Cucumber Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cucumber
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 280 311 270
Rank change year-on-year +31 -41 -40
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 67 160 429
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.65% 0.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.74% 4.30% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 115 309
10th Percentile £356 £385 £363
25th Percentile £414 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £697 £638 £577
90th Percentile £863 £775 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 8
10th Percentile - £68.50 £44.25
25th Percentile - £71.25 £45.94
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year - +14.43% +13.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £66.35
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year - +14.43% +13.00%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,792 3,722 8,179
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.11% 15.10% 18.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,282 2,671 5,888
10th Percentile £360 £388 £383
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +3.81% +8.25%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 104 109
10th Percentile £25.99 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £43.38 £52.38 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year - +21.50% +18.89%
75th Percentile £86.25 £71.90 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £86.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%

Cucumber
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cucumber trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cucumber.

Cucumber daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cucumber over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Cucumber daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cucumber
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cucumber.

Cucumber hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (4.48%) nginx
2 2 (2.99%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.49%) Confluence
3 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.49%) SharePoint 2013
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.49%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (1.49%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.49%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (1.49%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.49%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 29 (43.28%) AWS
2 13 (19.40%) Azure
3 8 (11.94%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (8.96%) GitHub
5 5 (7.46%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.48%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.48%) Serverless
8 2 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.99%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (2.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.99%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (2.99%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.99%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (2.99%) IaaS
8 2 (2.99%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) MQTT
1 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) MongoDB
1 5 (7.46%) MySQL
2 4 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.97%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.48%) MariaDB
3 3 (4.48%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.99%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.49%) Redis
5 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (62.69%) Selenium
2 33 (49.25%) Jenkins
3 27 (40.30%) JUnit
4 24 (35.82%) GitLab
5 18 (26.87%) Mockito
6 17 (25.37%) JIRA
6 17 (25.37%) REST Assured
7 15 (22.39%) JMeter
8 13 (19.40%) Git
9 11 (16.42%) Postman
10 10 (14.93%) SonarQube
10 10 (14.93%) WebDriver
11 9 (13.43%) TestNG
12 8 (11.94%) SoapUI
13 7 (10.45%) Bitbucket
13 7 (10.45%) Maven
14 6 (8.96%) Cypress.io
15 5 (7.46%) Appium
16 3 (4.48%) eggPlant
16 3 (4.48%) SpecFlow
General
1 22 (32.84%) Finance
2 15 (22.39%) Front Office
3 14 (20.90%) Social Skills
4 9 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (10.45%) Law
5 7 (10.45%) Police
6 6 (8.96%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.99%) Back Office
8 2 (2.99%) Banking
9 1 (1.49%) Aviation
9 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (41.79%) Developer
2 25 (37.31%) Senior
3 20 (29.85%) Java Developer
4 17 (25.37%) Senior Developer
5 15 (22.39%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (19.40%) Tester
7 10 (14.93%) Java Engineer
8 9 (13.43%) Automation Tester
9 7 (10.45%) Lead
9 7 (10.45%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 7 (10.45%) Software Engineer
9 7 (10.45%) Test Engineer
10 6 (8.96%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (7.46%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 5 (7.46%) Senior Java Engineer
11 5 (7.46%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 5 (7.46%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (7.46%) Software Developer
11 5 (7.46%) Test Automation Engineer
12 4 (5.97%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (37.31%) REST
2 16 (23.88%) Spring Boot
3 11 (16.42%) Gherkin
4 8 (11.94%) ARM Templates
4 8 (11.94%) Java EE
4 8 (11.94%) Spring
5 7 (10.45%) .NET
6 4 (5.97%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (5.97%) JAX-RS
6 4 (5.97%) Kafka
6 4 (5.97%) Node.js
6 4 (5.97%) SOAP
6 4 (5.97%) Web Services
7 3 (4.48%) .NET Framework
7 3 (4.48%) Chai
7 3 (4.48%) OpenAPI
7 3 (4.48%) Playwright
7 3 (4.48%) Swagger
7 3 (4.48%) WireMock
8 2 (2.99%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.91%) Credit Derivative
2 3 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.49%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.49%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.49%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.97%) Linux
2 2 (2.99%) Windows
3 1 (1.49%) Android
3 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.49%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (71.64%) Test Automation
2 45 (67.16%) CI/CD
3 27 (40.30%) DevOps
4 25 (37.31%) Agile
5 23 (34.33%) BDD
6 15 (22.39%) Continuous Integration
6 15 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (22.39%) Software Engineering
7 13 (19.40%) SDLC
8 12 (17.91%) Microservices
9 11 (16.42%) Containerisation
9 11 (16.42%) Test Strategy
10 10 (14.93%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (13.43%) Decision-Making
11 9 (13.43%) Software Testing
11 9 (13.43%) TDD
12 8 (11.94%) Configuration Management
12 8 (11.94%) SDET
12 8 (11.94%) Software Architecture
12 8 (11.94%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 53 (79.10%) Java
2 11 (16.42%) JavaScript
3 10 (14.93%) C#
4 9 (13.43%) Python
5 7 (10.45%) SQL
6 3 (4.48%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.99%) C
7 2 (2.99%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.49%) Bash
8 1 (1.49%) C++
8 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.49%) VBA
8 1 (1.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (40.30%) Security Cleared
2 23 (34.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.46%) ISTQB
4 3 (4.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.99%) Degree
5 2 (2.99%) ISEB
6 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.40%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.99%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 19 (28.36%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) iptables
2 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (26.87%) Kubernetes
2 15 (22.39%) Terraform
3 10 (14.93%) Ansible
4 9 (13.43%) Docker Swarm
5 8 (11.94%) Podman
6 3 (4.48%) Grafana
7 2 (2.99%) Kustomize
7 2 (2.99%) Packer
8 1 (1.49%) Istio
8 1 (1.49%) Kibana
8 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (13.43%) Oracle
2 5 (7.46%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.97%) IBM
4 3 (4.48%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.48%) SAP
5 2 (2.99%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.99%) Splunk
6 1 (1.49%) Perfecto Mobile
6 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow