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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 337 297
Rank change year-on-year -20 -40 -49
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 229 399 819
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.71% 0.94%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.44% 4.94% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 304 593
10th Percentile £325 £388 £363
25th Percentile £416 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £625
90th Percentile £825 £824 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £460
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.09% +8.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 17 9
10th Percentile - £59.50 £44.50
25th Percentile - £70.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year - +14.43% +13.00%
75th Percentile - £78.00 -
90th Percentile - £82.80 £66.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £55.56
% change year-on-year - +35.00% -8.17%

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 5,155 8,073 15,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 14.40% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,455 5,696 11,047
10th Percentile £351 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £457 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 226 201
10th Percentile £26.77 £44.82 £38.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +8.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -47 178 £533 -10.04% 37
London -18 111 £533 -18.00% 18
UK excluding London -5 80 £500 +2.56% 25
Work from Home +33 65 £500 +5.26% 21
South East +11 33 £650 +33.33% 12
North of England +6 20 £435 -20.91% 1
Scotland +23 17 £500 +5.26% 2
North West +22 10 £436 -13.88% 1
Yorkshire +16 9 £443 -19.55%
South West -2 5 £453 +14.56% 4
Midlands +21 3 £380 -9.52% 1
Wales +18 2 £363 -25.64% 1
West Midlands +14 2 £301 -29.12% 1
East Midlands +10 1 £380 -8.43%
North East -4 1 £310 -60.00%

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 11 (4.80%) Confluence
2 3 (1.31%) IIS
3 2 (0.87%) Apache
3 2 (0.87%) nginx
4 1 (0.44%) JBoss
4 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 7 (3.06%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (2.62%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.87%) Endur
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 55 (24.02%) AWS
2 42 (18.34%) Azure
3 21 (9.17%) GitHub
4 10 (4.37%) Amazon SQS
4 10 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (3.06%) PaaS
6 6 (2.62%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (2.62%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (2.62%) BrowserStack
6 6 (2.62%) Serverless
7 4 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.75%) OpenShift
7 4 (1.75%) Sauce Labs
8 3 (1.31%) Datadog
8 3 (1.31%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.31%) IaaS
8 3 (1.31%) SaaS
9 2 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.87%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.93%) SSH
2 4 (1.75%) HTTP
2 4 (1.75%) Internet
3 1 (0.44%) MQTT
3 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.55%) NoSQL
2 10 (4.37%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.93%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.06%) MySQL
4 7 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.18%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.44%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.44%) Power BI
8 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 124 (54.15%) Selenium
2 79 (34.50%) Jenkins
3 68 (29.69%) JUnit
4 67 (29.26%) JIRA
5 55 (24.02%) Git
6 47 (20.52%) REST Assured
7 40 (17.47%) GitLab
8 34 (14.85%) WebDriver
9 30 (13.10%) Postman
10 29 (12.66%) SonarQube
11 28 (12.23%) JMeter
12 22 (9.61%) Maven
12 22 (9.61%) Mockito
13 21 (9.17%) TestNG
14 19 (8.30%) SpecFlow
15 18 (7.86%) Appium
16 17 (7.42%) SoapUI
17 14 (6.11%) TeamCity
18 11 (4.80%) Cypress.io
19 10 (4.37%) Moq
General
1 70 (30.57%) Social Skills
2 56 (24.45%) Finance
3 52 (22.71%) Banking
4 42 (18.34%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (13.97%) Front Office
6 28 (12.23%) Investment Banking
7 20 (8.73%) Law
8 15 (6.55%) Public Sector
9 13 (5.68%) Police
10 9 (3.93%) Back Office
11 4 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.75%) Wholesale Banking
12 3 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.31%) Prime Brokerage
13 1 (0.44%) Aviation
13 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.44%) Retail
13 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (34.50%) Developer
2 48 (20.96%) Senior
3 42 (18.34%) Java Developer
4 31 (13.54%) Tester
5 26 (11.35%) Java Engineer
6 19 (8.30%) Senior Developer
7 18 (7.86%) Automation Tester
