Cucumber Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cucumber
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Cucumber skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cucumber over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 300 286
Rank change year-on-year -20 -14 -65
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 81 130 236
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.57% 0.78%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.47% 4.34% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 88 169
10th Percentile £378 £368 £362
25th Percentile £405 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +5.41% +8.82%
75th Percentile £608 £573 £538
90th Percentile £688 £775 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 17 6
10th Percentile - £55.00 £43.75
25th Percentile - £70.00 £45.31
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £55.56
Median % change year-on-year - +30.50% -11.81%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £65.51
90th Percentile - £78.00 £66.89
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £64.58
% change year-on-year - +16.14% +6.74%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Cucumber falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,335 2,995 4,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.95% 13.20% 15.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,480 2,096 3,190
10th Percentile £350 £338 £360
25th Percentile £413 £414 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £585 £600 £588
90th Percentile £657 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 161 114
10th Percentile £40.00 £50.00 £42.00
25th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £47.86
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £66.96
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.00 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £51.10
% change year-on-year +4.00% +22.31% +6.74%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in the UK excluding London

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in the UK excluding London

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in the UK excluding London

Cucumber
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cucumber in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cucumber in the UK excluding London

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
South East +15 33 £650 +33.33% 11
North of England +3 23 £436 -20.73% 2
Scotland +30 14 £498 +4.84% 3
Yorkshire +16 12 £485 -11.82% 1
North West +15 10 £436 -14.93%
South West -4 8 £453 +13.13% 3
Midlands +14 2 £390 -7.14%
Wales +20 1 £363 -25.64% 1
West Midlands +17 1 £400 -5.88%
East Midlands +5 1 £380 -8.43%
North East -7 1 £310 -60.00% 1
Cucumber
UK

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (6.17%) Confluence
2 1 (1.23%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 30 (37.04%) Azure
2 26 (32.10%) AWS
3 6 (7.41%) GitHub
4 4 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.70%) PaaS
6 2 (2.47%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.47%) BrowserStack
6 2 (2.47%) IaaS
6 2 (2.47%) SaaS
6 2 (2.47%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) HTTP
2 2 (2.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.64%) MongoDB
2 6 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.17%) MariaDB
3 5 (6.17%) MySQL
4 2 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.23%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 59 (72.84%) Selenium
2 48 (59.26%) Jenkins
3 27 (33.33%) JIRA
4 25 (30.86%) REST Assured
5 24 (29.63%) SonarQube
6 21 (25.93%) Git
7 20 (24.69%) GitLab
8 18 (22.22%) JUnit
9 17 (20.99%) JMeter
10 11 (13.58%) Maven
11 10 (12.35%) WebDriver
12 7 (8.64%) Mockito
13 5 (6.17%) Cypress.io
13 5 (6.17%) Gatling
14 3 (3.70%) Appium
14 3 (3.70%) Bitbucket
14 3 (3.70%) Postman
14 3 (3.70%) Robot Framework
14 3 (3.70%) TeamCity
15 2 (2.47%) SoapUI
General
1 32 (39.51%) Social Skills
2 27 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (24.69%) Law
4 13 (16.05%) Police
5 6 (7.41%) Finance
5 6 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Banking
8 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (27.16%) Java Engineer
2 19 (23.46%) Senior
3 17 (20.99%) Developer
4 14 (17.28%) Java Developer
5 11 (13.58%) Tester
6 9 (11.11%) Test Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) Java Software Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) Lead
7 7 (8.64%) Software Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Automation Tester
8 6 (7.41%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Senior Test Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Analyst
9 5 (6.17%) Senior Java Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Test Analyst
10 4 (4.94%) QA Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 3 (3.70%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (43.21%) REST
2 25 (30.86%) Java EE
3 15 (18.52%) Gherkin
4 12 (14.81%) ARM Templates
5 9 (11.11%) Spring
6 8 (9.88%) AngularJS
6 8 (9.88%) Spring Boot
7 5 (6.17%) Kafka
7 5 (6.17%) Web Services
8 4 (4.94%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (4.94%) JSON
8 4 (4.94%) SOAP
9 3 (3.70%) RESTful
9 3 (3.70%) WebdriverIO
9 3 (3.70%) XML
10 2 (2.47%) .NET
10 2 (2.47%) Node.js
10 2 (2.47%) Playwright
10 2 (2.47%) pytest
10 2 (2.47%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.47%) Client/Server
1 2 (2.47%) Mobile App
1 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
2 1 (1.23%) Replication
2 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.11%) Linux
2 4 (4.94%) Mac OS X
2 4 (4.94%) Unix
3 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (86.42%) Test Automation
2 41 (50.62%) Agile
3 37 (45.68%) Continuous Integration
4 32 (39.51%) DevOps
5 31 (38.27%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (35.80%) Software Engineering
7 27 (33.33%) Decision-Making
7 27 (33.33%) Software Architecture
8 25 (30.86%) Technical Leadership
9 24 (29.63%) CI/CD
10 19 (23.46%) BDD
11 15 (18.52%) Containerisation
12 13 (16.05%) Configuration Management
12 13 (16.05%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (13.58%) Test Strategy
14 10 (12.35%) TDD
15 9 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 9 (11.11%) Software Testing
15 9 (11.11%) Unit Testing
16 7 (8.64%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 67 (82.72%) Java
2 13 (16.05%) JavaScript
3 11 (13.58%) Python
4 10 (12.35%) SQL
5 7 (8.64%) Shell Script
6 5 (6.17%) C#
7 4 (4.94%) Groovy
7 4 (4.94%) Scala
8 3 (3.70%) Bash
9 2 (2.47%) C++
9 2 (2.47%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.47%) VBA
9 2 (2.47%) VBScript
10 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (41.98%) Security Cleared
2 30 (37.04%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.47%) ISEB
4 2 (2.47%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.58%) QA
2 3 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 26 (32.10%) Ansible
2 18 (22.22%) Terraform
3 17 (20.99%) Kubernetes
4 12 (14.81%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (14.81%) Podman
5 1 (1.23%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.23%) Grafana
5 1 (1.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (7.41%) Oracle
2 3 (3.70%) Splunk
3 2 (2.47%) Perfecto Mobile
4 1 (1.23%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.23%) Databricks
4 1 (1.23%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.23%) VMware