Cucumber Contracts in the West Midlands

Cucumber
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 107 133
Rank change year-on-year +18 +26 +7
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 8 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.59% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.44% 1.90% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £419 £219 £411
25th Percentile £440 £245 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £301 £425
Median % change year-on-year +60.33% -29.12% +4.94%
75th Percentile £485 £370 £438
90th Percentile £496 £403 -
England median daily rate £455 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -9.00% -13.04% +15.00%

All Development Application Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 180 210 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.38% 10.79% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 149 248
10th Percentile £399 £260 £361
25th Percentile £449 £358 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -16.36% +9.80%
75th Percentile £548 £536 £590
90th Percentile £648 £556 £700
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 1
10th Percentile - £10.50 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.88 £31.69
Median hourly rate £57.50 £56.25 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +68.49% -14.40%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 £35.08
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in the West Midlands

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in the West Midlands

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +20 5 £483 +60.33%
Shropshire - 2 £466 -
Walsall - 1 - -
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
1 3 (37.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) IDMS
2 1 (12.50%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Selenium
2 3 (37.50%) Gradle
2 3 (37.50%) JUnit
2 3 (37.50%) Maven
2 3 (37.50%) Mockito
3 2 (25.00%) JMeter
4 1 (12.50%) Ant
4 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
4 1 (12.50%) CA Gen
4 1 (12.50%) JBehave
4 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (12.50%) JIRA
4 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
4 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
3 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) QA Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Leader
3 1 (12.50%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) QA Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Gherkin
1 3 (37.50%) RESTful
1 3 (37.50%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) J2EE
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Scrum
2 3 (37.50%) TDD
2 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
3 2 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Compatibility Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) User Stories
4 1 (12.50%) Batch Processing
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Functional Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) COBOL
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) ISEB
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) QA
2 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Sybase