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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 373 379
Rank change year-on-year -107 +6 +44
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 145 153 211
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.53% 0.48%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.47% 3.79% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 113 145
10th Percentile £313 £310 £386
25th Percentile £396 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -12.20% +0.79%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £613
90th Percentile £606 £612 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% +0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £67.50
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £72.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +29.63%

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 5,875 4,041 5,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.22% 13.91% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,937 2,706 3,506
10th Percentile £343 £340 £358
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £607 £630
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 73 185
10th Percentile £39.53 £25.41 £35.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £45.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.59 £81.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%

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 March 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 28 March 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 -120 124 £475 +5.56% 51
London -64 71 £460 +2.22% 19
UK excluding London -93 56 £500 +11.11% 35
Work from Home -34 51 £475 +18.75% 29
North of England -50 30 £500 +33.33% 15
North West -24 20 £500 +18.34% 11
Yorkshire -52 9 £500 +81.82% 4
South West -26 8 £515 -4.19% 5
Midlands -73 8 £575 +22.99% 3
West Midlands -55 6 £575 +27.78% 2
Scotland 0 5 £588 +30.56%
South East -57 5 £650 +100.00% 10
East of England -31 2 £300 -45.45% 1
East Midlands -33 2 £725 +54.67% 1
North East - 1 £350 -

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 12 (8.28%) Confluence
2 2 (1.38%) Apache
2 2 (1.38%) Camunda
2 2 (1.38%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.69%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.69%) CMS
3 1 (0.69%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 50 (34.48%) AWS
2 46 (31.72%) GitHub
3 45 (31.03%) Azure
4 35 (24.14%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (17.93%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (10.34%) Serverless
7 13 (8.97%) Amazon S3
7 13 (8.97%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (6.90%) GCP
9 9 (6.21%) npm
10 6 (4.14%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (4.14%) AWS Step Functions
10 6 (4.14%) Figma
11 5 (3.45%) Amazon Cognito
12 4 (2.76%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.76%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.76%) OpenShift
13 3 (2.07%) Datadog
13 3 (2.07%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.52%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.83%) DynamoDB
3 7 (4.83%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.38%) MySQL
6 2 (1.38%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.69%) Power BI
7 1 (0.69%) Redis
7 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 63 (43.45%) Selenium
2 35 (24.14%) Git
3 30 (20.69%) Postman
4 24 (16.55%) Jenkins
5 22 (15.17%) GitLab
5 22 (15.17%) JIRA
5 22 (15.17%) REST Assured
6 17 (11.72%) JUnit
7 14 (9.66%) Cucumber
8 11 (7.59%) CircleCI
9 8 (5.52%) Mocha
9 8 (5.52%) TestRail
9 8 (5.52%) WebDriver
9 8 (5.52%) webpack
10 7 (4.83%) JMeter
11 6 (4.14%) Maven
12 5 (3.45%) Appium
12 5 (3.45%) Vite
13 4 (2.76%) ESLint
13 4 (2.76%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (21.38%) Social Skills
2 27 (18.62%) Public Sector
3 19 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.28%) Banking
5 8 (5.52%) Finance
6 4 (2.76%) Military
6 4 (2.76%) Publishing
7 3 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.38%) Advertising
8 2 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.38%) Law
9 1 (0.69%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.69%) Games
9 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.69%) Police
9 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (28.28%) Developer
2 39 (26.90%) Senior
3 22 (15.17%) Test Engineer
4 21 (14.48%) QA Engineer
5 18 (12.41%) Tester
6 17 (11.72%) Lead
7 14 (9.66%) Automation Tester
8 13 (8.97%) React Developer
9 11 (7.59%) Software Engineer
10 9 (6.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 9 (6.21%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (6.21%) Senior Test Engineer
11 8 (5.52%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 8 (5.52%) QA Automation Engineer
12 7 (4.83%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (4.83%) Java Developer
12 7 (4.83%) QA Leader
12 7 (4.83%) Senior Developer
13 6 (4.14%) Quality Engineer
14 5 (3.45%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (51.72%) Playwright
2 61 (42.07%) React
3 46 (31.72%) Jest
4 37 (25.52%) REST
5 29 (20.00%) Node.js
6 25 (17.24%) CSS
7 23 (15.86%) RESTful
8 18 (12.41%) HTML
8 18 (12.41%) Redux
9 15 (10.34%) Next.js
10 14 (9.66%) Spring
10 14 (9.66%) Spring Boot
11 11 (7.59%) AngularJS
12 10 (6.90%) HTML5
13 9 (6.21%) CSS3
13 9 (6.21%) Sass
14 8 (5.52%) GraphQL
14 8 (5.52%) Zustand
15 7 (4.83%) pytest
15 7 (4.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.21%) Mobile App
3 8 (5.52%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.52%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (2.76%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.07%) Blog
6 3 (2.07%) Genomics
6 3 (2.07%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.38%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.38%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.38%) Life Science
7 2 (1.38%) NHS
7 2 (1.38%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.69%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.69%) iPhone
8 1 (0.69%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.83%) Android
2 4 (2.76%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (74.48%) Test Automation
2 82 (56.55%) Agile
2 82 (56.55%) CI/CD
3 53 (36.55%) DevOps
4 33 (22.76%) Continuous Improvement
4 33 (22.76%) End-to-End Testing
5 31 (21.38%) Software Testing
6 30 (20.69%) API Testing
6 30 (20.69%) User Experience
7 29 (20.00%) Test Strategy
8 27 (18.62%) Full-Stack Development
9 25 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (16.55%) Microservices
10 24 (16.55%) Software Engineering
10 24 (16.55%) Test Scripting
11 23 (15.86%) Containerisation
12 20 (13.79%) BDD
12 20 (13.79%) UX Design
13 18 (12.41%) AI
13 18 (12.41%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 68 (46.90%) TypeScript
2 65 (44.83%) JavaScript
3 50 (34.48%) Java
4 27 (18.62%) Python
5 26 (17.93%) SQL
6 16 (11.03%) C#
7 4 (2.76%) JSX
8 3 (2.07%) Go
9 2 (1.38%) Bash
9 2 (1.38%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.69%) Bicep
10 1 (0.69%) C++
10 1 (0.69%) Groovy
10 1 (0.69%) Ruby
10 1 (0.69%) Scala
10 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.69%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.69%) VBA
10 1 (0.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (33.79%) Security Cleared
2 39 (26.90%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.97%) ISTQB
4 8 (5.52%) Degree
5 6 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.14%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.69%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (45.52%) QA
2 52 (35.86%) Accessibility
3 28 (19.31%) WCAG
4 2 (1.38%) NCSC
5 1 (0.69%) GxP
5 1 (0.69%) MiFID
5 1 (0.69%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 29 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (11.03%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.66%) Terraform
3 10 (6.90%) Grafana
4 5 (3.45%) Ansible
5 3 (2.07%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.38%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.38%) Kibana
6 2 (1.38%) Podman
6 2 (1.38%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.38%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.38%) Puppet
6 2 (1.38%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 10 (6.90%) Splunk
2 8 (5.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.76%) Xamarin
4 3 (2.07%) Google
4 3 (2.07%) HP
4 3 (2.07%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.38%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.38%) Micro Focus
5 2 (1.38%) OpenText
5 2 (1.38%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.69%) Adobe
6 1 (0.69%) Aprimo
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle
6 1 (0.69%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.69%) Virgin Media