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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 385 356
Rank change year-on-year -131 -29 +10
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 166 181 215
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.55% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.65% 3.65% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 118 171
10th Percentile £306 £359 £357
25th Percentile £352 £400 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £650
90th Percentile £625 £629 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £485 £497
% change year-on-year -17.44% -2.52% +4.63%
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 4,965 5,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.53% 15.20% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,002 3,337 3,251
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £414 £406 £420
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 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 111 176
10th Percentile £24.11 £29.00 £28.62
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.00 £73.88
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 21 September 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 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 21 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 -118 127 £450 -4.05% 161
London -71 85 £491 +15.59% 92
UK excluding London -136 54 £400 -17.44% 86
Work from Home -94 51 £414 -7.02% 86
North of England -66 21 £400 -5.88% 31
West Midlands -38 16 £313 -45.65% 4
Midlands -40 16 £313 -45.65% 6
Scotland -40 12 £450 -5.26% 9
Yorkshire -35 11 £375 -10.71% 6
North West -55 7 £400 -5.88% 24
North East - 3 £380 - 1
South West -53 2 £513 -7.16% 15
Wales -15 1 £413 -20.67% 1
East of England -29 1 £575 +35.29% 5
South East -69 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 16 (9.64%) Confluence
2 4 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.20%) CMS
4 1 (0.60%) Appian
4 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (6.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.60%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 63 (37.95%) Azure
2 58 (34.94%) AWS
3 46 (27.71%) GitHub
4 37 (22.29%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (18.67%) Serverless
6 28 (16.87%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (13.25%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (10.84%) Amazon S3
8 18 (10.84%) GCP
9 15 (9.04%) Figma
10 12 (7.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (7.23%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (6.63%) Power Automate
12 8 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (4.82%) Azure Functions
12 8 (4.82%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (4.22%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (3.01%) npm
15 5 (3.01%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.60%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.23%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.01%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.41%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.41%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.20%) Redis
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 84 (50.60%) Selenium
2 41 (24.70%) Postman
3 39 (23.49%) Git
4 28 (16.87%) Jenkins
5 27 (16.27%) JIRA
6 24 (14.46%) Cucumber
7 19 (11.45%) REST Assured
8 17 (10.24%) GitLab
8 17 (10.24%) JMeter
9 15 (9.04%) WebDriver
10 12 (7.23%) Gatling
11 10 (6.02%) JUnit
12 9 (5.42%) Storybook
13 7 (4.22%) Appium
13 7 (4.22%) webpack
14 6 (3.61%) TestNG
15 5 (3.01%) TestRail
15 5 (3.01%) Vite
16 4 (2.41%) Bitbucket
16 4 (2.41%) Newman
General
1 52 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 42 (25.30%) Public Sector
3 35 (21.08%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (15.06%) Finance
5 15 (9.04%) Banking
6 12 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.22%) Military
8 5 (3.01%) Retail
9 4 (2.41%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.20%) Back Office
11 2 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.20%) Legal
11 2 (1.20%) Local Government
11 2 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.20%) Police
11 2 (1.20%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.60%) Front Office
12 1 (0.60%) Games
12 1 (0.60%) Law
Job Titles
1 34 (20.48%) Developer
2 31 (18.67%) Senior
3 25 (15.06%) Tester
4 23 (13.86%) Lead
5 22 (13.25%) Test Engineer
6 21 (12.65%) Analyst
7 19 (11.45%) Test Analyst
8 15 (9.04%) Automation Tester
8 15 (9.04%) QA Engineer
9 12 (7.23%) Test Automation Engineer
10 10 (6.02%) Test Leader
11 9 (5.42%) Architect
11 9 (5.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 8 (4.82%) Lead Test Analyst
12 8 (4.82%) React Developer
12 8 (4.82%) Senior Analyst
12 8 (4.82%) Senior Test Analyst
13 7 (4.22%) Automation Engineer
13 7 (4.22%) Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (4.22%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (56.63%) Playwright
2 47 (28.31%) React
3 40 (24.10%) REST
4 38 (22.89%) Jest
5 32 (19.28%) CSS
6 29 (17.47%) HTML
7 26 (15.66%) RESTful
8 24 (14.46%) Node.js
9 20 (12.05%) HTML5
10 19 (11.45%) CSS3
11 16 (9.64%) GraphQL
11 16 (9.64%) Terraform
12 14 (8.43%) Gherkin
13 13 (7.83%) Kafka
14 11 (6.63%) AngularJS
14 11 (6.63%) Next.js
14 11 (6.63%) Redux
15 10 (6.02%) JWT
15 10 (6.02%) OAuth
16 8 (4.82%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.25%) Product Ownership
2 21 (12.65%) Cloud Native
3 18 (10.84%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.82%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.61%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (3.61%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.81%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.81%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.20%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.20%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.20%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.20%) Genomics
8 2 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.20%) Life Science
8 2 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.41%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.60%) AIX
2 1 (0.60%) Android
2 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (74.70%) Test Automation
2 98 (59.04%) CI/CD
3 90 (54.22%) Agile
4 70 (42.17%) DevOps
5 49 (29.52%) API Testing
6 46 (27.71%) Test Strategy
7 42 (25.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (24.70%) Microservices
8 41 (24.70%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (24.10%) AI
9 40 (24.10%) End-to-End Testing
10 33 (19.88%) Scrum
11 28 (16.87%) BDD
12 26 (15.66%) Performance Testing
12 26 (15.66%) User Experience
13 24 (14.46%) SDLC
14 23 (13.86%) Stakeholder Management
15 22 (13.25%) Integration Testing
16 21 (12.65%) Software Testing
16 21 (12.65%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 94 (56.63%) JavaScript
2 86 (51.81%) TypeScript
3 33 (19.88%) Python
4 32 (19.28%) Java
5 25 (15.06%) SQL
6 21 (12.65%) C#
7 6 (3.61%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.81%) Scala
9 2 (1.20%) Bash
10 1 (0.60%) Bicep
10 1 (0.60%) C++
10 1 (0.60%) Groovy
10 1 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 53 (31.93%) Security Cleared
2 44 (26.51%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.45%) ISTQB
4 15 (9.04%) DV Cleared
5 13 (7.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (4.82%) Degree
6 8 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.81%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.60%) ISEB
9 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (46.99%) QA
2 52 (31.33%) Accessibility
3 31 (18.67%) WCAG
4 11 (6.63%) GDPR
5 4 (2.41%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.20%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.60%) GRC
7 1 (0.60%) SEPA
System Software
1 26 (15.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (13.25%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.63%) Grafana
3 8 (4.82%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.81%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.20%) Ansible
5 2 (1.20%) Kibana
6 1 (0.60%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.60%) Podman
6 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.60%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (10.84%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.41%) Google
2 4 (2.41%) Oracle
3 3 (1.81%) HP
3 3 (1.81%) Splunk
4 2 (1.20%) New Relic
5 1 (0.60%) Adobe
5 1 (0.60%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.60%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.60%) Guidewire
5 1 (0.60%) IBM
5 1 (0.60%) Micro Focus
5 1 (0.60%) OneLogin
5 1 (0.60%) OpenText
5 1 (0.60%) SAP
5 1 (0.60%) TOWER Software