Cucumber
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cucumber skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cucumber over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 597 409 358
Rank change year-on-year -188 -51 -60
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 330 839 1,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.79% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.45% 5.38% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 257 545 893
10th Percentile £42,000 £43,300 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.56% +3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,711 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +5.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Cucumber is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,560 15,597 33,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.83% 14.64% 22.09%
Number of salaries quoted 6,787 9,520 15,992
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Top 17 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 19 April 2024. 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 -140 289 £72,500 +3.57% 39
Work from Home -77 176 £75,000 +15.38% 25
UK excluding London -113 176 £60,000 - 29
London -57 154 £90,000 +16.13% 13
South East -30 38 £67,500 +3.85% 10
South West -13 33 £60,000 -0.83% 4
North of England -40 33 £61,000 +10.91% 2
Midlands +29 31 £52,500 -9.87% 5
Scotland -50 31 £72,500 +20.83% 6
West Midlands +48 24 £40,000 -27.27% 3
Yorkshire +22 14 £100,000 +122.22% 1
North West -4 13 £54,169 -9.72%
East Midlands -15 7 £57,500 -2.54% 2
North East -7 6 £55,000 -15.38% 1
Wales +6 5 £42,500 -15.83%
Northern Ireland +21 4 £57,500 - 1
East of England -2 4 £38,000 -43.70% 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 16 (4.85%) Apache
2 13 (3.94%) Cloud Foundry
3 12 (3.64%) Confluence
4 1 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.30%) CMS
4 1 (0.30%) Drupal
4 1 (0.30%) nginx
4 1 (0.30%) PrestaShop
4 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (2.73%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Magento
1 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 104 (31.52%) AWS
2 60 (18.18%) SaaS
3 58 (17.58%) Azure
4 17 (5.15%) GitHub
5 16 (4.85%) GCP
6 12 (3.64%) Serverless
7 11 (3.33%) OpenShift
8 9 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (2.73%) BrowserStack
8 9 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (2.42%) BlazeMeter
9 8 (2.42%) Slack
10 7 (2.12%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (0.91%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (0.91%) Azure Pipelines
12 3 (0.91%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.91%) HTTP
2 2 (0.61%) SSH
3 1 (0.30%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (10.30%) MongoDB
2 31 (9.39%) Elasticsearch
3 19 (5.76%) NoSQL
4 14 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.42%) Data Lake
5 8 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.52%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.21%) MySQL
7 4 (1.21%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.91%) Big Data
8 3 (0.91%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.61%) Redis
9 2 (0.61%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.30%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 184 (55.76%) Selenium
2 149 (45.15%) Jenkins
3 100 (30.30%) Postman
4 85 (25.76%) Cypress.io
5 75 (22.73%) JIRA
6 57 (17.27%) JUnit
7 45 (13.64%) Git
8 34 (10.30%) REST Assured
9 32 (9.70%) JMeter
10 31 (9.39%) SpecFlow
11 29 (8.79%) Maven
12 26 (7.88%) WebDriver
13 24 (7.27%) TestNG
14 23 (6.97%) Appium
15 22 (6.67%) TeamCity
16 18 (5.45%) GitLab
17 16 (4.85%) SoapUI
18 15 (4.55%) Bitbucket
19 13 (3.94%) Serenity BDD
20 12 (3.64%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 87 (26.36%) Finance
2 59 (17.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 53 (16.06%) Social Skills
4 43 (13.03%) Banking
5 40 (12.12%) Law
6 33 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (5.15%) Investment Banking
8 16 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (3.94%) Marketing
10 12 (3.64%) Public Sector
11 10 (3.03%) Retail
12 8 (2.42%) Tech for Good
13 4 (1.21%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.91%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.61%) Front Office
15 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.61%) Social Housing
16 1 (0.30%) Advertising
16 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 80 (24.24%) Lead
2 69 (20.91%) Senior
3 55 (16.67%) QA Engineer
4 54 (16.36%) Tester
5 46 (13.94%) Developer
6 37 (11.21%) Software Engineer
7 34 (10.30%) Automation Tester
