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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 420 411 388
Rank change year-on-year -9 -23 +51
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 178 157 238
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.43% 0.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.23% 3.30% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 111 173
10th Percentile £360 £330 £413
25th Percentile £413 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +8.42% - -
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 5,508 4,764 5,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.26% 13.01% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,793 2,947 4,175
10th Percentile £331 £341 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% -2.26%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.88% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 124 226
10th Percentile £29.63 £28.47 £45.88
25th Percentile £51.38 £47.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.12 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.83 £87.66
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 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 28 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 -4 143 £500 +1.27% 58
UK excluding London -9 84 £515 +8.42% 56
London +6 76 £500 -9.09% 25
Work from Home +30 70 £508 +5.40% 31
North of England -27 27 £425 +6.25% 11
South West +9 19 £520 +4.00% 11
Scotland +1 16 £510 +12.09% 4
North West -10 16 £423 +5.63% 6
Midlands -14 11 £575 +22.67% 2
Yorkshire -36 9 £500 +5.26% 4
West Midlands - 8 £575 - 2
South East -4 7 £688 +111.54% 27
Wales -4 4 £520 -2.16%
East Midlands -10 3 £725 +54.67%
North East -5 2 £450 - 1
East of England -16 2 £650 -

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 (5.06%) Confluence
2 4 (2.25%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.12%) Apache
3 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.12%) 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 (41.57%) AWS
2 46 (25.84%) GitHub
3 45 (25.28%) Azure
4 29 (16.29%) Serverless
5 26 (14.61%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (11.80%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (10.67%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (10.67%) npm
8 18 (10.11%) GCP
9 15 (8.43%) Amazon S3
10 11 (6.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (5.06%) OpenShift
12 7 (3.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (3.37%) Amazon Cognito
13 6 (3.37%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (3.37%) Figma
14 5 (2.81%) Azure AKS
14 5 (2.81%) Datadog
15 4 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (2.25%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.80%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.62%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (4.49%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.93%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.25%) Redis
6 3 (1.69%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.12%) Big Data
7 2 (1.12%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.12%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.12%) MySQL
7 2 (1.12%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.56%) Looker
8 1 (0.56%) Power BI
8 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 57 (32.02%) Selenium
2 39 (21.91%) Git
3 34 (19.10%) Jenkins
4 33 (18.54%) Postman
5 28 (15.73%) GitLab
6 24 (13.48%) JIRA
6 24 (13.48%) JUnit
7 23 (12.92%) Cucumber
8 20 (11.24%) REST Assured
9 15 (8.43%) SonarQube
10 9 (5.06%) JMeter
11 7 (3.93%) gulp
11 7 (3.93%) Maven
11 7 (3.93%) webpack
12 6 (3.37%) Grunt
13 5 (2.81%) TestRail
14 4 (2.25%) CircleCI
14 4 (2.25%) Gatling
14 4 (2.25%) Snyk
14 4 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (19.66%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.54%) Public Sector
3 28 (15.73%) Finance
4 18 (10.11%) Banking
5 7 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.37%) Military
7 4 (2.25%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.69%) Publishing
9 2 (1.12%) Digital Health
9 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.56%) Front Office
10 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (27.53%) Developer
2 37 (20.79%) Senior
3 29 (16.29%) Tester
4 28 (15.73%) Lead
5 27 (15.17%) Automation Tester
6 19 (10.67%) Test Engineer
7 14 (7.87%) QA Engineer
8 13 (7.30%) Software Engineer
9 10 (5.62%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (5.06%) QA Leader
10 9 (5.06%) Senior Test Engineer
11 8 (4.49%) React Developer
12 7 (3.93%) Java Developer
12 7 (3.93%) Technical Leader
12 7 (3.93%) UI Developer
13 6 (3.37%) Automation Engineer
13 6 (3.37%) QA Automation Engineer
14 5 (2.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 5 (2.81%) JavaScript Engineer
14 5 (2.81%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (42.70%) React
2 59 (33.15%) Jest
3 57 (32.02%) Playwright
4 44 (24.72%) Node.js
5 37 (20.79%) REST
6 33 (18.54%) CSS
6 33 (18.54%) RESTful
7 27 (15.17%) HTML
8 24 (13.48%) Redux
9 22 (12.36%) AngularJS
10 19 (10.67%) Sass
11 17 (9.55%) .NET
11 17 (9.55%) Next.js
12 16 (8.99%) JSON
13 14 (7.87%) Enzyme
13 14 (7.87%) HTML5
14 13 (7.30%) CSS3
15 12 (6.74%) AWS CDK
15 12 (6.74%) Spring
16 11 (6.18%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.30%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.18%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.62%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.93%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.37%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.25%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.25%) Genomics
6 4 (2.25%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.69%) Life Science
8 2 (1.12%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.12%) Blog
8 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.56%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.93%) Linux
2 4 (2.25%) Android
2 4 (2.25%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (62.92%) Test Automation
2 109 (61.24%) CI/CD
3 93 (52.25%) Agile
4 67 (37.64%) DevOps
5 42 (23.60%) Software Engineering
6 40 (22.47%) Test Strategy
7 35 (19.66%) Microservices
8 34 (19.10%) End-to-End Testing
9 32 (17.98%) Front End Development
10 30 (16.85%) Full-Stack Development
11 29 (16.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (15.73%) Containerisation
12 28 (15.73%) Software Testing
13 26 (14.61%) API Testing
13 26 (14.61%) BDD
14 25 (14.04%) Clean Code
14 25 (14.04%) User Experience
15 24 (13.48%) TDD
16 23 (12.92%) Test Scripting
17 22 (12.36%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 91 (51.12%) JavaScript
2 76 (42.70%) TypeScript
3 53 (29.78%) Java
4 26 (14.61%) Python
5 25 (14.04%) SQL
6 11 (6.18%) C#
7 5 (2.81%) JSX
8 4 (2.25%) Bash
9 2 (1.12%) Elm
9 2 (1.12%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.12%) Perl
9 2 (1.12%) PHP
10 1 (0.56%) Go
10 1 (0.56%) Groovy
10 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 58 (32.58%) Security Cleared
2 46 (25.84%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.62%) Degree
4 9 (5.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.93%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.93%) ISTQB
6 6 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.12%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.56%) ISEB
9 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (35.39%) QA
2 59 (33.15%) Accessibility
3 24 (13.48%) WCAG
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) MiFID
4 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 44 (24.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (14.04%) Kubernetes
1 25 (14.04%) Terraform
2 13 (7.30%) Grafana
3 12 (6.74%) Ansible
4 6 (3.37%) Puppet
5 4 (2.25%) Podman
5 4 (2.25%) Progress Chef
5 4 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.12%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.56%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 13 (7.30%) Splunk
2 10 (5.62%) Google
3 8 (4.49%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.37%) Perforce
5 3 (1.69%) Xamarin
6 2 (1.12%) Adobe
6 2 (1.12%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.12%) OneLogin
6 2 (1.12%) Oracle
7 1 (0.56%) Dundas
7 1 (0.56%) HP
7 1 (0.56%) IBM
7 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.56%) UiPath
7 1 (0.56%) Virgin Media