Cucumber Contracts in Berkshire

Cucumber
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 83 100
Rank change year-on-year +5 +17 +21
Contract jobs citing Cucumber 15 29 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.29% 1.47% 0.60%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.87% 12.78% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 18 8
10th Percentile - £555 £457
25th Percentile £500 £581 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £650 £506
Median % change year-on-year -23.00% +28.40% +26.56%
75th Percentile £501 £688 £576
90th Percentile - £716 £595
South East median daily rate £501 £650 £488
% change year-on-year -23.00% +33.33% +5.41%

All Development Application Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 138 227 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 11.91% 11.53% 12.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 137 150
10th Percentile £400 £320 £356
25th Percentile £475 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% +13.51%
75th Percentile £558 £650 £623
90th Percentile £635 £688 £701
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile £49.50 £60.74 -
25th Percentile £53.56 £64.12 -
Median hourly rate £66.75 £78.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.42% +11.43% +13.82%
75th Percentile £77.88 £92.50 -
90th Percentile £80.00 £97.00 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -4.17%

Cucumber
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cucumber in Berkshire

Cucumber
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Cucumber in Berkshire

Cucumber
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cucumber within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 July 2025. 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
Reading +18 12 - - 6
Cucumber
South East

Cucumber
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (86.67%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 13 (86.67%) GitLab
1 13 (86.67%) Jenkins
1 13 (86.67%) JIRA
1 13 (86.67%) REST Assured
1 13 (86.67%) Selenium
2 9 (60.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (13.33%) Git
3 2 (13.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 11 (73.33%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (53.33%) Law
4 4 (26.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Java Engineer
1 9 (60.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Java Developer
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (86.67%) Java EE
1 13 (86.67%) REST
2 9 (60.00%) ARM Templates
3 2 (13.33%) CSS
3 2 (13.33%) HTML
3 2 (13.33%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
1 15 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (86.67%) Configuration Management
2 13 (86.67%) Continuous Integration
2 13 (86.67%) Software Architecture
2 13 (86.67%) Software Engineering
2 13 (86.67%) Technical Leadership
3 9 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 9 (60.00%) Decision-Making
3 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Agile
6 2 (13.33%) API Testing
6 2 (13.33%) BDD
6 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 2 (13.33%) Load Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Scrum
6 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) SC Cleared
1 13 (86.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Ansible
1 9 (60.00%) Docker Swarm
1 9 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (60.00%) Podman
1 9 (60.00%) Terraform
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