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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 409 265
Rank change year-on-year +37 -144 +57
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 17 66 249
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.11% 0.33% 1.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.45% 2.86% 7.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11 38 214
10th Percentile £41,925 £40,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £49,325 £41,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £60,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £58,000 £85,000 £102,500
90th Percentile - £105,000 -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% +8.00%

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 1,176 2,307 3,357
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.50% 11.66% 15.53%
Number of salaries quoted 817 1,250 2,799
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 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,324 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +2.36%

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 13 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 12 (70.59%) AWS
1 12 (70.59%) GitHub
2 10 (58.82%) OpenShift
3 8 (47.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.88%) Azure
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.88%) Datadog
5 1 (5.88%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (64.71%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (47.06%) SQL Server
3 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
4 2 (11.76%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (5.88%) Big Data
5 1 (5.88%) Couchbase
5 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (82.35%) Jenkins
2 13 (76.47%) JUnit
3 11 (64.71%) Selenium
4 10 (58.82%) GitLab
5 9 (52.94%) Git
6 5 (29.41%) JMeter
7 2 (11.76%) Cypress.io
7 2 (11.76%) Postman
7 2 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (5.88%) Android Studio
8 1 (5.88%) Appium
8 1 (5.88%) IntelliJ
8 1 (5.88%) Jasmine
8 1 (5.88%) JIRA
8 1 (5.88%) Maven
8 1 (5.88%) Mockito
8 1 (5.88%) REST Assured
8 1 (5.88%) SoapUI
8 1 (5.88%) WebDriver
8 1 (5.88%) Xcode
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Senior
2 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 7 (41.18%) Senior Developer
3 6 (35.29%) Senior Software Developer
3 6 (35.29%) Software Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Java Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Kafka Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Automation Tester
6 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Lead
6 1 (5.88%) QA Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) QA Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (70.59%) Spring
2 10 (58.82%) Spring Boot
3 9 (52.94%) pytest
4 8 (47.06%) Django
4 8 (47.06%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (47.06%) Flask
5 4 (23.53%) Kafka
6 2 (11.76%) Hibernate
6 2 (11.76%) REST
6 2 (11.76%) RESTful
7 1 (5.88%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (5.88%) Apache Thrift
7 1 (5.88%) Gherkin
7 1 (5.88%) Jest
7 1 (5.88%) JMS
7 1 (5.88%) JSON
7 1 (5.88%) Memcached
7 1 (5.88%) React Native
7 1 (5.88%) SOAP
7 1 (5.88%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (11.76%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (11.76%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.88%) Credit Derivative
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Android
2 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) CI/CD
2 12 (70.59%) Test Automation
3 10 (58.82%) DevOps
3 10 (58.82%) Software Engineering
3 10 (58.82%) TDD
4 9 (52.94%) BDD
5 8 (47.06%) Containerisation
5 8 (47.06%) Secure Coding
6 7 (41.18%) Microservices
6 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (35.29%) API Development
7 6 (35.29%) API Integration
7 6 (35.29%) Architectural Patterns
7 6 (35.29%) Event-Driven
7 6 (35.29%) Mentoring
7 6 (35.29%) SEO
7 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (35.29%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (29.41%) Agile
8 5 (29.41%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 15 (88.24%) Java
2 9 (52.94%) Python
3 8 (47.06%) Delphi
4 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.88%) C++
5 1 (5.88%) Go
5 1 (5.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Grafana
2 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
3 3 (17.65%) Ansible
4 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.88%) Kibana
5 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) IBM
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) UiPath