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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 378 360
Rank change year-on-year -129 -18 +33
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 153 175 240
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.54% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.46% 3.68% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 111 190
10th Percentile £305 £313 £398
25th Percentile £350 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -18.29% +4.90%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £650
90th Percentile £631 £625 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £472 £500
% change year-on-year -9.96% -5.60% -
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 6,229 4,751 5,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 14.54% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,012 3,193 3,531
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £690 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 101 247
10th Percentile £26.25 £22.05 £29.95
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.09% -2.31% +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 13 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cypress.io in the UK

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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 13 July 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 -117 122 £450 - 73
London -64 78 £475 +11.76% 43
UK excluding London -108 57 £425 -9.96% 50
Work from Home -80 55 £460 +8.24% 30
North of England -68 24 £425 +0.59% 13
Scotland -22 14 £450 -5.26% 2
North West -47 13 £450 -3.07% 8
Midlands -45 12 £313 -30.56% 3
West Midlands -59 12 £313 -30.56% 2
Yorkshire -52 8 £350 -2.10% 2
East of England -21 3 £300 -47.83%
North East - 3 £380 - 3
South West -45 2 £513 -14.58% 17
South East -79 2 £450 -21.74% 11

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 20 (13.07%) Confluence
2 2 (1.31%) CMS
2 2 (1.31%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.65%) Appian
3 1 (0.65%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (3.92%) Shopify
2 5 (3.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.65%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 51 (33.33%) AWS
2 47 (30.72%) Azure
3 45 (29.41%) GitHub
4 32 (20.92%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (16.99%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (15.69%) Serverless
7 19 (12.42%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (10.46%) Amazon S3
9 13 (8.50%) Figma
9 13 (8.50%) GCP
10 9 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (5.23%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (3.92%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (3.27%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (3.27%) Power Automate
14 5 (3.27%) Slack
15 4 (2.61%) npm
16 3 (1.96%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.92%) Amazon Athena
1 6 (3.92%) DynamoDB
2 5 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.27%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.61%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.31%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.65%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 78 (50.98%) Selenium
2 36 (23.53%) Postman
3 34 (22.22%) Git
4 30 (19.61%) JIRA
5 26 (16.99%) REST Assured
6 22 (14.38%) Jenkins
7 20 (13.07%) Cucumber
8 15 (9.80%) JMeter
9 13 (8.50%) WebDriver
10 11 (7.19%) Gatling
11 10 (6.54%) Appium
11 10 (6.54%) JUnit
12 9 (5.88%) GitLab
13 8 (5.23%) TestRail
13 8 (5.23%) webpack
14 6 (3.92%) SpecFlow
14 6 (3.92%) Storybook
14 6 (3.92%) TestNG
15 5 (3.27%) Mocha
15 5 (3.27%) Vite
General
1 42 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 37 (24.18%) Public Sector
3 29 (18.95%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.19%) Banking
5 10 (6.54%) Finance
6 7 (4.58%) Military
7 6 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.96%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.96%) Retail
9 2 (1.31%) Advertising
9 2 (1.31%) Back Office
9 2 (1.31%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.31%) Legal
9 2 (1.31%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Games
10 1 (0.65%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.65%) Police
10 1 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (24.18%) Developer
2 26 (16.99%) Senior
3 22 (14.38%) Test Engineer
4 21 (13.73%) QA Engineer
5 19 (12.42%) Tester
6 15 (9.80%) Analyst
6 15 (9.80%) Lead
7 13 (8.50%) Test Analyst
8 12 (7.84%) React Developer
9 10 (6.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 10 (6.54%) Test Automation Engineer
10 9 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (5.88%) Automation Tester
11 8 (5.23%) QA Automation Engineer
11 8 (5.23%) QA Tester
12 7 (4.58%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (3.92%) Architect
13 6 (3.92%) Quality Engineer
14 5 (3.27%) Software Engineer
14 5 (3.27%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (54.90%) Playwright
2 50 (32.68%) React
3 39 (25.49%) REST
4 33 (21.57%) Jest
5 22 (14.38%) CSS
6 20 (13.07%) Node.js
7 18 (11.76%) HTML
8 16 (10.46%) Redux
9 15 (9.80%) GraphQL
9 15 (9.80%) Next.js
10 14 (9.15%) RESTful
11 13 (8.50%) HTML5
12 12 (7.84%) CSS3
13 10 (6.54%) pytest
14 9 (5.88%) Kafka
15 7 (4.58%) AWS CDK
16 6 (3.92%) Gherkin
16 6 (3.92%) Vue
17 5 (3.27%) OAuth2
17 5 (3.27%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.42%) Cloud Native
1 19 (12.42%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.92%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (3.92%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.61%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.96%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.31%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.31%) Genomics
7 2 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.31%) Life Science
7 2 (1.31%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.31%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.65%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.61%) Mac OS
2 3 (1.96%) Android
3 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (73.86%) Test Automation
2 86 (56.21%) Agile
3 82 (53.59%) CI/CD
4 55 (35.95%) DevOps
5 46 (30.07%) API Testing
6 34 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (22.22%) Test Strategy
7 33 (21.57%) End-to-End Testing
8 29 (18.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (17.65%) Microservices
10 26 (16.99%) User Experience
11 24 (15.69%) AI
11 24 (15.69%) BDD
11 24 (15.69%) Scrum
11 24 (15.69%) TDD
12 23 (15.03%) Performance Testing
13 21 (13.73%) Software Testing
14 17 (11.11%) Regression Testing
14 17 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
14 17 (11.11%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 75 (49.02%) JavaScript
2 73 (47.71%) TypeScript
3 36 (23.53%) Python
4 35 (22.88%) Java
5 19 (12.42%) C#
5 19 (12.42%) SQL
6 6 (3.92%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.61%) Scala
8 1 (0.65%) Bash
8 1 (0.65%) Bicep
8 1 (0.65%) C++
8 1 (0.65%) Ruby
8 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.65%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.65%) VBA
8 1 (0.65%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 46 (30.07%) Security Cleared
2 37 (24.18%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.15%) ISTQB
4 13 (8.50%) DV Cleared
5 11 (7.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (5.23%) Degree
7 6 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.65%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (43.14%) QA
2 54 (35.29%) Accessibility
3 27 (17.65%) WCAG
4 5 (3.27%) GDPR
5 2 (1.31%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.65%) GRC
6 1 (0.65%) GxP
6 1 (0.65%) SEPA
System Software
1 17 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (9.80%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.15%) Terraform
3 7 (4.58%) Grafana
4 4 (2.61%) HP ALM
4 4 (2.61%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.31%) Kibana
5 2 (1.31%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 10 (6.54%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.92%) Splunk
3 4 (2.61%) HP
4 3 (1.96%) Google
4 3 (1.96%) Micro Focus
4 3 (1.96%) OpenText
4 3 (1.96%) Oracle
5 2 (1.31%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.31%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.65%) Aprimo
6 1 (0.65%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.65%) IBM
6 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.65%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.65%) Xamarin