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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 392 263
Rank change year-on-year +38 -129 +61
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 51 66 250
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.32% 0.33% 1.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.23% 2.87% 7.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9 38 216
10th Percentile £51,170 £40,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £52,400 £41,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £60,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -14.98% +17.63%
75th Percentile £58,000 £83,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £68,900 £98,000 -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% +12.50%

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 1,206 2,298 3,415
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.61% 11.58% 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 810 1,227 2,849
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £78,750 £78,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 6 November 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:

Cloud Services
1 46 (90.20%) AWS
2 37 (72.55%) Azure
3 10 (19.61%) GitHub
4 8 (15.69%) OpenShift
5 6 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.96%) Datadog
7 1 (1.96%) GCP
7 1 (1.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (82.35%) SQL Server
2 9 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.96%) Big Data
3 1 (1.96%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.96%) Redis
3 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (88.24%) Selenium
2 44 (86.27%) GitLab
3 38 (74.51%) Sonatype Nexus
4 37 (72.55%) JIRA
4 37 (72.55%) Maven
5 36 (70.59%) Bitbucket
5 36 (70.59%) SonarQube
6 12 (23.53%) Jenkins
7 11 (21.57%) JUnit
8 7 (13.73%) Git
9 5 (9.80%) JMeter
10 2 (3.92%) Cypress.io
10 2 (3.92%) Postman
11 1 (1.96%) Android Studio
11 1 (1.96%) Appium
11 1 (1.96%) Jasmine
11 1 (1.96%) Mockito
11 1 (1.96%) REST Assured
11 1 (1.96%) SoapUI
11 1 (1.96%) WebDriver
General
1 41 (80.39%) Finance
2 36 (70.59%) Banking
2 36 (70.59%) Corporate Banking
2 36 (70.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 36 (70.59%) Investment Banking
2 36 (70.59%) Retail
3 7 (13.73%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Games
Job Titles
1 36 (70.59%) Software Engineer
2 8 (15.69%) Senior
3 7 (13.73%) Developer
3 7 (13.73%) Senior Developer
4 6 (11.76%) Senior Software Developer
4 6 (11.76%) Software Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Java Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Kafka Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Automation Tester
7 1 (1.96%) AWS Developer
7 1 (1.96%) JavaScript Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Lead
7 1 (1.96%) Mobile Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) QA Automation Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) QA Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (1.96%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (1.96%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (90.20%) Spring
2 44 (86.27%) Spring Boot
3 40 (78.43%) Kafka
4 38 (74.51%) REST
4 38 (74.51%) RESTful
5 37 (72.55%) Jest
6 36 (70.59%) CSS
6 36 (70.59%) CSS3
6 36 (70.59%) HTML
6 36 (70.59%) HTML5
6 36 (70.59%) JPA
6 36 (70.59%) React
6 36 (70.59%) Redux
6 36 (70.59%) Sass
7 7 (13.73%) pytest
8 6 (11.76%) Django
8 6 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (11.76%) Flask
9 2 (3.92%) Hibernate
10 1 (1.96%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 38 (74.51%) Enterprise Software
2 37 (72.55%) Product Ownership
3 6 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.92%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.96%) Credit Derivative
5 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (1.96%) Android
2 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (94.12%) Test Automation
2 47 (92.16%) CI/CD
3 44 (86.27%) DevOps
3 44 (86.27%) Software Engineering
4 43 (84.31%) Microservices
5 42 (82.35%) Containerisation
5 42 (82.35%) Mentoring
6 39 (76.47%) Agile
6 39 (76.47%) SDLC
7 38 (74.51%) Full-Stack Development
8 36 (70.59%) Front End Development
8 36 (70.59%) Migration
8 36 (70.59%) Performance Optimisation
8 36 (70.59%) Responsive Web Design
8 36 (70.59%) Strategic Thinking
8 36 (70.59%) User Experience
9 9 (17.65%) BDD
10 8 (15.69%) TDD
11 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 49 (96.08%) Java
2 38 (74.51%) JavaScript
2 38 (74.51%) SQL
2 38 (74.51%) TypeScript
3 7 (13.73%) Python
4 6 (11.76%) Delphi
5 1 (1.96%) C++
5 1 (1.96%) Go
5 1 (1.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (3.92%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (78.43%) QA
2 36 (70.59%) Accessibility
System Software
1 42 (82.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (82.35%) Kubernetes
2 7 (13.73%) Grafana
3 3 (5.88%) Ansible
4 2 (3.92%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.96%) Kibana
5 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (70.59%) Solace
2 7 (13.73%) Oracle
3 2 (3.92%) VMware
4 1 (1.96%) IBM
4 1 (1.96%) Splunk
4 1 (1.96%) UiPath