Cucumber Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Cucumber
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Cucumber skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 66 98
Rank change year-on-year -4 +32 +5
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 9 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.12% 0.60% 0.072%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.00% 3.31% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 0
10th Percentile £349 £494 -
25th Percentile £414 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile £531 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -5.00% +25.00% -11.11%

All Development Application Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 150 151 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 18.59% 18.26% 11.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 117 113
10th Percentile £384 £399 £380
25th Percentile £424 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £638
90th Percentile £675 £638 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.78
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.24%
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £26.78
% change year-on-year - - -46.44%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cucumber relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Cucumber job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in West Yorkshire

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
Leeds -3 9 £450 -25.00% 3
Cucumber
Yorkshire

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Cypress.io
1 8 (88.89%) GitLab
1 8 (88.89%) Jenkins
2 6 (66.67%) JMeter
2 6 (66.67%) Postman
2 6 (66.67%) REST Assured
2 6 (66.67%) Selenium
2 6 (66.67%) TestNG
3 5 (55.56%) Maven
4 3 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Military
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Senior
2 5 (55.56%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) Playwright
2 2 (22.22%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 6 (66.67%) API Testing
3 6 (66.67%) BDD
3 6 (66.67%) TDD
4 5 (55.56%) Test Scripting
5 4 (44.44%) Non-Functional Testing
5 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy
6 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (33.33%) Manual Testing
6 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
6 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (33.33%) Test Planning
7 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (22.22%) Microservices
7 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 7 (77.78%) WCAG
3 4 (44.44%) QA
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Splunk