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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 341 333
Rank change year-on-year -83 -8 -5
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 213 170 254
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.58% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.64% 4.18% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 97 183
10th Percentile £350 £305 £350
25th Percentile £384 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% -8.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £675
90th Percentile £604 £634 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -10.00%
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 5,845 4,069 5,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.74% 13.93% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,886 2,737 3,489
10th Percentile £340 £340 £356
25th Percentile £405 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £581 £603 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 71 175
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.25 £32.23
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.16 £45.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +6.67% -2.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.25 £81.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.84% +0.81%

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 10 April 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 10 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cucumber in the UK

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 10 April 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 -63 178 £425 -6.59% 26
UK excluding London -82 115 £425 -10.53% 25
London -50 75 £425 -1.16% 5
Work from Home -19 61 £425 -1.16% 18
North of England -75 46 £419 -8.47% 9
West Midlands -45 26 £425 -12.01% 2
Midlands -51 26 £425 - 5
Yorkshire -54 21 £513 -16.01% 2
South East -43 20 £393 -21.58% 5
North West -32 14 £400 -15.79% 6
Wales -1 13 £425 - 1
North East -14 11 £413 +9.63% 1
South West -28 6 £463 +101.09% 1
Scotland +4 3 - - 2
East of England -36 1 £450 -14.29% 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 27 (12.68%) Confluence
2 2 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (0.94%) Camunda
2 2 (0.94%) Mule
2 2 (0.94%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.47%) JBoss
3 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.47%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.47%) Mingle
1 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 109 (51.17%) AWS
2 74 (34.74%) Azure
3 73 (34.27%) GitHub
4 50 (23.47%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (15.96%) GCP
6 24 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (7.98%) Serverless
8 15 (7.04%) OpenShift
9 11 (5.16%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (4.69%) SaaS
11 8 (3.76%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (2.82%) BrowserStack
13 5 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (1.88%) BlazeMeter
14 4 (1.88%) PaaS
15 3 (1.41%) AWS CodePipeline
15 3 (1.41%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.29%) HTTP
2 2 (0.94%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (16.90%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.63%) MySQL
3 11 (5.16%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.23%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.29%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.29%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.35%) HBase
6 5 (2.35%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.41%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.94%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.47%) Big Data
9 1 (0.47%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.47%) DB2
9 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 115 (53.99%) Selenium
2 102 (47.89%) Jenkins
3 75 (35.21%) Git
4 73 (34.27%) JIRA
5 70 (32.86%) JUnit
6 63 (29.58%) Postman
7 60 (28.17%) GitLab
8 47 (22.07%) REST Assured
9 45 (21.13%) JMeter
10 35 (16.43%) WebDriver
11 16 (7.51%) Mockito
11 16 (7.51%) Sonatype Nexus
11 16 (7.51%) TestRail
12 15 (7.04%) Maven
13 14 (6.57%) Gradle
14 13 (6.10%) SpecFlow
15 12 (5.63%) Gatling
15 12 (5.63%) Zephyr
16 11 (5.16%) TestNG
17 10 (4.69%) Cypress.io
General
1 64 (30.05%) Social Skills
2 57 (26.76%) Finance
3 25 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.80%) Public Sector
5 19 (8.92%) Banking
6 8 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.41%) Back Office
7 3 (1.41%) Military
8 2 (0.94%) Front Office
8 2 (0.94%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.94%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (25.35%) Test Engineer
