Cucumber Contracts in Yorkshire

Cucumber
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 72 92 113
Rank change year-on-year +20 +21 -4
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 20 8 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.97% 0.47% 0.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.36% 4.37% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 9
10th Percentile £365 £394 £418
25th Percentile £388 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +29.94% -27.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £498 £575
90th Percentile £779 £529 £591
England median daily rate £455 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -9.00% -13.04% +15.00%

All Development Application Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 176 183 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.31% 10.83% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 129 198
10th Percentile £356 £373 £353
25th Percentile £413 £413 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £665 £608 £700
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £40.54
25th Percentile - £61.25 £44.84
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - +15.74% +38.46%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £68.00
90th Percentile - - £75.20
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in Yorkshire

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in Yorkshire

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in Yorkshire

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South Yorkshire +17 11 £520 +18.80% 3
West Yorkshire +18 9 £780 +95.00% 5
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 14 (70.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) GitHub
1 7 (35.00%) Slack
2 5 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 8 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 8 (40.00%) MySQL
1 8 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (90.00%) JIRA
2 14 (70.00%) Git
3 12 (60.00%) JUnit
4 8 (40.00%) Jasmine
5 7 (35.00%) Jenkins
5 7 (35.00%) Visual Studio
6 5 (25.00%) Selenium
7 4 (20.00%) Gradle
7 4 (20.00%) HP UFT
7 4 (20.00%) IntelliJ
7 4 (20.00%) Maven
8 3 (15.00%) Vagrant
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Developer
1 7 (35.00%) Java Developer
1 7 (35.00%) Senior
2 6 (30.00%) Senior Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Test Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Java Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Tester
6 1 (5.00%) Automation Tester
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) Gherkin
1 8 (40.00%) RESTful
1 8 (40.00%) Spring
1 8 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 7 (35.00%) Spring Security
2 7 (35.00%) Swagger
3 6 (30.00%) OpenAPI
3 6 (30.00%) Spring Batch
4 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Linux
1 8 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Test Automation
2 12 (60.00%) BDD
2 12 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 12 (60.00%) TDD
3 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (40.00%) Mentoring
5 7 (35.00%) API Design
5 7 (35.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (35.00%) Kernel Tuning
5 7 (35.00%) Microservices
5 7 (35.00%) OWASP
5 7 (35.00%) Software Engineering
5 7 (35.00%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (30.00%) Agile
6 6 (30.00%) Coaching
6 6 (30.00%) Operational Stability
7 5 (25.00%) High Availability
7 5 (25.00%) Integration Testing
8 4 (20.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Java
2 8 (40.00%) Bash
2 8 (40.00%) SQL
3 7 (35.00%) Python
4 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (15.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Docker
2 3 (15.00%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Ansible
1 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Splunk