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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 347 343
Rank change year-on-year -103 -4 -15
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 177 171 246
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.59% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.09% 4.15% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 100 176
10th Percentile £350 £268 £338
25th Percentile £400 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.59% -13.95% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £520 £678
90th Percentile £638 £655 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £432 £424 £500
% change year-on-year +1.89% -15.30% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

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 5,727 4,118 5,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.13% 14.21% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,748 2,750 3,428
10th Percentile £347 £340 £353
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 71 202
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.04 £33.20
25th Percentile £59.19 £47.75 £46.38
Median hourly rate £66.75 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.06 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £79.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 May 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 13 May 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 -109 147 £463 +7.56% 28
UK excluding London -93 94 £432 +1.89% 19
London -56 64 £475 +10.40% 10
Work from Home -32 51 £425 +6.25% 16
North of England -66 46 £450 +6.64% 6
Yorkshire -49 22 £500 -3.80% 1
West Midlands -44 21 £425 -12.01% 2
Midlands -53 21 £425 +54.55% 4
North West -34 14 £400 -2.68% 3
Wales -3 10 £425 - 1
North East -15 10 £425 +8.97% 2
South West -30 7 £463 +101.09% 3
Scotland +5 6 £470 +17.50% 1
South East -69 3 £600 +19.88% 4
East of England -30 1 £450 -14.29%

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 (15.25%) Confluence
2 2 (1.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.13%) Camunda
2 2 (1.13%) Mule
2 2 (1.13%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.56%) JBoss
3 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.56%) Mingle
1 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.13%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.13%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 86 (48.59%) AWS
2 62 (35.03%) Azure
3 59 (33.33%) GitHub
4 39 (22.03%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (19.21%) GCP
6 16 (9.04%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (9.04%) Serverless
7 15 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (6.78%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (5.65%) SaaS
10 9 (5.08%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (3.95%) BrowserStack
13 6 (3.39%) OpenShift
14 5 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (2.26%) BlazeMeter
15 4 (2.26%) PaaS
16 3 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 3 (1.69%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.56%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.34%) MySQL
2 13 (7.34%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.95%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.82%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.26%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.69%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.56%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.56%) DB2
8 1 (0.56%) HBase
8 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.56%) Redis
8 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 104 (58.76%) Selenium
2 78 (44.07%) Jenkins
3 60 (33.90%) JIRA
4 53 (29.94%) Git
4 53 (29.94%) JUnit
5 52 (29.38%) GitLab
6 49 (27.68%) Postman
7 44 (24.86%) REST Assured
8 35 (19.77%) JMeter
9 34 (19.21%) WebDriver
10 14 (7.91%) Cypress.io
11 13 (7.34%) TestNG
12 11 (6.21%) Gatling
13 9 (5.08%) Maven
14 8 (4.52%) Mockito
14 8 (4.52%) TestRail
15 7 (3.95%) Gradle
15 7 (3.95%) SpecFlow
16 6 (3.39%) SoapUI
16 6 (3.39%) SonarQube
General
1 50 (28.25%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.16%) Finance
3 26 (14.69%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (13.56%) Public Sector
5 16 (9.04%) Banking
6 8 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.69%) Military
8 2 (1.13%) Back Office
8 2 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.13%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (25.99%) Test Engineer
2 30 (16.95%) Test Automation Engineer
2 30 (16.95%) Tester
3 27 (15.25%) Developer
4 25 (14.12%) Senior
5 23 (12.99%) Lead
6 21 (11.86%) Automation Tester
7 17 (9.60%) Test Leader
8 13 (7.34%) Automation Test Lead
9 12 (6.78%) QA Engineer
9 12 (6.78%) Software Engineer
10 9 (5.08%) Java Developer
11 8 (4.52%) Quality Engineer
11 8 (4.52%) Senior Automation Tester
11 8 (4.52%) Senior Tester
12 7 (3.95%) Automation Engineer
13 6 (3.39%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (3.39%) QA Tester
13 6 (3.39%) Senior Software Engineer
14 5 (2.82%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (24.29%) Playwright
2 40 (22.60%) REST
3 38 (21.47%) Spring
4 34 (19.21%) Gherkin
5 22 (12.43%) WireMock
6 20 (11.30%) Spring Boot
7 18 (10.17%) RESTful
8 17 (9.60%) AngularJS
8 17 (9.60%) Kafka
9 14 (7.91%) .NET
10 12 (6.78%) LDAP
10 12 (6.78%) OpenID
10 12 (6.78%) SailPoint
11 11 (6.21%) HTML
12 10 (5.65%) CSS
13 9 (5.08%) Node.js
13 9 (5.08%) SOAP
14 7 (3.95%) Next.js
14 7 (3.95%) React
15 6 (3.39%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.99%) Product Ownership
2 18 (10.17%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.78%) Distributed Architecture
4 11 (6.21%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.69%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.13%) Equities
7 2 (1.13%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.13%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.13%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.13%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.56%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.65%) Linux
2 4 (2.26%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.13%) Windows
4 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (79.66%) Test Automation
2 124 (70.06%) CI/CD
3 97 (54.80%) Agile
4 93 (52.54%) BDD
5 64 (36.16%) API Testing
6 60 (33.90%) Test Strategy
7 50 (28.25%) TDD
8 47 (26.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 47 (26.55%) DevOps
9 46 (25.99%) Microservices
10 31 (17.51%) Performance Testing
10 31 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (17.51%) Scrum
11 27 (15.25%) End-to-End Testing
12 26 (14.69%) Containerisation
12 26 (14.69%) Manual Testing
12 26 (14.69%) Test Scripting
12 26 (14.69%) Validation
13 24 (13.56%) Software Engineering
14 22 (12.43%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 111 (62.71%) Java
2 46 (25.99%) JavaScript
3 40 (22.60%) SQL
4 36 (20.34%) Python
5 24 (13.56%) C#
6 19 (10.73%) Ruby
7 18 (10.17%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.39%) PHP
9 5 (2.82%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.26%) Groovy
11 3 (1.69%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.69%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.69%) Scala
12 2 (1.13%) Bash
12 2 (1.13%) C++
12 2 (1.13%) Go
12 2 (1.13%) VBA
12 2 (1.13%) XPath
13 1 (0.56%) COBOL
13 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (23.16%) Security Cleared
2 38 (21.47%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.39%) Degree
5 4 (2.26%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.13%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.56%) CFA
7 1 (0.56%) ISEB
7 1 (0.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.56%) OCP
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (34.46%) QA
2 18 (10.17%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.69%) WCAG
4 2 (1.13%) NCSC
5 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.56%) SLA
5 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 41 (23.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (25.99%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.73%) Grafana
3 17 (9.60%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.39%) Terraform
5 3 (1.69%) Ansible
6 2 (1.13%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.56%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.56%) Istio
7 1 (0.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (9.60%) Oracle
2 14 (7.91%) ServiceNow
3 8 (4.52%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.82%) Google
5 4 (2.26%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.26%) Splunk
6 3 (1.69%) IBM
6 3 (1.69%) SAP
6 3 (1.69%) Workday
7 2 (1.13%) Adobe
7 2 (1.13%) Pega
7 2 (1.13%) Sybase
8 1 (0.56%) Actian
8 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.56%) Conga
8 1 (0.56%) GoCardless
8 1 (0.56%) HP
8 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.56%) Thales
8 1 (0.56%) UiPath