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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 607 413 342
Rank change year-on-year -194 -71 -39
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 306 770 1,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.76% 1.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.21% 5.33% 4.88%
Number of salaries quoted 232 517 902
10th Percentile £41,375 £42,844 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,438 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -0.74% +12.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £101,185 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £59,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.54% +12.38% +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 9,537 14,458 35,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.62% 14.27% 22.67%
Number of salaries quoted 6,706 8,868 15,755
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% +9.65%
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 9 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 9 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 -161 267 £70,000 - 50
UK excluding London -116 167 £57,500 -2.54% 27
Work from Home -100 155 £75,000 +15.38% 25
London -84 140 £85,000 +9.68% 22
South East -27 35 £65,000 - 7
South West -30 32 £60,000 -1.64% 6
Midlands +5 31 £47,500 -19.49% 2
North of England -39 30 £61,750 +17.62% 8
Scotland -58 29 £72,500 +20.83% 2
West Midlands +27 24 £40,000 -27.27% 1
Yorkshire +17 13 £100,000 +122.22% 5
North West -2 13 £54,169 -9.72% 3
East Midlands -15 7 £57,500 -2.54% 1
Wales +6 5 £42,500 -11.46% 1
Northern Ireland +22 4 £57,500 - 1
North East -6 4 £55,000 -18.52%
East of England -14 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 (5.56%) Apache
2 15 (4.90%) Cloud Foundry
3 13 (4.25%) Confluence
4 1 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.33%) CMS
4 1 (0.33%) Drupal
4 1 (0.33%) JBoss
4 1 (0.33%) nginx
4 1 (0.33%) PrestaShop
4 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (2.61%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Magento
1 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 94 (30.72%) AWS
2 54 (17.65%) Azure
3 51 (16.67%) SaaS
4 16 (5.23%) GCP
5 12 (3.92%) GitHub
6 11 (3.59%) OpenShift
7 10 (3.27%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (3.27%) Serverless
8 9 (2.94%) BlazeMeter
8 9 (2.94%) BrowserStack
9 8 (2.61%) Slack
10 6 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.31%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (0.98%) Amazon EMR
13 3 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (0.98%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.98%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.98%) HTTP
2 2 (0.65%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.76%) MongoDB
2 34 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
3 21 (6.86%) NoSQL
4 15 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.61%) Data Lake
5 8 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.96%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.31%) Big Data
7 4 (1.31%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.98%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.98%) MySQL
8 3 (0.98%) Redis
8 3 (0.98%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.65%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.33%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.33%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 170 (55.56%) Selenium
2 127 (41.50%) Jenkins
3 85 (27.78%) Postman
4 81 (26.47%) Cypress.io
5 70 (22.88%) JIRA
6 59 (19.28%) JUnit
7 41 (13.40%) Git
8 32 (10.46%) REST Assured
9 31 (10.13%) JMeter
9 31 (10.13%) SpecFlow
10 27 (8.82%) WebDriver
11 26 (8.50%) Maven
11 26 (8.50%) TestNG
12 22 (7.19%) TeamCity
13 21 (6.86%) Appium
14 15 (4.90%) GitLab
15 14 (4.58%) SoapUI
16 12 (3.92%) Bitbucket
16 12 (3.92%) JBehave
17 10 (3.27%) Gradle
General
1 86 (28.10%) Finance
2 62 (20.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 52 (16.99%) Social Skills
4 44 (14.38%) Law
5 40 (13.07%) Banking
6 35 (11.44%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (6.21%) Investment Banking
8 17 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (4.90%) Marketing
10 13 (4.25%) Public Sector
11 10 (3.27%) Retail
12 4 (1.31%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.31%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.98%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.65%) Fire and Rescue
14 2 (0.65%) Legal
14 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.65%) Social Housing
15 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (25.49%) Lead
2 55 (17.97%) QA Engineer
