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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 381 384
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +49
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 185 170 254
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.46% 0.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.40% 3.56% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 124 185
10th Percentile £360 £340 £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 £588 £600 £634
90th Percentile £675 £718 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £475
% change year-on-year +4.71% +0.53% +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 5,438 4,771 6,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.31% 13.02% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,750 2,985 4,256
10th Percentile £330 £348 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -2.09%
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% -2.69% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 132 240
10th Percentile £29.00 £24.89 £45.88
25th Percentile £50.00 £46.25 £50.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.40 £86.78
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 15 November 2025.

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 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 15 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 -17 149 £488 -7.14% 122
UK excluding London -1 89 £500 +4.71% 89
London -11 78 £475 -16.48% 55
Work from Home +28 76 £475 -8.21% 78
North of England -22 29 £423 +5.63% 35
South West +9 21 £529 +0.67% 10
Scotland +1 17 £510 +11.72% 7
North West -8 17 £420 +5.00% 27
Midlands -21 10 £575 +22.67% 3
Yorkshire -25 10 £475 -2.56% 7
West Midlands - 8 £575 - 1
South East -1 6 £650 +100.00% 27
Wales -1 4 £520 -2.16% 2
East of England -18 3 £425 - 1
North East -10 2 £450 - 1
East Midlands -12 2 £573 +22.24% 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 (4.86%) Confluence
2 4 (2.16%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.08%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.54%) Apache
4 1 (0.54%) Drupal
4 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.54%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.54%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 75 (40.54%) AWS
2 49 (26.49%) Azure
3 48 (25.95%) GitHub
4 28 (15.14%) Serverless
5 27 (14.59%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (11.35%) GCP
7 20 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (10.81%) npm
8 18 (9.73%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (7.03%) Amazon S3
10 11 (5.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (5.95%) OpenShift
11 7 (3.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (3.24%) Amazon Cognito
12 6 (3.24%) Figma
13 5 (2.70%) Azure AKS
13 5 (2.70%) Datadog
13 5 (2.70%) Pulumi
14 4 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (2.16%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.08%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (1.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.89%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.49%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (3.78%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (3.78%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.16%) Redis
6 3 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.62%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.08%) Big Data
7 2 (1.08%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.08%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.08%) MySQL
7 2 (1.08%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.54%) Looker
8 1 (0.54%) Power BI
8 1 (0.54%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 59 (31.89%) Selenium
2 42 (22.70%) Git
3 39 (21.08%) Postman
4 36 (19.46%) Jenkins
5 30 (16.22%) GitLab
6 27 (14.59%) JUnit
7 25 (13.51%) REST Assured
8 24 (12.97%) Cucumber
8 24 (12.97%) JIRA
9 15 (8.11%) SonarQube
10 14 (7.57%) JMeter
11 10 (5.41%) Maven
12 8 (4.32%) webpack
13 7 (3.78%) gulp
13 7 (3.78%) TestNG
14 6 (3.24%) Appium
14 6 (3.24%) Gatling
14 6 (3.24%) Grunt
14 6 (3.24%) Sonatype Nexus
15 4 (2.16%) TestRail
General
1 40 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.38%) Public Sector
3 30 (16.22%) Finance
4 20 (10.81%) Banking
5 11 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.70%) Military
7 4 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.16%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.62%) Publishing
9 2 (1.08%) Digital Health
9 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Front Office
10 1 (0.54%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (27.03%) Developer
2 37 (20.00%) Senior
3 30 (16.22%) Tester
4 28 (15.14%) Automation Tester
5 27 (14.59%) Lead
6 21 (11.35%) Test Engineer
7 15 (8.11%) QA Engineer
7 15 (8.11%) Software Engineer
8 13 (7.03%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (5.41%) React Developer
10 9 (4.86%) QA Leader
10 9 (4.86%) Senior Test Engineer
11 7 (3.78%) UI Developer
12 6 (3.24%) Automation Engineer
12 6 (3.24%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 6 (3.24%) Java Developer
12 6 (3.24%) Technical Leader
13 5 (2.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 5 (2.70%) JavaScript Engineer
13 5 (2.70%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (43.24%) React
2 61 (32.97%) Jest
2 61 (32.97%) Playwright
3 45 (24.32%) Node.js
4 37 (20.00%) CSS
5 36 (19.46%) REST
5 36 (19.46%) RESTful
6 32 (17.30%) HTML
7 27 (14.59%) Redux
8 20 (10.81%) AngularJS
8 20 (10.81%) Sass
9 18 (9.73%) .NET
9 18 (9.73%) Next.js
10 16 (8.65%) JSON
11 14 (7.57%) Enzyme
11 14 (7.57%) HTML5
12 13 (7.03%) CSS3
13 12 (6.49%) AWS CDK
14 11 (5.95%) FastAPI
14 11 (5.95%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.03%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (3.78%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.24%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.16%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.16%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.16%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.16%) Genomics
5 4 (2.16%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.62%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.62%) Life Science
7 2 (1.08%) Blog
7 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.08%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) NHS
8 1 (0.54%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.78%) Linux
2 4 (2.16%) Android
2 4 (2.16%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (63.78%) Test Automation
2 116 (62.70%) CI/CD
3 100 (54.05%) Agile
4 69 (37.30%) DevOps
5 44 (23.78%) Software Engineering
6 40 (21.62%) Test Strategy
7 35 (18.92%) Microservices
8 34 (18.38%) End-to-End Testing
9 33 (17.84%) Full-Stack Development
10 32 (17.30%) API Testing
10 32 (17.30%) Front End Development
11 30 (16.22%) Containerisation
12 28 (15.14%) TDD
13 26 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (14.05%) Software Testing
14 25 (13.51%) User Experience
15 24 (12.97%) Clean Code
16 23 (12.43%) BDD
16 23 (12.43%) Test Scripting
17 22 (11.89%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 101 (54.59%) JavaScript
2 82 (44.32%) TypeScript
3 55 (29.73%) Java
4 29 (15.68%) Python
5 25 (13.51%) SQL
6 12 (6.49%) C#
7 5 (2.70%) JSX
8 3 (1.62%) Bash
9 2 (1.08%) Elm
9 2 (1.08%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.08%) Perl
9 2 (1.08%) PHP
10 1 (0.54%) Ada
10 1 (0.54%) Go
10 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 60 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 48 (25.95%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.41%) Degree
4 9 (4.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.78%) ISTQB
6 6 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.24%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.08%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.54%) ISEB
9 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (34.05%) QA
2 62 (33.51%) Accessibility
3 28 (15.14%) WCAG
4 1 (0.54%) GDPR
4 1 (0.54%) MiFID
4 1 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 48 (25.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (14.05%) Kubernetes
1 26 (14.05%) Terraform
2 12 (6.49%) Ansible
2 12 (6.49%) Grafana
3 6 (3.24%) Puppet
4 4 (2.16%) Podman
4 4 (2.16%) Progress Chef
4 4 (2.16%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.54%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 12 (6.49%) Splunk
2 10 (5.41%) Google
2 10 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.24%) Perforce
4 3 (1.62%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.62%) Xamarin
5 2 (1.08%) Adobe
5 2 (1.08%) Cisco
5 2 (1.08%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.08%) OneLogin
5 2 (1.08%) Oracle
6 1 (0.54%) Dundas
6 1 (0.54%) IBM
6 1 (0.54%) UiPath
6 1 (0.54%) Virgin Media