Cucumber Job Trends in the North West

Cucumber
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Cucumber skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 198 178
Rank change year-on-year +21 -20 +81
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 2 9 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.032% 0.18% 0.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.85% 2.18% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 11
10th Percentile £52,734 £59,500 £43,000
25th Percentile £54,960 £60,625 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,289 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £68,987 £75,625 £71,250
90th Percentile £72,035 £80,500 £84,000
England median annual salary £68,750 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% -13.33% +15.38%

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 236 412 490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.72% 8.18% 10.88%
Number of salaries quoted 180 249 398
10th Percentile - £37,559 £36,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £43,750 £43,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.48% +1.31%
75th Percentile £67,562 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £76,650 £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 West

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

Cucumber job vacancy trend in the North West

Cucumber
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in the North West over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cucumber in the North West

Cucumber
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Manchester +23 2 £61,289 -5.71% 1
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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