Cucumber Contracts

Cucumber
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 327 281
Rank change year-on-year -32 -46 -21
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 251 455 868
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.76% 0.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.85% 5.05% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 361 639
10th Percentile £330 £400 £363
25th Percentile £413 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £613
90th Percentile £825 £800 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £500 £459
% change year-on-year -0.40% +8.93% +8.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 14
10th Percentile - £70.00 £45.38
25th Percentile - £70.94 £62.73
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year - +14.43% +31.08%
75th Percentile - - £76.69
90th Percentile - £77.70 £83.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £63.62
% change year-on-year - +17.90% +27.23%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,178 9,015 15,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.88% 15.10% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,476 6,340 11,249
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.02%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 246 214
10th Percentile £32.23 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +12.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £81.90 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England -38 191 £500 -13.04% 60
London -12 124 £525 -19.23% 19
UK excluding London +13 88 £498 -0.40% 37
Work from Home +10 78 £496 -0.80% 38
South East +13 27 £650 +33.33% 13
North of England +8 25 £400 -30.43% 10
Scotland +21 24 £500 +5.26% 2
North West +34 16 £399 -22.20% 5
Yorkshire +17 8 £400 -27.27% 4
Midlands +25 7 £400 -5.88% 3
West Midlands +26 4 £301 -29.12% 2
Wales +15 4 £356 -26.92% 1
East Midlands +21 3 £440 +4.76% 1
South West +3 1 £550 +39.24% 7
North East -5 1 £310 -60.00% 1

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (7.17%) Confluence
2 4 (1.59%) nginx
3 3 (1.20%) Apache
3 3 (1.20%) IIS
3 3 (1.20%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.40%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 7 (2.79%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (2.39%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.80%) Endur
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 69 (27.49%) AWS
2 32 (12.75%) Azure
3 19 (7.57%) GitHub
4 12 (4.78%) Amazon SQS
5 9 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (3.59%) Serverless
6 8 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (2.79%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (2.79%) Amazon S3
8 6 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (2.39%) PaaS
9 5 (1.99%) BrowserStack
10 4 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.59%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.59%) Sauce Labs
11 3 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.20%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 3 (1.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (1.20%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.99%) SSH
2 4 (1.59%) HTTP
2 4 (1.59%) Internet
3 3 (1.20%) 5G
4 1 (0.40%) MQTT
4 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.98%) NoSQL
2 9 (3.59%) MongoDB
2 9 (3.59%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.19%) MySQL
4 5 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.59%) Redis
6 3 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.20%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.40%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 130 (51.79%) Selenium
2 95 (37.85%) Jenkins
3 77 (30.68%) JUnit
4 71 (28.29%) JIRA
5 64 (25.50%) Git
6 52 (20.72%) REST Assured
7 42 (16.73%) Postman
8 41 (16.33%) GitLab
9 36 (14.34%) WebDriver
10 32 (12.75%) SonarQube
11 28 (11.16%) JMeter
12 27 (10.76%) TestNG
13 25 (9.96%) Mockito
14 19 (7.57%) Appium
14 19 (7.57%) Maven
14 19 (7.57%) SpecFlow
15 18 (7.17%) SoapUI
16 16 (6.37%) TeamCity
17 13 (5.18%) Bitbucket
17 13 (5.18%) Cypress.io
General
1 76 (30.28%) Social Skills
2 55 (21.91%) Finance
3 49 (19.52%) Banking
4 40 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (13.15%) Front Office
6 23 (9.16%) Investment Banking
7 20 (7.97%) Law
8 15 (5.98%) Public Sector
9 13 (5.18%) Police
10 9 (3.59%) Back Office
11 4 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.59%) Wholesale Banking
12 3 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.20%) Prime Brokerage
13 1 (0.40%) Aviation
13 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.40%) Retail
13 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (35.06%) Developer
2 49 (19.52%) Senior
