Hybrid/Remote Cucumber Job Trends

Cucumber
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Cucumber skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 191 428
Rank change year-on-year -198 +237 -111
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 15 295 149
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.081% 1.99% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.10% 15.54% 3.97%
Number of salaries quoted 10 29 132
10th Percentile £42,706 £46,250 £40,125
25th Percentile £48,061 £47,231 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £57,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -20.69% +11.54%
75th Percentile £74,066 £93,778 £102,500
90th Percentile £78,871 £140,677 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £68,750
% change year-on-year +21.74% -16.36% +2.61%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Cucumber falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,368 1,898 3,757
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.35% 12.81% 11.57%
Number of salaries quoted 890 1,242 2,974
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,751 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £109,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cucumber and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Cucumber job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Cucumber
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cucumber.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cucumber over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Cucumber salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Cucumber
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Datadog
2 6 (40.00%) AWS
3 5 (33.33%) dbt
3 5 (33.33%) PaaS
3 5 (33.33%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) Apigee
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (6.67%) Azure
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) BrowserStack
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) JMeter
2 6 (40.00%) Postman
3 5 (33.33%) Locust
4 4 (26.67%) Cypress.io
4 4 (26.67%) Git
4 4 (26.67%) GitLab
4 4 (26.67%) REST Assured
4 4 (26.67%) Selenium
5 3 (20.00%) JIRA
5 3 (20.00%) SpecFlow
6 2 (13.33%) NUnit
6 2 (13.33%) Serenity BDD
6 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio
6 2 (13.33%) WebDriver
7 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
7 1 (6.67%) JUnit
7 1 (6.67%) Maven
7 1 (6.67%) Snyk
7 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Lead
2 5 (33.33%) Test Leader
3 4 (26.67%) Test Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Development Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (20.00%) Software Development Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Test Development Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Database Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Database Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) SEO Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Product Owner
6 1 (6.67%) QA Automation Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) QA Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior QA Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) Gherkin
2 3 (20.00%) REST
3 2 (13.33%) .NET
3 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (13.33%) Nightwatchjs
3 2 (13.33%) Node.js
3 2 (13.33%) React
3 2 (13.33%) Spring
3 2 (13.33%) Web Services
4 1 (6.67%) EDI
4 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
4 1 (6.67%) gRPC
4 1 (6.67%) Jest
4 1 (6.67%) JSON
4 1 (6.67%) Kafka
4 1 (6.67%) React Native
4 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.67%) Vue
4 1 (6.67%) WireMock
4 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) BDD
2 12 (80.00%) Agile
3 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
3 11 (73.33%) DevOps
3 11 (73.33%) Performance Testing
3 11 (73.33%) Test Automation
4 10 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (60.00%) Observability
6 8 (53.33%) Performance Metrics
6 8 (53.33%) Test Strategy
7 6 (40.00%) Decision-Making
7 6 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (40.00%) Validation
8 5 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
8 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
8 5 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
8 5 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) Python
3 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (13.33%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) Apex Code
5 1 (6.67%) Scala
5 1 (6.67%) SQL
5 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
1 3 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (13.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (66.67%) Accessibility
1 10 (66.67%) QA
2 5 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Grafana
2 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Conga
1 1 (6.67%) GoCardless
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) Salesforce