Cucumber
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Cucumber skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 669 361 646
Rank change year-on-year -308 +285 -265
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 113 381 166
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.76% 0.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.47% 9.31% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 49 42 90
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,231 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,625 £105,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -8.33% +1.69%

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 4,583 4,093 7,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.33% 8.20% 8.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,984 2,557 4,581
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% +4.55% -4.35%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cucumber job vacancy trend in the UK

Cucumber
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cucumber.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cucumber over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

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 10 August 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
England -274 102 £70,000 +21.74% 42
UK excluding London -323 66 £68,750 +25.00% 33
London -44 41 £72,377 +7.22% 14
Midlands -91 23 £70,000 +3.70% 11
West Midlands -31 22 £70,000 +7.69% 6
Work from Home -238 18 £70,079 +44.47% 15
South East -67 14 £65,000 +13.04% 5
North of England -154 14 £75,000 +54.62% 6
South West -60 10 - - 6
Yorkshire -40 6 £82,500 +70.08%
North West -111 6 £75,000 +7.14% 2
Wales -50 5 £45,000 -40.00% 1
Scotland -36 3 £48,500 - 3
North East -58 2 £70,079 - 4
East Midlands -75 1 - - 5

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 10 (8.85%) Confluence
2 9 (7.96%) Apache
3 4 (3.54%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.65%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 78 (69.03%) AWS
2 34 (30.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 26 (23.01%) Azure
4 12 (10.62%) GitHub
4 12 (10.62%) Serverless
5 11 (9.73%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (8.85%) Amazon S3
7 7 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (5.31%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (5.31%) BrowserStack
9 5 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (4.42%) Datadog
9 5 (4.42%) dbt
9 5 (4.42%) GCP
9 5 (4.42%) PaaS
9 5 (4.42%) SaaS
9 5 (4.42%) Tricentis Tosca
10 4 (3.54%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.65%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (28.32%) NoSQL
2 13 (11.50%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.54%) Neo4j
5 3 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.65%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.77%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.77%) Big Data
6 2 (1.77%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.88%) Db2
7 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.88%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 60 (53.10%) GitLab
2 35 (30.97%) Jenkins
3 30 (26.55%) Selenium
4 28 (24.78%) Git
5 27 (23.89%) JMeter
6 24 (21.24%) SonarQube
7 22 (19.47%) JIRA
7 22 (19.47%) Postman
8 18 (15.93%) Cypress.io
9 16 (14.16%) Gatling
10 14 (12.39%) JUnit
11 11 (9.73%) REST Assured
11 11 (9.73%) Zephyr
12 10 (8.85%) Maven
13 6 (5.31%) LoadRunner
14 5 (4.42%) Burp Suite
14 5 (4.42%) Locust
14 5 (4.42%) SoapUI
15 4 (3.54%) Artifactory
15 4 (3.54%) Robot Framework
General
1 46 (40.71%) Finance
2 23 (20.35%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (15.93%) Social Skills
4 13 (11.50%) Banking
5 11 (9.73%) Financial Institution
6 10 (8.85%) Public Sector
7 9 (7.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Advertising
10 1 (0.88%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.88%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 35 (30.97%) Java Engineer
2 27 (23.89%) Senior
3 19 (16.81%) Lead
3 19 (16.81%) Test Engineer
4 18 (15.93%) Principal Engineer
4 18 (15.93%) Principal Java Engineer
5 14 (12.39%) Quality Engineer
6 13 (11.50%) Senior Java Engineer
6 13 (11.50%) Software Engineer
7 7 (6.19%) Developer
8 6 (5.31%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Java Developer
8 6 (5.31%) Test Automation Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Test Leader
8 6 (5.31%) Tester
9 5 (4.42%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Senior Quality Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) QA Engineer
11 3 (2.65%) Software Development Engineer
11 3 (2.65%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (33.63%) Spring Boot
2 34 (30.09%) Kafka
2 34 (30.09%) Spring
3 31 (27.43%) Playwright
4 18 (15.93%) Gherkin
5 14 (12.39%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (10.62%) Vue
7 11 (9.73%) JSON
8 10 (8.85%) REST
9 9 (7.96%) Apache NiFi
10 8 (7.08%) XML
11 7 (6.19%) AngularJS
12 6 (5.31%) .NET
12 6 (5.31%) React
12 6 (5.31%) Swagger
13 5 (4.42%) Node.js
13 5 (4.42%) RESTful
13 5 (4.42%) SOAP
13 5 (4.42%) YAML
14 4 (3.54%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 40 (35.40%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (30.97%) Cloud Native
3 29 (25.66%) e-Learning
3 29 (25.66%) Public Cloud
4 21 (18.58%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (13.27%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.42%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.77%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.77%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.88%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.88%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.88%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.88%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.96%) Linux
2 4 (3.54%) Kali Linux
3 2 (1.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (84.96%) Test Automation
2 91 (80.53%) Agile
3 89 (78.76%) CI/CD
4 64 (56.64%) BDD
5 56 (49.56%) Performance Testing
6 45 (39.82%) Microservices
7 43 (38.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 41 (36.28%) Mentoring
9 38 (33.63%) Coaching
9 38 (33.63%) DevOps
9 38 (33.63%) Test Strategy
10 34 (30.09%) End-to-End Testing
11 33 (29.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (29.20%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (28.32%) Event-Driven
13 29 (25.66%) CQRS
14 22 (19.47%) Collaborative Culture
15 21 (18.58%) Architectural Patterns
15 21 (18.58%) Software Testing
16 19 (16.81%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 92 (81.42%) Java
2 43 (38.05%) SQL
3 37 (32.74%) Python
4 27 (23.89%) JavaScript
5 20 (17.70%) TypeScript
6 12 (10.62%) Bash
7 11 (9.73%) Groovy
8 10 (8.85%) C#
9 8 (7.08%) C++
9 8 (7.08%) Rust
10 7 (6.19%) Go
11 5 (4.42%) C
12 3 (2.65%) Kotlin
12 3 (2.65%) Perl
12 3 (2.65%) Ruby
13 1 (0.88%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.88%) JCL
13 1 (0.88%) Scala
13 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (29.20%) Security Cleared
2 32 (28.32%) AWS Certification
2 32 (28.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 17 (15.04%) SC Cleared
4 15 (13.27%) Degree
5 10 (8.85%) ISTQB
6 6 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.42%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.65%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (2.65%) ISEB
8 3 (2.65%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.88%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (33.63%) QA
2 25 (22.12%) Accessibility
3 14 (12.39%) WCAG
4 2 (1.77%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.77%) GDPR
5 1 (0.88%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 24 (21.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (23.89%) Kubernetes
2 22 (19.47%) Grafana
2 22 (19.47%) Terraform
3 14 (12.39%) Ansible
3 14 (12.39%) Kibana
4 11 (9.73%) logstash
5 7 (6.19%) HP Fortify
6 4 (3.54%) Packer
7 1 (0.88%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (4.42%) AppDynamics
1 5 (4.42%) IBM
1 5 (4.42%) Microsoft
1 5 (4.42%) Pega
1 5 (4.42%) SAP
2 4 (3.54%) Splunk
2 4 (3.54%) Veracode
3 2 (1.77%) Oracle
3 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.77%) YouTube
4 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.88%) Conga
4 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.88%) GoCardless
4 1 (0.88%) Salesforce