Cucumber Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cucumber
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Cucumber skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 242 563
Rank change year-on-year -291 +321 -101
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 48 360 167
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.073% 1.25% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.98% 13.05% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 26 41 104
10th Percentile £47,874 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £47,231 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% - -2.54%
75th Percentile £75,704 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,875 £140,677 £97,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% +4.55%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,420 2,759 6,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.70% 9.60% 9.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,667 1,815 4,603
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Cucumber job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cucumber
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cucumber.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Cucumber in the UK excluding London

Cucumber
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
North of England -141 13 £75,039 +54.70% 6
South West -50 12 £67,500 -20.82% 4
Midlands -97 12 £70,000 - 4
West Midlands -40 11 £70,000 - 2
South East -55 11 £62,500 +31.58% 5
Yorkshire -52 7 £82,500 +70.08% 1
Wales -28 3 £68,039 +10.19% 1
North East -36 3 £65,039 - 2
North West -108 3 £52,500 -17.65% 3
East Midlands -83 1 - - 2
Cucumber
UK

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (10.42%) Apache
2 3 (6.25%) JBoss
3 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.08%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 27 (56.25%) AWS
2 14 (29.17%) Azure
3 9 (18.75%) Amazon S3
3 9 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (18.75%) Serverless
4 6 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (10.42%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (10.42%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (10.42%) BrowserStack
6 4 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (8.33%) Apigee
6 4 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (8.33%) Datadog
6 4 (8.33%) dbt
6 4 (8.33%) GitHub
6 4 (8.33%) PaaS
6 4 (8.33%) SaaS
7 3 (6.25%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (8.33%) DynamoDB
2 4 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.25%) Neo4j
4 2 (4.17%) Big Data
4 2 (4.17%) CockroachDB
4 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.08%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.08%) MySQL
5 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.08%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 25 (52.08%) Jenkins
2 22 (45.83%) GitLab
3 18 (37.50%) SonarQube
4 17 (35.42%) JMeter
5 16 (33.33%) Cypress.io
6 14 (29.17%) Selenium
7 13 (27.08%) Git
8 10 (20.83%) Postman
9 9 (18.75%) Gatling
9 9 (18.75%) JIRA
10 8 (16.67%) REST Assured
11 7 (14.58%) Maven
12 6 (12.50%) LoadRunner
13 5 (10.42%) Zephyr
14 4 (8.33%) Artifactory
14 4 (8.33%) Burp Suite
14 4 (8.33%) Locust
14 4 (8.33%) SoapUI
15 3 (6.25%) Gradle
15 3 (6.25%) JUnit
General
1 10 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (27.08%) Lead
2 8 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 8 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
2 8 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 7 (14.58%) Developer
4 6 (12.50%) QA Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) QA Automation Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Java Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Senior
6 4 (8.33%) Software Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Test Leader
7 3 (6.25%) Automation Tester
7 3 (6.25%) Java Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Tester
8 2 (4.17%) AWS Developer
8 2 (4.17%) DevOps Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Functional Tester
8 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (29.17%) Playwright
2 11 (22.92%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (22.92%) Gherkin
3 9 (18.75%) AngularJS
4 8 (16.67%) REST
5 7 (14.58%) Vue
6 6 (12.50%) JSON
6 6 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (12.50%) Spring Boot
7 5 (10.42%) Apache NiFi
7 5 (10.42%) Node.js
7 5 (10.42%) React
7 5 (10.42%) YAML
8 4 (8.33%) Jest
8 4 (8.33%) pytest
8 4 (8.33%) Spring
9 3 (6.25%) .NET
9 3 (6.25%) Drools
9 3 (6.25%) MERN Stack
9 3 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) Product Ownership
2 6 (12.50%) Virtual Team
3 5 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.17%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.08%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (2.08%) Blockchain
6 1 (2.08%) N-Tier
6 1 (2.08%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.75%) Linux
2 4 (8.33%) Kali Linux
3 2 (4.17%) Unix
4 1 (2.08%) Android
4 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (70.83%) Test Automation
2 33 (68.75%) CI/CD
3 32 (66.67%) Agile
4 25 (52.08%) DevOps
5 21 (43.75%) BDD
6 18 (37.50%) Performance Testing
7 13 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (27.08%) Security Testing
8 12 (25.00%) Containerisation
9 11 (22.92%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (22.92%) Mentoring
10 10 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (20.83%) SDLC
10 10 (20.83%) Test Strategy
11 9 (18.75%) API Testing
11 9 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
11 9 (18.75%) Microservices
11 9 (18.75%) Non-Functional Testing
11 9 (18.75%) Validation
12 8 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 43 (89.58%) Java
2 32 (66.67%) Python
3 21 (43.75%) JavaScript
4 17 (35.42%) TypeScript
5 12 (25.00%) SQL
6 10 (20.83%) Groovy
7 9 (18.75%) C#
8 8 (16.67%) Bash
9 6 (12.50%) C
9 6 (12.50%) Go
10 4 (8.33%) C++
10 4 (8.33%) Rust
11 3 (6.25%) Kotlin
11 3 (6.25%) Perl
12 2 (4.17%) PHP
13 1 (2.08%) JCL
13 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.50%) Degree
2 6 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 6 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.25%) AWS Certified Developer
3 3 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.25%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.08%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.08%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (50.00%) QA
2 11 (22.92%) Accessibility
3 5 (10.42%) WCAG
4 2 (4.17%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.08%) GDPR
5 1 (2.08%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (37.50%) Terraform
2 15 (31.25%) Kubernetes
3 14 (29.17%) Grafana
4 10 (20.83%) Ansible
5 8 (16.67%) HP Fortify
6 7 (14.58%) Kibana
6 7 (14.58%) logstash
7 4 (8.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (10.42%) AppDynamics
2 4 (8.33%) IBM
2 4 (8.33%) Veracode
3 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.25%) Oracle
3 3 (6.25%) Splunk
4 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.08%) Red Hat