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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 620 417 343
Rank change year-on-year -203 -74 -43
Permanent jobs citing Cucumber 282 745 1,857
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.76% 1.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.96% 5.29% 4.91%
Number of salaries quoted 208 513 925
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 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +1.38% +10.00%
75th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £101,185 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year +1.69% +15.12% +2.50%

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 9,512 14,072 37,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.42% 14.29% 23.08%
Number of salaries quoted 6,632 8,593 15,905
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% +8.70%
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 23 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 23 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 -173 244 £70,000 - 42
UK excluding London -111 160 £60,000 +1.69% 30
Work from Home -125 140 £70,000 +7.69% 22
London -93 124 £85,000 +13.33% 16
South East -13 35 £65,000 +0.78% 11
North of England -46 31 £61,000 +10.91% 5
Midlands +4 28 £50,000 -15.25%
South West -34 28 £63,000 +4.13% 8
Scotland -52 28 £72,500 +20.83% 2
West Midlands +22 21 £40,000 -28.25%
Yorkshire +12 14 £100,000 +122.22% 5
North West -14 13 £54,169 -9.72%
East Midlands -6 7 £57,500 -2.54%
Wales +11 5 £42,500 -11.46% 1
Northern Ireland +22 4 £57,500 - 2
North East -8 4 £55,000 -18.52%
East of England -27 2 £38,000 -39.20% 1

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 (6.03%) Apache
2 15 (5.32%) Cloud Foundry
3 11 (3.90%) Confluence
4 2 (0.71%) JBoss
5 1 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.35%) CMS
5 1 (0.35%) Drupal
5 1 (0.35%) nginx
5 1 (0.35%) PrestaShop
5 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (2.48%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Magento
1 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 84 (29.79%) AWS
2 52 (18.44%) Azure
3 43 (15.25%) SaaS
4 16 (5.67%) GCP
5 11 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
5 11 (3.90%) OpenShift
6 10 (3.55%) Serverless
7 9 (3.19%) BlazeMeter
8 8 (2.84%) GitHub
8 8 (2.84%) Slack
9 7 (2.48%) BrowserStack
10 5 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.42%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.42%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.06%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.06%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.06%) HTTP
1 3 (1.06%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.77%) MongoDB
2 34 (12.06%) Elasticsearch
3 22 (7.80%) NoSQL
4 16 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.84%) Data Lake
5 8 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.13%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.77%) MySQL
8 4 (1.42%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.42%) Big Data
8 4 (1.42%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.06%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.06%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.06%) Redis
9 3 (1.06%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.71%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.71%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.35%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 156 (55.32%) Selenium
2 112 (39.72%) Jenkins
3 75 (26.60%) Cypress.io
3 75 (26.60%) Postman
4 62 (21.99%) JIRA
5 58 (20.57%) JUnit
6 39 (13.83%) Git
7 32 (11.35%) SpecFlow
8 29 (10.28%) REST Assured
9 28 (9.93%) JMeter
10 26 (9.22%) WebDriver
11 23 (8.16%) Maven
11 23 (8.16%) TestNG
12 22 (7.80%) TeamCity
13 19 (6.74%) Appium
14 15 (5.32%) GitLab
15 11 (3.90%) JBehave
16 10 (3.55%) Gradle
16 10 (3.55%) SoapUI
17 9 (3.19%) CircleCI
General
1 80 (28.37%) Finance
2 59 (20.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 51 (18.09%) Social Skills
4 44 (15.60%) Law
5 38 (13.48%) Banking
6 35 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (7.09%) Investment Banking
8 17 (6.03%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (5.67%) Marketing
10 13 (4.61%) Public Sector
11 10 (3.55%) Retail
12 4 (1.42%) Health Technology
13 3 (1.06%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.71%) Fire and Rescue
14 2 (0.71%) Legal
14 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.71%) Social Housing
15 1 (0.35%) Advertising
15 1 (0.35%) Front Office
