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

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 375 380
Rank change year-on-year -18 +5 +61
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 189 173 256
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.48% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.49% 3.63% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 127 185
10th Percentile £360 £341 £413
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +4.27%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £634
90th Percentile £675 £735 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £475
% change year-on-year +4.71% +0.53% +1.06%
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 5,415 4,765 6,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.39% 13.15% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,734 2,982 4,236
10th Percentile £330 £348 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.91%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £501
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.60% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 133 239
10th Percentile £21.80 £24.93 £45.88
25th Percentile £50.00 £46.25 £50.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £78.00 £74.35 £89.00
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 12 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 12 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 -11 152 £475 -11.63% 126
UK excluding London +1 92 £500 +4.71% 93
London -7 79 £475 -16.67% 57
Work from Home +22 77 £475 -6.86% 82
North of England -23 31 £425 +6.25% 34
South West +11 21 £529 +0.67% 7
Scotland +10 18 £520 +13.91% 10
North West -9 17 £420 +5.00% 26
Yorkshire -23 12 £450 -7.69% 7
Midlands -19 10 £575 +22.67% 4
West Midlands - 8 £575 - 4
South East +2 6 £650 +100.00% 31
Wales -5 4 £520 -2.16% 2
East of England -12 3 £425 - 1
North East -8 2 £450 - 1
East Midlands -10 2 £573 +22.24%

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 (4.76%) Confluence
2 4 (2.12%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.06%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.06%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) Drupal
4 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.53%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 75 (39.68%) AWS
2 51 (26.98%) Azure
3 49 (25.93%) GitHub
4 28 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
4 28 (14.81%) Serverless
5 22 (11.64%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (11.11%) GCP
7 20 (10.58%) npm
8 18 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (6.88%) Amazon S3
10 11 (5.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (5.82%) OpenShift
11 7 (3.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (3.17%) Amazon Cognito
12 6 (3.17%) Figma
13 5 (2.65%) Azure AKS
13 5 (2.65%) Datadog
13 5 (2.65%) Pulumi
14 4 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (2.12%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.06%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (1.06%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.64%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.82%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (3.17%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.12%) Redis
6 3 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.06%) Big Data
7 2 (1.06%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.06%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.06%) MySQL
7 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.53%) Looker
8 1 (0.53%) Power BI
8 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 63 (33.33%) Selenium
2 42 (22.22%) Git
2 42 (22.22%) Postman
3 39 (20.63%) Jenkins
4 33 (17.46%) GitLab
5 29 (15.34%) JUnit
6 28 (14.81%) REST Assured
7 26 (13.76%) Cucumber
8 25 (13.23%) JIRA
9 16 (8.47%) JMeter
10 15 (7.94%) SonarQube
11 11 (5.82%) Maven
12 10 (5.29%) TestNG
13 8 (4.23%) webpack
14 7 (3.70%) gulp
15 6 (3.17%) Appium
15 6 (3.17%) Gatling
15 6 (3.17%) Grunt
15 6 (3.17%) Sonatype Nexus
16 4 (2.12%) Snyk
General
1 42 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 29 (15.34%) Finance
4 20 (10.58%) Banking
5 11 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.65%) Military
7 4 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.12%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.59%) Publishing
9 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.53%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.53%) Front Office
10 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (26.98%) Developer
2 38 (20.11%) Senior
3 30 (15.87%) Tester
4 28 (14.81%) Automation Tester
5 26 (13.76%) Lead
6 24 (12.70%) Test Engineer
7 15 (7.94%) QA Engineer
7 15 (7.94%) Software Engineer
8 13 (6.88%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (5.29%) React Developer
9 10 (5.29%) Senior Test Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) QA Leader
11 7 (3.70%) UI Developer
12 6 (3.17%) Automation Engineer
12 6 (3.17%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 6 (3.17%) Java Developer
12 6 (3.17%) Technical Leader
12 6 (3.17%) Test Automation Engineer
13 5 (2.65%) QA Automation Engineer
13 5 (2.65%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (41.80%) React
2 64 (33.86%) Playwright
3 61 (32.28%) Jest
4 46 (24.34%) Node.js
5 37 (19.58%) CSS
6 36 (19.05%) REST
7 35 (18.52%) RESTful
8 33 (17.46%) HTML
9 27 (14.29%) Redux
10 21 (11.11%) Sass
11 20 (10.58%) AngularJS
12 17 (8.99%) .NET
12 17 (8.99%) Next.js
13 16 (8.47%) JSON
14 14 (7.41%) Enzyme
14 14 (7.41%) HTML5
15 13 (6.88%) CSS3
16 12 (6.35%) AWS CDK
17 11 (5.82%) FastAPI
17 11 (5.82%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.88%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.29%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.29%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.65%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.12%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.12%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.12%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.12%) Genomics
6 4 (2.12%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.59%) Life Science
8 2 (1.06%) Blog
8 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.06%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.53%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.70%) Linux
2 4 (2.12%) Android
2 4 (2.12%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (64.02%) Test Automation
2 119 (62.96%) CI/CD
3 103 (54.50%) Agile
4 71 (37.57%) DevOps
5 44 (23.28%) Software Engineering
6 41 (21.69%) Test Strategy
7 35 (18.52%) API Testing
7 35 (18.52%) Microservices
8 34 (17.99%) End-to-End Testing
9 33 (17.46%) Full-Stack Development
10 32 (16.93%) Front End Development
11 31 (16.40%) TDD
12 30 (15.87%) Containerisation
13 26 (13.76%) BDD
13 26 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (13.76%) Software Testing
14 25 (13.23%) Test Scripting
14 25 (13.23%) User Experience
15 24 (12.70%) Clean Code
16 23 (12.17%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 102 (53.97%) JavaScript
2 82 (43.39%) TypeScript
3 58 (30.69%) Java
4 30 (15.87%) Python
5 25 (13.23%) SQL
6 12 (6.35%) C#
7 5 (2.65%) JSX
8 3 (1.59%) Bash
9 2 (1.06%) Elm
9 2 (1.06%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.06%) Perl
9 2 (1.06%) PHP
10 1 (0.53%) Ada
10 1 (0.53%) Go
10 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 62 (32.80%) Security Cleared
2 50 (26.46%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.29%) Degree
4 9 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.70%) ISTQB
6 6 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.17%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.06%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.53%) ISEB
9 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (33.86%) QA
2 63 (33.33%) Accessibility
3 30 (15.87%) WCAG
4 1 (0.53%) GDPR
4 1 (0.53%) MiFID
4 1 (0.53%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 50 (26.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (14.29%) Terraform
2 26 (13.76%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.35%) Ansible
3 12 (6.35%) Grafana
4 6 (3.17%) Puppet
5 4 (2.12%) Podman
5 4 (2.12%) Progress Chef
5 4 (2.12%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.53%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 12 (6.35%) Splunk
2 10 (5.29%) Google
2 10 (5.29%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.17%) Perforce
4 3 (1.59%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.59%) Xamarin
5 2 (1.06%) Adobe
5 2 (1.06%) Cisco
5 2 (1.06%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.06%) OneLogin
5 2 (1.06%) Oracle
6 1 (0.53%) Dundas
6 1 (0.53%) HP
6 1 (0.53%) IBM
6 1 (0.53%) UiPath
6 1 (0.53%) Virgin Media