Cucumber Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cucumber
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 264 268 290
Rank change year-on-year +4 +22 -21
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 40 77 191
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.50% 0.74%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.70% 4.16% 4.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 66 142
10th Percentile £279 £350 £385
25th Percentile £376 £375 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £486 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.61% -2.90% -
75th Percentile £559 £688 £638
90th Percentile £758 £863 £775
UK median daily rate £460 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -8.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £68.50
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.43%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Cucumber falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,482 1,853 3,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.96% 12.08% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,324 2,836
10th Percentile £340 £360 £395
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 114
10th Percentile £27.28 £28.99 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.81 £47.38 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £80.38 £90.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Cucumber
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cucumber trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cucumber.

Cucumber daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cucumber over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Cucumber daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cucumber
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cucumber.

Cucumber hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (22.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.00%) AWS
2 12 (30.00%) Azure
3 6 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (15.00%) Slack
4 3 (7.50%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.50%) PowerApps
5 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.00%) IaaS
5 2 (5.00%) PaaS
5 2 (5.00%) SaaS
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.50%) GCP
6 1 (2.50%) GitHub
6 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 6 (15.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 6 (15.00%) MySQL
2 6 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.50%) Adabas
4 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (50.00%) JIRA
2 19 (47.50%) Jenkins
2 19 (47.50%) Selenium
3 12 (30.00%) Git
4 11 (27.50%) JUnit
5 9 (22.50%) REST Assured
6 8 (20.00%) GitLab
7 7 (17.50%) SonarQube
8 6 (15.00%) Cypress.io
8 6 (15.00%) Jasmine
8 6 (15.00%) Postman
9 3 (7.50%) Gatling
9 3 (7.50%) Maven
10 2 (5.00%) Bitbucket
10 2 (5.00%) SpecFlow
10 2 (5.00%) Subversion
10 2 (5.00%) TeamCity
10 2 (5.00%) Visual Studio
10 2 (5.00%) WebDriver
11 1 (2.50%) JMeter
General
1 9 (22.50%) Public Sector
1 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Banking
3 5 (12.50%) Finance
3 5 (12.50%) Law
4 4 (10.00%) Police
5 1 (2.50%) Front Office
5 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Senior
2 9 (22.50%) Developer
3 8 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 7 (17.50%) Java Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Tester
5 6 (15.00%) Java Software Engineer
5 6 (15.00%) Software Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) Automation Tester
6 5 (12.50%) QA Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) Senior Developer
7 4 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (10.00%) Test Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) Lead
8 3 (7.50%) QA Tester
8 3 (7.50%) Senior Test Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Performance Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Senior C# Developer
9 1 (2.50%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (32.50%) REST
2 9 (22.50%) Spring
2 9 (22.50%) Spring Boot
3 7 (17.50%) OpenAPI
3 7 (17.50%) RESTful
3 7 (17.50%) Swagger
4 5 (12.50%) ARM Templates
4 5 (12.50%) Java EE
4 5 (12.50%) Spring Batch
4 5 (12.50%) Spring Security
4 5 (12.50%) WireMock
5 3 (7.50%) .NET
5 3 (7.50%) Gherkin
5 3 (7.50%) Playwright
6 2 (5.00%) HTML
7 1 (2.50%) CSS
7 1 (2.50%) DOM
7 1 (2.50%) Hibernate
7 1 (2.50%) JPA
7 1 (2.50%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (5.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.00%) Linux
2 6 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 23 (57.50%) CI/CD
3 18 (45.00%) BDD
4 17 (42.50%) Agile
5 14 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (35.00%) DevOps
5 14 (35.00%) Software Engineering
6 12 (30.00%) Containerisation
7 11 (27.50%) Microservices
7 11 (27.50%) TDD
7 11 (27.50%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
9 6 (15.00%) API Design
9 6 (15.00%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (15.00%) High Availability
9 6 (15.00%) Kernel Tuning
9 6 (15.00%) Operational Stability
9 6 (15.00%) OWASP
9 6 (15.00%) Test Strategy
10 5 (12.50%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 30 (75.00%) Java
2 11 (27.50%) SQL
3 6 (15.00%) Bash
4 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.50%) Python
5 3 (7.50%) C#
6 2 (5.00%) C++
6 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.00%) VBA
6 2 (5.00%) VBScript
7 1 (2.50%) Natural
7 1 (2.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (7.50%) ISTQB
4 2 (5.00%) ISEB
4 2 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (32.50%) QA
2 3 (7.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.50%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (45.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.50%) Ansible
2 7 (17.50%) Terraform
3 5 (12.50%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (12.50%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
1 1 (2.50%) Splunk
1 1 (2.50%) UiPath
1 1 (2.50%) Veracode