7 18 (7.86%) Test Engineer
8 17 (7.42%) Senior Java Developer
9 16 (6.99%) Scala Developer
10 14 (6.11%) Lead
11 13 (5.68%) QA Engineer
11 13 (5.68%) Software Engineer
12 11 (4.80%) Automation Engineer
12 11 (4.80%) C# Developer
13 9 (3.93%) Analyst
13 9 (3.93%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.93%) Test Analyst
14 8 (3.49%) Java Software Engineer
14 8 (3.49%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (30.13%) REST
2 30 (13.10%) Spring
2 30 (13.10%) Spring Boot
3 27 (11.79%) .NET
4 26 (11.35%) Gherkin
5 25 (10.92%) Java EE
6 17 (7.42%) JSON
7 16 (6.99%) Web Services
8 15 (6.55%) SOAP
9 14 (6.11%) Kafka
10 13 (5.68%) .NET Framework
10 13 (5.68%) J2EE
10 13 (5.68%) Middleware
10 13 (5.68%) Node.js
10 13 (5.68%) RESTful
10 13 (5.68%) XML
11 12 (5.24%) ARM Templates
11 12 (5.24%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (4.80%) .NET Core
13 10 (4.37%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.68%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (5.24%) Credit Derivative
3 9 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (3.93%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.18%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.75%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.75%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.31%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.31%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.31%) Equities
6 3 (1.31%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.87%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.87%) Derivative
7 2 (0.87%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.44%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.44%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.04%) Unix
2 21 (9.17%) Linux
3 5 (2.18%) Windows
4 4 (1.75%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.44%) Android
5 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (64.19%) Test Automation
2 108 (47.16%) Agile
3 95 (41.48%) BDD
4 82 (35.81%) CI/CD
5 79 (34.50%) Continuous Integration
6 60 (26.20%) DevOps
7 49 (21.40%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (19.65%) TDD
9 37 (16.16%) Microservices
9 37 (16.16%) Software Architecture
9 37 (16.16%) Software Engineering
10 35 (15.28%) Software Testing
11 32 (13.97%) ATDD
11 32 (13.97%) Containerisation
12 30 (13.10%) SDLC
13 29 (12.66%) Test Strategy
14 27 (11.79%) Decision-Making
15 26 (11.35%) OO
15 26 (11.35%) Technical Leadership
16 24 (10.48%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 150 (65.50%) Java
2 47 (20.52%) SQL
3 34 (14.85%) JavaScript
4 32 (13.97%) C#
4 32 (13.97%) Python
5 20 (8.73%) Scala
6 14 (6.11%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.06%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.62%) Perl
9 4 (1.75%) Groovy
9 4 (1.75%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.31%) Bash
10 3 (1.31%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.87%) C
11 2 (0.87%) C++
11 2 (0.87%) Ruby
11 2 (0.87%) VBA
11 2 (0.87%) VBScript
12 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 64 (27.95%) Security Cleared
2 57 (24.89%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.80%) ISTQB
4 9 (3.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (1.75%) Degree
6 2 (0.87%) ISEB
6 2 (0.87%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (22.71%) QA
2 5 (2.18%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.31%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 41 (17.90%) Docker
2 3 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.44%) iptables
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (20.52%) Ansible
2 35 (15.28%) Kubernetes
3 26 (11.35%) Terraform
4 13 (5.68%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (5.24%) Podman
6 4 (1.75%) Kibana
7 3 (1.31%) Grafana
7 3 (1.31%) HP ALM
7 3 (1.31%) Netcool
7 3 (1.31%) Puppet
8 1 (0.44%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.44%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.44%) Packer
8 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (11.79%) Oracle
2 13 (5.68%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.37%) TIBCO
4 8 (3.49%) Splunk
5 6 (2.62%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.18%) IBM
6 5 (2.18%) SAP
7 4 (1.75%) Perfecto Mobile
8 3 (1.31%) Ab Initio
8 3 (1.31%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.31%) HP
9 2 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.87%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.87%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.44%) Confluent
10 1 (0.44%) Databricks
10 1 (0.44%) New Relic
10 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.44%) Spotify
10 1 (0.44%) VMware