Cucumber
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cucumber skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cucumber over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 610 417 350
Rank change year-on-year -193 -67 -50
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 293 755 1,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.76% 1.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.08% 5.32% 4.92%
Number of salaries quoted 219 515 920
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,611 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,911 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -0.87% +12.50%
75th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £101,185 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £59,263 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.87% +12.88% +5.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,528 14,205 36,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.54% 14.32% 22.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6,654 8,679 15,823
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.25%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cucumber.

Salary trend for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cucumber over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cucumber in the UK

Cucumber
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -178 254 £70,000 - 48
UK excluding London -146 163 £58,750 -0.87% 31
Work from Home -115 147 £75,000 +15.38% 30
London -86 132 £85,000 +13.33% 22
South East -22 34 £65,000 - 12
North of England -35 31 £61,000 +10.91% 5
South West -43 30 £60,500 - 8
Midlands +5 29 £47,500 -19.49%
Scotland -56 29 £72,500 +20.83% 3
West Midlands +27 22 £40,000 -28.25%
Yorkshire +12 14 £100,000 +122.22% 3
North West -10 13 £54,169 -9.72% 2
East Midlands -8 7 £57,500 -2.54%
Wales +9 5 £42,500 -11.46% 1
Northern Ireland +16 4 £57,500 - 2
North East -8 4 £55,000 -18.52%
East of England -30 2 £38,000 -39.20%

