Cypress.io Contract Job Trends

Cypress.io
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Cypress.io skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 366 346
Rank change year-on-year -142 -20 +31
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 138 160 255
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.54% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.33% 3.71% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 103 195
10th Percentile £308 £303 £400
25th Percentile £357 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £551
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -18.33% +4.95%
75th Percentile £566 £538 £650
90th Percentile £638 £623 £795
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -6.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £67.50
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £72.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +29.63%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,934 4,309 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.83% 14.55% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,839 2,877 3,518
10th Percentile £350 £331 £353
25th Percentile £409 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £625
90th Percentile £686 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 83 242
10th Percentile £26.25 £20.85 £31.30
25th Percentile £57.93 £46.59 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +5.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £59.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.45% -8.46% +5.69%

Cypress.io
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cypress.io job vacancy trend in the UK

Cypress.io
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Cypress.io
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cypress.io over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cypress.io in the UK

Cypress.io
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Cypress.io
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 June 2026. 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
England -118 110 £470 +4.44% 19
London -72 70 £470 +10.59% 3
UK excluding London -126 52 £481 +2.78% 24
Work from Home -68 50 £470 +10.59% 15
North of England -64 25 £485 +15.48% 7
North West -29 17 £500 +0.91% 4
Scotland -21 13 £481 +2.78% 5
Yorkshire -53 7 £350 -2.10% 2
Midlands -57 6 £500 +11.11% 1
West Midlands -61 6 £500 +11.11%
East of England -30 3 £300 -47.83%
South East -63 3 £500 -13.04% 6
South West -40 2 £513 -14.58% 3
North East - 1 - - 1

Cypress.io
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 18 (13.04%) Confluence
2 2 (1.45%) Camunda
2 2 (1.45%) CMS
3 1 (0.72%) Appian
3 1 (0.72%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 6 (4.35%) Shopify
2 1 (0.72%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 47 (34.06%) AWS
2 45 (32.61%) GitHub
3 38 (27.54%) Azure
4 35 (25.36%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (15.22%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (13.04%) Serverless
7 16 (11.59%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (10.87%) Amazon S3
9 11 (7.97%) GCP
10 10 (7.25%) Figma
11 8 (5.80%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (3.62%) Slack
15 4 (2.90%) npm
16 3 (2.17%) SaaS
17 2 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 2 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
17 2 (1.45%) TestFlight
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
2 6 (4.35%) DynamoDB
3 4 (2.90%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.90%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.45%) MySQL
5 1 (0.72%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 67 (48.55%) Selenium
2 33 (23.91%) Git
3 30 (21.74%) Postman
4 25 (18.12%) JIRA
5 22 (15.94%) REST Assured
6 19 (13.77%) Jenkins
7 17 (12.32%) Cucumber
8 15 (10.87%) JUnit
9 13 (9.42%) JMeter
10 12 (8.70%) GitLab
11 10 (7.25%) WebDriver
12 9 (6.52%) Appium
12 9 (6.52%) Gatling
13 8 (5.80%) webpack
14 7 (5.07%) CircleCI
14 7 (5.07%) Mocha
14 7 (5.07%) TestRail
15 6 (4.35%) SpecFlow
16 5 (3.62%) TestNG
16 5 (3.62%) Vite
General
1 36 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 35 (25.36%) Public Sector
3 21 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.97%) Banking
5 8 (5.80%) Military
6 4 (2.90%) Finance
7 3 (2.17%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.17%) Retail
8 2 (1.45%) Advertising
8 2 (1.45%) Back Office
8 2 (1.45%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.45%) Law
8 2 (1.45%) Legal
8 2 (1.45%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.72%) Front Office
9 1 (0.72%) Games
9 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.72%) Police
9 1 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (26.81%) Developer
2 23 (16.67%) Senior
3 22 (15.94%) Test Engineer
4 20 (14.49%) QA Engineer
4 20 (14.49%) Tester
5 13 (9.42%) React Developer
6 12 (8.70%) Lead
7 10 (7.25%) Test Automation Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) Automation Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) Automation Tester
9 8 (5.80%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (5.80%) QA Automation Engineer
9 8 (5.80%) QA Tester
10 7 (5.07%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 7 (5.07%) Software Engineer
11 6 (4.35%) Quality Engineer
12 5 (3.62%) Senior Software Engineer
13 4 (2.90%) Java Developer
13 4 (2.90%) Senior QA Engineer
13 4 (2.90%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (55.80%) Playwright
2 50 (36.23%) React
3 38 (27.54%) REST
4 30 (21.74%) Jest
5 17 (12.32%) Node.js
6 16 (11.59%) CSS
7 14 (10.14%) HTML
7 14 (10.14%) Next.js
7 14 (10.14%) Redux
8 11 (7.97%) GraphQL
9 9 (6.52%) pytest
9 9 (6.52%) Spring
9 9 (6.52%) Spring Boot
10 8 (5.80%) RESTful
11 7 (5.07%) HTML5
12 6 (4.35%) .NET
12 6 (4.35%) AWS CDK
12 6 (4.35%) CSS3
12 6 (4.35%) Kafka
13 5 (3.62%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.77%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.62%) Mobile App
5 5 (3.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (2.90%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.45%) Genomics
8 2 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.45%) Life Science
9 1 (0.72%) Blog
9 1 (0.72%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.72%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.72%) iPhone
9 1 (0.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.90%) Android
1 4 (2.90%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (73.19%) Test Automation
2 79 (57.25%) Agile
3 68 (49.28%) CI/CD
4 47 (34.06%) DevOps
5 36 (26.09%) API Testing
6 28 (20.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 27 (19.57%) End-to-End Testing
8 24 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (17.39%) Test Strategy
8 24 (17.39%) User Experience
9 23 (16.67%) Microservices
10 22 (15.94%) TDD
11 20 (14.49%) Software Testing
12 18 (13.04%) Performance Testing
12 18 (13.04%) Scrum
12 18 (13.04%) UX Design
13 16 (11.59%) AI
13 16 (11.59%) BDD
13 16 (11.59%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (11.59%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 68 (49.28%) TypeScript
2 64 (46.38%) JavaScript
3 35 (25.36%) Java
4 33 (23.91%) Python
5 18 (13.04%) C#
5 18 (13.04%) SQL
6 6 (4.35%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.90%) Scala
8 3 (2.17%) Go
9 1 (0.72%) Bash
9 1 (0.72%) Bicep
9 1 (0.72%) C++
9 1 (0.72%) Ruby
9 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.72%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.72%) VBA
9 1 (0.72%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 44 (31.88%) Security Cleared
2 35 (25.36%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.42%) DV Cleared
4 10 (7.25%) ISTQB
5 8 (5.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (5.80%) Degree
6 6 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (40.58%) QA
2 50 (36.23%) Accessibility
3 25 (18.12%) WCAG
4 2 (1.45%) NCSC
5 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.72%) GRC
5 1 (0.72%) GxP
System Software
1 18 (13.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (10.87%) Kubernetes
1 15 (10.87%) Terraform
2 4 (2.90%) Grafana
3 3 (2.17%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.45%) Kibana
4 2 (1.45%) Rundeck
5 1 (0.72%) Ansible
5 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (4.35%) Splunk
2 5 (3.62%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.17%) Google
3 3 (2.17%) HP
3 3 (2.17%) Micro Focus
3 3 (2.17%) OpenText
4 2 (1.45%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.45%) Oracle
4 2 (1.45%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.72%) Adobe
5 1 (0.72%) Aprimo
5 1 (0.72%) IBM
5 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.72%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.72%) Xamarin