15 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (25.89%) Lead
2 50 (17.73%) QA Engineer
3 48 (17.02%) Senior
4 46 (16.31%) Tester
5 40 (14.18%) Software Engineer
6 39 (13.83%) Developer
7 37 (13.12%) Java Engineer
8 29 (10.28%) Java Software Engineer
9 27 (9.57%) Automation Tester
10 18 (6.38%) Lead Software Engineer
11 16 (5.67%) Full Stack Engineer
11 16 (5.67%) Test Engineer
12 15 (5.32%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 15 (5.32%) Lead Java Engineer
12 15 (5.32%) QA Automation Engineer
13 13 (4.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 13 (4.61%) QA Tester
13 13 (4.61%) Test Automation Engineer
14 12 (4.26%) Java Developer
15 10 (3.55%) QA Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (30.14%) REST
2 59 (20.92%) Spring
3 55 (19.50%) Spring Boot
4 44 (15.60%) Gherkin
5 37 (13.12%) React
6 33 (11.70%) Kafka
7 29 (10.28%) CSS
8 26 (9.22%) HTML
8 26 (9.22%) RESTful
9 23 (8.16%) WireMock
10 16 (5.67%) Apache Commons
10 16 (5.67%) Guava
10 16 (5.67%) Java Concurrency
11 15 (5.32%) .NET
11 15 (5.32%) JDBC
11 15 (5.32%) SOAP
12 14 (4.96%) AngularJS
12 14 (4.96%) Web Services
13 11 (3.90%) Swagger
14 10 (3.55%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.80%) Product Ownership
2 18 (6.38%) Private Cloud
3 11 (3.90%) Mobile App
4 9 (3.19%) Market Risk
5 7 (2.48%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.13%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.13%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.42%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.71%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.35%) Bitcoin
10 1 (0.35%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.35%) Derivative
10 1 (0.35%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.35%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.35%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.13%) Linux
2 4 (1.42%) Android
2 4 (1.42%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.06%) Unix
3 3 (1.06%) Windows
4 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (58.87%) Agile
2 161 (57.09%) Test Automation
3 150 (53.19%) CI/CD
4 148 (52.48%) BDD
5 94 (33.33%) API Testing
6 77 (27.30%) SDET
7 72 (25.53%) DevOps
7 72 (25.53%) Scrum
7 72 (25.53%) Software Engineering
8 66 (23.40%) TDD
9 64 (22.70%) Continuous Integration
9 64 (22.70%) Software Testing
10 61 (21.63%) Test Strategy
11 59 (20.92%) Microservices
12 49 (17.38%) Clean Code
13 47 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (14.18%) Fintech
14 40 (14.18%) Full Stack Development
14 40 (14.18%) Test Scripting
15 34 (12.06%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 197 (69.86%) Java
2 83 (29.43%) SQL
3 81 (28.72%) JavaScript
4 43 (15.25%) Python
5 34 (12.06%) C#
6 19 (6.74%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.90%) C++
8 8 (2.84%) Ruby
9 4 (1.42%) Perl
10 3 (1.06%) Go
10 3 (1.06%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.35%) Groovy
11 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.35%) PHP
11 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.35%) Swift
11 1 (0.35%) VB
11 1 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 34 (12.06%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.64%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.80%) Degree
4 8 (2.84%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.42%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.71%) ISEB
8 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (46.81%) QA
2 17 (6.03%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.84%) GDPR
3 8 (2.84%) PSD2
4 2 (0.71%) PMO
System Software
1 44 (15.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (15.96%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.96%) Terraform
3 7 (2.48%) Ansible
3 7 (2.48%) Kibana
4 5 (1.77%) Grafana
5 4 (1.42%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.71%) Istio
6 2 (0.71%) Packer
6 2 (0.71%) Podman
6 2 (0.71%) Puppet
7 1 (0.35%) Consul
7 1 (0.35%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.35%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 25 (8.87%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.74%) Google
3 10 (3.55%) Oracle
4 9 (3.19%) TOWER Software
5 8 (2.84%) Duck Creek
6 7 (2.48%) Adobe
7 5 (1.77%) Splunk
8 3 (1.06%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.71%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.71%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.35%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.35%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.35%) Databricks
10 1 (0.35%) HP
10 1 (0.35%) IBM
10 1 (0.35%) OpenAI