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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 369 392
Rank change year-on-year -91 +23 +35
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 149 153 209
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.53% 0.47%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.56% 3.79% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 110 144
10th Percentile £313 £308 £386
25th Percentile £389 £364 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £503
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.54% -0.79%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £603
90th Percentile £606 £613 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -3.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £68.13
25th Percentile - - £69.06
Median hourly rate - - £73.75
75th Percentile - - £79.06
90th Percentile - - £80.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £73.75
% change year-on-year - - +36.57%

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 5,820 4,037 5,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.28% 13.86% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,918 2,698 3,507
10th Percentile £341 £337 £358
25th Percentile £405 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £586 £612 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 71 190
10th Percentile £39.00 £25.00 £37.44
25th Percentile £58.04 £47.75 £46.18
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £78.13 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £83.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £63.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.14% +1.20% +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

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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 24 March 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 24 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 -113 128 £475 +3.54% 53
London -72 72 £450 - 20
UK excluding London -80 60 £500 +11.11% 36
Work from Home -40 52 £475 +18.75% 28
North of England -52 31 £500 +33.33% 18
North West -21 21 £500 +12.36% 11
South West -29 9 £515 -4.19% 5
Yorkshire -58 9 £500 +81.82% 7
Midlands -62 9 £575 +25.34% 3
Scotland +5 6 £588 +30.56%
West Midlands -57 6 £575 +31.43% 1
South East -54 5 £650 +100.00% 7
East Midlands -31 3 £725 +54.67% 2
East of England -28 2 £300 -45.45% 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 11 (7.38%) Confluence
2 2 (1.34%) Apache
2 2 (1.34%) Camunda
2 2 (1.34%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.67%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.67%) CMS
3 1 (0.67%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 53 (35.57%) AWS
2 48 (32.21%) GitHub
3 46 (30.87%) Azure
4 36 (24.16%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (17.45%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (10.74%) Serverless
7 13 (8.72%) Amazon S3
7 13 (8.72%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (6.71%) GCP
8 10 (6.71%) npm
9 6 (4.03%) Amazon Cognito
9 6 (4.03%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (4.03%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (4.03%) Figma
10 4 (2.68%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.68%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.68%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.01%) Datadog
11 3 (2.01%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.37%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.70%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.70%) DynamoDB
3 7 (4.70%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.03%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.34%) MySQL
6 2 (1.34%) Redis
6 2 (1.34%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.67%) Power BI
7 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 63 (42.28%) Selenium
2 35 (23.49%) Git
3 31 (20.81%) Postman
4 23 (15.44%) Jenkins
5 22 (14.77%) GitLab
5 22 (14.77%) REST Assured
6 21 (14.09%) JIRA
7 18 (12.08%) JUnit
8 14 (9.40%) Cucumber
9 11 (7.38%) CircleCI
10 8 (5.37%) Mocha
10 8 (5.37%) TestRail
10 8 (5.37%) WebDriver
10 8 (5.37%) webpack
11 6 (4.03%) JMeter
11 6 (4.03%) Maven
12 5 (3.36%) Appium
13 4 (2.68%) ESLint
13 4 (2.68%) SonarQube
13 4 (2.68%) Vite
General
1 33 (22.15%) Social Skills
2 29 (19.46%) Public Sector
3 19 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.72%) Banking
5 9 (6.04%) Finance
6 6 (4.03%) Military
7 4 (2.68%) Publishing
8 3 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.34%) Advertising
9 2 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.67%) Games
10 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.67%) Law
10 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (27.52%) Developer
2 40 (26.85%) Senior
3 23 (15.44%) Test Engineer
4 21 (14.09%) QA Engineer
5 19 (12.75%) Tester
6 17 (11.41%) Lead
7 15 (10.07%) Automation Tester
8 14 (9.40%) Software Engineer
9 12 (8.05%) React Developer
10 10 (6.71%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (6.71%) Senior Test Engineer
11 9 (6.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 9 (6.04%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 8 (5.37%) QA Automation Engineer
13 7 (4.70%) Automation Engineer
13 7 (4.70%) Java Developer
13 7 (4.70%) QA Leader
13 7 (4.70%) Senior Developer
14 6 (4.03%) Quality Engineer
15 5 (3.36%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (50.34%) Playwright
2 64 (42.95%) React
3 49 (32.89%) Jest
4 38 (25.50%) REST
5 32 (21.48%) Node.js
6 25 (16.78%) CSS
6 25 (16.78%) RESTful
7 18 (12.08%) Redux
8 17 (11.41%) HTML
9 15 (10.07%) Spring
9 15 (10.07%) Spring Boot
10 14 (9.40%) Next.js
11 12 (8.05%) AngularJS
12 11 (7.38%) Sass
13 9 (6.04%) HTML5
14 8 (5.37%) CSS3
14 8 (5.37%) Enzyme
14 8 (5.37%) GraphQL
14 8 (5.37%) Zustand
15 7 (4.70%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.71%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.04%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.04%) Mobile App
3 8 (5.37%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (2.68%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.01%) Blog
6 3 (2.01%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.01%) Genomics
6 3 (2.01%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.34%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.34%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.34%) Life Science
7 2 (1.34%) NHS
7 2 (1.34%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.67%) iPhone
8 1 (0.67%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.70%) Android
2 4 (2.68%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.34%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (72.48%) Test Automation
2 85 (57.05%) CI/CD
3 84 (56.38%) Agile
4 53 (35.57%) DevOps
5 36 (24.16%) End-to-End Testing
6 32 (21.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (20.81%) API Testing
7 31 (20.81%) Software Testing
7 31 (20.81%) User Experience
8 29 (19.46%) Full-Stack Development
8 29 (19.46%) Test Strategy
9 27 (18.12%) Software Engineering
10 26 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (16.78%) Microservices
12 24 (16.11%) Test Scripting
13 22 (14.77%) Containerisation
14 21 (14.09%) BDD
15 20 (13.42%) Front End Development
15 20 (13.42%) UX Design
16 18 (12.08%) AI
Programming Languages
1 69 (46.31%) TypeScript
2 66 (44.30%) JavaScript
3 53 (35.57%) Java
4 28 (18.79%) SQL
5 26 (17.45%) Python
6 16 (10.74%) C#
7 5 (3.36%) JSX
8 3 (2.01%) Go
9 2 (1.34%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.67%) Bash
10 1 (0.67%) Bicep
10 1 (0.67%) C++
10 1 (0.67%) Groovy
10 1 (0.67%) Ruby
10 1 (0.67%) Scala
10 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.67%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.67%) VBA
10 1 (0.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (32.89%) Security Cleared
2 39 (26.17%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.72%) ISTQB
4 8 (5.37%) Degree
5 6 (4.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.03%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.67%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (44.30%) QA
2 53 (35.57%) Accessibility
3 28 (18.79%) WCAG
4 2 (1.34%) NCSC
5 1 (0.67%) GxP
5 1 (0.67%) MiFID
5 1 (0.67%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 29 (19.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (10.07%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.40%) Terraform
3 10 (6.71%) Grafana
4 6 (4.03%) Ansible
5 3 (2.01%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.34%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.34%) Kibana
6 2 (1.34%) Podman
6 2 (1.34%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.34%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.34%) Puppet
6 2 (1.34%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 10 (6.71%) Splunk
2 8 (5.37%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.68%) Google
3 4 (2.68%) Xamarin
4 3 (2.01%) HP
4 3 (2.01%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.34%) Adobe
5 2 (1.34%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.34%) Micro Focus
5 2 (1.34%) OpenText
5 2 (1.34%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.67%) Aprimo
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle
6 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.67%) Virgin Media