Cucumber Job Trends in Manchester

Cucumber
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Cucumber skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 194 154
Rank change year-on-year +69 -40 +63
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 35 2 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.39% 0.045% 1.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.49% 0.49% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 28
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £55,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile - - £84,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +47.37% -20.83% +9.09%

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 226 409 481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 9.00% 9.22% 14.55%
Number of salaries quoted 145 238 353
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -13.93% +10.91%
75th Percentile £76,250 £65,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,600 £73,791 £84,056
North West median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% +9.09%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in Manchester

Cucumber
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cucumber.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Altrincham - 3 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - -
Bolton - 3 - -
Oldham - 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Salford - 3 - -
Stockport - 3 - -
Wigan - 3 - -
Cucumber
North West

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 15 (42.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 35 (100.00%) AWS
2 29 (82.86%) Azure
3 9 (25.71%) GCP
4 6 (17.14%) GitHub
5 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (77.14%) SQL Server
2 6 (17.14%) MongoDB
2 6 (17.14%) NoSQL
2 6 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (100.00%) GitLab
1 35 (100.00%) Selenium
2 33 (94.29%) JIRA
3 27 (77.14%) Bitbucket
3 27 (77.14%) Maven
3 27 (77.14%) SonarQube
3 27 (77.14%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (5.71%) Gatling
4 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.71%) JMeter
General
1 33 (94.29%) Finance
2 27 (77.14%) Banking
2 27 (77.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (51.43%) Corporate Banking
3 18 (51.43%) Investment Banking
3 18 (51.43%) Retail
4 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (88.57%) Software Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Java Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Software Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Lead
4 2 (5.71%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Principal Java Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (94.29%) Kafka
1 33 (94.29%) Spring
1 33 (94.29%) Spring Boot
2 27 (77.14%) CSS
2 27 (77.14%) HTML
2 27 (77.14%) JPA
2 27 (77.14%) React
2 27 (77.14%) Redux
3 18 (51.43%) CSS3
3 18 (51.43%) HTML5
3 18 (51.43%) Jest
3 18 (51.43%) REST
3 18 (51.43%) RESTful
3 18 (51.43%) Sass
4 9 (25.71%) Hibernate
5 2 (5.71%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 27 (77.14%) Enterprise Software
1 27 (77.14%) Product Ownership
2 6 (17.14%) Wiki
3 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) Agile
1 35 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 35 (100.00%) DevOps
1 35 (100.00%) Microservices
2 33 (94.29%) Containerisation
2 33 (94.29%) Software Engineering
2 33 (94.29%) Test Automation
3 31 (88.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 29 (82.86%) SDLC
5 27 (77.14%) Front End Development
5 27 (77.14%) Performance Optimisation
6 20 (57.14%) Mentoring
6 20 (57.14%) User Experience
7 18 (51.43%) Migration
7 18 (51.43%) Responsive Web Design
7 18 (51.43%) Strategic Thinking
8 15 (42.86%) TDD
9 11 (31.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (25.71%) Clean Code
11 6 (17.14%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 33 (94.29%) Java
2 29 (82.86%) SQL
3 27 (77.14%) JavaScript
4 18 (51.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
1 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (5.71%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (80.00%) QA
2 18 (51.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (94.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (94.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (77.14%) Solace