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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 351 385
Rank change year-on-year -96 +34 -20
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 234 218 165
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.66% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.62% 4.29% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 149 105
10th Percentile £306 £278 £311
25th Percentile £387 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £500 £520 £600
90th Percentile £538 £638 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £424 £470
% change year-on-year +2.13% -9.89% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 0
Median hourly rate £35.80 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.40% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.80 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -28.40% - -

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 6,456 5,081 4,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 15.43% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,136 3,452 3,116
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £495
% change year-on-year - -4.04% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 111 168
10th Percentile £22.68 £16.84 £29.67
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.75 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.00 £71.88
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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -85 214 £445 +4.71% 96
UK excluding London -80 131 £433 +2.13% 64
London -68 81 £475 -8.65% 38
Work from Home -54 62 £447 +5.18% 46
North of England -53 52 £420 -1.18% 26
West Midlands -9 47 £450 -5.26% 10
Midlands -20 47 £450 +63.64% 12
North West -48 21 £420 +8.39% 9
South West -14 20 £425 -10.53% 5
Yorkshire -34 16 £400 -5.88% 5
North East -37 15 £450 +0.56% 12
South East -89 7 £275 -31.25% 10
Scotland -29 6 £480 +3.78% 4
Wales -25 1 £288 -39.47%

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 25 (10.68%) Confluence
2 1 (0.43%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Mingle
2 1 (0.43%) CATIA
2 1 (0.43%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (3.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.99%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.28%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (42.74%) AWS
2 74 (31.62%) GitHub
3 68 (29.06%) Azure
4 35 (14.96%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (14.96%) GitHub Actions
5 32 (13.68%) Serverless
6 25 (10.68%) GCP
7 23 (9.83%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (6.84%) GitHub Copilot
9 15 (6.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (5.98%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (5.13%) Amazon S3
12 11 (4.70%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (4.70%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (4.27%) Power Automate
14 9 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (3.85%) Azure Functions
15 7 (2.99%) BrowserStack
15 7 (2.99%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.71%) Firewall
2 3 (1.28%) Internet
3 2 (0.85%) BGP
3 2 (0.85%) DNS
3 2 (0.85%) HTTP
3 2 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (0.85%) Network Security
3 2 (0.85%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.85%) VPN
3 2 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (13.25%) MongoDB
2 24 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.13%) SQL Server
4 10 (4.27%) DynamoDB
5 9 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (2.99%) MySQL
6 7 (2.99%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.56%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.71%) ZAP BI
9 3 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.28%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.28%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.28%) Redis
9 3 (1.28%) Weaviate
10 2 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.85%) Power BI
11 1 (0.43%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.43%) Cloud Spanner
11 1 (0.43%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 145 (61.97%) Selenium
2 93 (39.74%) JUnit
3 79 (33.76%) Jenkins
4 78 (33.33%) Git
4 78 (33.33%) GitLab
5 58 (24.79%) Postman
6 53 (22.65%) REST Assured
7 48 (20.51%) Gatling
8 36 (15.38%) JIRA
9 35 (14.96%) JMeter
10 32 (13.68%) WebDriver
11 31 (13.25%) SonarQube
12 26 (11.11%) Cypress.io
13 22 (9.40%) Maven
13 22 (9.40%) Mockito
14 20 (8.55%) TestNG
15 13 (5.56%) Gradle
15 13 (5.56%) SpecFlow
16 12 (5.13%) SoapUI
17 9 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 91 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 55 (23.50%) Public Sector
3 40 (17.09%) Finance
4 26 (11.11%) Banking
5 25 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.27%) Military
8 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.28%) Police
9 2 (0.85%) Automotive
9 2 (0.85%) Law
10 1 (0.43%) Electronics
10 1 (0.43%) Marketing
