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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 379 398
Rank change year-on-year -121 +19 -46
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 175 184 188
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.57% 0.49%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.84% 3.73% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 118 130
10th Percentile £309 £268 £325
25th Percentile £394 £334 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £452 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% -9.55% -2.44%
75th Percentile £500 £520 £609
90th Percentile £572 £638 £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 6,153 4,937 5,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.48% 15.18% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,959 3,327 3,279
10th Percentile £356 £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 £599 £600 £625
90th Percentile £690 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 115 180
10th Percentile £35.00 £28.65 £27.80
25th Percentile £53.00 £50.00 £51.19
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.70 £71.88
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 2 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 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 2 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 -109 155 £445 +4.71% 85
UK excluding London -99 108 £425 +4.29% 62
Work from Home -51 59 £441 +1.44% 38
London -82 49 £475 -9.09% 51
North of England -68 47 £401 -4.52% 8
West Midlands -18 31 £435 +20.00% 6
Midlands -44 31 £435 +62.31% 10
North West -47 21 £401 +12.17% 2
South West -31 15 £438 -7.89% 12
North East -36 15 £450 -1.10% 4
Yorkshire -41 11 £350 -16.67% 2
Scotland -18 8 £480 +3.78% 11
South East -88 7 £275 -42.11% 10
Wales -22 1 £288 -39.47%
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 20 (11.43%) 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 2 (1.14%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 8 (4.57%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (3.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.71%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (37.71%) AWS
2 59 (33.71%) GitHub
3 50 (28.57%) Azure
4 32 (18.29%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (15.43%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (12.00%) Serverless
7 20 (11.43%) GCP
8 15 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (5.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (4.57%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.57%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (4.00%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.00%) Power Automate
12 6 (3.43%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (3.43%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (3.43%) Azure Functions
12 6 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (2.86%) SaaS
14 4 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (2.29%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.71%) HTTP
2 2 (1.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (9.14%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.71%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.57%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.86%) MySQL
6 4 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (2.29%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.71%) MariaDB
7 3 (1.71%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.14%) ZAP BI
9 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.57%) Cloud Spanner
9 1 (0.57%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.57%) Redis
9 1 (0.57%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 107 (61.14%) Selenium
2 63 (36.00%) JUnit
3 60 (34.29%) Jenkins
4 55 (31.43%) GitLab
5 54 (30.86%) Git
6 49 (28.00%) Postman
7 45 (25.71%) REST Assured
8 37 (21.14%) WebDriver
9 31 (17.71%) JMeter
10 30 (17.14%) Gatling
10 30 (17.14%) JIRA
11 22 (12.57%) Cypress.io
12 16 (9.14%) SonarQube
13 13 (7.43%) TestNG
14 11 (6.29%) SpecFlow
15 10 (5.71%) Maven
15 10 (5.71%) Mockito
16 8 (4.57%) Gradle
17 7 (4.00%) SoapUI
17 7 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 57 (32.57%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.86%) Public Sector
3 27 (15.43%) Finance
4 20 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (10.29%) Banking
6 9 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.14%) Military
7 2 (1.14%) Back Office
7 2 (1.14%) Law
7 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.57%) Automotive
8 1 (0.57%) Police
Job Titles
1 46 (26.29%) Test Engineer
2 40 (22.86%) Senior
3 25 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
3 25 (14.29%) Tester
4 22 (12.57%) Developer
5 18 (10.29%) Automation Tester
5 18 (10.29%) QA Engineer
6 16 (9.14%) Quality Engineer
7 13 (7.43%) Automation Engineer
8 12 (6.86%) Lead
9 11 (6.29%) Analyst
10 10 (5.71%) Java Developer
10 10 (5.71%) Salesforce Engineer
10 10 (5.71%) Senior Test Engineer
10 10 (5.71%) Test Analyst
11 9 (5.14%) Senior Tester
11 9 (5.14%) Test Leader
12 7 (4.00%) QA Automation Engineer
12 7 (4.00%) Senior Automation Tester
12 7 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (37.71%) Playwright
2 43 (24.57%) REST
3 40 (22.86%) Gherkin
4 39 (22.29%) Spring
5 30 (17.14%) WireMock
6 28 (16.00%) Kafka
7 22 (12.57%) Node.js
8 21 (12.00%) Spring Boot
9 19 (10.86%) React
10 18 (10.29%) RESTful
11 12 (6.86%) HTML
12 11 (6.29%) .NET
12 11 (6.29%) SOAP
13 10 (5.71%) JSON
13 10 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (5.71%) Terraform
14 8 (4.57%) AngularJS
14 8 (4.57%) CSS
14 8 (4.57%) OpenAPI
14 8 (4.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 13 (7.43%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (3.43%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.71%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.71%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.14%) Equities
8 2 (1.14%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.14%) PKI
8 2 (1.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.57%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.57%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.57%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.43%) Linux
2 4 (2.29%) 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
1 145 (82.86%) Test Automation
2 128 (73.14%) CI/CD
3 114 (65.14%) BDD
4 106 (60.57%) Agile
5 65 (37.14%) TDD
6 59 (33.71%) API Testing
7 57 (32.57%) DevOps
8 55 (31.43%) Test Strategy
9 48 (27.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 46 (26.29%) Software Testing
11 45 (25.71%) Microservices
12 42 (24.00%) Scrum
13 36 (20.57%) Performance Testing
14 29 (16.57%) Security Testing
14 29 (16.57%) Stakeholder Management
15 28 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
16 27 (15.43%) SDET
17 26 (14.86%) Containerisation
18 25 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
18 25 (14.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 116 (66.29%) Java
2 59 (33.71%) JavaScript
3 32 (18.29%) Python
4 27 (15.43%) C#
5 21 (12.00%) SQL
6 17 (9.71%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.14%) Bash
8 8 (4.57%) Scala
9 7 (4.00%) Apex Code
9 7 (4.00%) Ruby
10 4 (2.29%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.71%) Groovy
11 3 (1.71%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.14%) PromQL
12 2 (1.14%) R
13 1 (0.57%) COBOL
13 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 45 (25.71%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (8.57%) ISTQB
5 13 (7.43%) Degree
6 7 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.00%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.57%) ISEB
9 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (38.86%) QA
2 41 (23.43%) Accessibility
3 23 (13.14%) WCAG
4 6 (3.43%) 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 57 (32.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 56 (32.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.43%) Grafana
2 13 (7.43%) Prometheus
3 7 (4.00%) Ansible
3 7 (4.00%) Istio
4 3 (1.71%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.14%) Consul
5 2 (1.14%) Zipkin
6 1 (0.57%) Kibana
6 1 (0.57%) Packer
Vendors
1 17 (9.71%) Oracle
2 16 (9.14%) Salesforce
3 12 (6.86%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.57%) Conga
4 8 (4.57%) GoCardless
5 5 (2.86%) Databricks
5 5 (2.86%) IBM
6 4 (2.29%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.71%) HP
8 2 (1.14%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.14%) Google
8 2 (1.14%) Pega
8 2 (1.14%) Solace
8 2 (1.14%) Splunk
8 2 (1.14%) Sybase
9 1 (0.57%) Confluent
9 1 (0.57%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.57%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.57%) UiPath
9 1 (0.57%) Veracode