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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 422 289
Rank change year-on-year +227 -133 +33
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 258 73 253
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.58% 0.31% 1.03%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.46% 2.97% 6.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4 50 217
10th Percentile £46,625 £40,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £47,188 £41,563 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -14.18% +11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £97,290
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 1,478 2,461 3,722
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.07% 10.50% 15.16%
Number of salaries quoted 902 1,475 3,141
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,965 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% -10.82% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

Cucumber
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cucumber trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cucumber
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Cucumber

Cucumber
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cucumber over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Cucumber salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 157 (60.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 255 (98.84%) AWS
2 249 (96.51%) Azure
3 158 (61.24%) GCP
4 5 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (1.94%) Amazon S3
4 5 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (1.94%) Datadog
4 5 (1.94%) Serverless
5 2 (0.78%) GitHub
5 2 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.39%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (95.74%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.39%) Big Data
2 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.39%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.39%) Neo4j
2 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 253 (98.06%) GitLab
2 252 (97.67%) Maven
3 250 (96.90%) Selenium
4 248 (96.12%) JIRA
4 248 (96.12%) Sonatype Nexus
5 247 (95.74%) Bitbucket
5 247 (95.74%) SonarQube
6 8 (3.10%) Jenkins
6 8 (3.10%) JUnit
7 5 (1.94%) Git
7 5 (1.94%) IntelliJ
7 5 (1.94%) Mockito
8 3 (1.16%) JMeter
9 2 (0.78%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.78%) Postman
10 1 (0.39%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.39%) Appium
10 1 (0.39%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.39%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.39%) WebDriver
General
1 254 (98.45%) Finance
2 247 (95.74%) Banking
2 247 (95.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 90 (34.88%) Corporate Banking
3 90 (34.88%) Investment Banking
3 90 (34.88%) Retail
4 1 (0.39%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 247 (95.74%) Software Engineer
2 5 (1.94%) AWS Developer
2 5 (1.94%) AWS DevOps
2 5 (1.94%) Developer
2 5 (1.94%) DevOps Developer
2 5 (1.94%) Java Developer
2 5 (1.94%) Java Pricing Developer
2 5 (1.94%) Pricing Developer
2 5 (1.94%) Senior
2 5 (1.94%) Senior Developer
2 5 (1.94%) Senior DevOps
2 5 (1.94%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (0.78%) Test Engineer
4 1 (0.39%) Automation Tester
4 1 (0.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (0.39%) Java Engineer
4 1 (0.39%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (0.39%) QA Engineer
4 1 (0.39%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (0.39%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (98.06%) Spring
2 252 (97.67%) Spring Boot
3 249 (96.51%) Kafka
4 248 (96.12%) React
5 247 (95.74%) CSS
5 247 (95.74%) HTML
5 247 (95.74%) JPA
5 247 (95.74%) Redux
6 158 (61.24%) Hibernate
7 92 (35.66%) REST
7 92 (35.66%) RESTful
8 90 (34.88%) CSS3
8 90 (34.88%) HTML5
8 90 (34.88%) Jest
8 90 (34.88%) Sass
9 5 (1.94%) ActiveMQ
9 5 (1.94%) JMS
10 1 (0.39%) JSON
10 1 (0.39%) MERN Stack
10 1 (0.39%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 252 (97.67%) Enterprise Software
2 247 (95.74%) Product Ownership
3 5 (1.94%) Credit Derivative
3 5 (1.94%) Management Information System
4 2 (0.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.33%) Linux
2 1 (0.39%) Android
2 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (98.45%) CI/CD
1 254 (98.45%) SDLC
2 252 (97.67%) DevOps
2 252 (97.67%) Software Engineering
2 252 (97.67%) Test Automation
3 248 (96.12%) Agile
3 248 (96.12%) Containerisation
3 248 (96.12%) Full-Stack Development
4 247 (95.74%) Front End Development
4 247 (95.74%) Microservices
4 247 (95.74%) Performance Optimisation
5 158 (61.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 158 (61.24%) TDD
6 157 (60.85%) Clean Code
7 90 (34.88%) Mentoring
7 90 (34.88%) Migration
7 90 (34.88%) Responsive Web Design
7 90 (34.88%) Strategic Thinking
7 90 (34.88%) User Experience
8 5 (1.94%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 257 (99.61%) Java
2 249 (96.51%) JavaScript
3 248 (96.12%) SQL
4 92 (35.66%) TypeScript
5 5 (1.94%) C++
6 2 (0.78%) Python
7 1 (0.39%) Go
7 1 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (0.39%) Degree
1 1 (0.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (97.29%) QA
2 90 (34.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 248 (96.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 248 (96.12%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.33%) Ansible
3 5 (1.94%) Terraform
4 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 247 (95.74%) Solace
2 5 (1.94%) IBM
3 1 (0.39%) UiPath
3 1 (0.39%) VMware