Cucumber Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Cucumber
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Cucumber skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 113 118
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 +32
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.16% 0.052% 0.097%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.12% 0.51% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £311 - -
25th Percentile £328 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -5.88% +10.97%
75th Percentile £403 £425 £438
90th Percentile £424 - -
England median daily rate £425 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -19.05% -2.78% +2.86%

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 268 198 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.64% 10.34% 8.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 145 120
10th Percentile £369 £355 £318
25th Percentile £425 £425 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +2.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £710 £689
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £37.88 £55.25 -
25th Percentile £40.69 £55.63 -
Median hourly rate £46.25 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% - -
75th Percentile £52.69 £66.88 -
90th Percentile £56.03 £71.75 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Cucumber.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Cucumber

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 19 September 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
Shropshire - 3 £363 - 4
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Gatling
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) JBehave
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
2 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle