Cucumber Contracts

Cucumber
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cucumber skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cucumber over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 361 346
Rank change year-on-year -3 -15 -53
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 166 232 392
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.54% 0.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.93% 4.52% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 165 297
10th Percentile £268 £325 £400
25th Percentile £359 £415 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £503 £688 £725
90th Percentile £564 £825 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -20.00% +2.56% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 16
10th Percentile - - £66.25
25th Percentile - - £70.94
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - £84.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +35.00%

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 4,224 5,136 8,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.60% 11.97% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,836 3,454 5,682
10th Percentile £340 £351 £375
25th Percentile £410 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 222 228
10th Percentile £21.69 £28.33 £44.89
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% +17.70%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £82.37 £77.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cucumber.

Hourly rate trend for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Top 16 Contract 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 30 May 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 +24 136 £425 -19.66% 160
UK excluding London +59 87 £400 -20.00% 165
London -10 55 £450 -15.57% 30
Work from Home +39 49 £421 -15.80% 62
North of England +25 33 £400 -8.05% 35
Midlands +36 22 £268 -29.47% 37
South East +44 19 £501 -23.00% 44
Yorkshire +28 18 £450 +1.69% 17
East Midlands +25 16 £265 -30.20% 20
North East +7 8 £390 +25.81% 4
North West +7 7 £380 -12.84% 14
West Midlands +20 6 £483 +60.33% 16
Scotland -5 6 £400 -20.00% 15
South West +43 4 - - 17
Wales +4 2 - - 5
East of England - 2 £525 - 13