3 47 (18.73%) Java Developer
4 31 (12.35%) Tester
5 29 (11.55%) Test Engineer
6 25 (9.96%) Java Engineer
7 22 (8.76%) Senior Developer
8 21 (8.37%) Senior Java Developer
9 20 (7.97%) Automation Tester
10 18 (7.17%) QA Engineer
11 15 (5.98%) Scala Developer
12 13 (5.18%) Lead
13 12 (4.78%) Automation Engineer
13 12 (4.78%) C# Developer
13 12 (4.78%) Software Engineer
14 11 (4.38%) Test Automation Engineer
15 10 (3.98%) DevOps Engineer
16 9 (3.59%) QA Tester
17 8 (3.19%) Analyst
17 8 (3.19%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (31.47%) REST
2 39 (15.54%) Spring Boot
3 33 (13.15%) Spring
4 30 (11.95%) .NET
5 26 (10.36%) Gherkin
6 25 (9.96%) Java EE
6 25 (9.96%) Kafka
7 19 (7.57%) RESTful
8 16 (6.37%) Middleware
8 16 (6.37%) Node.js
9 15 (5.98%) J2EE
9 15 (5.98%) Web Services
10 14 (5.58%) .NET Framework
10 14 (5.58%) RabbitMQ
11 13 (5.18%) Apache Camel
11 13 (5.18%) JSON
12 12 (4.78%) .NET Core
12 12 (4.78%) ARM Templates
12 12 (4.78%) ASP.NET Web API
12 12 (4.78%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.98%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (4.78%) Credit Derivative
3 9 (3.59%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (1.59%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (1.59%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.59%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.20%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.20%) Derivative
6 3 (1.20%) Equities
6 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.20%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.80%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.80%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.80%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.40%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.40%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.17%) Unix
2 15 (5.98%) Linux
3 5 (1.99%) Windows
4 4 (1.59%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.40%) Android
5 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (63.75%) Test Automation
2 111 (44.22%) Agile
3 103 (41.04%) BDD
4 100 (39.84%) CI/CD
5 84 (33.47%) Continuous Integration
6 60 (23.90%) DevOps
7 51 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (17.93%) TDD
9 42 (16.73%) Microservices
10 36 (14.34%) Containerisation
10 36 (14.34%) Software Testing
11 35 (13.94%) Software Engineering
12 32 (12.75%) Test Strategy
13 31 (12.35%) ATDD
14 30 (11.95%) Scenario Testing
14 30 (11.95%) Software Architecture
15 29 (11.55%) OO
16 27 (10.76%) API Testing
16 27 (10.76%) End-to-End Testing
17 26 (10.36%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 165 (65.74%) Java
2 51 (20.32%) SQL
3 36 (14.34%) C#
4 33 (13.15%) JavaScript
4 33 (13.15%) Python
5 21 (8.37%) Scala
6 19 (7.57%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.79%) PL/SQL
7 7 (2.79%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.99%) Perl
9 4 (1.59%) Bash
9 4 (1.59%) Groovy
10 3 (1.20%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.80%) C
11 2 (0.80%) C++
11 2 (0.80%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.80%) Ruby
11 2 (0.80%) VBA
11 2 (0.80%) VBScript
12 1 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 75 (29.88%) Security Cleared
2 66 (26.29%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.78%) ISTQB
4 8 (3.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (1.59%) Degree
6 3 (1.20%) ISEB
7 2 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.80%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (24.70%) QA
2 8 (3.19%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 56 (22.31%) Docker
2 3 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.40%) iptables
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (19.12%) Ansible
2 40 (15.94%) Kubernetes
3 28 (11.16%) Terraform
4 13 (5.18%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (4.78%) Podman
6 5 (1.99%) Kibana
7 4 (1.59%) HP ALM
8 3 (1.20%) Grafana
8 3 (1.20%) Kustomize
8 3 (1.20%) Netcool
8 3 (1.20%) Packer
8 3 (1.20%) Puppet
9 2 (0.80%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.40%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.40%) Istio
Vendors
1 31 (12.35%) Oracle
2 12 (4.78%) TIBCO
3 10 (3.98%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.79%) IBM
4 7 (2.79%) Salesforce
4 7 (2.79%) Splunk
5 5 (1.99%) SAP
6 4 (1.59%) HP
6 4 (1.59%) Perfecto Mobile
7 3 (1.20%) Ab Initio
7 3 (1.20%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.20%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.80%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.40%) Confluent
9 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.40%) New Relic
9 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.40%) VMware