Cucumber Job Trends in the South East

Cucumber
England > South East

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 267 244
Rank change year-on-year +9 -23 +90
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 13 28 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.13% 0.31% 0.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.97% 2.33% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 22
10th Percentile - - £45,125
25th Percentile £56,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +7.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £73,750 - £74,375
England median annual salary £68,750 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% -13.33% +15.38%

All Development Application Skills
South 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 660 1,203 983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.38% 13.18% 11.94%
Number of salaries quoted 378 658 674
10th Percentile £30,250 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £39,375 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £68,438 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £79,125 £83,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Cucumber job vacancy trend in the South East

Cucumber
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in the South East over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cucumber in the South East

Cucumber
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the South East region over the 6 months to 6 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
Thames Valley +2 5 £57,500 - 7
West Sussex - 4 £70,000 - 1
Hampshire +28 3 £80,000 +23.08% 1
Berkshire -12 3 £57,500 - 3
Buckinghamshire - 2 £57,500 - 1
Surrey -1 1 - - 1
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.69%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) GitHub
3 3 (23.08%) OpenShift
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (7.69%) Azure
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.69%) Google Ads
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Broadband
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (38.46%) Relational Database
3 3 (23.08%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
5 1 (7.69%) Couchbase
5 1 (7.69%) DB2
5 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
5 1 (7.69%) MariaDB
5 1 (7.69%) MySQL
5 1 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
2 5 (38.46%) Selenium
3 4 (30.77%) JUnit
3 4 (30.77%) Postman
3 4 (30.77%) SoapUI
4 3 (23.08%) Git
4 3 (23.08%) JMeter
5 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
5 2 (15.38%) Gradle
5 2 (15.38%) REST Assured
5 2 (15.38%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (7.69%) Appium
6 1 (7.69%) Jasmine
6 1 (7.69%) JIRA
6 1 (7.69%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (7.69%) Mockito
6 1 (7.69%) mountebank
6 1 (7.69%) SpecFlow
6 1 (7.69%) TestNG
6 1 (7.69%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Advertising
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Games
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Java Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) QA Automation Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) QA Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Kafka Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Support
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Support Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Automation Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Support Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Test Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Kafka
1 5 (38.46%) Spring
2 4 (30.77%) pytest
2 4 (30.77%) SOAP
3 2 (15.38%) Hibernate
3 2 (15.38%) Playwright
3 2 (15.38%) REST
3 2 (15.38%) RESTful
3 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
3 2 (15.38%) Vert.x
4 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.69%) Bootstrap
4 1 (7.69%) Drools
4 1 (7.69%) Jest
4 1 (7.69%) Memcached
4 1 (7.69%) Nightwatchjs
4 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (7.69%) React
4 1 (7.69%) Vue
4 1 (7.69%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Test Automation
2 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) Agile
4 5 (38.46%) BDD
5 4 (30.77%) DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) Fintech
5 4 (30.77%) Microservices
5 4 (30.77%) TDD
6 3 (23.08%) Batch Processing
6 3 (23.08%) QA Automation
7 2 (15.38%) API Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
7 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (15.38%) Observability
7 2 (15.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
8 1 (7.69%) BPMN
8 1 (7.69%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Java
2 8 (61.54%) SQL
3 6 (46.15%) Go
4 5 (38.46%) Python
5 4 (30.77%) PHP
6 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Ansible
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Kibana
3 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
1 2 (15.38%) VMware
2 1 (7.69%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk