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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 183 433
Rank change year-on-year -215 +250 -121
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 18 296 135
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.094% 2.00% 0.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.28% 16.37% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 12 30 118
10th Percentile £43,010 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,687 £47,231 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £56,250 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +24.58% -15.09% +1.92%
75th Percentile £77,742 £93,778 £102,500
90th Percentile £82,097 £140,677 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £58,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +19.15% -16.07% +4.62%

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 1,404 1,808 3,708
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.32% 12.21% 11.17%
Number of salaries quoted 915 1,170 2,912
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% -6.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,751 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -7.69% +10.73% -9.69%

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 30 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 7 (38.89%) AWS
1 7 (38.89%) Datadog
2 5 (27.78%) dbt
2 5 (27.78%) PaaS
2 5 (27.78%) SaaS
3 4 (22.22%) Azure
4 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.56%) BrowserStack
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Git
1 8 (44.44%) JMeter
2 7 (38.89%) Postman
3 6 (33.33%) Selenium
4 5 (27.78%) JUnit
4 5 (27.78%) Locust
5 4 (22.22%) GitLab
5 4 (22.22%) REST Assured
5 4 (22.22%) SpecFlow
6 3 (16.67%) JIRA
6 3 (16.67%) WebDriver
7 2 (11.11%) Cypress.io
7 2 (11.11%) Gatling
7 2 (11.11%) NUnit
7 2 (11.11%) Serenity BDD
7 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio
8 1 (5.56%) Claude Code
8 1 (5.56%) HP UFT
8 1 (5.56%) Snyk
8 1 (5.56%) TestNG
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Senior
2 5 (27.78%) Lead
2 5 (27.78%) Test Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Test Leader
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Database Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Development Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) QA Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Quality Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Database Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior QA Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) SEO Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Development Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Test Development Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) Gherkin
2 4 (22.22%) .NET
2 4 (22.22%) Playwright
3 3 (16.67%) REST
4 2 (11.11%) Nightwatchjs
4 2 (11.11%) React
4 2 (11.11%) Web Services
4 2 (11.11%) WireMock
5 1 (5.56%) EDI
5 1 (5.56%) Flutter
5 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
5 1 (5.56%) gRPC
5 1 (5.56%) JSON
5 1 (5.56%) Kafka
5 1 (5.56%) Node.js
5 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (5.56%) React Native
5 1 (5.56%) Spring
5 1 (5.56%) Vue
5 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
1 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Android
1 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 15 (83.33%) Agile
3 14 (77.78%) BDD
4 13 (72.22%) CI/CD
5 12 (66.67%) DevOps
6 11 (61.11%) Test Strategy
7 10 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (55.56%) Performance Testing
8 8 (44.44%) End-to-End Testing
8 8 (44.44%) Observability
9 7 (38.89%) Mentoring
9 7 (38.89%) OWASP
9 7 (38.89%) Performance Metrics
9 7 (38.89%) Software Testing
10 6 (33.33%) Coaching
10 6 (33.33%) Decision-Making
10 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (33.33%) Validation
11 5 (27.78%) FinOps
11 5 (27.78%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Java
2 7 (38.89%) JavaScript
2 7 (38.89%) Python
3 3 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (11.11%) Scala
4 2 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) Apex Code
5 1 (5.56%) Groovy
5 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) ISTQB
3 2 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
4 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (72.22%) Accessibility
2 12 (66.67%) QA
3 7 (38.89%) WCAG
4 1 (5.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 7 (38.89%) Grafana
3 6 (33.33%) Terraform
4 1 (5.56%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Conga
1 1 (5.56%) GoCardless
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.56%) Salesforce