Cucumber Job Trends in England

Cucumber
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Cucumber skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 465 540
Rank change year-on-year -117 +75 -140
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 94 148 290
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.40% 0.35%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.56% 3.89% 3.73%
Number of salaries quoted 61 52 240
10th Percentile £42,706 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,400 £47,231 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.82% -15.17% +3.57%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £136,456 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.98% +4.56%

All Development Application Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,674 3,803 7,781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.76% 10.20% 9.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,502 2,703 6,104
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,739 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Cucumber job vacancy trend in England

Cucumber
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cucumber.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Cucumber in England

Cucumber
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the England region over the 6 months to 19 April 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -4 34 £75,000 +27.12% 7
North of England -59 17 £70,079 +44.47% 7
Midlands -40 15 £70,000 +47.37% 1
South West -58 14 £67,500 -20.82% 3
West Midlands -14 13 £70,000 +47.37% 1
South East -95 10 £82,500 +73.68% 2
Yorkshire -50 7 £82,500 +70.08% 1
North East - 6 £60,000 - 1
North West -25 4 £61,289 -3.86% 5
East Midlands -67 2 £55,200 -
Cucumber
UK

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 14 (14.89%) Confluence
2 8 (8.51%) Apache
3 3 (3.19%) JBoss
4 1 (1.06%) Camunda
Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (7.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 51 (54.26%) AWS
2 13 (13.83%) Azure
3 12 (12.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (10.64%) GitHub
5 9 (9.57%) Amazon S3
5 9 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (9.57%) Serverless
6 8 (8.51%) Datadog
6 8 (8.51%) dbt
6 8 (8.51%) OpenShift
6 8 (8.51%) PaaS
6 8 (8.51%) SaaS
7 7 (7.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (5.32%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (5.32%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (5.32%) BrowserStack
10 4 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (4.26%) Apigee
10 4 (4.26%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (21.28%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (18.09%) SQL Server
3 11 (11.70%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (11.70%) NoSQL
4 10 (10.64%) DB2
5 6 (6.38%) Relational Database
6 4 (4.26%) DynamoDB
6 4 (4.26%) Neo4j
7 3 (3.19%) Big Data
8 2 (2.13%) CockroachDB
8 2 (2.13%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.06%) Couchbase
9 1 (1.06%) MySQL
9 1 (1.06%) Redis
9 1 (1.06%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 46 (48.94%) Jenkins
2 40 (42.55%) GitLab
3 35 (37.23%) Selenium
4 25 (26.60%) JIRA
5 23 (24.47%) JMeter
6 21 (22.34%) Git
6 21 (22.34%) SonarQube
7 15 (15.96%) Cypress.io
8 13 (13.83%) JUnit
9 12 (12.77%) Postman
10 11 (11.70%) Bitbucket
11 10 (10.64%) REST Assured
12 9 (9.57%) Gatling
12 9 (9.57%) TeamCity
13 8 (8.51%) Locust
14 7 (7.45%) LoadRunner
14 7 (7.45%) Maven
14 7 (7.45%) SoapUI
15 6 (6.38%) SpecFlow
16 4 (4.26%) Artifactory
General
1 28 (29.79%) Finance
1 28 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (12.77%) Banking
4 8 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.19%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.13%) Retail
7 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.06%) Games
Job Titles
1 23 (24.47%) Developer
2 19 (20.21%) Lead
3 18 (19.15%) Senior
4 13 (13.83%) Java Developer
4 13 (13.83%) Java Engineer
5 12 (12.77%) Software Engineer
6 11 (11.70%) Test Engineer
7 10 (10.64%) Automation Engineer
7 10 (10.64%) QA Engineer
7 10 (10.64%) Test Leader
8 9 (9.57%) QA Automation Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) Principal Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) Principal Java Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) Software Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Agile Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Agile Java Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Quality Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Senior Software Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (32.98%) Elastic Stack
2 24 (25.53%) Gherkin
3 22 (23.40%) Spring Boot
4 20 (21.28%) Spring
5 16 (17.02%) React
6 13 (13.83%) Kafka
6 13 (13.83%) Node.js
6 13 (13.83%) Playwright
6 13 (13.83%) pytest
7 11 (11.70%) AngularJS
7 11 (11.70%) CSS
7 11 (11.70%) HTML
7 11 (11.70%) REST
7 11 (11.70%) RESTful
8 10 (10.64%) Vue
9 8 (8.51%) Apache NiFi
10 7 (7.45%) Django
10 7 (7.45%) Flask
11 6 (6.38%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (5.32%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.89%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (11.70%) Cloud Native
3 9 (9.57%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (8.51%) e-Learning
4 8 (8.51%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (8.51%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (8.51%) Product Ownership
4 8 (8.51%) Public Cloud
5 5 (5.32%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.13%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.06%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (1.06%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.06%) N-Tier
8 1 (1.06%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.57%) Linux
2 3 (3.19%) Kali Linux
3 1 (1.06%) Android
3 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (73.40%) Test Automation
2 65 (69.15%) CI/CD
3 58 (61.70%) Agile
4 54 (57.45%) BDD
5 40 (42.55%) DevOps
6 38 (40.43%) Microservices
7 35 (37.23%) Performance Testing
8 24 (25.53%) Containerisation
8 24 (25.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (25.53%) Mentoring
8 24 (25.53%) Software Engineering
9 22 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (20.21%) Test Strategy
12 18 (19.15%) End-to-End Testing
12 18 (19.15%) Security Testing
13 17 (18.09%) Continuous Integration
14 16 (17.02%) Design Patterns
14 16 (17.02%) Event-Driven
15 15 (15.96%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 82 (87.23%) Java
2 46 (48.94%) Python
3 36 (38.30%) JavaScript
4 34 (36.17%) SQL
5 25 (26.60%) TypeScript
6 11 (11.70%) Bash
6 11 (11.70%) C#
7 9 (9.57%) Groovy
8 8 (8.51%) Go
9 7 (7.45%) Delphi
10 6 (6.38%) Rust
11 5 (5.32%) C
11 5 (5.32%) C++
12 3 (3.19%) Kotlin
12 3 (3.19%) Perl
12 3 (3.19%) PHP
12 3 (3.19%) RPG
13 2 (2.13%) Scala
14 1 (1.06%) JCL
14 1 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (28.72%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.70%) AWS Certification
3 11 (11.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (9.57%) DV Cleared
5 7 (7.45%) Degree
6 5 (5.32%) ISTQB
7 4 (4.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (3.19%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (32.98%) QA
2 17 (18.09%) Accessibility
3 9 (9.57%) WCAG
4 1 (1.06%) GDPR
4 1 (1.06%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (40.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (40.43%) Kubernetes
2 29 (30.85%) Grafana
3 25 (26.60%) Terraform
4 13 (13.83%) Ansible
5 10 (10.64%) Kibana
6 8 (8.51%) logstash
7 7 (7.45%) HP Fortify
8 4 (4.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (10.64%) Oracle
2 8 (8.51%) Atlassian
2 8 (8.51%) IBM
3 5 (5.32%) AppDynamics
4 4 (4.26%) Splunk
5 3 (3.19%) Veracode
6 2 (2.13%) SAP
7 1 (1.06%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.06%) Red Hat