10 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (25.21%) Test Engineer
2 51 (21.79%) Senior
3 31 (13.25%) Quality Engineer
4 29 (12.39%) Developer
5 28 (11.97%) Test Automation Engineer
6 26 (11.11%) Tester
7 23 (9.83%) QA Engineer
8 20 (8.55%) Java Developer
9 18 (7.69%) Automation Tester
10 16 (6.84%) Automation Engineer
10 16 (6.84%) Senior Test Engineer
11 15 (6.41%) Lead
12 12 (5.13%) Analyst
13 11 (4.70%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (4.70%) Test Analyst
14 10 (4.27%) Java Engineer
14 10 (4.27%) Salesforce Engineer
14 10 (4.27%) Test Leader
15 8 (3.42%) Lead Test Analyst
15 8 (3.42%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (39.32%) Playwright
2 58 (24.79%) Spring
3 54 (23.08%) Gherkin
4 46 (19.66%) REST
5 40 (17.09%) Kafka
6 39 (16.67%) WireMock
7 35 (14.96%) Spring Boot
8 31 (13.25%) RESTful
9 29 (12.39%) React
10 26 (11.11%) Node.js
11 20 (8.55%) HTML
12 19 (8.12%) RabbitMQ
13 16 (6.84%) OpenAPI
13 16 (6.84%) SOAP
14 15 (6.41%) JSON
15 14 (5.98%) .NET
15 14 (5.98%) Terraform
16 12 (5.13%) Swagger
17 11 (4.70%) CSS
18 10 (4.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.98%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 12 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.70%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.99%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.14%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.71%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.28%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.28%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.85%) Equities
10 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.85%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.85%) PKI
10 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.12%) Linux
2 8 (3.42%) macOS
2 8 (3.42%) Unix
3 4 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.85%) Android
4 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (82.48%) Test Automation
2 180 (76.92%) CI/CD
3 158 (67.52%) Agile
4 146 (62.39%) BDD
5 87 (37.18%) TDD
6 83 (35.47%) DevOps
7 76 (32.48%) Microservices
7 76 (32.48%) Software Testing
8 75 (32.05%) API Testing
9 66 (28.21%) Test Strategy
10 64 (27.35%) Scrum
11 58 (24.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 55 (23.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 50 (21.37%) Containerisation
14 48 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
14 48 (20.51%) Security Testing
15 44 (18.80%) Performance Testing
16 43 (18.38%) SDLC
17 40 (17.09%) Coaching
18 39 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 164 (70.09%) Java
2 78 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 46 (19.66%) Python
4 29 (12.39%) C#
5 25 (10.68%) SQL
6 24 (10.26%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.13%) Bash
8 11 (4.70%) Scala
9 7 (2.99%) Apex Code
9 7 (2.99%) Ruby
10 5 (2.14%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.71%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.28%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.28%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.85%) Go
13 2 (0.85%) PromQL
13 2 (0.85%) R
14 1 (0.43%) COBOL
14 1 (0.43%) Groovy
14 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 81 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 69 (29.49%) SC Cleared
3 34 (14.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 20 (8.55%) Degree
5 18 (7.69%) ISTQB
6 15 (6.41%) DV Cleared
7 14 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.14%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.85%) ISEB
13 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (43.16%) QA
2 71 (30.34%) Accessibility
3 42 (17.95%) WCAG
4 8 (3.42%) GDPR
5 3 (1.28%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.28%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.28%) SEPA
6 1 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 98 (41.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 96 (41.03%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.84%) Grafana
3 13 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 12 (5.13%) Ansible
5 7 (2.99%) Istio
6 3 (1.28%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.28%) Kibana
6 3 (1.28%) Packer
6 3 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.85%) Consul
7 2 (0.85%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.43%) Argo
Vendors
1 26 (11.11%) Oracle
2 18 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 17 (7.26%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.85%) Databricks
5 8 (3.42%) Conga
5 8 (3.42%) GoCardless
5 8 (3.42%) Google
6 7 (2.99%) HP
6 7 (2.99%) IBM
7 6 (2.56%) Splunk
8 4 (1.71%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.28%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.28%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.85%) OutSystems
10 2 (0.85%) Pega
10 2 (0.85%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.85%) Solace
10 2 (0.85%) Sybase
11 1 (0.43%) F5
11 1 (0.43%) TIBCO