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 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 356 334 282
Rank change year-on-year -22 -52 -30
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 236 408 841
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.72% 0.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.59% 4.84% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 319 605
10th Percentile £325 £400 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £678 £725 £625
90th Percentile £825 £820 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 13
10th Percentile - £70.00 £45.25
25th Percentile - £71.25 £61.81
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year - +14.43% +13.00%
75th Percentile - - £79.50
90th Percentile - £78.00 £84.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £55.56
% change year-on-year - +35.00% -4.21%

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 5,137 8,429 15,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.07% 14.80% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,452 5,946 11,103
10th Percentile £353 £381 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 228 212
10th Percentile £32.23 £44.06 £38.43
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.11
90th Percentile £78.45 £82.50 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%

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 16 May 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 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
England -19 180 £519 -12.45% 44
London +4 120 £525 -19.23% 19
UK excluding London 0 77 £500 +2.56% 26
Work from Home +31 67 £500 - 25
South East +9 28 £650 +33.33% 9
Scotland +14 21 £500 +5.26% 1
North of England +7 20 £423 -23.05% 5
North West +22 11 £435 -13.00% 2
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
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 14 (5.93%) Confluence
2 4 (1.69%) nginx
3 3 (1.27%) Apache
3 3 (1.27%) IIS
3 3 (1.27%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.42%) JBoss
4 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.42%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.42%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 7 (2.97%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (2.54%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.85%) Endur
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 65 (27.54%) AWS
2 32 (13.56%) Azure
3 20 (8.47%) GitHub
4 13 (5.51%) Amazon SQS
5 9 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (3.39%) Serverless
7 7 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (2.97%) Amazon S3
7 7 (2.97%) PaaS
8 6 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (2.54%) BrowserStack
9 4 (1.69%) OpenShift
9 4 (1.69%) Sauce Labs
10 3 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.27%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 3 (1.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (1.27%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.27%) IaaS
10 3 (1.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.97%) SSH
2 4 (1.69%) HTTP
2 4 (1.69%) Internet
3 1 (0.42%) MQTT
3 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.93%) NoSQL
2 10 (4.24%) MongoDB
2 10 (4.24%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.97%) MySQL
3 7 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.12%) MariaDB
5 3 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.85%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.42%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.42%) Power BI
7 1 (0.42%) Redis
7 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 128 (54.24%) Selenium
2 87 (36.86%) Jenkins
3 71 (30.08%) JIRA
3 71 (30.08%) JUnit
4 59 (25.00%) Git
5 50 (21.19%) REST Assured
6 42 (17.80%) GitLab
7 37 (15.68%) Postman
8 35 (14.83%) WebDriver
9 32 (13.56%) SonarQube
10 28 (11.86%) JMeter
11 25 (10.59%) TestNG
12 23 (9.75%) Mockito
13 19 (8.05%) Appium
14 18 (7.63%) SoapUI
14 18 (7.63%) SpecFlow
15 17 (7.20%) Maven
16 14 (5.93%) Cypress.io
16 14 (5.93%) TeamCity
17 11 (4.66%) Bitbucket
General
1 71 (30.08%) Social Skills
2 55 (23.31%) Finance
3 49 (20.76%) Banking
4 41 (17.37%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (13.14%) Front Office
6 25 (10.59%) Investment Banking
7 20 (8.47%) Law
8 17 (7.20%) Public Sector
9 13 (5.51%) Police
10 9 (3.81%) Back Office
11 4 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.69%) Wholesale Banking
12 3 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.27%) Prime Brokerage
13 1 (0.42%) Aviation
13 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 81 (34.32%) Developer
2 46 (19.49%) Senior
3 42 (17.80%) Java Developer
4 32 (13.56%) Tester
5 25 (10.59%) Java Engineer
6 23 (9.75%) Test Engineer
