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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 389 369
Rank change year-on-year -17 -20 +70
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 169 156 239
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.47% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.09% 3.58% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 115 168
10th Percentile £357 £330 £413
25th Percentile £413 £375 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £534
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -10.97% +1.62%
75th Percentile £588 £570 £600
90th Percentile £675 £614 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £468 £475
% change year-on-year +10.78% -1.42% -
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 5,478 4,361 5,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.77% 13.28% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,763 2,737 3,812
10th Percentile £335 £326 £363
25th Percentile £406 £410 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £513
% change year-on-year -2.06% -5.41% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 76 208
10th Percentile £39.00 £34.38 £41.25
25th Percentile £52.81 £46.81 £48.43
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £83.60 £75.75 £89.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 2 January 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 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 2 January 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 -36 139 £504 +6.11% 52
London -22 78 £488 +2.63% 21
UK excluding London -34 74 £519 +10.78% 39
Work from Home +9 63 £518 +16.29% 26
North of England -21 29 £475 +18.75% 14
North West -20 18 £425 +6.25% 8
South West -7 13 £529 +0.67% 8
Scotland +8 12 £588 +29.83% 2
Midlands -28 11 £575 +22.67% 2
Yorkshire -45 9 £500 +42.86% 5
West Midlands - 8 £575 - 2
South East -20 6 £650 +100.00% 11
Wales -3 4 £520 -2.12%
East Midlands -19 3 £725 +54.67%
North East - 2 £450 - 1
East of England -19 1 - - 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 11 (6.51%) Confluence
2 5 (2.96%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.18%) Apache
3 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.18%) Camunda
3 2 (1.18%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.59%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 67 (39.64%) AWS
2 50 (29.59%) Azure
3 44 (26.04%) GitHub
4 29 (17.16%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (11.83%) GCP
7 19 (11.24%) Serverless
8 15 (8.88%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (8.88%) npm
9 11 (6.51%) Amazon S3
9 11 (6.51%) OpenShift
10 9 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (4.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (4.14%) Datadog
12 7 (4.14%) Figma
13 6 (3.55%) Amazon Cognito
13 6 (3.55%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (3.55%) Azure AKS
14 5 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.96%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.83%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (5.33%) MongoDB
3 8 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (4.73%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.96%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.37%) MySQL
5 4 (2.37%) Redis
6 3 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.78%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.78%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.18%) Big Data
7 2 (1.18%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.18%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.18%) Power BI
8 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.59%) Looker
8 1 (0.59%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 60 (35.50%) Selenium
2 39 (23.08%) Git
3 34 (20.12%) Jenkins
3 34 (20.12%) Postman
4 33 (19.53%) GitLab
5 29 (17.16%) JUnit
6 22 (13.02%) Cucumber
7 21 (12.43%) REST Assured
8 18 (10.65%) JIRA
9 12 (7.10%) SonarQube
10 10 (5.92%) Maven
11 9 (5.33%) CircleCI
11 9 (5.33%) webpack
12 8 (4.73%) JMeter
13 7 (4.14%) Gradle
14 5 (2.96%) Artifactory
14 5 (2.96%) Bitbucket
14 5 (2.96%) Snyk
14 5 (2.96%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (2.96%) TestRail
General
1 37 (21.89%) Social Skills
2 32 (18.93%) Public Sector
3 25 (14.79%) Finance
4 17 (10.06%) Banking
5 8 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.14%) Military
7 4 (2.37%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.78%) Publishing
9 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.59%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.59%) Law
10 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (26.04%) Senior
2 40 (23.67%) Developer
3 28 (16.57%) Tester
4 25 (14.79%) Automation Tester
5 24 (14.20%) Lead
6 22 (13.02%) Test Engineer
7 15 (8.88%) Software Engineer
8 12 (7.10%) QA Engineer
9 10 (5.92%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (5.92%) Senior Test Engineer
10 9 (5.33%) Java Developer
10 9 (5.33%) QA Leader
11 8 (4.73%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 7 (4.14%) React Developer
13 6 (3.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 6 (3.55%) Senior Automation Tester
13 6 (3.55%) Senior Developer
13 6 (3.55%) Senior Tester
14 5 (2.96%) QA Automation Engineer
14 5 (2.96%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (43.79%) React
2 59 (34.91%) Playwright
3 57 (33.73%) Jest
4 43 (25.44%) Node.js
5 36 (21.30%) REST
5 36 (21.30%) RESTful
6 27 (15.98%) CSS
7 21 (12.43%) HTML
8 18 (10.65%) Redux
8 18 (10.65%) Spring
9 17 (10.06%) Next.js
9 17 (10.06%) Spring Boot
10 16 (9.47%) .NET
11 15 (8.88%) AngularJS
12 14 (8.28%) JSON
13 13 (7.69%) Sass
14 11 (6.51%) Enzyme
14 11 (6.51%) HTML5
15 10 (5.92%) .NET Core
15 10 (5.92%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.10%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.51%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (5.92%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.14%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.96%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.96%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.37%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.37%) Genomics
8 3 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.78%) Life Science
9 2 (1.18%) Blog
9 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.59%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.59%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.59%) iPhone
10 1 (0.59%) NHS
10 1 (0.59%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.73%) Linux
2 5 (2.96%) Android
3 4 (2.37%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (66.86%) Test Automation
2 108 (63.91%) CI/CD
3 90 (53.25%) Agile
4 73 (43.20%) DevOps
5 40 (23.67%) Software Engineering
6 39 (23.08%) Test Strategy
7 38 (22.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (22.49%) Microservices
8 34 (20.12%) Containerisation
9 33 (19.53%) End-to-End Testing
10 30 (17.75%) Front End Development
10 30 (17.75%) Full-Stack Development
10 30 (17.75%) User Experience
11 29 (17.16%) Software Testing
12 26 (15.38%) API Testing
13 25 (14.79%) Test Scripting
14 23 (13.61%) BDD
14 23 (13.61%) TDD
15 22 (13.02%) Infrastructure as Code
16 20 (11.83%) AI
Programming Languages
1 76 (44.97%) JavaScript
2 71 (42.01%) TypeScript
3 53 (31.36%) Java
4 31 (18.34%) SQL
5 29 (17.16%) Python
6 11 (6.51%) C#
7 5 (2.96%) JSX
8 4 (2.37%) Bash
8 4 (2.37%) Go
9 2 (1.18%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.18%) Perl
10 1 (0.59%) Groovy
10 1 (0.59%) PHP
10 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (34.32%) Security Cleared
2 45 (26.63%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.28%) Degree
4 11 (6.51%) ISTQB
5 10 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (4.73%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.59%) ISEB
9 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (39.64%) QA
2 59 (34.91%) Accessibility
3 31 (18.34%) WCAG
4 2 (1.18%) NCSC
5 1 (0.59%) GDPR
5 1 (0.59%) MiFID
5 1 (0.59%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 48 (28.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (14.79%) Kubernetes
2 22 (13.02%) Terraform
3 14 (8.28%) Ansible
4 12 (7.10%) Grafana
5 7 (4.14%) Puppet
6 5 (2.96%) Podman
6 5 (2.96%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.96%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.18%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.59%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.59%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 14 (8.28%) Splunk
2 10 (5.92%) Google
3 9 (5.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.78%) Adobe
4 3 (1.78%) Perforce
4 3 (1.78%) Xamarin
5 2 (1.18%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.18%) OneLogin
5 2 (1.18%) Oracle
5 2 (1.18%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.59%) Dundas
6 1 (0.59%) HP
6 1 (0.59%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.59%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.59%) UiPath
6 1 (0.59%) Virgin Media