Cypress.io Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cypress.io
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Cypress.io skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 288 330
Rank change year-on-year -32 +42 +19
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 74 59 74
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.40% 0.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.79% 3.10% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 44 58
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £420 £394 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £468 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.05% -1.42% +1.06%
75th Percentile £579 £532 £534
90th Percentile £606 £544 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -
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 - - -
UK median hourly rate - £45.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year - -41.94% +10.71%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,656 1,902 2,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.55% 13.04% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,832 1,145 1,641
10th Percentile £319 £325 £363
25th Percentile £400 £399 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -6.34% -2.29%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £538
% change year-on-year -1.48% -5.67% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 68 175
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £46.18
25th Percentile £54.81 £53.31 £51.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.50 £75.08 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.84%

Cypress.io
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Cypress.io job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cypress.io
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cypress.io.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cypress.io

Cypress.io
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cypress.io in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cypress.io in the UK excluding London

Cypress.io
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cypress.io.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cypress.io

Cypress.io
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
North of England -31 29 £475 +18.75% 60
North West -10 18 £425 +6.25% 31
South West -3 13 £529 +0.67% 27
Scotland +3 12 £588 +29.83% 13
Midlands -33 11 £575 +22.67% 32
Yorkshire -41 9 £500 +42.86% 26
West Midlands - 8 £575 - 19
South East -11 6 £688 +77.42% 45
Wales -3 4 £520 -2.12% 4
East Midlands -20 3 £725 +54.67% 12
North East - 2 £450 - 3
East of England -20 1 - - 22
Cypress.io
UK

Cypress.io
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.76%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.70%) Apache
3 1 (1.35%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.35%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 31 (41.89%) AWS
2 23 (31.08%) Azure
3 15 (20.27%) GitHub
4 13 (17.57%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (17.57%) npm
5 9 (12.16%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (12.16%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (12.16%) GCP
6 8 (10.81%) Serverless
7 7 (9.46%) Datadog
7 7 (9.46%) OpenShift
8 6 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (6.76%) Amazon S3
9 5 (6.76%) Azure AKS
9 5 (6.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (6.76%) Pulumi
10 3 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (2.70%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.76%) MongoDB
1 5 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.41%) Redis
3 2 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (2.70%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.35%) MySQL
4 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (40.54%) Selenium
2 19 (25.68%) Postman
3 18 (24.32%) Git
3 18 (24.32%) GitLab
4 16 (21.62%) Jenkins
5 15 (20.27%) JUnit
6 12 (16.22%) Cucumber
7 11 (14.86%) REST Assured
8 10 (13.51%) SonarQube
9 9 (12.16%) CircleCI
10 8 (10.81%) Maven
11 7 (9.46%) webpack
12 5 (6.76%) Artifactory
12 5 (6.76%) Bitbucket
12 5 (6.76%) Gradle
12 5 (6.76%) Snyk
12 5 (6.76%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (5.41%) JIRA
13 4 (5.41%) Mocha
14 3 (4.05%) Grunt
General
1 20 (27.03%) Public Sector
2 14 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 11 (14.86%) Finance
4 7 (9.46%) Banking
5 5 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.41%) Military
7 3 (4.05%) Publishing
8 2 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.35%) Retail
9 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (33.78%) Developer
2 21 (28.38%) Senior
3 17 (22.97%) Lead
4 11 (14.86%) Test Engineer
5 9 (12.16%) Java Developer
5 9 (12.16%) QA Leader
6 8 (10.81%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (10.81%) Senior Test Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) QA Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Automation Tester
8 4 (5.41%) React Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Tester
9 3 (4.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 3 (4.05%) Java Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) JavaScript Developer
9 3 (4.05%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (4.05%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (43.24%) Jest
2 31 (41.89%) React
3 24 (32.43%) REST
4 23 (31.08%) Node.js
5 21 (28.38%) Playwright
6 15 (20.27%) Spring
7 14 (18.92%) Spring Boot
8 10 (13.51%) RESTful
9 8 (10.81%) AngularJS
9 8 (10.81%) JSON
9 8 (10.81%) YAML
10 7 (9.46%) Next.js
10 7 (9.46%) Redux
11 6 (8.11%) .NET
11 6 (8.11%) CSS
11 6 (8.11%) Enzyme
11 6 (8.11%) HTML
12 5 (6.76%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (6.76%) GraphQL
13 4 (5.41%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.16%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (6.76%) Private Cloud
2 5 (6.76%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.41%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.05%) Client/Server
4 3 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.05%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.70%) Blog
5 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.35%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.76%) Linux
2 3 (4.05%) Android
2 3 (4.05%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (67.57%) CI/CD
2 48 (64.86%) Test Automation
3 37 (50.00%) Agile
4 33 (44.59%) DevOps
5 29 (39.19%) Test Strategy
6 23 (31.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (27.03%) Microservices
8 17 (22.97%) Front End Development
8 17 (22.97%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (22.97%) Software Engineering
8 17 (22.97%) Software Testing
9 16 (21.62%) Containerisation
9 16 (21.62%) User Experience
10 15 (20.27%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (18.92%) Test Scripting
12 13 (17.57%) End-to-End Testing
13 12 (16.22%) Code Quality
13 12 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (14.86%) BDD
14 11 (14.86%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 31 (41.89%) TypeScript
2 28 (37.84%) Java
2 28 (37.84%) JavaScript
3 8 (10.81%) SQL
4 3 (4.05%) C#
4 3 (4.05%) Python
5 2 (2.70%) Bash
5 2 (2.70%) Go
6 1 (1.35%) Groovy
6 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 28 (37.84%) Security Cleared
2 18 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.46%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.05%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.70%) Degree
7 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.35%) ISEB
7 1 (1.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (45.95%) Accessibility
2 33 (44.59%) QA
3 15 (20.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (33.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (21.62%) Terraform
2 12 (16.22%) Ansible
3 10 (13.51%) Grafana
3 10 (13.51%) Kubernetes
4 6 (8.11%) Puppet
5 5 (6.76%) Podman
5 5 (6.76%) Progress Chef
5 5 (6.76%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.70%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 10 (13.51%) Splunk
2 4 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.05%) Adobe
3 3 (4.05%) Perforce
3 3 (4.05%) Xamarin
4 2 (2.70%) Google
5 1 (1.35%) Dundas
5 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.35%) Virgin Media