Cucumber Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cucumber
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Cucumber skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cucumber over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 282 263
Rank change year-on-year +11 -19 -25
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 77 195 455
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 0.74% 1.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.13% 4.81% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 146 344
10th Percentile £350 £379 £377
25th Percentile £375 £432 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £669 £647 £600
90th Percentile £863 £775 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% +10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 9
10th Percentile - £67.75 £44.50
25th Percentile - £70.94 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year - +14.43% +63.85%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £66.08
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year - +14.43% +59.85%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Cucumber is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,866 4,054 8,424
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.00% 15.39% 18.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,336 2,904 6,110
10th Percentile £360 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +7.31%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 120 105
10th Percentile £26.24 £44.41 -
25th Percentile £46.75 £53.94 £39.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile - £78.88 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +1.63% +17.14% +16.67%

Cucumber
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cucumber trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Cucumber over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 3 (3.90%) nginx
2 2 (2.60%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.30%) Appian
3 1 (1.30%) Confluence
3 1 (1.30%) LiveLink
3 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.30%) SharePoint 2013
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.30%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.30%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.30%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 28 (36.36%) AWS
2 14 (18.18%) Azure
3 6 (7.79%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (6.49%) GitHub
5 4 (5.19%) Serverless
6 3 (3.90%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 2 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.60%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (2.60%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.60%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (2.60%) IaaS
7 2 (2.60%) PaaS
7 2 (2.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.30%) MQTT
1 1 (1.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.19%) MongoDB
1 4 (5.19%) MySQL
1 4 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.90%) Redis
2 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.60%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 45 (58.44%) Selenium
2 42 (54.55%) Jenkins
3 30 (38.96%) JUnit
4 25 (32.47%) GitLab
5 19 (24.68%) JIRA
5 19 (24.68%) Mockito
5 19 (24.68%) REST Assured
6 17 (22.08%) JMeter
7 16 (20.78%) Git
8 12 (15.58%) Postman
9 11 (14.29%) TestNG
10 10 (12.99%) SonarQube
10 10 (12.99%) WebDriver
11 9 (11.69%) Bitbucket
11 9 (11.69%) Maven
12 8 (10.39%) SoapUI
13 7 (9.09%) Cypress.io
14 6 (7.79%) Appium
15 4 (5.19%) eggPlant
15 4 (5.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 23 (29.87%) Finance
2 18 (23.38%) Social Skills
3 15 (19.48%) Front Office
4 10 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (9.09%) Law
5 7 (9.09%) Police
6 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.90%) Banking
7 3 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.60%) Back Office
9 1 (1.30%) Aviation
9 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (33.77%) Developer
1 26 (33.77%) Senior
2 22 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 16 (20.78%) Senior Developer
3 16 (20.78%) Senior Java Developer
4 14 (18.18%) Tester
5 11 (14.29%) Automation Tester
5 11 (14.29%) Test Engineer
6 9 (11.69%) Java Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) Lead
7 7 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 6 (7.79%) Software Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Senior Java Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) Java Automation Tester
10 4 (5.19%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (33.77%) REST
2 19 (24.68%) Spring Boot
3 10 (12.99%) Gherkin
4 8 (10.39%) ARM Templates
4 8 (10.39%) Java EE
4 8 (10.39%) Spring
5 7 (9.09%) .NET
5 7 (9.09%) Playwright
6 6 (7.79%) Web Services
7 5 (6.49%) ActiveMQ
7 5 (6.49%) Kafka
7 5 (6.49%) RESTful
7 5 (6.49%) SOAP
8 4 (5.19%) JAX-RS
8 4 (5.19%) OAuth
9 3 (3.90%) .NET Framework
9 3 (3.90%) Chai
9 3 (3.90%) Node.js
9 3 (3.90%) OpenAPI
9 3 (3.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.58%) Credit Derivative
2 3 (3.90%) Mobile App
2 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.60%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.30%) Derivative
4 1 (1.30%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.30%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.60%) Windows
2 1 (1.30%) Android
2 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.30%) Linux
2 1 (1.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (74.03%) Test Automation
2 48 (62.34%) CI/CD
3 30 (38.96%) Agile
4 29 (37.66%) DevOps
5 28 (36.36%) BDD
6 17 (22.08%) Continuous Integration
7 15 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (19.48%) SDLC
7 15 (19.48%) Test Strategy
8 13 (16.88%) Software Engineering
9 12 (15.58%) API Testing
10 11 (14.29%) Microservices
10 11 (14.29%) Software Testing
11 10 (12.99%) Containerisation
11 10 (12.99%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (12.99%) TDD
12 9 (11.69%) End-to-End Testing
13 8 (10.39%) Decision-Making
13 8 (10.39%) ETL
13 8 (10.39%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 59 (76.62%) Java
2 12 (15.58%) JavaScript
3 11 (14.29%) C#
4 10 (12.99%) Python
5 6 (7.79%) SQL
6 4 (5.19%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.60%) C
7 2 (2.60%) C++
7 2 (2.60%) Scala
7 2 (2.60%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.60%) VBA
7 2 (2.60%) VBScript
8 1 (1.30%) Bash
8 1 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (33.77%) Security Cleared
2 22 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.09%) ISTQB
4 4 (5.19%) ISEB
4 4 (5.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (3.90%) Degree
6 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (25.97%) QA
2 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (23.38%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) iptables
2 1 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (20.78%) Kubernetes
2 14 (18.18%) Terraform
3 10 (12.99%) Ansible
4 9 (11.69%) Docker Swarm
5 8 (10.39%) Podman
6 3 (3.90%) Grafana
7 2 (2.60%) Kustomize
7 2 (2.60%) Packer
8 1 (1.30%) Istio
8 1 (1.30%) Kibana
8 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (9.09%) Oracle
2 6 (7.79%) IBM
3 5 (6.49%) Salesforce
4 4 (5.19%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.90%) SAP
6 2 (2.60%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.60%) Splunk
7 1 (1.30%) HP
7 1 (1.30%) OpenText
7 1 (1.30%) Perfecto Mobile
7 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow