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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 391 365
Rank change year-on-year +19 -26 -89
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 237 171 269
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.47% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.33% 3.61% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 98 196
10th Percentile £312 £308 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £491 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +3.42% -11.21%
75th Percentile £520 £600 £625
90th Percentile £613 £734 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £498 £440
% change year-on-year -14.57% +13.07% -9.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 9
10th Percentile £41.50 - £54.25
25th Percentile £44.38 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile £60.00 - £80.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%

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 5,479 4,742 5,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.31% 13.00% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,775 2,956 4,163
10th Percentile £331 £341 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £508
% change year-on-year -2.56% -3.94% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 130 236
10th Percentile £29.00 £24.54 £45.88
25th Percentile £51.00 £46.25 £50.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.97%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.40 £74.50 £89.38
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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 +18 187 £425 -15.00% 60
UK excluding London +30 135 £425 -14.57% 41
London -10 74 £506 +6.58% 29
Work from Home +10 57 £400 -20.00% 35
North of England -34 49 £415 -15.95% 8
South East +29 40 £395 -21.00% 13
North West -13 20 £400 +26.18% 5
Wales +20 19 £475 +26.67% 6
Midlands -7 18 £326 -35.71% 6
North East +3 17 £445 +36.92% 1
Yorkshire -46 12 £375 -36.58% 2
West Midlands -23 9 £525 +3.45% 3
East Midlands - 9 £270 - 3
Scotland +2 7 £466 +9.71% 2
South West -17 2 £425 -22.73% 6
Northern Ireland - 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 26 (10.97%) Confluence
2 7 (2.95%) Appian
3 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.84%) CICS
3 2 (0.84%) JBoss
3 2 (0.84%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.42%) Mule
4 1 (0.42%) Mule ESB
4 1 (0.42%) nginx
4 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.42%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 84 (35.44%) AWS
2 53 (22.36%) GitHub
3 45 (18.99%) Azure
4 33 (13.92%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (11.39%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (8.86%) OpenShift
7 15 (6.33%) Serverless
8 13 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (4.64%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (3.80%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.80%) Datadog
10 9 (3.80%) GCP
11 7 (2.95%) Tricentis Tosca
12 6 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.53%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (2.53%) AWS Fargate
13 5 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.11%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.53%) Kerberos
2 5 (2.11%) HTTP
3 2 (0.84%) Internet
4 1 (0.42%) DSL
4 1 (0.42%) Multicast
4 1 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.77%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (6.33%) MongoDB
3 12 (5.06%) DynamoDB
3 12 (5.06%) NoSQL
3 12 (5.06%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.80%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.95%) HBase
6 6 (2.53%) DB2
7 4 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.69%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.27%) MySQL
8 3 (1.27%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.84%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.42%) Big Data
10 1 (0.42%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 109 (45.99%) Selenium
2 87 (36.71%) Jenkins
3 68 (28.69%) JUnit
4 57 (24.05%) Git
4 57 (24.05%) JIRA
5 54 (22.78%) Postman
6 52 (21.94%) GitLab
7 36 (15.19%) JMeter
8 35 (14.77%) REST Assured
9 28 (11.81%) Maven
9 28 (11.81%) Sonatype Nexus
10 22 (9.28%) Bitbucket
11 21 (8.86%) Cypress.io
12 18 (7.59%) Mockito
12 18 (7.59%) SonarQube
13 16 (6.75%) WebDriver
14 14 (5.91%) Gatling
14 14 (5.91%) Zephyr
15 11 (4.64%) SpecFlow
16 10 (4.22%) Gradle
General
1 63 (26.58%) Social Skills
2 52 (21.94%) Finance
3 35 (14.77%) Banking
4 33 (13.92%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.17%) Investment Banking
6 16 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.95%) Front Office
7 7 (2.95%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.53%) Back Office
