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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 353 397
Rank change year-on-year -122 +44 -30
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 206 209 174
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.63% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.25% 4.15% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 137 118
10th Percentile £306 £268 £322
25th Percentile £375 £340 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -10.00% -0.50%
75th Percentile £500 £520 £600
90th Percentile £535 £653 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £421 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -15.80% +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 6,342 5,038 5,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.55% 15.28% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,051 3,391 3,202
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £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 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 109 176
10th Percentile £24.13 £28.88 £28.62
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.60 £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 24 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 24 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 -112 185 £440 +3.53% 116
UK excluding London -93 121 £435 +3.33% 83
London -84 67 £473 -9.13% 49
Work from Home -62 58 £445 - 51
North of England -59 48 £402 -5.41% 31
West Midlands -7 40 £450 +24.14% 11
Midlands -29 40 £450 +67.29% 13
North West -49 21 £411 +14.97% 10
South West -22 20 £425 -10.53% 14
North East -40 15 £450 -1.10% 14
Yorkshire -34 12 £350 -17.65% 7
Scotland -23 7 £480 +3.78% 8
South East -87 7 £275 -42.11% 6
Wales -21 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 21 (10.19%) Confluence
2 1 (0.49%) Camunda
2 1 (0.49%) JBoss
2 1 (0.49%) Mule
2 1 (0.49%) Mule ESB
2 1 (0.49%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 8 (3.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (3.88%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.46%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 82 (39.81%) AWS
2 64 (31.07%) GitHub
3 59 (28.64%) Azure
4 32 (15.53%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (15.05%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (13.59%) Serverless
7 20 (9.71%) GCP
8 19 (9.22%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (5.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (4.85%) Amazon SQS
10 10 (4.85%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (4.85%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (4.85%) Power Automate
11 9 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (4.37%) Amazon S3
11 9 (4.37%) Azure Functions
12 8 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (3.40%) OpenShift
14 6 (2.91%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (2.91%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.97%) Firewall
1 2 (0.97%) HTTP
2 1 (0.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.17%) MongoDB
2 21 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.83%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.37%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.91%) MySQL
7 5 (2.43%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.94%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.46%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.46%) Weaviate
9 3 (1.46%) ZAP BI
10 2 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.97%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.97%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.97%) Redis
11 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.49%) Cloud Spanner
11 1 (0.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 131 (63.59%) Selenium
2 79 (38.35%) JUnit
3 68 (33.01%) Git
4 67 (32.52%) GitLab
5 66 (32.04%) Jenkins
6 54 (26.21%) Postman
7 50 (24.27%) REST Assured
8 42 (20.39%) Gatling
9 33 (16.02%) WebDriver
10 32 (15.53%) JMeter
11 30 (14.56%) JIRA
12 24 (11.65%) Cypress.io
12 24 (11.65%) SonarQube
13 18 (8.74%) Maven
13 18 (8.74%) TestNG
14 17 (8.25%) Mockito
15 12 (5.83%) Gradle
16 11 (5.34%) SpecFlow
17 9 (4.37%) SoapUI
18 8 (3.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 77 (37.38%) Social Skills
2 49 (23.79%) Public Sector
3 33 (16.02%) Finance
4 23 (11.17%) Banking
5 22 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (6.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.85%) Military
8 3 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.97%) Law
10 1 (0.49%) Automotive
10 1 (0.49%) Marketing
10 1 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 57 (27.67%) Test Engineer
