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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 156 122
Rank change year-on-year +27 -34 +75
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 2 4 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.073% 0.15% 0.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.52% 1.65% 6.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 16
10th Percentile £52,734 £64,375 -
25th Percentile £54,960 £67,188 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,289 £73,750 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.90% +21.90% +9.01%
75th Percentile £68,987 £79,688 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,035 £82,125 £84,000
North West median annual salary £61,289 £73,750 £60,500
% change year-on-year -16.90% +21.90% +21.00%

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 132 242 317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.80% 8.79% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 106 130 255
10th Percentile £28,250 £39,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% -1.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £68,438 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £73,875 £80,250 £84,056
North West median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year - -11.80% +6.30%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Cucumber job vacancy trend 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
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in Manchester over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Cucumber in Manchester

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 31 December 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
Salford - 1 £70,079 -
Cucumber
North West

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Datadog
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Locust
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
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%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) 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