Cucumber Contracts in England

Cucumber
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Cucumber skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cucumber over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 346 306
Rank change year-on-year -19 -40 -34
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 180 335 638
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.70% 0.91%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.23% 4.75% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 255 459
10th Percentile £363 £400 £364
25th Percentile £431 £481 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £593 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.45% +18.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £688 £750 £625
90th Percentile £825 £825 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 10
10th Percentile - £70.00 £44.75
25th Percentile - £70.94 £50.14
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £66.85
Median % change year-on-year - +12.19% +2.06%
75th Percentile - £75.75 £80.25
90th Percentile - £78.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year - +14.43% +13.00%

All Development Application Skills
England

Cucumber is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,252 7,052 12,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.64% 18.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,907 5,015 9,022
10th Percentile £352 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 203 186
10th Percentile £31.84 £43.17 £38.68
25th Percentile £54.38 £53.13 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.71
90th Percentile £78.68 £84.44 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in England

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in England.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in England

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in England

Cucumber
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cucumber in England

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +4 120 £525 -19.23% 17
South East +9 28 £650 +33.33% 6
North of England +7 20 £423 -23.05% 6
North West +22 11 £435 -13.00% 3
Yorkshire +11 8 £400 -27.27% 3
Midlands +26 3 £380 -9.52% 2
West Midlands +27 2 £301 -29.12% 1
South West +2 2 £500 +26.58% 7
East Midlands +11 1 £380 -8.43% 1
North East -8 1 £310 -60.00%
Cucumber
UK

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.78%) Confluence
2 4 (2.22%) nginx
3 3 (1.67%) IIS
3 3 (1.67%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.56%) JBoss
4 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 7 (3.89%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (3.33%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.11%) Endur
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 56 (31.11%) AWS
2 22 (12.22%) Azure
3 11 (6.11%) GitHub
4 9 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (4.44%) Serverless
6 6 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.78%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.78%) BrowserStack
7 5 (2.78%) PaaS
8 4 (2.22%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (1.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (1.67%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.67%) Sauce Labs
10 2 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.11%) AWS KMS
10 2 (1.11%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.89%) SSH
2 4 (2.22%) HTTP
2 4 (2.22%) Internet
3 1 (0.56%) MQTT
3 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.78%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.11%) MySQL
7 2 (1.11%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.56%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.56%) Power BI
8 1 (0.56%) Redis
8 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 105 (58.33%) Selenium
2 72 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 56 (31.11%) JIRA
4 50 (27.78%) JUnit
5 46 (25.56%) Git
6 44 (24.44%) REST Assured
7 39 (21.67%) GitLab
8 32 (17.78%) SonarQube
9 25 (13.89%) WebDriver
10 23 (12.78%) JMeter
10 23 (12.78%) Postman
11 18 (10.00%) Appium
11 18 (10.00%) Mockito
11 18 (10.00%) TestNG
12 16 (8.89%) SoapUI
13 14 (7.78%) SpecFlow
14 12 (6.67%) Maven
14 12 (6.67%) TeamCity
15 10 (5.56%) Bitbucket
15 10 (5.56%) NUnit
General
1 57 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 54 (30.00%) Finance
3 38 (21.11%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (18.89%) Banking
5 31 (17.22%) Front Office
6 20 (11.11%) Law
7 13 (7.22%) Police
8 10 (5.56%) Investment Banking
9 9 (5.00%) Back Office
10 8 (4.44%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.22%) Wholesale Banking
12 3 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.67%) Prime Brokerage
13 1 (0.56%) Aviation
13 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (29.44%) Developer
2 36 (20.00%) Senior
3 31 (17.22%) Java Developer
4 26 (14.44%) Tester
5 21 (11.67%) Java Engineer
6 20 (11.11%) Test Engineer
7 17 (9.44%) Senior Developer
8 16 (8.89%) QA Engineer
9 15 (8.33%) Automation Tester
9 15 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
10 13 (7.22%) Software Engineer
11 11 (6.11%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (6.11%) C# Developer
12 9 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (5.00%) Lead
12 9 (5.00%) QA Tester
13 8 (4.44%) Java Software Engineer
14 7 (3.89%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 7 (3.89%) Senior Test Engineer
15 6 (3.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (31.11%) REST
2 25 (13.89%) Java EE
3 24 (13.33%) .NET
4 23 (12.78%) Gherkin
5 22 (12.22%) Spring Boot
6 21 (11.67%) Spring
7 15 (8.33%) JSON
8 14 (7.78%) Node.js
8 14 (7.78%) Web Services
9 12 (6.67%) ARM Templates
9 12 (6.67%) Middleware
9 12 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
10 11 (6.11%) .NET Core
10 11 (6.11%) .NET Framework
10 11 (6.11%) Kafka
10 11 (6.11%) RESTful
10 11 (6.11%) SOAP
10 11 (6.11%) XML
11 10 (5.56%) ASP.NET
11 10 (5.56%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.67%) Credit Derivative
1 12 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (3.89%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (2.22%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (1.67%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.67%) Equities
4 3 (1.67%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.11%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.11%) Derivative
5 2 (1.11%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.11%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.11%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.56%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.67%) Unix
2 14 (7.78%) Linux
3 4 (2.22%) Mac OS X
3 4 (2.22%) Windows
4 1 (0.56%) Android
4 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (70.56%) Test Automation
2 77 (42.78%) Agile
3 74 (41.11%) CI/CD
4 71 (39.44%) Continuous Integration
5 64 (35.56%) BDD
6 53 (29.44%) DevOps
7 47 (26.11%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (21.11%) TDD
9 35 (19.44%) Containerisation
10 33 (18.33%) Software Engineering
11 32 (17.78%) Microservices
11 32 (17.78%) Software Architecture
12 28 (15.56%) Software Testing
13 27 (15.00%) SDLC
14 26 (14.44%) Technical Leadership
14 26 (14.44%) Test Strategy
15 25 (13.89%) Decision-Making
16 20 (11.11%) Test Scripting
17 19 (10.56%) Scrum
17 19 (10.56%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 126 (70.00%) Java
2 34 (18.89%) SQL
3 25 (13.89%) C#
3 25 (13.89%) Python
4 24 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 18 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 5 (2.78%) Perl
6 5 (2.78%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.22%) Bash
7 4 (2.22%) Groovy
7 4 (2.22%) Scala
8 2 (1.11%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.11%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.11%) Ruby
9 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 69 (38.33%) Security Cleared
2 60 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.00%) ISTQB
4 6 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (2.22%) Degree
6 2 (1.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.56%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (27.78%) QA
2 4 (2.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 46 (25.56%) Docker
2 3 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.56%) iptables
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 33 (18.33%) Ansible
3 26 (14.44%) Terraform
4 13 (7.22%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (6.67%) Podman
6 4 (2.22%) Grafana
7 3 (1.67%) Kibana
7 3 (1.67%) Kustomize
7 3 (1.67%) Netcool
7 3 (1.67%) Packer
7 3 (1.67%) Puppet
8 2 (1.11%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.56%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.56%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.56%) Istio
9 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (9.44%) Oracle
2 10 (5.56%) TIBCO
3 8 (4.44%) Splunk
4 7 (3.89%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.78%) IBM
6 4 (2.22%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.67%) Ab Initio
7 3 (1.67%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.67%) HP
7 3 (1.67%) Perfecto Mobile
8 2 (1.11%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.11%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.56%) Spotify
9 1 (0.56%) VMware