3 54 (17.65%) Senior
4 50 (16.34%) Tester
5 42 (13.73%) Developer
6 38 (12.42%) Software Engineer
7 34 (11.11%) Java Engineer
8 31 (10.13%) Automation Tester
9 26 (8.50%) Java Software Engineer
10 18 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
11 17 (5.56%) Test Engineer
12 16 (5.23%) Full Stack Engineer
12 16 (5.23%) QA Automation Engineer
13 15 (4.90%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 15 (4.90%) Lead Java Engineer
14 14 (4.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 13 (4.25%) QA Tester
15 13 (4.25%) Test Automation Engineer
16 12 (3.92%) Java Developer
17 9 (2.94%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (31.37%) REST
2 59 (19.28%) Spring
3 55 (17.97%) Spring Boot
4 49 (16.01%) Gherkin
5 38 (12.42%) React
6 35 (11.44%) Kafka
7 30 (9.80%) CSS
7 30 (9.80%) RESTful
8 27 (8.82%) HTML
9 25 (8.17%) WireMock
10 18 (5.88%) SOAP
10 18 (5.88%) Web Services
11 16 (5.23%) .NET
11 16 (5.23%) Apache Commons
11 16 (5.23%) Guava
11 16 (5.23%) Java Concurrency
12 15 (4.90%) AngularJS
12 15 (4.90%) JDBC
13 11 (3.59%) Swagger
13 11 (3.59%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.50%) Product Ownership
2 18 (5.88%) Private Cloud
3 11 (3.59%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.94%) Market Risk
5 8 (2.61%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.96%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.96%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.31%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.65%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.33%) Bitcoin
10 1 (0.33%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.33%) Derivative
10 1 (0.33%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.33%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.33%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.96%) Android
1 6 (1.96%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.63%) Linux
3 3 (0.98%) Windows
4 2 (0.65%) Unix
5 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (57.52%) Agile
2 173 (56.54%) Test Automation
3 167 (54.58%) CI/CD
4 158 (51.63%) BDD
5 108 (35.29%) API Testing
6 89 (29.08%) SDET
7 80 (26.14%) Scrum
8 74 (24.18%) DevOps
9 72 (23.53%) Software Engineering
10 70 (22.88%) Test Strategy
11 69 (22.55%) Software Testing
12 65 (21.24%) Continuous Integration
13 64 (20.92%) TDD
14 62 (20.26%) Clean Code
15 60 (19.61%) Microservices
16 49 (16.01%) Fintech
17 47 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
18 41 (13.40%) Full Stack Development
19 39 (12.75%) Test Scripting
20 36 (11.76%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 213 (69.61%) Java
2 90 (29.41%) JavaScript
3 85 (27.78%) SQL
4 46 (15.03%) Python
5 36 (11.76%) C#
6 24 (7.84%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.59%) C++
8 9 (2.94%) Ruby
9 6 (1.96%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.98%) Perl
10 3 (0.98%) Swift
11 2 (0.65%) Go
12 1 (0.33%) Groovy
12 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.33%) PHP
12 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.33%) VB
12 1 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 39 (12.75%) Security Cleared
2 35 (11.44%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.86%) Degree
4 8 (2.61%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.96%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.98%) ISEB
8 2 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.65%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (47.39%) QA
2 19 (6.21%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.61%) GDPR
3 8 (2.61%) PSD2
4 2 (0.65%) PMO
System Software
1 51 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 48 (15.69%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.58%) Terraform
3 9 (2.94%) Ansible
4 6 (1.96%) Kibana
5 4 (1.31%) Grafana
5 4 (1.31%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.98%) Consul
7 2 (0.65%) Istio
7 2 (0.65%) Packer
7 2 (0.65%) Podman
7 2 (0.65%) Puppet
8 1 (0.33%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.33%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 24 (7.84%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.54%) Google
3 12 (3.92%) Oracle
4 9 (2.94%) TOWER Software
5 8 (2.61%) Adobe
5 8 (2.61%) Duck Creek
6 4 (1.31%) Splunk
7 2 (0.65%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.65%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.65%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.33%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.33%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.33%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.33%) Databricks
8 1 (0.33%) HP
8 1 (0.33%) IBM
8 1 (0.33%) OpenAI