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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 365 405
Rank change year-on-year -90 +40 +12
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 157 154 199
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.52% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.73% 3.80% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 115 136
10th Percentile £321 £304 £400
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £543 £544 £600
90th Percentile £606 £604 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £468 £471
% change year-on-year +10.16% -0.80% -5.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £68.75
25th Percentile - - £70.63
Median hourly rate - - £77.50
75th Percentile - - £81.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £77.50
% change year-on-year - - +43.52%

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 5,760 4,054 5,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.58% 13.71% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,889 2,661 3,613
10th Percentile £342 £330 £356
25th Percentile £405 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 70 209
10th Percentile £34.53 £24.59 £37.50
25th Percentile £54.69 £47.63 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.25 £73.65
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 10 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 10 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 -85 132 £494 +9.72% 107
London -48 73 £470 +9.18% 38
UK excluding London -71 65 £515 +10.16% 73
Work from Home -24 53 £475 +18.75% 88
North of England -44 31 £500 +33.33% 15
North West -20 21 £500 +18.34% 5
South West -23 13 £529 +0.67% 15
Scotland +10 8 £588 +38.24% 1
Yorkshire -55 8 £513 +86.36% 8
Midlands -62 8 £575 +22.99% 7
South East -45 5 £650 +100.00% 21
West Midlands -57 5 £575 +35.29% 6
East Midlands -30 3 £725 +54.67%
East of England -32 2 £300 -45.45% 13
North East - 2 £450 - 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 10 (6.37%) Confluence
2 3 (1.91%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.27%) Apache
3 2 (1.27%) Camunda
4 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.64%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.64%) CMS
4 1 (0.64%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (33.12%) AWS
2 48 (30.57%) Azure
3 47 (29.94%) GitHub
4 35 (22.29%) GitHub Actions
5 28 (17.83%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (8.28%) Serverless
7 12 (7.64%) GCP
7 12 (7.64%) npm
8 10 (6.37%) Amazon S3
8 10 (6.37%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.82%) Amazon Cognito
9 6 (3.82%) Figma
9 6 (3.82%) OpenShift
10 5 (3.18%) Azure AKS
11 4 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.55%) Datadog
12 3 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.91%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (1.91%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.64%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.10%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.46%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.82%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.55%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.27%) MySQL
6 2 (1.27%) Redis
6 2 (1.27%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.64%) Big Data
7 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.64%) Power BI
7 1 (0.64%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 70 (44.59%) Selenium
2 39 (24.84%) Postman
3 34 (21.66%) Git
4 28 (17.83%) Jenkins
5 27 (17.20%) REST Assured
6 26 (16.56%) GitLab
7 22 (14.01%) JIRA
7 22 (14.01%) JUnit
8 20 (12.74%) Cucumber
9 11 (7.01%) CircleCI
10 9 (5.73%) WebDriver
10 9 (5.73%) webpack
11 8 (5.10%) Maven
12 7 (4.46%) Mocha
12 7 (4.46%) SonarQube
12 7 (4.46%) TestRail
13 6 (3.82%) JMeter
14 5 (3.18%) Gradle
15 4 (2.55%) Jasmine
15 4 (2.55%) SpecFlow
General
1 35 (22.29%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.75%) Public Sector
3 16 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.28%) Banking
5 11 (7.01%) Finance
6 6 (3.82%) Military
7 4 (2.55%) Publishing
8 3 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.64%) Advertising
10 1 (0.64%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.64%) Games
10 1 (0.64%) Law
10 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (26.75%) Senior
2 38 (24.20%) Developer
3 24 (15.29%) Test Engineer
3 24 (15.29%) Tester
4 20 (12.74%) Lead
5 19 (12.10%) Automation Tester
5 19 (12.10%) QA Engineer
6 15 (9.55%) Software Engineer
7 11 (7.01%) QA Leader
7 11 (7.01%) React Developer
8 10 (6.37%) Senior Test Engineer
9 9 (5.73%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 9 (5.73%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 9 (5.73%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (4.46%) Java Developer
11 6 (3.82%) QA Automation Engineer
11 6 (3.82%) Senior Automation Tester
11 6 (3.82%) Senior Tester
12 5 (3.18%) JavaScript Engineer
12 5 (3.18%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (49.04%) Playwright
2 62 (39.49%) React
3 50 (31.85%) Jest
4 38 (24.20%) REST
5 31 (19.75%) Node.js
6 27 (17.20%) RESTful
7 24 (15.29%) CSS
8 18 (11.46%) Redux
9 16 (10.19%) HTML
9 16 (10.19%) Spring
9 16 (10.19%) Spring Boot
10 14 (8.92%) Next.js
11 12 (7.64%) AngularJS
12 11 (7.01%) Sass
13 8 (5.10%) .NET
13 8 (5.10%) HTML5
13 8 (5.10%) JSON
13 8 (5.10%) Zustand
14 7 (4.46%) pytest
14 7 (4.46%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.64%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (7.01%) Product Ownership
3 10 (6.37%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.37%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (2.55%) Genomics
6 3 (1.91%) Blog
6 3 (1.91%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.91%) Life Science
6 3 (1.91%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.91%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.91%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.27%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.27%) NHS
8 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.64%) iPhone
8 1 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.64%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.10%) Android
2 5 (3.18%) Apple iOS
2 5 (3.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (73.25%) Test Automation
2 89 (56.69%) CI/CD
3 87 (55.41%) Agile
4 59 (37.58%) DevOps
5 37 (23.57%) Test Strategy
6 36 (22.93%) API Testing
7 35 (22.29%) Software Testing
8 34 (21.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (21.02%) End-to-End Testing
10 31 (19.75%) User Experience
11 30 (19.11%) Test Scripting
12 29 (18.47%) Full-Stack Development
12 29 (18.47%) Software Engineering
13 27 (17.20%) Microservices
14 25 (15.92%) Containerisation
14 25 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (14.65%) BDD
16 20 (12.74%) AI
16 20 (12.74%) Front End Development
17 19 (12.10%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 69 (43.95%) TypeScript
2 67 (42.68%) JavaScript
3 56 (35.67%) Java
4 27 (17.20%) SQL
5 26 (16.56%) Python
6 18 (11.46%) C#
7 5 (3.18%) JSX
8 3 (1.91%) Go
9 2 (1.27%) Bash
9 2 (1.27%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.64%) Bicep
10 1 (0.64%) C++
10 1 (0.64%) Groovy
10 1 (0.64%) Perl
10 1 (0.64%) Ruby
10 1 (0.64%) Scala
10 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.64%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.64%) VBA
10 1 (0.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 58 (36.94%) Security Cleared
2 47 (29.94%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.92%) ISTQB
4 9 (5.73%) Degree
5 7 (4.46%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.64%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.64%) ISEB
9 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (45.22%) QA
2 55 (35.03%) Accessibility
3 30 (19.11%) WCAG
4 2 (1.27%) NCSC
5 1 (0.64%) MiFID
5 1 (0.64%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 35 (22.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (11.46%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.28%) Terraform
3 11 (7.01%) Grafana
4 7 (4.46%) Ansible
5 3 (1.91%) HP ALM
5 3 (1.91%) Podman
5 3 (1.91%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.91%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.91%) Puppet
6 2 (1.27%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.27%) Kibana
6 2 (1.27%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 10 (6.37%) Splunk
2 8 (5.10%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.18%) Google
4 4 (2.55%) Xamarin
5 3 (1.91%) HP
5 3 (1.91%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.27%) Adobe
6 2 (1.27%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.27%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.64%) Aprimo
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle
7 1 (0.64%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.64%) Virgin Media