Cucumber Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Cucumber
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Cucumber skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 91 115
Rank change year-on-year -18 +24 +14
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 17 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.02% 0.61% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.26% 3.40% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 2
10th Percentile £351 £380 -
25th Percentile £371 £481 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £520 £600 £425
90th Percentile £524 - -
England median daily rate £425 £500 £530
% change year-on-year -15.00% -5.66% -3.64%

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 399 265 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.96% 17.93% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 196 156
10th Percentile £347 £400 £360
25th Percentile £400 £421 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £489
Median % change year-on-year - +2.30% -5.10%
75th Percentile £544 £585 £603
90th Percentile £652 £641 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.78
Median % change year-on-year - - -46.44%
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.88%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cucumber relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Cucumber job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Cucumber.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 10 October 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 10 October 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
West Yorkshire -4 12 £425 -29.17% 4
South Yorkshire -22 5 £520 +29.94%
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) GitHub
3 2 (11.76%) Serverless
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (76.47%) Jenkins
2 10 (58.82%) Cypress.io
2 10 (58.82%) GitLab
2 10 (58.82%) Selenium
3 8 (47.06%) Maven
4 6 (35.29%) JMeter
4 6 (35.29%) JUnit
4 6 (35.29%) Postman
4 6 (35.29%) REST Assured
4 6 (35.29%) TestNG
5 5 (29.41%) Git
6 4 (23.53%) JIRA
7 3 (17.65%) Gradle
7 3 (17.65%) HP UFT
7 3 (17.65%) IntelliJ
8 1 (5.88%) Mockito
8 1 (5.88%) Vagrant
8 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
3 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Military
5 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Test Engineer
2 7 (41.18%) Senior
2 7 (41.18%) Senior Test Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) QA Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Test Manager
4 2 (11.76%) QA Test Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior QA Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Automation Tester
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Test Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Test and Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Test Leader
5 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (58.82%) Playwright
2 5 (29.41%) Node.js
3 2 (11.76%) Gherkin
4 1 (5.88%) React
4 1 (5.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Test Automation
2 12 (70.59%) BDD
3 11 (64.71%) Agile
3 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
4 9 (52.94%) TDD
5 8 (47.06%) Non-Functional Testing
5 8 (47.06%) Test Strategy
6 7 (41.18%) Software Testing
7 6 (35.29%) API Testing
7 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (35.29%) Test Scripting
8 5 (29.41%) Manual Testing
8 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
9 4 (23.53%) Microservices
9 4 (23.53%) Scrum
10 3 (17.65%) Code Coverage
10 3 (17.65%) Document Management
10 3 (17.65%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) Java
2 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
3 5 (29.41%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (64.71%) Accessibility
2 10 (58.82%) QA
3 8 (47.06%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Grafana
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Splunk