Cucumber Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Cucumber
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Cucumber skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 178 150
Rank change year-on-year +4 -28 +53
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 5 16 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.13% 0.40% 0.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.52% 3.15% 5.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 15
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 £67,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +27.27% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile - - £72,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £61,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.12% +22.50% -4.76%

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 328 508 457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.59% 12.85% 13.97%
Number of salaries quoted 148 285 352
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £45,750
25th Percentile £33,250 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £81,250 £80,313
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £94,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Cucumber job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Cucumber
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cucumber.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 December 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
Berkshire -10 3 £57,500 -17.86%
Buckinghamshire - 2 £57,500 -
Cucumber
South East

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (20.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Postman
1 4 (80.00%) Selenium
1 4 (80.00%) SoapUI
2 1 (20.00%) Ant
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Gradle
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
2 1 (20.00%) Mockito
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) pytest
1 4 (80.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) Bootstrap
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) Nightwatchjs
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Fintech
3 3 (60.00%) Batch Processing
3 3 (60.00%) QA Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Product Discovery
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
4 1 (20.00%) User Research
4 1 (20.00%) UX Research
4 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Go
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) PHP
2 4 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat