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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 189 370
Rank change year-on-year -142 +181 -84
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 14 133 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.067% 1.41% 0.082%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.82% 19.91% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8 9 15
10th Percentile £70,577 - £43,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £47,231 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £48,507 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +54.62% -7.61% -8.70%
75th Percentile £80,938 £62,500 £69,375
90th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £92,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £58,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +19.15% -9.62% -7.14%

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 768 668 1,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.69% 7.09% 7.81%
Number of salaries quoted 571 400 1,074
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,987 £75,313 £69,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,875
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +12.07% -10.77%

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
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 16 July 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
Yorkshire -34 6 £82,500 +70.08% 1
North West -109 6 £75,000 +7.14% 1
North East -55 2 £70,079 - 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Amazon S3
2 6 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (42.86%) Serverless
3 5 (35.71%) Azure
4 4 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon ECR
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (21.43%) Apigee
5 3 (21.43%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (7.14%) Datadog
6 1 (7.14%) dbt
6 1 (7.14%) GCP
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub
6 1 (7.14%) PaaS
6 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (28.57%) Neo4j
2 3 (21.43%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Cypress.io
2 7 (50.00%) GitLab
2 7 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (42.86%) SonarQube
4 4 (28.57%) JIRA
4 4 (28.57%) Robot Framework
5 3 (21.43%) Artifactory
5 3 (21.43%) Git
5 3 (21.43%) JMeter
5 3 (21.43%) Maven
5 3 (21.43%) Selenium
6 1 (7.14%) Gatling
6 1 (7.14%) LoadRunner
6 1 (7.14%) Locust
6 1 (7.14%) REST Assured
General
1 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Test Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Java Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Developer
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Angular Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) SEO Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 5 (35.71%) Gherkin
3 4 (28.57%) MERN Stack
3 4 (28.57%) React
3 4 (28.57%) REST
3 4 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 4 (28.57%) Vue
4 3 (21.43%) Drools
4 3 (21.43%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (21.43%) Jest
4 3 (21.43%) JSON
4 3 (21.43%) Node.js
4 3 (21.43%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (21.43%) XML
4 3 (21.43%) YAML
5 2 (14.29%) Playwright
6 1 (7.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 3 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Test Automation
2 9 (64.29%) Agile
3 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (50.00%) Test Strategy
5 5 (35.71%) BDD
5 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
5 5 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (35.71%) DevOps
5 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (28.57%) Microservices
7 3 (21.43%) Analytical Thinking
7 3 (21.43%) Auto-Scaling
7 3 (21.43%) Coaching
7 3 (21.43%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 3 (21.43%) Issue Tracking
7 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
7 3 (21.43%) Security Hardening
7 3 (21.43%) Software Architecture
7 3 (21.43%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Java
2 8 (57.14%) Python
3 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (50.00%) TypeScript
4 6 (42.86%) Groovy
5 3 (21.43%) Bash
5 3 (21.43%) Kotlin
6 1 (7.14%) C
6 1 (7.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Certified Developer
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) QA
2 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (14.29%) WCAG
3 1 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 7 (50.00%) Terraform
3 3 (21.43%) Ansible
3 3 (21.43%) HP Fortify
3 3 (21.43%) Packer
4 2 (14.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) AppDynamics
1 3 (21.43%) IBM