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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 345 417
Rank change year-on-year -25 +72 -93
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 23 51 166
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.13% 0.38% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.73% 2.99% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 19 32 148
10th Percentile £42,550 £46,250 £42,125
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,231 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £63,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% -15.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £74,066 £93,778 £102,500
90th Percentile £74,946 £140,677 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +17.39% -17.86% +3.70%

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 1,330 1,705 3,750
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.33% 12.66% 11.53%
Number of salaries quoted 865 1,305 3,021
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.96%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 2 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 14 (60.87%) AWS
2 8 (34.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 8 (34.78%) Datadog
2 8 (34.78%) GitHub
2 8 (34.78%) OpenShift
3 5 (21.74%) dbt
3 5 (21.74%) PaaS
3 5 (21.74%) SaaS
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.35%) Apigee
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (34.78%) SQL Server
2 4 (17.39%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.70%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (56.52%) Selenium
2 12 (52.17%) GitLab
3 11 (47.83%) Git
4 9 (39.13%) Jenkins
4 9 (39.13%) JUnit
5 7 (30.43%) JMeter
5 7 (30.43%) Postman
6 5 (21.74%) Locust
7 4 (17.39%) Cypress.io
8 3 (13.04%) JIRA
8 3 (13.04%) SpecFlow
9 2 (8.70%) NUnit
9 2 (8.70%) REST Assured
9 2 (8.70%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (8.70%) SoapUI
9 2 (8.70%) Visual Studio
9 2 (8.70%) WebDriver
10 1 (4.35%) Maven
10 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Senior
2 7 (30.43%) Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Lead
3 6 (26.09%) Senior Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Senior Software Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Software Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Software Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Test Leader
5 3 (13.04%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Development Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) QA Automation Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) QA Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Software Development Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Test Development Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Database Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Database Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) SEO Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Test Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (43.48%) pytest
1 10 (43.48%) Spring
2 9 (39.13%) Gherkin
2 9 (39.13%) Spring Boot
3 8 (34.78%) Django
3 8 (34.78%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (34.78%) Flask
4 3 (13.04%) REST
5 2 (8.70%) .NET
5 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
5 2 (8.70%) Nightwatchjs
5 2 (8.70%) Node.js
5 2 (8.70%) SOAP
5 2 (8.70%) Web Services
6 1 (4.35%) EDI
6 1 (4.35%) Flutter
6 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
6 1 (4.35%) Jest
6 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (4.35%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Android
1 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (82.61%) BDD
2 17 (73.91%) CI/CD
2 17 (73.91%) DevOps
2 17 (73.91%) Test Automation
3 13 (56.52%) Containerisation
4 12 (52.17%) Agile
4 12 (52.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (47.83%) Technical Leadership
6 10 (43.48%) Performance Testing
7 9 (39.13%) Microservices
7 9 (39.13%) Observability
7 9 (39.13%) TDD
8 8 (34.78%) Mentoring
8 8 (34.78%) Performance Metrics
8 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (34.78%) Secure Coding
8 8 (34.78%) SEO
8 8 (34.78%) Software Engineering
8 8 (34.78%) Test Strategy
9 7 (30.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) Java
2 16 (69.57%) Python
3 8 (34.78%) Delphi
4 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
5 3 (13.04%) SQL
6 2 (8.70%) C#
6 2 (8.70%) Go
6 2 (8.70%) PHP
7 1 (4.35%) Scala
7 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) ISTQB
1 2 (8.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (52.17%) QA
2 9 (39.13%) Accessibility
3 5 (21.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (65.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (69.57%) Grafana
2 14 (60.87%) Kubernetes
3 6 (26.09%) Terraform
4 1 (4.35%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Oracle