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (10.84%) Confluence
2 5 (3.01%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.60%) CICS
3 1 (0.60%) nginx
3 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 48 (28.92%) AWS
2 27 (16.27%) Azure
3 18 (10.84%) GitHub
4 11 (6.63%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (6.63%) Serverless
5 10 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.82%) Amazon S3
7 7 (4.22%) Amazon Kinesis
7 7 (4.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (4.22%) OpenShift
8 6 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.01%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.41%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.41%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (2.41%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (2.41%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.41%) PowerApps
10 4 (2.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.20%) HTTP
1 2 (1.20%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.83%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.82%) MongoDB
3 7 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.61%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.01%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.01%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.81%) MySQL
7 2 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.60%) Adabas
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.60%) Big Data
8 1 (0.60%) DB2
8 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.60%) Redis
8 1 (0.60%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 79 (47.59%) Selenium
2 68 (40.96%) Jenkins
3 44 (26.51%) JIRA
4 39 (23.49%) REST Assured
5 34 (20.48%) Git
6 30 (18.07%) JUnit
6 30 (18.07%) Postman
7 24 (14.46%) Cypress.io
7 24 (14.46%) GitLab
7 24 (14.46%) Maven
8 15 (9.04%) JMeter
8 15 (9.04%) WebDriver
9 12 (7.23%) SonarQube
10 11 (6.63%) Gradle
11 9 (5.42%) Mockito
12 8 (4.82%) Visual Studio
13 7 (4.22%) IntelliJ
13 7 (4.22%) TestNG
14 6 (3.61%) SpecFlow
15 5 (3.01%) SoapUI
General
1 50 (30.12%) Social Skills
2 33 (19.88%) Banking
3 29 (17.47%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (13.86%) Finance
5 22 (13.25%) Public Sector
6 16 (9.64%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.82%) Law
8 4 (2.41%) Front Office
8 4 (2.41%) Police
9 3 (1.81%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.60%) Aviation
10 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (26.51%) Developer
2 31 (18.67%) Tester
3 28 (16.87%) Test Engineer
4 24 (14.46%) Senior
5 22 (13.25%) Automation Tester
6 20 (12.05%) Java Developer
7 15 (9.04%) Java Engineer
7 15 (9.04%) Scala Developer
8 12 (7.23%) QA Engineer
9 11 (6.63%) Automation Engineer
10 10 (6.02%) Lead
10 10 (6.02%) Senior Test Engineer
11 9 (5.42%) Java Software Engineer
11 9 (5.42%) Software Engineer
12 8 (4.82%) QA Tester
12 8 (4.82%) Test Automation Engineer
13 6 (3.61%) Senior Developer
14 5 (3.01%) Senior Java Developer
14 5 (3.01%) Test Leader
15 4 (2.41%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (20.48%) REST
2 26 (15.66%) Spring
3 18 (10.84%) Gherkin
4 17 (10.24%) Playwright
5 16 (9.64%) Spring Boot
6 15 (9.04%) HTML
7 14 (8.43%) Java EE
7 14 (8.43%) RESTful
8 12 (7.23%) jQuery
9 9 (5.42%) ARM Templates
9 9 (5.42%) DOM
9 9 (5.42%) Kafka
9 9 (5.42%) Web Services
10 8 (4.82%) .NET
10 8 (4.82%) Node.js
11 7 (4.22%) CSS
12 6 (3.61%) Jest
12 6 (3.61%) React
12 6 (3.61%) WireMock
13 5 (3.01%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.24%) Algorithms
2 5 (3.01%) Client/Server
2 5 (3.01%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.41%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.81%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (1.20%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.60%) Derivative
6 1 (0.60%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.60%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.83%) Linux
2 4 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.60%) AIX
3 1 (0.60%) Unix
3 1 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (71.08%) Test Automation
2 100 (60.24%) Agile
3 73 (43.98%) BDD
4 60 (36.14%) CI/CD
5 46 (27.71%) TDD
6 40 (24.10%) Software Engineering
7 37 (22.29%) DevOps
8 30 (18.07%) API Testing
9 29 (17.47%) Continuous Integration
10 27 (16.27%) Scrum
11 26 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (13.25%) Test Strategy
13 21 (12.65%) Test Scripting
14 20 (12.05%) OO
15 19 (11.45%) Clean Code
15 19 (11.45%) Software Testing
16 18 (10.84%) ATDD
16 18 (10.84%) Containerisation
16 18 (10.84%) Technical Leadership
17 17 (10.24%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 103 (62.05%) Java
2 32 (19.28%) JavaScript
3 28 (16.87%) Python
4 26 (15.66%) SQL
5 18 (10.84%) Scala
6 13 (7.83%) TypeScript
7 11 (6.63%) C#
8 8 (4.82%) PowerShell
9 7 (4.22%) Ruby
10 4 (2.41%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.81%) Bash
11 3 (1.81%) C++
11 3 (1.81%) VBA
11 3 (1.81%) VBScript
12 1 (0.60%) COBOL
12 1 (0.60%) Go
12 1 (0.60%) Groovy
12 1 (0.60%) JCL
12 1 (0.60%) Natural
Qualifications
1 40 (24.10%) Security Cleared
2 34 (20.48%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.22%) Degree
5 6 (3.61%) ISTQB
6 5 (3.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (2.41%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.81%) ISEB
9 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (30.12%) QA
2 17 (10.24%) Accessibility
3 10 (6.02%) WCAG
4 5 (3.01%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.81%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.60%) GDPR
6 1 (0.60%) SEPA
System Software
1 36 (21.69%) Docker
2 3 (1.81%) VirtualBox
3 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (22.89%) Ansible
2 22 (13.25%) Kubernetes
3 15 (9.04%) Terraform
4 9 (5.42%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (5.42%) Podman
5 3 (1.81%) Puppet
6 1 (0.60%) Grafana
6 1 (0.60%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (3.01%) Splunk
2 4 (2.41%) CA Agile Central
2 4 (2.41%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.81%) Oracle
3 3 (1.81%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.20%) Veracode
5 1 (0.60%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.60%) Google
5 1 (0.60%) IBM
5 1 (0.60%) Perfecto Mobile
5 1 (0.60%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.60%) Sybase
5 1 (0.60%) UiPath
5 1 (0.60%) Virgin Media