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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 285 315
Rank change year-on-year +20 +30 -28
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 49 62 142
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.43% 0.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.05% 3.50% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 54 102
10th Percentile £268 £380 £375
25th Percentile £332 £456 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £475 £688 £574
90th Percentile £556 £863 £736
UK median daily rate £430 £506 £535
% change year-on-year -15.06% -5.37% +3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £55.00
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

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 1,608 1,773 3,481
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.80% 12.17% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,252 2,487
10th Percentile £330 £358 £369
25th Percentile £406 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £650
90th Percentile £689 £712 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 35 105
10th Percentile £29.10 £18.34 £40.48
25th Percentile £60.69 £40.00 £52.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.18%
75th Percentile £72.00 £75.13 £73.75
90th Percentile £86.68 £81.90 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +15.74%

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 6 July 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 5 (10.20%) Confluence
2 2 (4.08%) CICS
3 1 (2.04%) JBoss
3 1 (2.04%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.73%) AWS
2 10 (20.41%) Azure
3 4 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.16%) GitHub
4 3 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (6.12%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (6.12%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (6.12%) AWS Fargate
4 3 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (6.12%) OpenShift
4 3 (6.12%) Serverless
5 2 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.08%) AWS CodeBuild
5 2 (4.08%) GCP
6 1 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.04%) PaaS
6 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.16%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.12%) DB2
3 3 (6.12%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.08%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.04%) MySQL
5 1 (2.04%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (55.10%) Jenkins
2 26 (53.06%) Selenium
3 17 (34.69%) JUnit
4 16 (32.65%) JIRA
5 15 (30.61%) GitLab
5 15 (30.61%) Maven
5 15 (30.61%) REST Assured
6 10 (20.41%) Git
7 9 (18.37%) SonarQube
8 8 (16.33%) Cypress.io
9 7 (14.29%) Postman
10 6 (12.24%) JMeter
11 4 (8.16%) Eclipse
11 4 (8.16%) IntelliJ
11 4 (8.16%) Mockito
11 4 (8.16%) TestNG
12 3 (6.12%) Bitbucket
12 3 (6.12%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (4.08%) Gatling
13 2 (4.08%) SpecFlow
General
1 13 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.29%) Banking
4 5 (10.20%) Finance
4 5 (10.20%) Law
4 5 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.16%) Police
6 3 (6.12%) Front Office
7 1 (2.04%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 17 (34.69%) Developer
2 12 (24.49%) Tester
3 11 (22.45%) Java Developer
4 9 (18.37%) Automation Tester
5 6 (12.24%) Senior
6 5 (10.20%) Java Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) QA Tester
6 5 (10.20%) Test Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (8.16%) Java Software Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Software Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) AWS Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Lead
8 3 (6.12%) Senior Developer
9 2 (4.08%) QA Automation Tester
9 2 (4.08%) QA Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.57%) REST
2 13 (26.53%) Spring Boot
3 12 (24.49%) Spring
4 7 (14.29%) Playwright
4 7 (14.29%) RESTful
5 6 (12.24%) Java EE
5 6 (12.24%) Jest
5 6 (12.24%) JPA
6 5 (10.20%) ARM Templates
6 5 (10.20%) HTML
6 5 (10.20%) Kafka
6 5 (10.20%) React
7 4 (8.16%) Gherkin
7 4 (8.16%) Hibernate
7 4 (8.16%) WireMock
8 3 (6.12%) CSS
8 3 (6.12%) jQuery
8 3 (6.12%) Node.js
8 3 (6.12%) Redux
9 2 (4.08%) JavaFX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Client/Server
2 2 (4.08%) Mainframe
2 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.08%) VSAM
3 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (75.51%) Test Automation
2 28 (57.14%) Agile
3 26 (53.06%) CI/CD
4 18 (36.73%) DevOps
5 17 (34.69%) BDD
6 13 (26.53%) TDD
7 12 (24.49%) Software Engineering
8 11 (22.45%) Containerisation
8 11 (22.45%) Microservices
9 9 (18.37%) Test Strategy
10 8 (16.33%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (16.33%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (14.29%) API Testing
11 7 (14.29%) Code Quality
11 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (14.29%) Software Architecture
11 7 (14.29%) Test Scripting
12 6 (12.24%) Scrum
13 5 (10.20%) Configuration Management
13 5 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 40 (81.63%) Java
2 15 (30.61%) SQL
3 9 (18.37%) JavaScript
4 6 (12.24%) Python
5 3 (6.12%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.08%) C#
6 2 (4.08%) COBOL
6 2 (4.08%) JCL
6 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.04%) Bash
7 1 (2.04%) C++
7 1 (2.04%) Ruby
7 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.04%) VBA
7 1 (2.04%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 13 (26.53%) SC Cleared
3 8 (16.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (6.12%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.04%) Degree
5 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.04%) ISEB
5 1 (2.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (36.73%) QA
2 8 (16.33%) Accessibility
3 5 (10.20%) WCAG
4 1 (2.04%) GDPR
4 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (46.94%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (20.41%) Kubernetes
2 9 (18.37%) Ansible
3 7 (14.29%) Terraform
4 5 (10.20%) Docker Swarm
4 5 (10.20%) Podman
5 1 (2.04%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (6.12%) CA Agile Central
1 3 (6.12%) ServiceNow
1 3 (6.12%) Veracode
2 2 (4.08%) Oracle
2 2 (4.08%) Splunk
3 1 (2.04%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.04%) Sybase