2 44 (21.36%) Senior
3 29 (14.08%) Test Automation Engineer
4 25 (12.14%) Quality Engineer
5 24 (11.65%) Tester
6 23 (11.17%) Developer
7 21 (10.19%) QA Engineer
8 16 (7.77%) Automation Tester
9 15 (7.28%) Java Developer
10 14 (6.80%) Lead
11 13 (6.31%) Automation Engineer
11 13 (6.31%) Senior Test Engineer
12 12 (5.83%) Analyst
13 11 (5.34%) Test Analyst
14 10 (4.85%) Salesforce Engineer
14 10 (4.85%) Test Leader
15 8 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
15 8 (3.88%) Java Engineer
15 8 (3.88%) Lead Test Analyst
15 8 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (40.29%) Playwright
2 52 (25.24%) Spring
3 48 (23.30%) Gherkin
4 43 (20.87%) REST
5 35 (16.99%) Kafka
6 33 (16.02%) WireMock
7 30 (14.56%) Spring Boot
8 25 (12.14%) Node.js
8 25 (12.14%) React
9 23 (11.17%) RESTful
10 17 (8.25%) HTML
11 14 (6.80%) RabbitMQ
11 14 (6.80%) SOAP
12 13 (6.31%) JSON
13 12 (5.83%) .NET
13 12 (5.83%) OpenAPI
14 11 (5.34%) Swagger
15 10 (4.85%) CSS
16 9 (4.37%) Terraform
17 8 (3.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.80%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.85%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.37%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.37%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.43%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.46%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.46%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.97%) Equities
8 2 (0.97%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.97%) PKI
8 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.49%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.77%) Linux
2 6 (2.91%) Unix
3 4 (1.94%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.97%) Android
4 2 (0.97%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.97%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (81.07%) Test Automation
2 155 (75.24%) CI/CD
3 132 (64.08%) Agile
4 128 (62.14%) BDD
5 76 (36.89%) TDD
6 72 (34.95%) DevOps
7 68 (33.01%) API Testing
8 64 (31.07%) Test Strategy
9 63 (30.58%) Software Testing
10 59 (28.64%) Microservices
11 54 (26.21%) Scrum
12 53 (25.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 48 (23.30%) Stakeholder Management
14 42 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
15 40 (19.42%) Containerisation
15 40 (19.42%) Security Testing
16 39 (18.93%) Performance Testing
17 37 (17.96%) SDLC
18 33 (16.02%) Coaching
19 32 (15.53%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 144 (69.90%) Java
2 71 (34.47%) JavaScript
3 35 (16.99%) Python
4 27 (13.11%) C#
5 21 (10.19%) SQL
5 21 (10.19%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.34%) Scala
7 10 (4.85%) Bash
8 7 (3.40%) Apex Code
8 7 (3.40%) Ruby
9 4 (1.94%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.94%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.46%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.46%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.97%) PromQL
11 2 (0.97%) R
12 1 (0.49%) COBOL
12 1 (0.49%) Groovy
12 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 67 (32.52%) Security Cleared
2 55 (26.70%) SC Cleared
3 31 (15.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (8.74%) Degree
5 17 (8.25%) ISTQB
6 12 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (5.34%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.49%) ISEB
11 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (43.20%) QA
2 59 (28.64%) Accessibility
3 35 (16.99%) WCAG
4 8 (3.88%) GDPR
5 4 (1.94%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.46%) SEPA
7 2 (0.97%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 77 (37.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 76 (36.89%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.28%) Grafana
3 13 (6.31%) Prometheus
4 10 (4.85%) Ansible
5 7 (3.40%) Istio
6 3 (1.46%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.46%) Kibana
7 2 (0.97%) Consul
7 2 (0.97%) Packer
7 2 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.97%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 23 (11.17%) Oracle
2 16 (7.77%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.77%) Salesforce
3 8 (3.88%) Conga
3 8 (3.88%) GoCardless
4 7 (3.40%) Databricks
4 7 (3.40%) HP
5 6 (2.91%) IBM
5 6 (2.91%) Splunk
6 4 (1.94%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.94%) Google
7 3 (1.46%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.97%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.97%) Pega
8 2 (0.97%) Solace
8 2 (0.97%) Sybase
9 1 (0.49%) F5
9 1 (0.49%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.49%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.49%) Veracode