Cucumber Job Trends in Birmingham

Cucumber
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Cucumber skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 - 102
Rank change year-on-year - - +63
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 2 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.16% - 0.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.92% - 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £42,340
25th Percentile £66,323 - £45,850
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,542 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £74,762 - £72,500
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £67,771 £52,500 £47,900
% change year-on-year +29.09% +9.60% -1.24%

All Development Application Skills
Birmingham

Cucumber falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 104 123 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 8.39% 5.66% 9.90%
Number of salaries quoted 84 49 109
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £43,438 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,991 £80,000
90th Percentile - £80,350 £85,500
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +9.52%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Cucumber job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Cucumber
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Cucumber.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Datadog
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Gatling
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Locust
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform