Cucumber Contracts in London

Cucumber
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 257 279
Rank change year-on-year -35 +22 -52
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 109 238 391
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.62% 0.94% 1.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.59% 5.98% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 190 296
10th Percentile £350 £425 £400
25th Percentile £463 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £719 £775 £691
90th Percentile £863 £836 £750
England median daily rate £534 £593 £500
% change year-on-year -9.87% +18.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
England median hourly rate - £73.75 £55.56
% change year-on-year - +32.75% -15.18%

All Development Application Skills
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,375 3,977 7,743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.53% 15.76% 19.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,690 2,897 5,641
10th Percentile £363 £410 £413
25th Percentile £450 £490 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £672 £725 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 33 59
10th Percentile £23.80 £51.30 £26.25
25th Percentile £25.99 £54.00 £39.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +57.30% -25.21%
75th Percentile £69.13 £82.50 £51.32
90th Percentile £71.50 £90.00 £74.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +23.00% -

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in London

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in London

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cucumber in London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cucumber in London

Cucumber
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cucumber in London

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Central London +20 18 £505 -22.31%
South London - 2 £355 -
Cucumber
England

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (2.75%) IIS
2 2 (1.83%) nginx
3 1 (0.92%) Confluence
3 1 (0.92%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 6 (5.50%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (4.59%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.83%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 23 (21.10%) AWS
2 7 (6.42%) Azure
2 7 (6.42%) GitHub
3 5 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (4.59%) Serverless
4 4 (3.67%) OpenShift
4 4 (3.67%) PaaS
5 3 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (2.75%) BrowserStack
5 3 (2.75%) Datadog
5 3 (2.75%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.83%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.83%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (1.83%) Firebase
7 1 (0.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.92%) IaaS
7 1 (0.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.26%) SSH
2 4 (3.67%) Internet
3 1 (0.92%) MQTT
3 1 (0.92%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.84%) NoSQL
2 9 (8.26%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.67%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.92%) MySQL
5 1 (0.92%) Power BI
5 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 51 (46.79%) Selenium
2 38 (34.86%) JUnit
3 31 (28.44%) JIRA
4 28 (25.69%) Git
5 22 (20.18%) Jenkins
6 19 (17.43%) WebDriver
7 16 (14.68%) Postman
7 16 (14.68%) REST Assured
8 15 (13.76%) GitLab
9 14 (12.84%) Appium
10 13 (11.93%) Mockito
10 13 (11.93%) SpecFlow
10 13 (11.93%) TestNG
11 12 (11.01%) SoapUI
12 11 (10.09%) TeamCity
13 10 (9.17%) eggPlant
13 10 (9.17%) Moq
13 10 (9.17%) NUnit
13 10 (9.17%) SOAtest
14 6 (5.50%) Maven
General
1 47 (43.12%) Finance
2 34 (31.19%) Banking
3 31 (28.44%) Front Office
4 29 (26.61%) Social Skills
5 13 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (11.01%) Investment Banking
7 9 (8.26%) Back Office
8 5 (4.59%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.67%) Wholesale Banking
10 3 (2.75%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.92%) Aviation
11 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (34.86%) Developer
2 22 (20.18%) Java Developer
3 21 (19.27%) Senior
4 18 (16.51%) Tester
5 13 (11.93%) Senior Developer
6 11 (10.09%) C# Developer
6 11 (10.09%) Senior Java Developer
7 10 (9.17%) QA Engineer
8 9 (8.26%) Automation Engineer
8 9 (8.26%) Automation Tester
9 8 (7.34%) Test Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) QA Tester
11 5 (4.59%) Software Engineer
11 5 (4.59%) Testing Engineer
12 4 (3.67%) Consultant
12 4 (3.67%) Lead
12 4 (3.67%) Operations Engineer
12 4 (3.67%) QA Automation Engineer
12 4 (3.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (20.18%) .NET
2 21 (19.27%) REST
3 15 (13.76%) JSON
4 14 (12.84%) Spring Boot
5 12 (11.01%) Spring
5 12 (11.01%) XML
6 11 (10.09%) .NET Core
6 11 (10.09%) .NET Framework
6 11 (10.09%) Middleware
7 10 (9.17%) ASP.NET
7 10 (9.17%) ASP.NET Web API
7 10 (9.17%) Gherkin
7 10 (9.17%) RabbitMQ
7 10 (9.17%) RESTful
7 10 (9.17%) SignalR
7 10 (9.17%) SOAP
7 10 (9.17%) Web Services
8 9 (8.26%) Hibernate
8 9 (8.26%) J2EE
8 9 (8.26%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.09%) Credit Derivative
1 11 (10.09%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (8.26%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (8.26%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.59%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.75%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.75%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.75%) Equities
5 3 (2.75%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.83%) Derivative
6 2 (1.83%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.92%) Machine to Machine
7 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.92%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.43%) Unix
2 14 (12.84%) Linux
3 3 (2.75%) Windows
4 1 (0.92%) Android
4 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.92%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (61.47%) Test Automation
2 55 (50.46%) Agile
3 50 (45.87%) CI/CD
4 48 (44.04%) BDD
5 37 (33.94%) Continuous Integration
6 33 (30.28%) TDD
7 27 (24.77%) Microservices
7 27 (24.77%) Software Testing
8 24 (22.02%) SDLC
9 23 (21.10%) DevOps
10 18 (16.51%) SDET
11 17 (15.60%) Containerisation
11 17 (15.60%) Scrum
11 17 (15.60%) Test Strategy
12 16 (14.68%) User Acceptance Testing
13 14 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (11.93%) ATDD
14 13 (11.93%) Test Scripting
15 12 (11.01%) Electronic Trading
15 12 (11.01%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 73 (66.97%) Java
2 30 (27.52%) SQL
3 22 (20.18%) C#
4 18 (16.51%) Python
5 17 (15.60%) JavaScript
6 12 (11.01%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.50%) Perl
8 2 (1.83%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.83%) Ruby
9 1 (0.92%) Bash
Qualifications
1 25 (22.94%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.35%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.26%) ISTQB
4 7 (6.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (2.75%) Degree
6 2 (1.83%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (31.19%) QA
2 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (17.43%) Docker
2 3 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.92%) iptables
3 1 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (13.76%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.42%) Terraform
3 5 (4.59%) Ansible
4 3 (2.75%) Netcool
4 3 (2.75%) Puppet
5 1 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.92%) Grafana
5 1 (0.92%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.92%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.92%) Kibana
5 1 (0.92%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.92%) Packer
5 1 (0.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (10.09%) Oracle
2 10 (9.17%) TIBCO
3 8 (7.34%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.67%) Splunk
5 3 (2.75%) AppDynamics
5 3 (2.75%) HP
5 3 (2.75%) IBM
6 2 (1.83%) Ab Initio
6 2 (1.83%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (1.83%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.92%) Confluent
7 1 (0.92%) New Relic
7 1 (0.92%) Perfecto Mobile
7 1 (0.92%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.92%) Spotify