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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 372 352
Rank change year-on-year -129 -20 +18
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 166 185 199
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.56% 0.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.64% 3.66% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 120 160
10th Percentile £306 £362 £357
25th Percentile £358 £400 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £475 £544
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% -12.64% +1.64%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £650
90th Percentile £623 £626 £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 6,298 5,058 5,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.58% 15.32% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,035 3,419 3,161
10th Percentile £351 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 110 174
10th Percentile £22.68 £21.93 £31.80
25th Percentile £51.19 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.25 £73.93
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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -130 127 £450 -5.26% 172
London -70 84 £491 +9.17% 93
UK excluding London -140 55 £400 -15.79% 96
Work from Home -100 50 £433 -3.89% 90
North of England -76 21 £400 -5.88% 32
Midlands -35 16 £313 -45.65% 6
West Midlands -38 16 £313 -45.65% 4
Scotland -28 12 £450 -5.26% 12
Yorkshire -35 11 £375 -16.67% 7
North West -51 7 £400 -5.88% 18
North East -36 3 £380 -30.91% 7
Wales -15 2 £419 -19.47% 4
South West -52 2 £513 -7.16% 12
East of England -25 1 £575 +35.29% 2
South East -63 1 £400 -23.81% 20

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 (9.04%) 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 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 62 (37.35%) Azure
2 57 (34.34%) AWS
3 49 (29.52%) GitHub
4 38 (22.89%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (18.67%) Serverless
6 29 (17.47%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (13.25%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (10.24%) Amazon S3
9 16 (9.64%) GCP
10 15 (9.04%) Figma
11 12 (7.23%) Dynamics 365
12 11 (6.63%) Power Automate
13 10 (6.02%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (4.82%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (4.82%) Azure Functions
14 8 (4.82%) GitHub Copilot
15 7 (4.22%) Amazon ECS
16 6 (3.61%) npm
17 5 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 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 7 (4.22%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.41%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.41%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
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 79 (47.59%) Selenium
2 39 (23.49%) Postman
3 38 (22.89%) Git
4 31 (18.67%) Jenkins
5 28 (16.87%) JIRA
6 26 (15.66%) Cucumber
7 19 (11.45%) GitLab
7 19 (11.45%) REST Assured
8 16 (9.64%) JMeter
9 15 (9.04%) WebDriver
10 11 (6.63%) Gatling
11 10 (6.02%) JUnit
12 9 (5.42%) Storybook
13 8 (4.82%) webpack
14 6 (3.61%) Appium
14 6 (3.61%) TestNG
15 5 (3.01%) SpecFlow
15 5 (3.01%) TestRail
16 4 (2.41%) Bitbucket
16 4 (2.41%) Vite
General
1 51 (30.72%) Social Skills
2 43 (25.90%) Public Sector
3 36 (21.69%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (15.66%) Finance
5 15 (9.04%) Banking
6 13 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.82%) 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%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 36 (21.69%) Developer
2 34 (20.48%) Senior
3 25 (15.06%) Test Engineer
3 25 (15.06%) Tester
4 22 (13.25%) Lead
5 21 (12.65%) Analyst
6 19 (11.45%) Test Analyst
7 16 (9.64%) Automation Tester
8 14 (8.43%) QA Engineer
9 13 (7.83%) Test Automation Engineer
10 10 (6.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 10 (6.02%) Test Leader
11 9 (5.42%) Architect
12 8 (4.82%) Lead Test Analyst
12 8 (4.82%) Senior Analyst
12 8 (4.82%) Senior Test Analyst
12 8 (4.82%) Senior Test Engineer
13 7 (4.22%) QA Tester
13 7 (4.22%) Senior Automation Tester
13 7 (4.22%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (57.23%) Playwright
2 47 (28.31%) React
3 39 (23.49%) REST
4 38 (22.89%) Jest
5 31 (18.67%) CSS
6 28 (16.87%) HTML
7 27 (16.27%) RESTful
8 24 (14.46%) Node.js
9 19 (11.45%) HTML5
10 18 (10.84%) CSS3
11 15 (9.04%) GraphQL
11 15 (9.04%) Terraform
12 14 (8.43%) Gherkin
12 14 (8.43%) Kafka
13 12 (7.23%) AngularJS
13 12 (7.23%) Redux
14 11 (6.63%) Next.js
14 11 (6.63%) OAuth
15 10 (6.02%) JWT
16 9 (5.42%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.86%) Product Ownership
2 21 (12.65%) Cloud Native
3 20 (12.05%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.42%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.82%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.61%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (3.61%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.81%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.81%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.20%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.20%) Digital Wallet
9 2 (1.20%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.20%) Genomics
9 2 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.20%) Life Science
9 2 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.41%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.20%) AIX
3 1 (0.60%) Android
3 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (74.10%) Test Automation
2 97 (58.43%) CI/CD
3 90 (54.22%) Agile
4 68 (40.96%) DevOps
5 50 (30.12%) API Testing
6 45 (27.11%) Test Strategy
7 42 (25.30%) Microservices
8 41 (24.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (24.70%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (24.10%) End-to-End Testing
10 39 (23.49%) AI
11 34 (20.48%) Scrum
12 30 (18.07%) BDD
13 26 (15.66%) Performance Testing
13 26 (15.66%) User Experience
14 24 (14.46%) SDLC
15 22 (13.25%) Integration Testing
15 22 (13.25%) Software Testing
15 22 (13.25%) Stakeholder Management
15 22 (13.25%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 95 (57.23%) JavaScript
2 89 (53.61%) TypeScript
3 32 (19.28%) Java
3 32 (19.28%) Python
4 24 (14.46%) SQL
5 22 (13.25%) C#
6 6 (3.61%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.81%) Scala
8 2 (1.20%) Ruby
9 1 (0.60%) Bash
9 1 (0.60%) Bicep
9 1 (0.60%) C++
9 1 (0.60%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 55 (33.13%) Security Cleared
2 46 (27.71%) SC Cleared
3 20 (12.05%) ISTQB
4 16 (9.64%) DV Cleared
5 13 (7.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (4.22%) Degree
8 5 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.41%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (1.20%) ISEB
12 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (45.78%) QA
2 53 (31.93%) Accessibility
3 30 (18.07%) 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 25 (15.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (13.25%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.23%) Grafana
3 8 (4.82%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.81%) Ansible
5 2 (1.20%) HP ALM
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 19 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.01%) Oracle
3 4 (2.41%) Google
3 4 (2.41%) Splunk
4 2 (1.20%) HP
4 2 (1.20%) New Relic
4 2 (1.20%) OneLogin
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%) SAP
5 1 (0.60%) TOWER Software