2 43 (20.19%) Developer
3 34 (15.96%) Tester
4 33 (15.49%) Test Automation Engineer
5 30 (14.08%) Senior
6 27 (12.68%) Automation Tester
7 25 (11.74%) Lead
8 23 (10.80%) Java Developer
9 17 (7.98%) Test Leader
10 14 (6.57%) Automation Test Lead
11 13 (6.10%) QA Engineer
12 12 (5.63%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (5.63%) Software Engineer
13 11 (5.16%) Java Engineer
14 9 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
15 8 (3.76%) Full-Stack Developer
15 8 (3.76%) QA Automation Engineer
15 8 (3.76%) Quality Engineer
15 8 (3.76%) Senior Automation Tester
15 8 (3.76%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (27.70%) Spring
2 54 (25.35%) REST
3 52 (24.41%) Playwright
4 41 (19.25%) Gherkin
5 29 (13.62%) Spring Boot
6 28 (13.15%) Kafka
7 25 (11.74%) WireMock
8 19 (8.92%) JSON
9 17 (7.98%) OpenID
9 17 (7.98%) React
10 16 (7.51%) .NET
10 16 (7.51%) AngularJS
10 16 (7.51%) RESTful
11 14 (6.57%) HTML
11 14 (6.57%) Node.js
12 12 (5.63%) LDAP
12 12 (5.63%) SailPoint
12 12 (5.63%) XML
13 11 (5.16%) SOAP
14 10 (4.69%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.21%) Product Ownership
2 18 (8.45%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.63%) Distributed Architecture
4 11 (5.16%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.41%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.94%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.94%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.94%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.94%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.47%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.47%) Equities
9 1 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.47%) NHS
9 1 (0.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.39%) Linux
2 2 (0.94%) Windows
3 1 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (73.71%) Test Automation
2 147 (69.01%) CI/CD
3 116 (54.46%) Agile
4 102 (47.89%) BDD
5 76 (35.68%) API Testing
6 65 (30.52%) Test Strategy
7 62 (29.11%) DevOps
8 56 (26.29%) TDD
9 54 (25.35%) Microservices
10 49 (23.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (17.84%) Scrum
12 36 (16.90%) Validation
13 35 (16.43%) Test Scripting
14 34 (15.96%) Performance Testing
15 33 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
16 32 (15.02%) Manual Testing
17 29 (13.62%) End-to-End Testing
18 28 (13.15%) Containerisation
18 28 (13.15%) Software Engineering
19 26 (12.21%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 142 (66.67%) Java
2 49 (23.00%) JavaScript
3 43 (20.19%) Python
4 40 (18.78%) SQL
5 30 (14.08%) C#
6 21 (9.86%) Ruby
7 20 (9.39%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.23%) XPath
9 6 (2.82%) PHP
10 4 (1.88%) Groovy
11 3 (1.41%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.41%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.41%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.94%) Bash
12 2 (0.94%) C++
12 2 (0.94%) Go
13 1 (0.47%) VB
13 1 (0.47%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.47%) VBA
13 1 (0.47%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 43 (20.19%) Security Cleared
2 39 (18.31%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (3.29%) Degree
4 6 (2.82%) ISTQB
4 6 (2.82%) OCP
4 6 (2.82%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.94%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.47%) CFA
7 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.47%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (28.64%) QA
2 12 (5.63%) Accessibility
3 10 (4.69%) WCAG
4 2 (0.94%) NCSC
5 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.47%) SLA
5 1 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 43 (20.19%) Docker
2 4 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (27.23%) Kubernetes
2 26 (12.21%) Grafana
3 16 (7.51%) Prometheus
4 12 (5.63%) Ansible
5 9 (4.23%) Progress Chef
6 7 (3.29%) Terraform
7 5 (2.35%) Kibana
8 2 (0.94%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.47%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 16 (7.51%) Oracle
2 14 (6.57%) ServiceNow
3 13 (6.10%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.23%) VMware
5 5 (2.35%) Google
6 4 (1.88%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.88%) Splunk
7 3 (1.41%) SAP
7 3 (1.41%) Workday
8 2 (0.94%) Adobe
9 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.47%) HP
9 1 (0.47%) IBM
9 1 (0.47%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.47%) MarketAxess
9 1 (0.47%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.47%) Sybase
9 1 (0.47%) Thales
9 1 (0.47%) Tradeweb