Cucumber Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cucumber
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 317 317 286
Rank change year-on-year 0 -31 -55
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 77 134 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.58% 0.80%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.43% 4.18% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 100 167
10th Percentile £356 £375 £359
25th Percentile £400 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% +6.82%
75th Percentile £625 £573 £517
90th Percentile £688 £775 £580
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 6
10th Percentile - £69.25 £43.75
25th Percentile - £72.19 £45.31
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £55.56
Median % change year-on-year - +35.00% -4.21%
75th Percentile - - £65.51
90th Percentile - £78.00 £66.89
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year - +14.43% +13.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,243 3,202 4,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.05% 13.92% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,462 2,258 3,178
10th Percentile £350 £342 £363
25th Percentile £413 £417 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 166 111
10th Percentile £40.94 £45.45 £38.68
25th Percentile £56.19 £52.50 £44.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £66.88
90th Percentile £79.59 £79.00 £76.64
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in the UK excluding London

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in the UK excluding London

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in the UK excluding London

Cucumber
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cucumber in the UK excluding London

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the UK excluding London 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
South East +9 28 £650 +33.33% 8
Scotland +14 21 £500 +5.26% 1
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% 1
Wales +18 3 £363 -25.64% 1
West Midlands +27 2 £301 -29.12%
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 the UK excluding London 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 12 (15.58%) Confluence
2 3 (3.90%) Apache
3 1 (1.30%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.30%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.30%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.30%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 27 (35.06%) AWS
2 20 (25.97%) Azure
3 5 (6.49%) GitHub
4 4 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.90%) PaaS
6 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.60%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.60%) BrowserStack
6 2 (2.60%) IaaS
6 2 (2.60%) SaaS
6 2 (2.60%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.49%) MariaDB
1 5 (6.49%) MongoDB
1 5 (6.49%) MySQL
2 2 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.30%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 53 (68.83%) Jenkins
2 51 (66.23%) Selenium
3 34 (44.16%) JIRA
4 25 (32.47%) REST Assured
5 24 (31.17%) Git
5 24 (31.17%) SonarQube
6 20 (25.97%) GitLab
6 20 (25.97%) JUnit
7 15 (19.48%) JMeter
8 11 (14.29%) Postman
9 10 (12.99%) WebDriver
10 7 (9.09%) Mockito
11 5 (6.49%) Gatling
11 5 (6.49%) IntelliJ
12 4 (5.19%) Cypress.io
13 3 (3.90%) Appium
13 3 (3.90%) Bitbucket
13 3 (3.90%) Maven
13 3 (3.90%) TeamCity
14 2 (2.60%) SoapUI
General
1 37 (48.05%) Social Skills
2 26 (33.77%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (25.97%) Law
4 13 (16.88%) Police
5 7 (9.09%) Finance
6 6 (7.79%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (28.57%) Java Engineer
1 22 (28.57%) Senior
2 21 (27.27%) Developer
3 18 (23.38%) Java Developer
4 12 (15.58%) Test Engineer
5 7 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
5 7 (9.09%) Lead
5 7 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 7 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
5 7 (9.09%) Senior Test Engineer
5 7 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 7 (9.09%) Tester
6 6 (7.79%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 6 (7.79%) Senior Java Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Automation Tester
7 5 (6.49%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Test Automation Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (49.35%) REST
2 25 (32.47%) Java EE
3 14 (18.18%) Kafka
4 13 (16.88%) Spring Boot
5 12 (15.58%) ARM Templates
5 12 (15.58%) Spring
6 8 (10.39%) Apache Camel
6 8 (10.39%) Gherkin
7 7 (9.09%) J2EE
8 5 (6.49%) Web Services
9 4 (5.19%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (5.19%) RESTful
10 3 (3.90%) WebdriverIO
11 2 (2.60%) AngularJS
11 2 (2.60%) JSON
11 2 (2.60%) Node.js
11 2 (2.60%) Playwright
11 2 (2.60%) pytest
11 2 (2.60%) SOAP
11 2 (2.60%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.49%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.60%) Client/Server
2 2 (2.60%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.30%) Replication
3 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.09%) Linux
2 4 (5.19%) Mac OS X
2 4 (5.19%) Unix
3 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (77.92%) Test Automation
2 42 (54.55%) Continuous Integration
3 38 (49.35%) Agile
4 32 (41.56%) DevOps
5 31 (40.26%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (37.66%) Software Engineering
7 27 (35.06%) Decision-Making
8 25 (32.47%) Software Architecture
8 25 (32.47%) Technical Leadership
9 24 (31.17%) CI/CD
10 18 (23.38%) BDD
11 15 (19.48%) Containerisation
12 13 (16.88%) Configuration Management
12 13 (16.88%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (16.88%) TDD
13 11 (14.29%) Test Strategy
14 10 (12.99%) Scenario Testing
15 9 (11.69%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 9 (11.69%) End-to-End Testing
16 8 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 63 (81.82%) Java
2 16 (20.78%) SQL
3 9 (11.69%) JavaScript
4 7 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 5 (6.49%) Python
6 4 (5.19%) Groovy
6 4 (5.19%) PL/SQL
6 4 (5.19%) Scala
7 3 (3.90%) C#
8 2 (2.60%) C++
8 2 (2.60%) VBA
8 2 (2.60%) VBScript
9 1 (1.30%) Bash
9 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (41.56%) Security Cleared
2 30 (38.96%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.60%) ISEB
3 2 (2.60%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.30%) Degree
4 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.69%) QA
2 3 (3.90%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (27.27%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 26 (33.77%) Ansible
2 18 (23.38%) Kubernetes
2 18 (23.38%) Terraform
3 12 (15.58%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (15.58%) Podman
4 4 (5.19%) Kibana
5 1 (1.30%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.30%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (12.99%) Oracle
2 3 (3.90%) Splunk
3 2 (2.60%) Perfecto Mobile
4 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.30%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.30%) VMware