Cucumber Job Trends in the North of England

Cucumber
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Cucumber skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 264 249
Rank change year-on-year -2 -15 +24
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 7 17 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.065% 0.19% 0.49%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.27% 2.39% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 27
10th Percentile £51,825 £59,500 £46,000
25th Percentile £54,300 £60,625 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -21.21% +57.14%
75th Percentile £70,550 £75,625 £91,934
90th Percentile £74,066 £80,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -13.33% +15.38%

All Development Application Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 553 711 954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.13% 7.82% 11.21%
Number of salaries quoted 402 388 793
10th Percentile - £37,500 £36,270
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,592 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.35% -8.70% +2.68%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,125 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Cucumber job vacancy trend in the North of England

Cucumber
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cucumber.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cucumber in the North of England

Cucumber
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
North East +14 4 £60,000 - 3
North West +12 2 £61,289 -5.71% 3
Yorkshire -17 1 - - 8
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Datadog
2 2 (28.57%) dbt
2 2 (28.57%) PaaS
2 2 (28.57%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) Apigee
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JMeter
2 3 (42.86%) Selenium
3 2 (28.57%) Appium
3 2 (28.57%) GitLab
3 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) Locust
3 2 (28.57%) SpecFlow
4 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
4 1 (14.29%) Git
4 1 (14.29%) JUnit
4 1 (14.29%) Maven
4 1 (14.29%) Postman
4 1 (14.29%) SoapUI
4 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
1 3 (42.86%) QA Automation Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) QA Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Test Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Gherkin
2 2 (28.57%) Playwright
2 2 (28.57%) pytest
2 2 (28.57%) Spring
2 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 1 (14.29%) Django
3 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (14.29%) Flask
3 1 (14.29%) Jest
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) BDD
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
2 4 (57.14%) Performance Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) QA Automation
3 3 (42.86%) TDD
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (28.57%) OWASP
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Security Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Test Management
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
4 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (14.29%) Delphi
5 1 (14.29%) Go
5 1 (14.29%) PHP
5 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 2 (28.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Grafana
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle