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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 377 355
Rank change year-on-year -126 -22 +14
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 169 186 209
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.57% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.70% 3.70% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 119 167
10th Percentile £306 £360 £365
25th Percentile £354 £400 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £469 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% -14.73% +2.80%
75th Percentile £550 £551 £650
90th Percentile £625 £628 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £475 £494
% change year-on-year -15.79% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 6,264 5,030 5,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.52% 15.33% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,004 3,394 3,204
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 111 172
10th Percentile £22.68 £22.05 £31.43
25th Percentile £50.31 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £73.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 28 September 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 15 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 28 September 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 -124 130 £450 -3.07% 117
London -68 87 £495 +10.00% 56
UK excluding London -127 55 £400 -15.79% 77
Work from Home -87 51 £428 -1.16% 75
North of England -69 21 £400 -5.88% 23
West Midlands -36 16 £313 -45.65% 2
Midlands -37 16 £313 -45.65% 6
Scotland -40 12 £450 -5.26% 8
Yorkshire -36 11 £375 -10.71% 5
North West -62 7 £400 -5.88% 14
North East -36 3 £380 -30.91% 4
Wales -16 2 £419 -19.47% 3
South West -52 2 £513 -7.16% 12
East of England -23 1 £575 +35.29% 2
South East -65 1 £400 -23.81% 10

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 15 (8.88%) Confluence
2 4 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.18%) CMS
4 1 (0.59%) Appian
4 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (6.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.18%) Shopify
3 1 (0.59%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 64 (37.87%) Azure
2 60 (35.50%) AWS
3 49 (28.99%) GitHub
4 38 (22.49%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (18.93%) Serverless
6 30 (17.75%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (13.61%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (10.65%) Amazon S3
8 18 (10.65%) GCP
9 15 (8.88%) Figma
10 12 (7.10%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (6.51%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (6.51%) Power Automate
12 8 (4.73%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (4.73%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (4.73%) Azure Functions
12 8 (4.73%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (2.96%) npm
14 5 (2.96%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.10%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.14%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.37%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.37%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.18%) Redis
7 1 (0.59%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 84 (49.70%) Selenium
2 41 (24.26%) Postman
3 38 (22.49%) Git
4 31 (18.34%) Jenkins
5 28 (16.57%) JIRA
6 26 (15.38%) Cucumber
7 20 (11.83%) REST Assured
8 19 (11.24%) GitLab
9 17 (10.06%) JMeter
10 15 (8.88%) WebDriver
11 11 (6.51%) Gatling
12 10 (5.92%) JUnit
13 9 (5.33%) Storybook
14 7 (4.14%) Appium
14 7 (4.14%) webpack
15 6 (3.55%) TestNG
16 5 (2.96%) SpecFlow
16 5 (2.96%) TestRail
17 4 (2.37%) Bitbucket
17 4 (2.37%) Vite
General
1 53 (31.36%) Social Skills
2 44 (26.04%) Public Sector
3 36 (21.30%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (15.38%) Finance
5 16 (9.47%) Banking
6 13 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.73%) Military
8 5 (2.96%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.96%) Retail
9 3 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Back Office
10 2 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.18%) Front Office
10 2 (1.18%) Legal
10 2 (1.18%) Local Government
10 2 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.18%) Police
10 2 (1.18%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.59%) Games
11 1 (0.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 35 (20.71%) Developer
2 33 (19.53%) Senior
3 26 (15.38%) Tester
4 24 (14.20%) Test Engineer
5 23 (13.61%) Lead
6 21 (12.43%) Analyst
7 19 (11.24%) Test Analyst
8 16 (9.47%) Automation Tester
9 15 (8.88%) QA Engineer
10 13 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
11 10 (5.92%) Test Leader
12 9 (5.33%) Architect
12 9 (5.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 8 (4.73%) Lead Test Analyst
13 8 (4.73%) Senior Analyst
13 8 (4.73%) Senior Test Analyst
14 7 (4.14%) QA Tester
14 7 (4.14%) Senior Automation Tester
14 7 (4.14%) Senior Test Engineer
14 7 (4.14%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (57.40%) Playwright
2 47 (27.81%) React
3 40 (23.67%) REST
4 38 (22.49%) Jest
5 31 (18.34%) CSS
6 28 (16.57%) HTML
7 27 (15.98%) RESTful
8 25 (14.79%) Node.js
9 19 (11.24%) HTML5
10 18 (10.65%) CSS3
11 16 (9.47%) Terraform
12 15 (8.88%) GraphQL
13 14 (8.28%) Gherkin
13 14 (8.28%) Kafka
14 12 (7.10%) AngularJS
15 11 (6.51%) Next.js
15 11 (6.51%) OAuth
15 11 (6.51%) Redux
16 10 (5.92%) JWT
17 8 (4.73%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.61%) Cloud Native
1 23 (13.61%) Product Ownership
2 20 (11.83%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.33%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.73%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.55%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (3.55%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.78%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.78%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.18%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.18%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.18%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (1.18%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.18%) Genomics
8 2 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.18%) Life Science
8 2 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.37%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.18%) AIX
3 1 (0.59%) Android
3 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (74.56%) Test Automation
2 100 (59.17%) CI/CD
3 91 (53.85%) Agile
4 70 (41.42%) DevOps
5 50 (29.59%) API Testing
6 46 (27.22%) Test Strategy
7 43 (25.44%) Microservices
8 42 (24.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (24.85%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (24.26%) End-to-End Testing
10 40 (23.67%) AI
11 34 (20.12%) Scrum
12 30 (17.75%) BDD
13 26 (15.38%) Performance Testing
13 26 (15.38%) User Experience
14 24 (14.20%) SDLC
15 23 (13.61%) Stakeholder Management
16 22 (13.02%) Integration Testing
16 22 (13.02%) Software Testing
16 22 (13.02%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 94 (55.62%) JavaScript
2 88 (52.07%) TypeScript
3 34 (20.12%) Java
4 33 (19.53%) Python
5 25 (14.79%) SQL
6 22 (13.02%) C#
7 6 (3.55%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.78%) Scala
9 2 (1.18%) Ruby
10 1 (0.59%) Bash
10 1 (0.59%) Bicep
10 1 (0.59%) C++
10 1 (0.59%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 54 (31.95%) Security Cleared
2 45 (26.63%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.83%) ISTQB
4 16 (9.47%) DV Cleared
5 14 (8.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (4.73%) Degree
6 8 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.37%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (1.18%) ISEB
11 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (46.75%) QA
2 53 (31.36%) Accessibility
3 31 (18.34%) WCAG
4 11 (6.51%) GDPR
5 4 (2.37%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.18%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.59%) GRC
7 1 (0.59%) SEPA
System Software
1 25 (14.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (13.02%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.10%) Grafana
3 8 (4.73%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.78%) Ansible
4 3 (1.78%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.18%) Kibana
6 1 (0.59%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.59%) Podman
6 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (11.24%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.96%) Oracle
3 4 (2.37%) Google
3 4 (2.37%) Splunk
4 3 (1.78%) HP
5 2 (1.18%) New Relic
5 2 (1.18%) OneLogin
6 1 (0.59%) Adobe
6 1 (0.59%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.59%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.59%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.59%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.59%) IBM
6 1 (0.59%) Micro Focus
6 1 (0.59%) OpenText
6 1 (0.59%) SAP
6 1 (0.59%) TOWER Software