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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 188 427
Rank change year-on-year -258 +239 -146
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 15 261 67
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.064% 1.61% 0.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.98% 17.77% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 50
10th Percentile £55,919 £46,838 £40,000
25th Percentile £66,091 £47,231 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,539 £48,507 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +49.54% -15.64% -11.54%
75th Percentile £84,813 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £89,875 £82,500 £96,000
UK median annual salary £65,626 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.13% -4.17% -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 1,535 1,469 2,521
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.51% 9.07% 10.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,021 904 1,587
10th Percentile £39,200 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.82% -10.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.80% +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 6 September 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%) AWS
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) Datadog
2 2 (13.33%) dbt
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub
2 2 (13.33%) PaaS
2 2 (13.33%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (6.67%) BrowserStack
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) Git
1 9 (60.00%) JUnit
2 8 (53.33%) Postman
2 8 (53.33%) Selenium
3 6 (40.00%) Gatling
3 6 (40.00%) GitLab
4 3 (20.00%) JMeter
5 2 (13.33%) Locust
5 2 (13.33%) REST Assured
6 1 (6.67%) Claude Code
6 1 (6.67%) IntelliJ
6 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
6 1 (6.67%) JIRA
6 1 (6.67%) Maven
6 1 (6.67%) Mockito
6 1 (6.67%) Snyk
6 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
6 1 (6.67%) SpecFlow
6 1 (6.67%) TestNG
6 1 (6.67%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Health Technology
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Senior
2 6 (40.00%) Quality Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) Senior Quality Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Lead
4 3 (20.00%) Test Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Test Leader
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) QA Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Senior QA Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Test Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) Playwright
2 2 (13.33%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) Gherkin
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) WireMock
3 1 (6.67%) JSON
3 1 (6.67%) React
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Batch
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Test Automation
2 13 (86.67%) Agile
3 12 (80.00%) CI/CD
4 10 (66.67%) Mentoring
5 9 (60.00%) Coaching
5 9 (60.00%) Test Strategy
6 8 (53.33%) DevOps
6 8 (53.33%) End-to-End Testing
6 8 (53.33%) Non-Functional Testing
6 8 (53.33%) OWASP
6 8 (53.33%) Software Testing
6 8 (53.33%) TDD
7 7 (46.67%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (40.00%) Pair Programming
8 6 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (33.33%) BDD
9 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (20.00%) Performance Testing
12 2 (13.33%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (6.67%) Apex Code
4 1 (6.67%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) Groovy
4 1 (6.67%) Scala
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 8 (53.33%) WCAG
3 7 (46.67%) QA
4 1 (6.67%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Conga
1 1 (6.67%) GoCardless
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) Salesforce