8 6 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.27%) Automotive
10 3 (1.27%) Military
11 2 (0.84%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Aviation
12 1 (0.42%) Billing
12 1 (0.42%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Games
12 1 (0.42%) Retail
12 1 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (35.44%) Developer
2 55 (23.21%) Test Engineer
3 50 (21.10%) Java Developer
4 32 (13.50%) Tester
5 28 (11.81%) Senior
6 27 (11.39%) Automation Tester
7 26 (10.97%) Test Automation Engineer
8 17 (7.17%) Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (7.17%) QA Engineer
9 15 (6.33%) Java Engineer
10 14 (5.91%) AWS Developer
11 12 (5.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 10 (4.22%) Senior Developer
13 9 (3.80%) Automation Engineer
13 9 (3.80%) Lead
13 9 (3.80%) Scala Developer
13 9 (3.80%) Senior Java Developer
14 8 (3.38%) Quality Engineer
15 7 (2.95%) QA Tester
15 7 (2.95%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (28.27%) Spring
2 58 (24.47%) REST
3 57 (24.05%) Spring Boot
4 47 (19.83%) Playwright
5 33 (13.92%) React
6 32 (13.50%) JSON
7 29 (12.24%) Kafka
7 29 (12.24%) RESTful
8 26 (10.97%) Gherkin
8 26 (10.97%) Node.js
9 23 (9.70%) Hibernate
10 22 (9.28%) HTML
10 22 (9.28%) XML
11 17 (7.17%) SOAP
12 16 (6.75%) .NET
12 16 (6.75%) JPA
13 15 (6.33%) CSS
14 14 (5.91%) Jest
14 14 (5.91%) WireMock
15 12 (5.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.44%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.80%) Algorithms
3 6 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.27%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.27%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.27%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.84%) Client/Server
5 2 (0.84%) Derivative
5 2 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.84%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (0.84%) Mainframe
5 2 (0.84%) Mobile App
5 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
5 2 (0.84%) VSAM
6 1 (0.42%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.42%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.13%) Linux
2 7 (2.95%) Unix
3 3 (1.27%) Windows
4 1 (0.42%) Android
4 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (64.56%) Test Automation
2 143 (60.34%) CI/CD
3 141 (59.49%) Agile
4 82 (34.60%) BDD
5 67 (28.27%) Microservices
6 64 (27.00%) Scrum
7 62 (26.16%) DevOps
8 61 (25.74%) TDD
9 43 (18.14%) API Testing
9 43 (18.14%) Software Engineering
9 43 (18.14%) Software Testing
9 43 (18.14%) Test Strategy
10 40 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
11 37 (15.61%) Test Scripting
12 34 (14.35%) Performance Testing
13 32 (13.50%) Sprint Planning
14 30 (12.66%) Full-Stack Development
14 30 (12.66%) SDLC
15 28 (11.81%) Containerisation
15 28 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 164 (69.20%) Java
2 56 (23.63%) JavaScript
3 42 (17.72%) SQL
4 39 (16.46%) Python
5 23 (9.70%) C#
5 23 (9.70%) TypeScript
6 20 (8.44%) Ruby
7 13 (5.49%) Scala
8 7 (2.95%) XPath
9 6 (2.53%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.69%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.84%) COBOL
11 2 (0.84%) JCL
11 2 (0.84%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.42%) Groovy
12 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (14.35%) Security Cleared
2 25 (10.55%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (3.80%) Degree
4 9 (3.80%) ISTQB
4 9 (3.80%) OCP
4 9 (3.80%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.84%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.42%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (32.49%) QA
2 19 (8.02%) Accessibility
3 18 (7.59%) WCAG
4 2 (0.84%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.84%) SLA
5 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 49 (20.68%) Docker
2 7 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 45 (18.99%) Kubernetes
2 34 (14.35%) Ansible
3 15 (6.33%) Grafana
4 14 (5.91%) Progress Chef
5 5 (2.11%) Kibana
6 3 (1.27%) Terraform
7 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (7.17%) Oracle
2 15 (6.33%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.91%) Veracode
3 14 (5.91%) VMware
4 7 (2.95%) Cisco
4 7 (2.95%) Splunk
4 7 (2.95%) UiPath
5 6 (2.53%) CA Agile Central
6 5 (2.11%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.27%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.84%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.84%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.84%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.42%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.42%) Databricks
9 1 (0.42%) MarketAxess
9 1 (0.42%) Mercator
9 1 (0.42%) SAP
9 1 (0.42%) Sybase
9 1 (0.42%) Tradeweb