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 17 (5.80%) Apache
2 15 (5.12%) Cloud Foundry
3 13 (4.44%) Confluence
4 1 (0.34%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.34%) CMS
4 1 (0.34%) Drupal
4 1 (0.34%) JBoss
4 1 (0.34%) nginx
4 1 (0.34%) PrestaShop
4 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (4.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (2.39%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Magento
1 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 88 (30.03%) AWS
2 54 (18.43%) Azure
3 46 (15.70%) SaaS
4 16 (5.46%) GCP
5 11 (3.75%) OpenShift
6 10 (3.41%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (3.41%) Serverless
7 9 (3.07%) BlazeMeter
7 9 (3.07%) GitHub
8 8 (2.73%) Slack
9 7 (2.39%) BrowserStack
10 6 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.37%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.37%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (1.02%) Amazon EMR
13 3 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.02%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.02%) HTTP
2 2 (0.68%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.29%) MongoDB
2 34 (11.60%) Elasticsearch
3 21 (7.17%) NoSQL
4 16 (5.46%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.73%) Data Lake
5 8 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.05%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.71%) MySQL
8 4 (1.37%) Big Data
8 4 (1.37%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.02%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.02%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.02%) Redis
9 3 (1.02%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.68%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.34%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.34%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 163 (55.63%) Selenium
2 119 (40.61%) Jenkins
3 80 (27.30%) Postman
4 79 (26.96%) Cypress.io
5 65 (22.18%) JIRA
6 58 (19.80%) JUnit
7 40 (13.65%) Git
8 32 (10.92%) SpecFlow
9 30 (10.24%) REST Assured
10 28 (9.56%) JMeter
11 26 (8.87%) WebDriver
12 25 (8.53%) Maven
12 25 (8.53%) TestNG
13 22 (7.51%) TeamCity
14 20 (6.83%) Appium
15 15 (5.12%) GitLab
16 12 (4.10%) JBehave
17 11 (3.75%) SoapUI
18 10 (3.41%) Gradle
19 9 (3.07%) Bitbucket
General
1 82 (27.99%) Finance
2 60 (20.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 52 (17.75%) Social Skills
4 44 (15.02%) Law
5 38 (12.97%) Banking
6 35 (11.95%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (6.48%) Investment Banking
8 17 (5.80%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (5.46%) Marketing
10 13 (4.44%) Public Sector
11 10 (3.41%) Retail
12 4 (1.37%) Health Technology
13 3 (1.02%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.68%) Fire and Rescue
14 2 (0.68%) Legal
14 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.68%) Social Housing
14 2 (0.68%) Tech for Good
15 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (25.60%) Lead
2 52 (17.75%) QA Engineer
3 50 (17.06%) Senior
4 47 (16.04%) Tester
5 40 (13.65%) Software Engineer
6 39 (13.31%) Developer
7 36 (12.29%) Java Engineer
8 28 (9.56%) Automation Tester
8 28 (9.56%) Java Software Engineer
9 18 (6.14%) Lead Software Engineer
10 17 (5.80%) Test Engineer
11 16 (5.46%) Full Stack Engineer
12 15 (5.12%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 15 (5.12%) Lead Java Engineer
12 15 (5.12%) QA Automation Engineer
13 13 (4.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 13 (4.44%) QA Tester
13 13 (4.44%) Test Automation Engineer
14 12 (4.10%) Java Developer
15 9 (3.07%) QA Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (30.72%) REST
2 60 (20.48%) Spring
3 56 (19.11%) Spring Boot
4 46 (15.70%) Gherkin
5 38 (12.97%) React
6 34 (11.60%) Kafka
7 29 (9.90%) CSS
8 27 (9.22%) RESTful
9 26 (8.87%) HTML
10 24 (8.19%) WireMock
11 16 (5.46%) Apache Commons
11 16 (5.46%) Guava
11 16 (5.46%) Java Concurrency
12 15 (5.12%) .NET
12 15 (5.12%) JDBC
12 15 (5.12%) SOAP
12 15 (5.12%) Web Services
13 14 (4.78%) AngularJS
14 11 (3.75%) Swagger
15 10 (3.41%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.19%) Product Ownership
2 18 (6.14%) Private Cloud
3 11 (3.75%) Mobile App
4 9 (3.07%) Market Risk
5 7 (2.39%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.05%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.05%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.68%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.34%) Bitcoin
10 1 (0.34%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.34%) Derivative
10 1 (0.34%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.34%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.34%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.34%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.71%) Linux
2 4 (1.37%) Android
2 4 (1.37%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.02%) Windows
4 2 (0.68%) Unix
5 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (57.68%) Agile
2 166 (56.66%) Test Automation
3 159 (54.27%) CI/CD
4 154 (52.56%) BDD
5 101 (34.47%) API Testing
6 83 (28.33%) SDET
7 75 (25.60%) Scrum
8 74 (25.26%) DevOps
9 73 (24.91%) Software Engineering
10 66 (22.53%) TDD
11 65 (22.18%) Software Testing
11 65 (22.18%) Test Strategy
12 64 (21.84%) Continuous Integration
13 60 (20.48%) Microservices
14 55 (18.77%) Clean Code
15 46 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
16 44 (15.02%) Fintech
17 40 (13.65%) Full Stack Development
17 40 (13.65%) Test Scripting
18 36 (12.29%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 205 (69.97%) Java
2 85 (29.01%) JavaScript
3 84 (28.67%) SQL
4 45 (15.36%) Python
5 35 (11.95%) C#
6 23 (7.85%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.75%) C++
8 8 (2.73%) Ruby
9 5 (1.71%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.02%) Perl
11 2 (0.68%) Go
11 2 (0.68%) Swift
12 1 (0.34%) Groovy
12 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.34%) PHP
12 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.34%) VB
12 1 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (12.29%) Security Cleared
2 32 (10.92%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.17%) Degree
4 8 (2.73%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.71%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.02%) ISEB
8 2 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (47.10%) QA
2 19 (6.48%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.73%) GDPR
3 8 (2.73%) PSD2
4 2 (0.68%) PMO
System Software
1 48 (16.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 47 (16.04%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.78%) Terraform
3 8 (2.73%) Ansible
4 6 (2.05%) Kibana
5 4 (1.37%) Grafana
5 4 (1.37%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.68%) Consul
6 2 (0.68%) Istio
6 2 (0.68%) Packer
6 2 (0.68%) Podman
6 2 (0.68%) Puppet
7 1 (0.34%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.34%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 25 (8.53%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.48%) Google
3 11 (3.75%) Oracle
4 9 (3.07%) TOWER Software
5 8 (2.73%) Duck Creek
6 7 (2.39%) Adobe
7 4 (1.37%) Splunk
8 2 (0.68%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.68%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.68%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.34%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.34%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.34%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.34%) Databricks
9 1 (0.34%) HP
9 1 (0.34%) IBM
9 1 (0.34%) OpenAI