7 21 (8.90%) Senior Developer
8 19 (8.05%) Automation Tester
8 19 (8.05%) Senior Java Developer
9 17 (7.20%) QA Engineer
10 15 (6.36%) Lead
10 15 (6.36%) Scala Developer
11 13 (5.51%) Software Engineer
12 12 (5.08%) Automation Engineer
13 11 (4.66%) C# Developer
14 9 (3.81%) DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.81%) QA Tester
15 8 (3.39%) Java Software Engineer
15 8 (3.39%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 8 (3.39%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (31.36%) REST
2 32 (13.56%) Spring
2 32 (13.56%) Spring Boot
3 29 (12.29%) .NET
4 26 (11.02%) Gherkin
5 25 (10.59%) Java EE
6 20 (8.47%) Kafka
7 16 (6.78%) Node.js
8 15 (6.36%) JSON
8 15 (6.36%) Web Services
9 14 (5.93%) .NET Framework
9 14 (5.93%) J2EE
9 14 (5.93%) Middleware
9 14 (5.93%) SOAP
10 13 (5.51%) RESTful
11 12 (5.08%) ARM Templates
11 12 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (4.66%) .NET Core
12 11 (4.66%) XML
13 10 (4.24%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.93%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (5.08%) Credit Derivative
3 7 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (1.69%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.69%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.69%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.27%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.27%) Equities
5 3 (1.27%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.85%) Client/Server
6 2 (0.85%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.85%) Derivative
6 2 (0.85%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.42%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.42%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.42%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.90%) Unix
2 19 (8.05%) Linux
3 5 (2.12%) Windows
4 4 (1.69%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.42%) Android
5 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (64.83%) Test Automation
2 103 (43.64%) Agile
3 99 (41.95%) BDD
4 93 (39.41%) CI/CD
5 80 (33.90%) Continuous Integration
6 59 (25.00%) DevOps
7 51 (21.61%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (19.07%) TDD
9 38 (16.10%) Microservices
9 38 (16.10%) Software Engineering
10 35 (14.83%) Containerisation
11 34 (14.41%) Software Testing
12 32 (13.56%) Software Architecture
13 31 (13.14%) ATDD
14 29 (12.29%) Test Strategy
15 27 (11.44%) Decision-Making
15 27 (11.44%) Scenario Testing
15 27 (11.44%) SDLC
16 26 (11.02%) OO
16 26 (11.02%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 153 (64.83%) Java
2 49 (20.76%) SQL
3 34 (14.41%) C#
4 31 (13.14%) JavaScript
5 29 (12.29%) Python
6 19 (8.05%) Scala
7 18 (7.63%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.97%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.12%) Perl
9 5 (2.12%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.69%) Bash
10 4 (1.69%) Groovy
10 4 (1.69%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.85%) C
11 2 (0.85%) C++
11 2 (0.85%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.85%) Ruby
11 2 (0.85%) VBA
11 2 (0.85%) VBScript
12 1 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 76 (32.20%) Security Cleared
2 67 (28.39%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.08%) ISTQB
4 8 (3.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (1.69%) Degree
6 3 (1.27%) ISEB
7 2 (0.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (24.58%) QA
2 6 (2.54%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.27%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 53 (22.46%) Docker
2 3 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.42%) iptables
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (20.34%) Ansible
2 41 (17.37%) Kubernetes
3 28 (11.86%) Terraform
4 13 (5.51%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (5.08%) Podman
6 6 (2.54%) Kibana
7 4 (1.69%) Grafana
7 4 (1.69%) HP ALM
8 3 (1.27%) Kustomize
8 3 (1.27%) Netcool
8 3 (1.27%) Packer
8 3 (1.27%) Puppet
9 1 (0.42%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.42%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.42%) Istio
9 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (12.71%) Oracle
2 13 (5.51%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.24%) TIBCO
4 8 (3.39%) Splunk
5 5 (2.12%) IBM
5 5 (2.12%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.12%) SAP
6 4 (1.69%) Perfecto Mobile
6 4 (1.69%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.27%) Ab Initio
7 3 (1.27%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.27%) HP
8 2 (0.85%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.85%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.42%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.42%) Spotify
9 1 (0.42%) VMware