%) REST Assured
8 35 (18.72%) JMeter
9 34 (18.18%) WebDriver
10 14 (7.49%) Cypress.io
11 13 (6.95%) TestNG
12 12 (6.42%) Gatling
13 9 (4.81%) Maven
13 9 (4.81%) SonarQube
14 8 (4.28%) Gradle
14 8 (4.28%) Mockito
14 8 (4.28%) TestRail
15 7 (3.74%) SpecFlow
16 6 (3.21%) SoapUI
General
1 54 (28.88%) Social Skills
2 43 (22.99%) Finance
3 27 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (13.90%) Public Sector
5 18 (9.63%) Banking
6 8 (4.28%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.60%) Military
8 2 (1.07%) Back Office
8 2 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.07%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (28.34%) Test Engineer
2 31 (16.58%) Test Automation Engineer
3 30 (16.04%) Tester
4 27 (14.44%) Developer
5 26 (13.90%) Senior
6 23 (12.30%) Lead
7 21 (11.23%) Automation Tester
8 17 (9.09%) Test Leader
9 13 (6.95%) Automation Test Lead
10 12 (6.42%) QA Engineer
10 12 (6.42%) Software Engineer
11 9 (4.81%) Java Developer
12 8 (4.28%) Quality Engineer
12 8 (4.28%) Senior Automation Tester
12 8 (4.28%) Senior Tester
13 7 (3.74%) Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.74%) Salesforce Engineer
14 6 (3.21%) AWS Engineer
14 6 (3.21%) QA Tester
14 6 (3.21%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (26.74%) Playwright
2 41 (21.93%) REST
3 39 (20.86%) Spring
4 34 (18.18%) Gherkin
5 23 (12.30%) WireMock
6 22 (11.76%) Spring Boot
7 19 (10.16%) Kafka
8 18 (9.63%) RESTful
9 17 (9.09%) AngularJS
10 14 (7.49%) .NET
10 14 (7.49%) React
11 12 (6.42%) LDAP
11 12 (6.42%) OpenID
11 12 (6.42%) SailPoint
12 11 (5.88%) HTML
13 10 (5.35%) CSS
13 10 (5.35%) Node.js
14 9 (4.81%) SOAP
15 7 (3.74%) Next.js
16 6 (3.21%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.30%) Product Ownership
2 18 (9.63%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.42%) Distributed Architecture
4 11 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.81%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.14%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.60%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.07%) Equities
8 2 (1.07%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.07%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.07%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.53%) PKI
9 1 (0.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.88%) Linux
2 4 (2.14%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.07%) Windows
4 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (80.21%) Test Automation
2 134 (71.66%) CI/CD
3 102 (54.55%) Agile
4 101 (54.01%) BDD
5 71 (37.97%) API Testing
6 61 (32.62%) Test Strategy
7 57 (30.48%) TDD
8 55 (29.41%) DevOps
9 53 (28.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (26.20%) Microservices
11 35 (18.72%) Scrum
12 32 (17.11%) Performance Testing
12 32 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (16.04%) Test Scripting
14 27 (14.44%) Containerisation
14 27 (14.44%) End-to-End Testing
15 26 (13.90%) Manual Testing
15 26 (13.90%) Software Testing
15 26 (13.90%) Validation
16 24 (12.83%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 118 (63.10%) Java
2 52 (27.81%) JavaScript
3 40 (21.39%) SQL
4 37 (19.79%) Python
5 24 (12.83%) C#
6 19 (10.16%) Ruby
7 18 (9.63%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.21%) Apex Code
8 6 (3.21%) PHP
9 5 (2.67%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.14%) Groovy
11 3 (1.60%) Bash
11 3 (1.60%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.60%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.60%) Scala
12 2 (1.07%) C++
12 2 (1.07%) Go
12 2 (1.07%) VBA
12 2 (1.07%) XPath
13 1 (0.53%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 42 (22.46%) Security Cleared
2 39 (20.86%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (5.35%) Degree
5 8 (4.28%) ISTQB
6 6 (3.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.07%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.53%) CFA
8 1 (0.53%) ISEB
8 1 (0.53%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.53%) OCP
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (32.62%) QA
2 19 (10.16%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.14%) WCAG
4 2 (1.07%) NCSC
5 1 (0.53%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.53%) SLA
5 1 (0.53%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 44 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 49 (26.20%) Kubernetes
2 21 (11.23%) Grafana
3 19 (10.16%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.74%) Terraform
5 4 (2.14%) Ansible
5 4 (2.14%) Istio
6 2 (1.07%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.53%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.53%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (9.09%) Oracle
2 14 (7.49%) ServiceNow
3 8 (4.28%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.74%) Conga
4 7 (3.74%) GoCardless
4 7 (3.74%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.67%) Google
6 4 (2.14%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.14%) Splunk
7 3 (1.60%) IBM
7 3 (1.60%) SAP
7 3 (1.60%) Workday
8 2 (1.07%) Adobe
8 2 (1.07%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.07%) Pega
8 2 (1.07%) Sybase
9 1 (0.53%) Actian
9 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.53%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.53%) HP