Cucumber Job Trends in the North East

Cucumber
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East 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 72 91 61
Rank change year-on-year +19 -30 +34
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 5 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.48% 0.076% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.87% 1.19% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £60,609 - -
25th Percentile £61,523 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,039 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.18%
75th Percentile £70,550 - -
90th Percentile £72,660 - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% +3.85%

All Development Application Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 46 84 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 4.38% 6.41% 10.29%
Number of salaries quoted 39 18 54
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,738 £43,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,438 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% -12.94% +27.50%
75th Percentile £60,750 £62,998 £71,875
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,597 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Cucumber job vacancy trend in the North East

Cucumber
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Cucumber.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the North East region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Tyne and Wear +22 4 £60,000 - 2
Durham - 1 £70,079 - 1
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Datadog
3 1 (20.00%) dbt
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
2 3 (60.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 3 (60.00%) Maven
2 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) SonarQube
2 3 (60.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (40.00%) JMeter
4 1 (20.00%) Appium
4 1 (20.00%) Locust
4 1 (20.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (40.00%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) JPA
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
1 3 (60.00%) React
1 3 (60.00%) Redux
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) CSS3
2 2 (40.00%) HTML5
2 2 (40.00%) Jest
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) Sass
3 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Front End Development
3 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) BDD
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) Migration
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (40.00%) TDD
4 2 (40.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (60.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Solace