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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 402 380
Rank change year-on-year -2 -22 +61
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 177 165 251
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.45% 0.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.22% 3.48% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 119 183
10th Percentile £362 £336 £413
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £680 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £516 £478 £475
% change year-on-year +8.12% +0.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £72.35
25th Percentile - £42.50 £72.88
Median hourly rate - £45.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - -41.94% +10.71%
75th Percentile - £47.50 £81.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £77.50

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 5,498 4,743 6,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.33% 13.00% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,789 2,951 4,197
10th Percentile £331 £341 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £510
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.41% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 130 236
10th Percentile £29.00 £24.54 £45.88
25th Percentile £51.06 £46.25 £50.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £75.00 £89.38
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 November 2025.

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 16 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 November 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
England -3 142 £500 - 127
UK excluding London -7 85 £516 +8.12% 90
London -20 75 £494 -10.23% 59
Work from Home +18 69 £500 +1.21% 62
North of England -29 25 £425 +6.25% 32
South West +9 21 £529 +0.67% 12
Scotland -1 17 £510 +11.72% 6
North West -5 16 £423 +5.63% 20
Midlands -19 11 £575 +22.67% 3
West Midlands - 8 £575 - 2
South East -2 7 £688 +111.54% 31
Yorkshire -36 7 £500 +2.56% 10
Wales -1 4 £520 -2.16%
East Midlands -12 3 £725 +54.67% 1
North East -8 2 £450 - 2
East of England -10 2 £650 - 2

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 9 (5.08%) Confluence
2 4 (2.26%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.13%) Apache
3 2 (1.13%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.13%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.56%) Drupal
4 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 74 (41.81%) AWS
2 47 (26.55%) Azure
3 46 (25.99%) GitHub
4 27 (15.25%) Serverless
5 26 (14.69%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (11.86%) GCP
7 20 (11.30%) npm
8 19 (10.73%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (9.60%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (7.34%) Amazon S3
11 11 (6.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (6.21%) OpenShift
12 7 (3.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (3.39%) Amazon Cognito
13 6 (3.39%) Figma
14 5 (2.82%) Azure AKS
14 5 (2.82%) Datadog
14 5 (2.82%) Pulumi
15 4 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (2.26%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.13%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (1.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.86%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.65%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (4.52%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.95%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.26%) Redis
6 3 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.13%) Big Data
7 2 (1.13%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.13%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.13%) MySQL
7 2 (1.13%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.56%) Looker
8 1 (0.56%) Power BI
8 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 53 (29.94%) Selenium
2 40 (22.60%) Git
3 33 (18.64%) Postman
4 32 (18.08%) Jenkins
5 27 (15.25%) GitLab
6 24 (13.56%) JIRA
6 24 (13.56%) JUnit
7 21 (11.86%) Cucumber
7 21 (11.86%) REST Assured
8 15 (8.47%) SonarQube
9 9 (5.08%) JMeter
10 8 (4.52%) webpack
11 7 (3.95%) gulp
12 6 (3.39%) Grunt
12 6 (3.39%) Maven
12 6 (3.39%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (2.82%) Appium
13 5 (2.82%) Gatling
14 4 (2.26%) Bitbucket
14 4 (2.26%) Jasmine
General
1 39 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 34 (19.21%) Public Sector
3 30 (16.95%) Finance
4 20 (11.30%) Banking
5 11 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.39%) Military
7 4 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.26%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.69%) Publishing
9 2 (1.13%) Digital Health
9 2 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Front Office
10 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (26.55%) Developer
2 37 (20.90%) Senior
3 29 (16.38%) Tester
4 27 (15.25%) Automation Tester
4 27 (15.25%) Lead
5 18 (10.17%) Test Engineer
6 15 (8.47%) QA Engineer
6 15 (8.47%) Software Engineer
7 10 (5.65%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (5.08%) QA Leader
8 9 (5.08%) Senior Test Engineer
9 8 (4.52%) React Developer
10 7 (3.95%) UI Developer
11 6 (3.39%) Automation Engineer
11 6 (3.39%) Java Developer
11 6 (3.39%) Technical Leader
12 5 (2.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 5 (2.82%) JavaScript Engineer
12 5 (2.82%) QA Automation Engineer
12 5 (2.82%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (43.50%) React
2 58 (32.77%) Jest
2 58 (32.77%) Playwright
3 42 (23.73%) Node.js
4 36 (20.34%) REST
5 35 (19.77%) CSS
6 34 (19.21%) RESTful
7 29 (16.38%) HTML
8 23 (12.99%) Redux
9 20 (11.30%) AngularJS
10 19 (10.73%) Sass
11 17 (9.60%) .NET
11 17 (9.60%) Next.js
12 16 (9.04%) JSON
13 14 (7.91%) Enzyme
13 14 (7.91%) HTML5
14 13 (7.34%) CSS3
15 12 (6.78%) AWS CDK
16 11 (6.21%) .NET Core
16 11 (6.21%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.34%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.65%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (3.95%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.26%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.26%) Genomics
5 4 (2.26%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.69%) Life Science
7 2 (1.13%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.13%) Blog
7 2 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.13%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.13%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) NHS
8 1 (0.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.95%) Linux
2 4 (2.26%) Android
2 4 (2.26%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (64.41%) Test Automation
2 108 (61.02%) CI/CD
3 95 (53.67%) Agile
4 67 (37.85%) DevOps
5 43 (24.29%) Software Engineering
6 40 (22.60%) Test Strategy
7 36 (20.34%) Microservices
8 34 (19.21%) End-to-End Testing
9 31 (17.51%) Front End Development
10 30 (16.95%) Containerisation
10 30 (16.95%) Full-Stack Development
11 27 (15.25%) API Testing
11 27 (15.25%) Software Testing
12 26 (14.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (13.56%) BDD
13 24 (13.56%) Clean Code
13 24 (13.56%) TDD
13 24 (13.56%) User Experience
14 22 (12.43%) Code Quality
14 22 (12.43%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 92 (51.98%) JavaScript
2 78 (44.07%) TypeScript
3 53 (29.94%) Java
4 27 (15.25%) Python
5 25 (14.12%) SQL
6 10 (5.65%) C#
7 5 (2.82%) JSX
8 3 (1.69%) Bash
9 2 (1.13%) Elm
9 2 (1.13%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.13%) Perl
9 2 (1.13%) PHP
10 1 (0.56%) Ada
10 1 (0.56%) Go
10 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 59 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 46 (25.99%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.65%) Degree
4 9 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.95%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.95%) ISTQB
6 6 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.56%) ISEB
9 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (35.59%) QA
2 60 (33.90%) Accessibility
3 24 (13.56%) WCAG
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) MiFID
4 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 43 (24.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (14.69%) Kubernetes
2 25 (14.12%) Terraform
3 13 (7.34%) Grafana
4 12 (6.78%) Ansible
5 6 (3.39%) Puppet
6 4 (2.26%) Podman
6 4 (2.26%) Progress Chef
6 4 (2.26%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 13 (7.34%) Splunk
2 10 (5.65%) Google
2 10 (5.65%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.39%) Perforce
4 3 (1.69%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.69%) Xamarin
5 2 (1.13%) Adobe
5 2 (1.13%) Cisco
5 2 (1.13%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.13%) OneLogin
5 2 (1.13%) Oracle
6 1 (0.56%) Dundas
6 1 (0.56%) IBM
6 1 (0.56%) UiPath
6 1 (0.56%) Virgin Media