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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 381 355
Rank change year-on-year -119 -26 +27
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 166 179 214
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.55% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.67% 3.60% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 114 168
10th Percentile £306 £358 £380
25th Percentile £352 £400 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £464 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% -15.77% +4.81%
75th Percentile £550 £549 £650
90th Percentile £625 £634 £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 6,210 4,977 5,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.47% 15.23% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,976 3,351 3,272
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 111 177
10th Percentile £25.40 £30.75 £29.14
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.50 £87.50 £72.63
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

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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 14 September 2026.

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 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 14 September 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 -121 127 £460 +2.22% 121
London -74 85 £491 +15.59% 68
UK excluding London -127 54 £400 -15.79% 66
Work from Home -95 53 £428 -2.84% 129
North of England -73 22 £400 -5.88% 24
West Midlands -38 15 £313 -45.65% 5
Midlands -41 15 £313 -45.65% 7
Yorkshire -29 12 £400 -4.76% 5
Scotland -34 12 £450 -5.26% 7
North West -58 7 £400 -5.88% 17
North East - 3 £380 - 2
South West -57 2 £513 -14.58% 11
Wales -15 1 £413 -20.67%
East of England -32 1 £575 +35.29% 3
South East -60 1 £400 -23.81% 11

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 18 (10.84%) Confluence
2 4 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.60%) Appian
3 1 (0.60%) CMS
3 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 10 (6.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.81%) Shopify
3 1 (0.60%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 60 (36.14%) Azure
2 59 (35.54%) AWS
3 48 (28.92%) GitHub
4 35 (21.08%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (19.28%) Serverless
6 30 (18.07%) GitHub Actions
7 24 (14.46%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (12.05%) Amazon S3
9 18 (10.84%) GCP
10 16 (9.64%) Figma
11 12 (7.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (6.63%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (6.02%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (6.02%) Power Automate
14 9 (5.42%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (4.82%) GitHub Copilot
16 7 (4.22%) Azure Functions
17 6 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 5 (3.01%) npm
18 5 (3.01%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.60%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.63%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.61%) DynamoDB
4 5 (3.01%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.41%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.20%) Redis
7 1 (0.60%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 82 (49.40%) Selenium
2 42 (25.30%) Git
3 40 (24.10%) Postman
4 28 (16.87%) Jenkins
4 28 (16.87%) JIRA
5 23 (13.86%) Cucumber
6 19 (11.45%) REST Assured
7 17 (10.24%) GitLab
7 17 (10.24%) JMeter
8 14 (8.43%) WebDriver
9 12 (7.23%) Gatling
10 10 (6.02%) JUnit
11 9 (5.42%) Storybook
12 7 (4.22%) Appium
12 7 (4.22%) webpack
13 6 (3.61%) TestNG
13 6 (3.61%) Vite
14 5 (3.01%) TestRail
15 4 (2.41%) Bitbucket
15 4 (2.41%) SpecFlow
General
1 50 (30.12%) Social Skills
2 41 (24.70%) Public Sector
3 35 (21.08%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (13.86%) Finance
5 13 (7.83%) Banking
6 12 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.22%) Military
8 5 (3.01%) Retail
9 3 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.81%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.20%) Back Office
10 2 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.20%) Legal
10 2 (1.20%) Local Government
10 2 (1.20%) Police
10 2 (1.20%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.60%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.60%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 36 (21.69%) Developer
2 32 (19.28%) Senior
3 23 (13.86%) Tester
4 22 (13.25%) Test Engineer
5 21 (12.65%) Lead
6 20 (12.05%) Analyst
7 18 (10.84%) Test Analyst
8 16 (9.64%) QA Engineer
9 13 (7.83%) Automation Tester
10 12 (7.23%) Test Automation Engineer
11 9 (5.42%) Architect
11 9 (5.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 9 (5.42%) Test Leader
12 8 (4.82%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.82%) React Developer
13 7 (4.22%) Lead Test Analyst
13 7 (4.22%) QA Automation Engineer
13 7 (4.22%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (4.22%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (56.02%) Playwright
2 50 (30.12%) React
3 41 (24.70%) REST
4 38 (22.89%) Jest
5 33 (19.88%) CSS
6 30 (18.07%) HTML
7 26 (15.66%) RESTful
8 24 (14.46%) Node.js
9 21 (12.65%) HTML5
10 20 (12.05%) CSS3
11 18 (10.84%) Terraform
12 17 (10.24%) GraphQL
13 13 (7.83%) Gherkin
13 13 (7.83%) Kafka
14 11 (6.63%) AngularJS
14 11 (6.63%) Next.js
14 11 (6.63%) Redux
15 10 (6.02%) JWT
15 10 (6.02%) OAuth
16 8 (4.82%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.25%) Product Ownership
2 21 (12.65%) Cloud Native
3 16 (9.64%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.22%) 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%) 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
9 2 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.41%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.60%) AIX
2 1 (0.60%) Android
2 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (74.70%) Test Automation
2 96 (57.83%) CI/CD
3 89 (53.61%) Agile
4 69 (41.57%) DevOps
5 47 (28.31%) API Testing
6 44 (26.51%) Test Strategy
7 41 (24.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (24.70%) Microservices
7 41 (24.70%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (23.49%) End-to-End Testing
9 38 (22.89%) AI
10 33 (19.88%) Scrum
11 27 (16.27%) BDD
11 27 (16.27%) User Experience
12 25 (15.06%) Performance Testing
13 22 (13.25%) Integration Testing
13 22 (13.25%) SDLC
14 21 (12.65%) Infrastructure as Code
14 21 (12.65%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (12.65%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 94 (56.63%) JavaScript
2 86 (51.81%) TypeScript
3 34 (20.48%) Python
4 30 (18.07%) Java
5 23 (13.86%) SQL
6 19 (11.45%) C#
7 6 (3.61%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.81%) Scala
9 2 (1.20%) Bash
10 1 (0.60%) Bicep
10 1 (0.60%) C++
10 1 (0.60%) Groovy
10 1 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 53 (31.93%) Security Cleared
2 44 (26.51%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.24%) ISTQB
4 15 (9.04%) DV Cleared
5 13 (7.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (4.82%) Degree
7 7 (4.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.81%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.60%) ISEB
10 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (45.18%) QA
2 51 (30.72%) Accessibility
3 31 (18.67%) WCAG
4 10 (6.02%) GDPR
5 3 (1.81%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.20%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.60%) GRC
7 1 (0.60%) GxP
7 1 (0.60%) SEPA
System Software
1 26 (15.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (13.25%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.63%) Grafana
3 8 (4.82%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.20%) Ansible
4 2 (1.20%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.20%) Kibana
5 1 (0.60%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.60%) Podman
5 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.60%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (10.24%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.01%) Splunk
3 4 (2.41%) Google
3 4 (2.41%) Oracle
4 2 (1.20%) HP
4 2 (1.20%) New Relic
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%) Micro Focus
5 1 (0.60%) OneLogin
5 1 (0.60%) OpenText
5 1 (0.60%) TOWER Software