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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 640 420
Rank change year-on-year +286 -220 -73
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 400 273 725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.26% 0.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.64% 2.87% 5.39%
Number of salaries quoted 56 196 505
10th Percentile £46,740 £41,250 £42,544
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £68,750 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +5.20% +0.54%
75th Percentile £86,257 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £129,088 £112,500 £101,185
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -2.08% +1.69% +12.38%

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 6,028 9,520 13,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.79% 9.18% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,562 6,582 8,354
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £58,700 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% -9.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.65% -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 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Top 18 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 31 May 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
UK excluding London +324 358 £58,750 -2.08% 85
England +244 340 £62,500 -10.71% 108
Work from Home +246 298 £60,000 -7.69% 84
North of England +137 133 £51,754 -9.99% 27
North West +105 123 £63,750 +27.50% 15
Midlands +117 80 £70,000 +33.33% 21
East Midlands +90 54 £70,000 +21.74% 14
South East +91 50 £47,500 -26.92% 11
Scotland +143 49 - - 7
London +22 37 £62,750 -23.11% 39
East of England +78 30 - - 1
West Midlands +62 26 - - 7
South West +102 16 £85,253 +19.65% 8
Yorkshire +50 7 £48,507 -51.49% 11
Northern Ireland +43 5 £55,000 -4.35% 3
North East +49 3 - - 1
Wales +37 2 £75,000 +76.47% 3
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 - 2

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
1 170 (42.50%) Confluence
2 8 (2.00%) nginx
2 8 (2.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.25%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 288 (72.00%) AWS
2 264 (66.00%) Azure
3 168 (42.00%) GCP
4 19 (4.75%) Amazon S3
4 19 (4.75%) AWS Lambda
4 19 (4.75%) Serverless
5 17 (4.25%) Amazon EC2
5 17 (4.25%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (3.50%) Datadog
7 11 (2.75%) npm
8 9 (2.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 9 (2.25%) GitHub
9 8 (2.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (0.25%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.25%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.25%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 64 (16.00%) TCP/IP
1 64 (16.00%) VPN
2 1 (0.25%) Firewall
2 1 (0.25%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (61.75%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (2.25%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (1.75%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.50%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.25%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.25%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 278 (69.50%) Selenium
2 275 (68.75%) Maven
3 272 (68.00%) GitLab
4 263 (65.75%) JIRA
5 258 (64.50%) SonarQube
5 258 (64.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 257 (64.25%) Bitbucket
7 64 (16.00%) Robot Framework
8 38 (9.50%) Jenkins
9 36 (9.00%) Git
10 31 (7.75%) JUnit
11 22 (5.50%) Mockito
12 20 (5.00%) Postman
13 14 (3.50%) IntelliJ
14 13 (3.25%) Cypress.io
15 12 (3.00%) TestNG
16 11 (2.75%) webpack
17 9 (2.25%) Appium
17 9 (2.25%) SoapUI
18 5 (1.25%) REST Assured
General
1 312 (78.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 298 (74.50%) Finance
3 266 (66.50%) Banking
4 91 (22.75%) Investment Banking
5 90 (22.50%) Corporate Banking
5 90 (22.50%) Retail
6 88 (22.00%) Social Skills
7 64 (16.00%) Telecoms
8 14 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (2.00%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.00%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.25%) Back Office
10 1 (0.25%) Front Office
10 1 (0.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 264 (66.00%) Software Engineer
2 69 (17.25%) Test Engineer
3 67 (16.75%) Test Automation Engineer
4 25 (6.25%) Java Engineer
5 18 (4.50%) Developer
5 18 (4.50%) Senior
6 17 (4.25%) AWS DevOps
7 16 (4.00%) Lead
8 15 (3.75%) Java Developer
9 14 (3.50%) AWS Developer
9 14 (3.50%) DevOps Developer
9 14 (3.50%) Java Pricing Developer
9 14 (3.50%) Pricing Developer
9 14 (3.50%) Senior Developer
9 14 (3.50%) Senior DevOps
9 14 (3.50%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (2.00%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (2.00%) Quality Engineer
11 7 (1.75%) Lead Java Engineer
12 6 (1.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 289 (72.25%) Spring Boot
2 277 (69.25%) Spring
3 265 (66.25%) Kafka
4 257 (64.25%) React
5 251 (62.75%) CSS
5 251 (62.75%) HTML
6 248 (62.00%) JPA
7 247 (61.75%) Redux
8 158 (39.50%) Hibernate
9 113 (28.25%) RESTful
10 111 (27.75%) REST
11 105 (26.25%) Jest
12 92 (23.00%) CSS3
12 92 (23.00%) HTML5
13 90 (22.50%) Sass
14 17 (4.25%) Gherkin
15 14 (3.50%) ActiveMQ
15 14 (3.50%) JMS
16 13 (3.25%) SOAP
17 12 (3.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 261 (65.25%) Enterprise Software
2 260 (65.00%) Product Ownership
3 64 (16.00%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (3.50%) Credit Derivative
4 14 (3.50%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.00%) Life Science
6 7 (1.75%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.50%) Distributed Applications
7 6 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.50%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.50%) Wiki
8 5 (1.25%) Equities
8 5 (1.25%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.50%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.25%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.25%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.25%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 84 (21.00%) Linux
2 64 (16.00%) Windows
3 5 (1.25%) Android
3 5 (1.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (92.50%) Test Automation
2 361 (90.25%) DevOps
3 305 (76.25%) CI/CD
4 296 (74.00%) Agile
5 283 (70.75%) Software Engineering
6 272 (68.00%) Microservices
7 271 (67.75%) SDLC
8 268 (67.00%) Containerisation
9 263 (65.75%) Full-Stack Development
10 250 (62.50%) Front End Development
11 248 (62.00%) Performance Optimisation
12 172 (43.00%) TDD
13 166 (41.50%) Mentoring
14 161 (40.25%) Continuous Improvement
15 157 (39.25%) Clean Code
16 99 (24.75%) User Experience
17 91 (22.75%) Migration
18 90 (22.50%) Responsive Web Design
18 90 (22.50%) Strategic Thinking
19 79 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 333 (83.25%) JavaScript
2 308 (77.00%) Java
3 260 (65.00%) SQL
4 96 (24.00%) TypeScript
5 85 (21.25%) Python
6 65 (16.25%) Bash
7 64 (16.00%) PowerShell
8 15 (3.75%) C++
9 6 (1.50%) Go
9 6 (1.50%) Groovy
9 6 (1.50%) PHP
10 5 (1.25%) C#
11 4 (1.00%) Scala
12 3 (0.75%) Perl
12 3 (0.75%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.25%) C
Qualifications
1 65 (16.25%) Degree
2 4 (1.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 330 (82.50%) QA
2 90 (22.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 277 (69.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 269 (67.25%) Kubernetes
2 26 (6.50%) Ansible
3 25 (6.25%) Terraform
4 11 (2.75%) Packer
5 8 (2.00%) Kustomize
6 3 (0.75%) Grafana
7 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 247 (61.75%) Solace
2 18 (4.50%) IBM
3 8 (2.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (0.75%) AppDynamics
4 3 (0.75%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.50%) Splunk
6 1 (0.25%) Lauterbach
6 1 (0.25%) Mercator
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.25%) TIBCO