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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 410 271
Rank change year-on-year +220 -139 +45
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 256 66 250
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.57% 0.33% 1.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.02% 2.86% 7.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3 39 216
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £42,846
25th Percentile £49,375 £41,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £97,290
90th Percentile £101,500 £91,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +8.33%

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 1,421 2,309 3,503
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.71% 11.43% 15.29%
Number of salaries quoted 814 1,246 2,956
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,165 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £89,625 £90,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

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 23 October 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 157 (61.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 252 (98.44%) AWS
2 248 (96.88%) Azure
3 158 (61.72%) GCP
4 4 (1.56%) GitHub
5 3 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (0.78%) Amazon S3
6 2 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (0.78%) Datadog
6 2 (0.78%) OpenShift
6 2 (0.78%) Serverless
7 1 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (96.48%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.39%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.39%) Big Data
3 1 (0.39%) Couchbase
3 1 (0.39%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.39%) Redis
3 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 250 (97.66%) GitLab
1 250 (97.66%) Selenium
2 249 (97.27%) Maven
2 249 (97.27%) Sonatype Nexus
3 248 (96.88%) JIRA
4 247 (96.48%) Bitbucket
4 247 (96.48%) SonarQube
5 7 (2.73%) Jenkins
6 6 (2.34%) JUnit
7 5 (1.95%) JMeter
8 2 (0.78%) Git
8 2 (0.78%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.78%) Mockito
8 2 (0.78%) Postman
9 1 (0.39%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.39%) Appium
9 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.39%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.39%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.39%) WebDriver
General
1 253 (98.83%) Finance
2 247 (96.48%) Banking
2 247 (96.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 90 (35.16%) Corporate Banking
3 90 (35.16%) Investment Banking
3 90 (35.16%) Retail
4 1 (0.39%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 247 (96.48%) Software Engineer
2 3 (1.17%) Java Engineer
3 2 (0.78%) AWS Developer
3 2 (0.78%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (0.78%) Developer
3 2 (0.78%) DevOps Developer
3 2 (0.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (0.78%) Java Developer
3 2 (0.78%) Java Pricing Developer
3 2 (0.78%) Kafka Engineer
3 2 (0.78%) Pricing Developer
3 2 (0.78%) Senior
3 2 (0.78%) Senior Developer
3 2 (0.78%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (0.78%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (0.39%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (0.39%) Lead
4 1 (0.39%) Mobile Engineer
4 1 (0.39%) QA Engineer
4 1 (0.39%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (98.44%) Spring
2 251 (98.05%) Kafka
3 250 (97.66%) Spring Boot
4 247 (96.48%) CSS
4 247 (96.48%) HTML
4 247 (96.48%) JPA
4 247 (96.48%) React
4 247 (96.48%) Redux
5 159 (62.11%) Hibernate
6 92 (35.94%) REST
6 92 (35.94%) RESTful
7 90 (35.16%) CSS3
7 90 (35.16%) HTML5
7 90 (35.16%) Jest
7 90 (35.16%) Sass
8 2 (0.78%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (0.78%) JMS
9 1 (0.39%) pytest
9 1 (0.39%) SOAP
9 1 (0.39%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 250 (97.66%) Enterprise Software
2 247 (96.48%) Product Ownership
3 2 (0.78%) Credit Derivative
3 2 (0.78%) Management Information System
3 2 (0.78%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.39%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.56%) Linux
2 1 (0.39%) Android
2 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (98.83%) CI/CD
1 253 (98.83%) Test Automation
2 251 (98.05%) SDLC
3 250 (97.66%) DevOps
4 249 (97.27%) Agile
4 249 (97.27%) Full-Stack Development
4 249 (97.27%) Software Engineering
5 248 (96.88%) Microservices
6 247 (96.48%) Containerisation
6 247 (96.48%) Front End Development
6 247 (96.48%) Performance Optimisation
7 158 (61.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 158 (61.72%) TDD
8 157 (61.33%) Clean Code
9 90 (35.16%) Mentoring
9 90 (35.16%) Migration
9 90 (35.16%) Responsive Web Design
9 90 (35.16%) Strategic Thinking
9 90 (35.16%) User Experience
10 3 (1.17%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 255 (99.61%) Java
2 249 (97.27%) SQL
3 248 (96.88%) JavaScript
4 91 (35.55%) TypeScript
5 2 (0.78%) C++
6 1 (0.39%) Go
6 1 (0.39%) PHP
6 1 (0.39%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (0.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (98.05%) QA
2 90 (35.16%) Accessibility
System Software
1 247 (96.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 247 (96.48%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.56%) Ansible
3 2 (0.78%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.78%) Terraform
4 1 (0.39%) Grafana
4 1 (0.39%) Kibana
Vendors
1 247 (96.48%) Solace
2 2 (0.78%) IBM
2 2 (0.78%) VMware
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle
3 1 (0.39%) Splunk
3 1 (0.39%) UiPath