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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 297 268
Rank change year-on-year +31 -29 -30
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 78 180 436
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 0.70% 0.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.25% 4.61% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 131 317
10th Percentile £350 £384 £363
25th Percentile £375 £433 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £575
90th Percentile £863 £775 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 9
10th Percentile - £68.50 £44.50
25th Percentile - £71.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year - +14.43% +13.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £66.08
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year - +14.43% +21.37%

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 1,835 3,905 8,285
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.05% 15.29% 18.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,319 2,795 5,986
10th Percentile £360 £394 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% +3.33% +9.03%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 110 103
10th Percentile £27.62 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £47.06 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £62.20
90th Percentile - £82.73 £67.74
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +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 6 May 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 (3.85%) nginx
2 2 (2.56%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.28%) Confluence
3 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.28%) SharePoint 2013
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.28%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.28%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (1.28%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.28%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 33 (42.31%) AWS
2 14 (17.95%) Azure
3 8 (10.26%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (7.69%) GitHub
5 5 (6.41%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.13%) Serverless
7 3 (3.85%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.56%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (2.56%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (2.56%) IaaS
8 2 (2.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.28%) MQTT
1 1 (1.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.69%) MySQL
2 5 (6.41%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.13%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.85%) Redis
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.56%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 46 (58.97%) Selenium
2 40 (51.28%) Jenkins
3 30 (38.46%) JUnit
4 25 (32.05%) GitLab
5 19 (24.36%) Mockito
5 19 (24.36%) REST Assured
6 17 (21.79%) JIRA
7 16 (20.51%) JMeter
8 15 (19.23%) Git
9 12 (15.38%) Postman
10 11 (14.10%) TestNG
10 11 (14.10%) WebDriver
11 10 (12.82%) SonarQube
12 9 (11.54%) Bitbucket
12 9 (11.54%) Maven
13 8 (10.26%) SoapUI
14 6 (7.69%) Appium
14 6 (7.69%) Cypress.io
15 4 (5.13%) SpecFlow
16 3 (3.85%) eggPlant
General
1 25 (32.05%) Finance
2 17 (21.79%) Social Skills
3 16 (20.51%) Front Office
4 10 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.97%) Law
5 7 (8.97%) Police
6 6 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.13%) Banking
8 3 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.56%) Back Office
10 1 (1.28%) Aviation
10 1 (1.28%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (39.74%) Developer
2 27 (34.62%) Senior
3 23 (29.49%) Java Developer
4 18 (23.08%) Senior Developer
5 16 (20.51%) Senior Java Developer
6 14 (17.95%) Tester
7 11 (14.10%) Automation Tester
7 11 (14.10%) Test Engineer
8 10 (12.82%) Java Engineer
9 7 (8.97%) Lead
9 7 (8.97%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 7 (8.97%) Software Engineer
9 7 (8.97%) Test Automation Engineer
10 6 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (6.41%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 5 (6.41%) Senior Java Engineer
11 5 (6.41%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 5 (6.41%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (6.41%) Software Developer
12 4 (5.13%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (34.62%) REST
2 19 (24.36%) Spring Boot
3 12 (15.38%) Gherkin
4 10 (12.82%) Spring
5 8 (10.26%) ARM Templates
5 8 (10.26%) Java EE
6 7 (8.97%) .NET
6 7 (8.97%) RESTful
7 6 (7.69%) Kafka
7 6 (7.69%) Playwright
7 6 (7.69%) Web Services
8 5 (6.41%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (5.13%) JAX-RS
9 4 (5.13%) Node.js
9 4 (5.13%) OAuth
9 4 (5.13%) SOAP
10 3 (3.85%) .NET Framework
10 3 (3.85%) Chai
10 3 (3.85%) OpenAPI
10 3 (3.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.38%) Credit Derivative
2 3 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.28%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.28%) Derivative
4 1 (1.28%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.28%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.85%) Linux
2 2 (2.56%) Windows
3 1 (1.28%) Android
3 1 (1.28%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (70.51%) Test Automation
2 49 (62.82%) CI/CD
3 31 (39.74%) Agile
4 29 (37.18%) DevOps
5 28 (35.90%) BDD
6 17 (21.79%) Continuous Integration
7 15 (19.23%) Microservices
7 15 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (19.23%) SDLC
7 15 (19.23%) Software Engineering
8 14 (17.95%) Test Strategy
9 12 (15.38%) Software Testing
10 11 (14.10%) API Testing
10 11 (14.10%) Containerisation
11 10 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (12.82%) SDET
12 9 (11.54%) End-to-End Testing
12 9 (11.54%) Scenario Testing
12 9 (11.54%) TDD
13 8 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 62 (79.49%) Java
2 11 (14.10%) C#
2 11 (14.10%) JavaScript
2 11 (14.10%) Python
3 7 (8.97%) SQL
4 3 (3.85%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.56%) C
5 2 (2.56%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.56%) Scala
6 1 (1.28%) Bash
6 1 (1.28%) C++
6 1 (1.28%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.28%) VBA
6 1 (1.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 23 (29.49%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.41%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.85%) Degree
4 3 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.56%) ISEB
6 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (21.79%) QA
2 3 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.28%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 19 (24.36%) Docker
2 1 (1.28%) iptables
2 1 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 15 (19.23%) Terraform
3 10 (12.82%) Ansible
4 9 (11.54%) Docker Swarm
5 8 (10.26%) Podman
6 3 (3.85%) Grafana
7 2 (2.56%) Kustomize
7 2 (2.56%) Packer
8 1 (1.28%) Istio
8 1 (1.28%) Kibana
8 1 (1.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (11.54%) Oracle
2 6 (7.69%) IBM
3 5 (6.41%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.41%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.85%) SAP
5 2 (2.56%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.56%) Splunk
6 1 (1.28%) HP
6 1 (1.28%) Perfecto Mobile
6 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow