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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 176 169
Rank change year-on-year +11 -7 +65
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 41 21 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.06% 0.43% 0.73%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.85% 4.55% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 15
10th Percentile - - £48,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,938 £68,750
90th Percentile - £69,875 £75,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +9.52%

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 296 462 620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.67% 9.50% 16.75%
Number of salaries quoted 149 268 467
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,875 £44,600
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £88,250 £97,500
South East median annual salary £62,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% -3.33% +4.35%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber 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 18 September 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
Buckinghamshire - 29 - - 3
Oxfordshire - 11 - - 2
Berkshire -23 1 £57,500 -8.00% 5
Cucumber
South East

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (14.63%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.63%) AWS
1 6 (14.63%) Azure
1 6 (14.63%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (82.93%) TCP/IP
1 34 (82.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (82.93%) Robot Framework
2 7 (17.07%) Selenium
3 6 (14.63%) Bitbucket
3 6 (14.63%) GitLab
3 6 (14.63%) JIRA
3 6 (14.63%) Maven
3 6 (14.63%) SonarQube
3 6 (14.63%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.44%) Postman
4 1 (2.44%) SoapUI
General
1 40 (97.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 34 (82.93%) Social Skills
2 34 (82.93%) Telecoms
3 7 (17.07%) Finance
4 6 (14.63%) Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (82.93%) Test Automation Engineer
1 34 (82.93%) Test Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Software Engineer
3 1 (2.44%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (2.44%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (2.44%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.63%) CSS
1 6 (14.63%) Hibernate
1 6 (14.63%) HTML
1 6 (14.63%) JPA
1 6 (14.63%) Kafka
1 6 (14.63%) React
1 6 (14.63%) Redux
1 6 (14.63%) Spring
1 6 (14.63%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.44%) pytest
2 1 (2.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (82.93%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (14.63%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (14.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 34 (82.93%) Linux
1 34 (82.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 40 (97.56%) DevOps
3 34 (82.93%) Coaching
3 34 (82.93%) Mentoring
3 34 (82.93%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (82.93%) System Testing
3 34 (82.93%) Test Management
4 6 (14.63%) Agile
4 6 (14.63%) CI/CD
4 6 (14.63%) Clean Code
4 6 (14.63%) Containerisation
4 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (14.63%) Front End Development
4 6 (14.63%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (14.63%) Microservices
4 6 (14.63%) Performance Optimisation
4 6 (14.63%) SDLC
4 6 (14.63%) Software Engineering
4 6 (14.63%) TDD
5 1 (2.44%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 40 (97.56%) JavaScript
2 35 (85.37%) Python
3 34 (82.93%) Bash
3 34 (82.93%) PowerShell
4 7 (17.07%) Java
4 7 (17.07%) SQL
5 1 (2.44%) Go
5 1 (2.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (82.93%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (14.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Solace