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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 366 316
Rank change year-on-year +13 -50 +9
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 23 65 231
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.15% 0.40% 0.86%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.81% 2.92% 6.34%
Number of salaries quoted 15 31 202
10th Percentile £42,237 £50,000 £41,375
25th Percentile £46,978 £55,000 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £65,000 £83,038
Median % change year-on-year -15.08% -21.72% +38.40%
75th Percentile £58,000 £86,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £72,700 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -10.34% +11.54%

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 1,270 2,229 3,641
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.05% 13.81% 13.57%
Number of salaries quoted 813 1,255 3,092
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £39,152
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -0.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,500 £104,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -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 1 February 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 11 (47.83%) AWS
1 11 (47.83%) GitHub
2 10 (43.48%) OpenShift
3 8 (34.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (13.04%) Datadog
5 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.35%) Apigee
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (47.83%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (34.78%) SQL Server
3 4 (17.39%) Relational Database
4 2 (8.70%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (4.35%) Big Data
5 1 (4.35%) Couchbase
5 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (60.87%) Selenium
2 13 (56.52%) Jenkins
3 12 (52.17%) GitLab
3 12 (52.17%) JUnit
4 11 (47.83%) Git
5 7 (30.43%) Postman
6 6 (26.09%) JMeter
7 5 (21.74%) Cypress.io
8 3 (13.04%) JIRA
8 3 (13.04%) SpecFlow
8 3 (13.04%) WebDriver
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%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (8.70%) Visual Studio
10 1 (4.35%) Jasmine
10 1 (4.35%) Maven
10 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Games
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Senior
2 7 (30.43%) Developer
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
5 3 (13.04%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Development Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Java 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%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Kafka Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Lead
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) SEO Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (56.52%) Spring
2 10 (43.48%) pytest
2 10 (43.48%) Spring Boot
3 8 (34.78%) Django
3 8 (34.78%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (34.78%) Flask
4 5 (21.74%) Kafka
5 4 (17.39%) Gherkin
5 4 (17.39%) REST
6 2 (8.70%) .NET
6 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
6 2 (8.70%) Hibernate
6 2 (8.70%) Jest
6 2 (8.70%) Nightwatchjs
6 2 (8.70%) Node.js
6 2 (8.70%) SOAP
6 2 (8.70%) Web Services
7 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
7 1 (4.35%) gRPC
7 1 (4.35%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Android
2 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) BDD
2 15 (65.22%) CI/CD
2 15 (65.22%) Test Automation
3 13 (56.52%) DevOps
4 10 (43.48%) Microservices
4 10 (43.48%) TDD
5 9 (39.13%) Agile
5 9 (39.13%) Software Engineering
6 8 (34.78%) Containerisation
6 8 (34.78%) Mentoring
6 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (34.78%) Secure Coding
6 8 (34.78%) SEO
7 7 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (30.43%) Event-Driven
7 7 (30.43%) Performance Testing
7 7 (30.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (26.09%) API Development
8 6 (26.09%) API Integration
8 6 (26.09%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) Java
2 11 (47.83%) Python
3 8 (34.78%) Delphi
4 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
5 4 (17.39%) SQL
6 2 (8.70%) C#
6 2 (8.70%) Go
6 2 (8.70%) PHP
6 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
7 1 (4.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) ISTQB
2 2 (8.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) QA
2 4 (17.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (52.17%) Grafana
2 9 (39.13%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.70%) Ansible
3 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.35%) HP Fortify
4 1 (4.35%) Kibana
4 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) VMware
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk