Cucumber Job Trends in Scotland

Cucumber
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland 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 101 140 134
Rank change year-on-year +39 -6 +61
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 50 8 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.81% 0.25% 1.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.24% 3.57% 8.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 25
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,091 £50,000 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.42% -8.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £74,066 £60,000 £72,433
90th Percentile - - £84,134
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +8.33%

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 290 224 330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.53% 6.91% 13.57%
Number of salaries quoted 50 124 280
10th Percentile - £31,250 £42,195
25th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £47,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £48,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -25.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £75,442 £63,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,125 £76,416 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Cucumber job vacancy trend in Scotland

Cucumber
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Cucumber.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the Scotland 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
Lanarkshire - 18 - - 1
Renfrewshire - 4 - -
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian - 2 - -
Fife - 2 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Edinburgh -2 1 £70,079 +27.42% 1
Falkirk - 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 - - 1
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Cucumber
UK

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 49 (98.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 50 (100.00%) AWS
2 49 (98.00%) Azure
2 49 (98.00%) GCP
3 1 (2.00%) Datadog
3 1 (2.00%) dbt
3 1 (2.00%) PaaS
3 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (98.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 49 (98.00%) Bitbucket
1 49 (98.00%) GitLab
1 49 (98.00%) JIRA
1 49 (98.00%) Maven
1 49 (98.00%) Selenium
1 49 (98.00%) SonarQube
1 49 (98.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.00%) JMeter
2 1 (2.00%) Locust
General
1 49 (98.00%) Banking
1 49 (98.00%) Finance
1 49 (98.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 49 (98.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (2.00%) Lead
2 1 (2.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (98.00%) CSS
1 49 (98.00%) Hibernate
1 49 (98.00%) HTML
1 49 (98.00%) JPA
1 49 (98.00%) Kafka
1 49 (98.00%) React
1 49 (98.00%) Redux
1 49 (98.00%) Spring
1 49 (98.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 49 (98.00%) Enterprise Software
1 49 (98.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) Agile
1 50 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 50 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 50 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 50 (100.00%) DevOps
1 50 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 49 (98.00%) Clean Code
2 49 (98.00%) Front End Development
2 49 (98.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 49 (98.00%) Microservices
2 49 (98.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 49 (98.00%) SDLC
2 49 (98.00%) Software Engineering
2 49 (98.00%) TDD
3 1 (2.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (2.00%) FinOps
3 1 (2.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (2.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (2.00%) Observability
3 1 (2.00%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (100.00%) Java
2 49 (98.00%) JavaScript
2 49 (98.00%) SQL
3 1 (2.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 50 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) Grafana
2 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (98.00%) Solace