Cucumber Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cucumber
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 315 277
Rank change year-on-year +38 -38 -60
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 64 143 418
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.43% 0.60% 0.95%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.63% 4.18% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 99 293
10th Percentile £364 £370 £363
25th Percentile £452 £427 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £688 £598 £588
90th Percentile £863 £728 £658
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 14 7
10th Percentile - £57.25 £44.00
25th Percentile - £70.00 £45.63
Median hourly rate - £71.25 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year - +8.71% +31.08%
75th Percentile - £75.00 -
90th Percentile - - £66.62
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £64.58
% change year-on-year - +16.14% +6.74%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Cucumber falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,761 3,420 8,077
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.93% 14.32% 18.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,270 2,472 5,814
10th Percentile £360 £375 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.67% - +8.59%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 95 103
10th Percentile £23.43 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £51.63 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +23.81% +14.13%
75th Percentile £79.31 £70.64 £65.54
90th Percentile £90.00 £87.92 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £51.10
% change year-on-year +4.00% +22.31% +6.74%

Cucumber
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cucumber as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cucumber trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cucumber
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cucumber.

Cucumber daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cucumber
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cucumber over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Cucumber daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cucumber
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cucumber.

Cucumber hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (3.13%) Confluence
1 2 (3.13%) nginx
2 1 (1.56%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.56%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (1.56%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.56%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (1.56%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.56%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 23 (35.94%) AWS
2 14 (21.88%) Azure
3 9 (14.06%) GitHub
4 5 (7.81%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.13%) IaaS
7 2 (3.13%) PaaS
7 2 (3.13%) Serverless
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.56%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.56%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.56%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.56%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) MQTT
1 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) MySQL
2 3 (4.69%) MariaDB
2 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.69%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (60.94%) Selenium
2 30 (46.88%) Jenkins
3 27 (42.19%) JUnit
4 22 (34.38%) GitLab
5 19 (29.69%) JIRA
6 17 (26.56%) REST Assured
7 15 (23.44%) Mockito
8 14 (21.88%) JMeter
9 13 (20.31%) Git
10 10 (15.63%) Postman
10 10 (15.63%) WebDriver
11 9 (14.06%) SonarQube
12 8 (12.50%) Maven
13 7 (10.94%) SoapUI
13 7 (10.94%) TestNG
14 5 (7.81%) Appium
14 5 (7.81%) Bitbucket
14 5 (7.81%) Cypress.io
15 3 (4.69%) SpecFlow
15 3 (4.69%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (29.69%) Finance
2 17 (26.56%) Social Skills
3 13 (20.31%) Front Office
4 11 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (10.94%) Law
5 7 (10.94%) Police
6 4 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.69%) Banking
7 3 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.13%) Back Office
9 1 (1.56%) Aviation
9 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (39.06%) Senior
2 24 (37.50%) Developer
3 17 (26.56%) Java Developer
4 15 (23.44%) Senior Developer
5 13 (20.31%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (18.75%) Tester
7 10 (15.63%) Java Engineer
8 8 (12.50%) Automation Tester
9 7 (10.94%) Lead
9 7 (10.94%) Software Engineer
10 6 (9.38%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (9.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 5 (7.81%) Consultant
11 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 5 (7.81%) Senior Java Engineer
11 5 (7.81%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 5 (7.81%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (7.81%) Software Developer
11 5 (7.81%) Test Engineer
12 4 (6.25%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (32.81%) REST
2 15 (23.44%) Gherkin
3 13 (20.31%) Spring Boot
4 8 (12.50%) ARM Templates
4 8 (12.50%) Java EE
5 6 (9.38%) .NET
6 5 (7.81%) Spring
7 4 (6.25%) Node.js
8 3 (4.69%) Playwright
8 3 (4.69%) RESTful
8 3 (4.69%) SOAP
9 2 (3.13%) .NET Framework
9 2 (3.13%) ActiveMQ
9 2 (3.13%) Chai
9 2 (3.13%) JAX-RS
9 2 (3.13%) Kafka
9 2 (3.13%) Web Services
10 1 (1.56%) .NET Core
10 1 (1.56%) gRPC
10 1 (1.56%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) Credit Derivative
2 2 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.56%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.56%) Machine to Machine
3 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.56%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Linux
2 2 (3.13%) Windows
3 1 (1.56%) Android
3 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (76.56%) Test Automation
2 36 (56.25%) CI/CD
3 31 (48.44%) Agile
4 25 (39.06%) DevOps
5 18 (28.13%) BDD
6 16 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
7 15 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (21.88%) Software Engineering
9 13 (20.31%) Software Testing
10 11 (17.19%) SDLC
10 11 (17.19%) Test Strategy
11 10 (15.63%) Containerisation
11 10 (15.63%) Microservices
11 10 (15.63%) SDET
12 9 (14.06%) Decision-Making
12 9 (14.06%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (14.06%) Software Architecture
12 9 (14.06%) TDD
13 8 (12.50%) Configuration Management
13 8 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 52 (81.25%) Java
2 12 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 8 (12.50%) C#
3 8 (12.50%) Python
4 6 (9.38%) SQL
5 4 (6.25%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.69%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.56%) Bash
7 1 (1.56%) C
7 1 (1.56%) C++
7 1 (1.56%) Ruby
7 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.56%) VBA
7 1 (1.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (32.81%) Security Cleared
2 19 (29.69%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) ISTQB
3 4 (6.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (3.13%) Degree
5 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.56%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.19%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (23.44%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) iptables
2 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (23.44%) Kubernetes
2 13 (20.31%) Terraform
3 9 (14.06%) Ansible
3 9 (14.06%) Docker Swarm
4 8 (12.50%) Podman
5 1 (1.56%) Grafana
5 1 (1.56%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (10.94%) Oracle
2 3 (4.69%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.13%) IBM
3 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.13%) SAP
4 1 (1.56%) Perfecto Mobile
4 1 (1.56%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.56%) Splunk