Cypress.io Contract Job Trends in the South West

Cypress.io
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Cypress.io skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 129 139
Rank change year-on-year +23 +10 +28
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 17 12 13
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.86% 0.47% 0.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.17% 3.22% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 8
10th Percentile £512 £457 £359
25th Percentile £539 £466 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £598 £630 £548
90th Percentile £625 £710 £631
England median daily rate £472 £570 £563
% change year-on-year -17.19% +1.33% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £73.75
Median hourly rate - - £77.50
75th Percentile - - £81.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £77.50
% change year-on-year - - +19.23%

All Development Application Skills
South West

Cypress.io 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 237 373 414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.03% 14.71% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 169 294
10th Percentile £316 £395 £388
25th Percentile £425 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £684 £685 £696
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 60 51
10th Percentile £15.68 £65.00 £48.32
25th Percentile £20.82 £66.25 £56.49
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £73.75 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £81.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Cypress.io
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cypress.io relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Cypress.io job vacancy trend in the South West

Cypress.io
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cypress.io.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cypress.io

Cypress.io
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cypress.io within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Devon - 7 £500 - 2
Bristol +10 5 £546 +9.20% 3
Gloucestershire +10 3 - - 2
Wiltshire - 2 £600 -
Cypress.io
England

Cypress.io
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) GitHub
2 7 (41.18%) Serverless
3 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (11.76%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.88%) BrowserStack
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.88%) npm
5 1 (5.88%) Pulumi
5 1 (5.88%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) JIRA
1 6 (35.29%) Selenium
2 5 (29.41%) Postman
3 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
3 4 (23.53%) REST Assured
4 3 (17.65%) Cucumber
5 2 (11.76%) SonarQube
6 1 (5.88%) Appium
6 1 (5.88%) Git
6 1 (5.88%) GitLab
6 1 (5.88%) Snyk
6 1 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (5.88%) webpack
General
1 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Lead
2 6 (35.29%) Developer
3 4 (23.53%) QA Leader
4 3 (17.65%) Digital Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Senior
4 3 (17.65%) Test Leader
5 2 (11.76%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (11.76%) QA Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Test Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Tester
6 1 (5.88%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) AngularJS
1 6 (35.29%) AWS CDK
2 2 (11.76%) Playwright
3 1 (5.88%) CSS
3 1 (5.88%) HTML
3 1 (5.88%) Jest
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 10 (58.82%) Agile
3 7 (41.18%) Software Testing
4 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
4 6 (35.29%) DevOps
5 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (29.41%) Test Strategy
6 4 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (23.53%) Test Scripting
7 3 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (17.65%) Clean Code
7 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
7 3 (17.65%) User Stories
7 3 (17.65%) Validation
8 2 (11.76%) Code Quality
8 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
8 2 (11.76%) SDLC
8 2 (11.76%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) JavaScript
2 8 (47.06%) TypeScript
3 4 (23.53%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) Groovy
4 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (88.24%) Security Cleared
2 11 (64.71%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
3 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Cisco
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.88%) Salesforce