Cucumber Job Trends in the Midlands

Cucumber
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Cucumber skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 234 210
Rank change year-on-year +14 -24 +97
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 7 14 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.089% 0.22% 0.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.28% 2.72% 5.25%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 23
10th Percentile £46,115 £41,875 -
25th Percentile £52,400 £44,688 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £52,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% +31.25% -24.53%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,313 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,357 £63,125 £70,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -13.33% +15.38%

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 307 515 457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.91% 8.05% 8.05%
Number of salaries quoted 236 297 405
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £78,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Cucumber job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Cucumber
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Cucumber.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cucumber in the Midlands

Cucumber
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
West Midlands +10 4 £55,200 +5.14% 3
East Midlands - 3 £58,850 - 4
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub
2 3 (42.86%) OpenShift
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Datadog
4 1 (14.29%) dbt
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Selenium
2 5 (71.43%) Git
3 4 (57.14%) GitLab
3 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
3 4 (57.14%) JUnit
4 2 (28.57%) JMeter
4 2 (28.57%) REST Assured
5 1 (14.29%) Appium
5 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (14.29%) Gatling
5 1 (14.29%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (14.29%) Locust
5 1 (14.29%) Postman
5 1 (14.29%) TestNG
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Software Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Django
1 3 (42.86%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (42.86%) Flask
1 3 (42.86%) pytest
1 3 (42.86%) Spring
1 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
2 1 (14.29%) Playwright
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) BDD
3 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
3 4 (57.14%) TDD
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Secure Coding
4 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Microservices
5 2 (28.57%) OWASP
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
5 2 (28.57%) SDLC
5 2 (28.57%) Security Testing
5 2 (28.57%) SEO
5 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) Delphi
4 1 (14.29%) Groovy
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 2 (28.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Grafana
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) CA Service Virtualization
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle