Cucumber Contracts in Wales

Cucumber
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 42 56
Rank change year-on-year +6 +14 0
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.00% 0.47% 0.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.71% 3.51% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 £488
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -23.08% -15.22%
75th Percentile £488 - £569
90th Percentile - - £614
UK median daily rate £430 £510 £545
% change year-on-year -15.69% -6.42% +6.34%

All Development Application Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 28 57 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 9.30% 13.38% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 43 44
10th Percentile £247 £385 £366
25th Percentile £307 £464 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £509 £560
Median % change year-on-year -20.35% -9.20% +1.82%
75th Percentile £488 £545 £625
90th Percentile £500 £590 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £20.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - -22.17% -
UK median hourly rate £57.63 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -11.35% +4.00% +20.19%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in Wales

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in Wales

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the Wales region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
West Wales - 2 £475 - 6
South Wales +9 1 - - 12
Cucumber
UK

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Playwright
2 1 (33.33%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (33.33%) BDD
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google