Cucumber Jobs

Cucumber
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Cucumber skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cucumber over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 582 416
Rank change year-on-year +59 -166 -66
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 162 324 795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.33% 0.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.95% 3.39% 5.29%
Number of salaries quoted 59 249 525
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £43,950
25th Percentile £47,365 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% -
75th Percentile £83,125 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £140,677 £112,500 £100,711
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +14.29%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,498 9,566 15,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.54% 9.73% 14.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,807 6,755 9,183
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £96,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cucumber.

Salary trend for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cucumber over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +62 147 £62,500 -12.28% 62
UK excluding London +155 124 £60,000 +4.35% 49
South East +131 55 £47,500 -29.63% 9
Work from Home +70 53 £65,000 -13.33% 49
London -11 33 £57,500 -36.11% 19
South West +102 20 £85,253 +42.09% 8
Midlands +45 16 - - 6
East of England +70 15 - - 1
North of England +67 15 £48,507 -20.48% 18
East Midlands +56 14 - - 5
North West +28 8 £63,750 +17.69% 8
Yorkshire +64 7 £48,507 -51.49% 8
Northern Ireland +38 6 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Wales +40 5 £61,750 +45.29% 5
West Midlands +28 2 - - 1

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (4.94%) nginx
1 8 (4.94%) Tomcat
2 7 (4.32%) Confluence
3 1 (0.62%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 41 (25.31%) AWS
2 20 (12.35%) Amazon S3
2 20 (12.35%) AWS Lambda
2 20 (12.35%) Serverless
3 19 (11.73%) Azure
4 18 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 18 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (8.64%) Datadog
6 13 (8.02%) GCP
6 13 (8.02%) npm
7 10 (6.17%) GitHub
8 9 (5.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 8 (4.94%) Amazon Kinesis
9 8 (4.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (4.94%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.62%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 64 (39.51%) TCP/IP
1 64 (39.51%) VPN
2 1 (0.62%) Firewall
2 1 (0.62%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.88%) Relational Database
2 9 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (4.94%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.62%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.62%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.62%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 64 (39.51%) Robot Framework
2 46 (28.40%) Jenkins
3 39 (24.07%) Git
4 32 (19.75%) Selenium
5 30 (18.52%) JUnit
5 30 (18.52%) Maven
6 22 (13.58%) Mockito
7 21 (12.96%) Postman
8 17 (10.49%) GitLab
9 16 (9.88%) Cypress.io
10 14 (8.64%) IntelliJ
10 14 (8.64%) JIRA
11 13 (8.02%) Appium
11 13 (8.02%) Artifactory
11 13 (8.02%) Sonatype Nexus
11 13 (8.02%) TestNG
11 13 (8.02%) webpack
12 12 (7.41%) SonarQube
13 10 (6.17%) Bitbucket
14 8 (4.94%) Gradle
General
1 96 (59.26%) Social Skills
2 64 (39.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 64 (39.51%) Telecoms
3 54 (33.33%) Finance
4 28 (17.28%) Banking
5 23 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.94%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.94%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.85%) Retail
8 1 (0.62%) Back Office
8 1 (0.62%) Front Office
8 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (43.21%) Test Engineer
2 67 (41.36%) Test Automation Engineer
3 20 (12.35%) Java Engineer
4 18 (11.11%) Developer
4 18 (11.11%) Senior
5 17 (10.49%) AWS DevOps
6 15 (9.26%) Java Developer
7 14 (8.64%) AWS Developer
7 14 (8.64%) DevOps Developer
7 14 (8.64%) Senior Developer
7 14 (8.64%) Senior DevOps
7 14 (8.64%) Senior Java Developer
8 13 (8.02%) Java Pricing Developer
8 13 (8.02%) Lead
8 13 (8.02%) Pricing Developer
8 13 (8.02%) Software Engineer
9 9 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) Lead Java Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) Principal Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (28.40%) Spring Boot
2 25 (15.43%) RESTful
3 24 (14.81%) Spring
4 21 (12.96%) REST
5 18 (11.11%) Jest
6 17 (10.49%) Gherkin
6 17 (10.49%) Web Services
7 16 (9.88%) Kafka
8 14 (8.64%) ActiveMQ
8 14 (8.64%) JMS
9 13 (8.02%) RabbitMQ
10 12 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (6.79%) React
11 11 (6.79%) SOAP
12 9 (5.56%) Swagger
13 8 (4.94%) Drools
13 8 (4.94%) JAX-RS
13 8 (4.94%) Mustache
13 8 (4.94%) OpenAPI
13 8 (4.94%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 64 (39.51%) Linux Command Line
2 24 (14.81%) Management Information System
3 16 (9.88%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (9.88%) Product Ownership
4 14 (8.64%) Credit Derivative
5 9 (5.56%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.94%) Distributed Applications
6 8 (4.94%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (4.94%) Life Science
6 8 (4.94%) Public Cloud
7 7 (4.32%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.23%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.62%) Equities
11 1 (0.62%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 85 (52.47%) Linux
2 65 (40.12%) Windows
3 5 (3.09%) Android
3 5 (3.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (84.57%) Test Automation
2 105 (64.81%) DevOps
3 87 (53.70%) Problem-Solving
4 74 (45.68%) Mentoring
5 69 (42.59%) Coaching
6 66 (40.74%) CI/CD
6 66 (40.74%) System Testing
6 66 (40.74%) Test Management
7 59 (36.42%) Agile
8 34 (20.99%) BDD
9 28 (17.28%) SDLC
9 28 (17.28%) Software Engineering
10 23 (14.20%) Deployment Automation
10 23 (14.20%) Microservices
11 20 (12.35%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (11.11%) Containerisation
13 17 (10.49%) Software Testing
13 17 (10.49%) TDD
14 16 (9.88%) End-to-End Testing
14 16 (9.88%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 91 (56.17%) Python
2 85 (52.47%) JavaScript
3 68 (41.98%) Java
4 65 (40.12%) Bash
5 64 (39.51%) PowerShell
6 15 (9.26%) C++
7 14 (8.64%) SQL
8 10 (6.17%) C#
9 7 (4.32%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.70%) Groovy
11 5 (3.09%) Go
11 5 (3.09%) PHP
12 4 (2.47%) Perl
12 4 (2.47%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.62%) C
13 1 (0.62%) Scala
Qualifications
1 72 (44.44%) Degree
2 8 (4.94%) AWS Certification
2 8 (4.94%) OCP
2 8 (4.94%) Oracle Certification
3 6 (3.70%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.09%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.62%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (56.79%) QA
2 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
System Software
1 28 (17.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (21.60%) Ansible
2 34 (20.99%) Terraform
3 25 (15.43%) Kubernetes
4 12 (7.41%) Packer
5 8 (4.94%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.23%) Grafana
7 1 (0.62%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (11.73%) IBM
2 8 (4.94%) Red Hat
3 4 (2.47%) AppDynamics
3 4 (2.47%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.62%) Lauterbach
4 1 (0.62%) Mercator
4 1 (0.62%) Splunk
4 1 (0.62%) TIBCO