8 31 (9.39%) Java Engineer
9 23 (6.97%) Java Software Engineer
10 17 (5.15%) Test Engineer
11 16 (4.85%) Lead Software Engineer
11 16 (4.85%) QA Automation Engineer
12 15 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 15 (4.55%) Java Developer
12 15 (4.55%) QA Tester
13 14 (4.24%) Full Stack Engineer
14 13 (3.94%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 13 (3.94%) Lead Java Engineer
14 13 (3.94%) Test Automation Engineer
15 10 (3.03%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (34.24%) REST
2 58 (17.58%) Spring
3 54 (16.36%) Spring Boot
4 50 (15.15%) Gherkin
5 39 (11.82%) React
6 33 (10.00%) RESTful
7 32 (9.70%) Kafka
8 28 (8.48%) CSS
9 26 (7.88%) HTML
9 26 (7.88%) WireMock
10 23 (6.97%) Web Services
11 20 (6.06%) SOAP
12 19 (5.76%) .NET
13 18 (5.45%) AngularJS
14 15 (4.55%) Apache Commons
14 15 (4.55%) Guava
14 15 (4.55%) Java Concurrency
15 14 (4.24%) WebdriverIO
16 13 (3.94%) JDBC
17 11 (3.33%) Material Design
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.18%) Product Ownership
2 16 (4.85%) Private Cloud
3 9 (2.73%) Mobile App
3 9 (2.73%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.42%) Market Risk
5 6 (1.82%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.82%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (0.91%) Hedge funds
7 3 (0.91%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.91%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.61%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.30%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.30%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.30%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.73%) Linux
2 6 (1.82%) Android
2 6 (1.82%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.61%) Unix
3 2 (0.61%) Windows
4 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (56.36%) Agile
2 183 (55.45%) CI/CD
3 180 (54.55%) Test Automation
4 165 (50.00%) BDD
5 125 (37.88%) API Testing
6 103 (31.21%) SDET
7 83 (25.15%) Scrum
8 79 (23.94%) DevOps
8 79 (23.94%) Test Strategy
9 76 (23.03%) Clean Code
10 72 (21.82%) Software Testing
11 71 (21.52%) Software Engineering
12 66 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
13 65 (19.70%) Microservices
14 61 (18.48%) TDD
15 54 (16.36%) Fintech
16 44 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
17 43 (13.03%) Full Stack Development
18 38 (11.52%) Test Scripting
19 36 (10.91%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 231 (70.00%) Java
2 99 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 85 (25.76%) SQL
4 48 (14.55%) Python
5 39 (11.82%) C#
6 25 (7.58%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.33%) C++
8 9 (2.73%) Ruby
9 7 (2.12%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.82%) Perl
10 6 (1.82%) Swift
11 5 (1.52%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.21%) Groovy
13 2 (0.61%) Go
13 2 (0.61%) SOQL
14 1 (0.30%) Bash
14 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.30%) Scala
14 1 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 39 (11.82%) Security Cleared
2 36 (10.91%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.06%) Degree
4 6 (1.82%) DV Cleared
4 6 (1.82%) ISTQB
5 5 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.91%) ISEB
6 3 (0.91%) OCP
6 3 (0.91%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (47.88%) QA
2 19 (5.76%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.42%) GDPR
3 8 (2.42%) PSD2
4 2 (0.61%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.61%) PMO
System Software
1 54 (16.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 53 (16.06%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.76%) Terraform
3 12 (3.64%) Ansible
4 6 (1.82%) Kibana
4 6 (1.82%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.52%) Consul
5 5 (1.52%) Packer
6 3 (0.91%) Puppet
7 2 (0.61%) Grafana
7 2 (0.61%) Istio
7 2 (0.61%) Nagios
8 1 (0.30%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.30%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.30%) Podman
Vendors
1 24 (7.27%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.67%) Google
3 11 (3.33%) Oracle
4 9 (2.73%) Adobe
5 8 (2.42%) Duck Creek
5 8 (2.42%) TOWER Software
6 5 (1.52%) Splunk
7 4 (1.21%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.21%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.91%) AppDynamics
8 3 (0.91%) IBM
9 2 (0.61%) Databricks
9 2 (0.61%) New Relic
9 2 (0.61%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.61%) Veracode
9 2 (0.61%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.30%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.30%) HP
10 1 (0.30%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.30%) Red Hat