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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 366 372
Rank change year-on-year -81 +6 +71
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 162 154 225
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.50% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.81% 3.71% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 113 154
10th Percentile £325 £302 £413
25th Percentile £400 £350 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £599
90th Percentile £607 £600 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £463 £463
% change year-on-year +11.29% +0.05% -3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £68.85
25th Percentile - - £70.88
Median hourly rate - - £74.75
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 5,771 4,153 5,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 13.57% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,945 2,677 3,724
10th Percentile £344 £330 £363
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 £619 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% -4.05% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 65 218
10th Percentile £34.53 £26.12 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.81 £51.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £79.39 £84.36
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 28 February 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 February 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 -74 140 £488 +8.33% 42
London -45 76 £475 +7.89% 15
UK excluding London -75 68 £515 +11.29% 29
Work from Home -13 55 £475 +16.92% 17
North of England -45 33 £500 +33.33% 11
North West -21 23 £500 +18.34% 5
South West -22 13 £529 +0.67% 8
Midlands -51 8 £575 +22.99% 4
Yorkshire -61 8 £513 +86.36% 5
Scotland +8 7 £588 +29.12% 1
South East -38 6 £650 +100.00% 3
West Midlands -46 5 £575 +35.29% 4
East Midlands -20 3 £725 +54.67%
East of England -23 3 £300 -45.45% 2
North East - 2 £450 - 1

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 (6.79%) Confluence
2 3 (1.85%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.23%) Apache
3 2 (1.23%) Camunda
4 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.62%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.62%) CMS
4 1 (0.62%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (32.10%) AWS
2 46 (28.40%) Azure
3 45 (27.78%) GitHub
4 34 (20.99%) GitHub Actions
5 28 (17.28%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (8.64%) npm
7 13 (8.02%) Serverless
8 12 (7.41%) GCP
9 11 (6.79%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (5.56%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.32%) Figma
12 6 (3.70%) Amazon Cognito
12 6 (3.70%) OpenShift
13 5 (3.09%) Azure AKS
14 4 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (2.47%) Datadog
15 3 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 3 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (1.85%) Pulumi
15 3 (1.85%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (4.32%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.32%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.09%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.85%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.23%) MySQL
5 2 (1.23%) Redis
5 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.62%) Big Data
6 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.62%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.62%) Power BI
6 1 (0.62%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 68 (41.98%) Selenium
2 38 (23.46%) Postman
3 34 (20.99%) Git
4 30 (18.52%) Jenkins
5 27 (16.67%) GitLab
6 26 (16.05%) REST Assured
7 25 (15.43%) JUnit
8 22 (13.58%) JIRA
9 21 (12.96%) Cucumber
10 11 (6.79%) CircleCI
11 9 (5.56%) SonarQube
11 9 (5.56%) WebDriver
11 9 (5.56%) webpack
12 8 (4.94%) Maven
13 7 (4.32%) Mocha
14 6 (3.70%) JMeter
14 6 (3.70%) TestRail
15 5 (3.09%) Gradle
16 4 (2.47%) Appium
16 4 (2.47%) Gatling
General
1 36 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 32 (19.75%) Public Sector
3 16 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.64%) Banking
5 13 (8.02%) Finance
6 7 (4.32%) Military
7 4 (2.47%) Publishing
8 3 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.62%) Advertising
10 1 (0.62%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.62%) Games
10 1 (0.62%) Law
10 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Retail
10 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (26.54%) Senior
2 39 (24.07%) Developer
3 28 (17.28%) Tester
4 23 (14.20%) Automation Tester
4 23 (14.20%) Test Engineer
5 20 (12.35%) Lead
6 17 (10.49%) QA Engineer
7 16 (9.88%) Software Engineer
8 12 (7.41%) React Developer
9 11 (6.79%) QA Leader
10 10 (6.17%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 10 (6.17%) Senior Test Engineer
11 9 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 7 (4.32%) Java Developer
14 6 (3.70%) Senior Automation Tester
14 6 (3.70%) Senior Tester
15 5 (3.09%) Automation Engineer
15 5 (3.09%) JavaScript Engineer
15 5 (3.09%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (47.53%) Playwright
2 67 (41.36%) React
3 51 (31.48%) Jest
4 38 (23.46%) REST
5 35 (21.60%) Node.js
6 26 (16.05%) RESTful
7 25 (15.43%) CSS
8 21 (12.96%) Redux
9 17 (10.49%) HTML
9 17 (10.49%) Spring
9 17 (10.49%) Spring Boot
10 15 (9.26%) Next.js
11 13 (8.02%) Sass
12 11 (6.79%) AngularJS
13 10 (6.17%) Enzyme
14 9 (5.56%) .NET
14 9 (5.56%) GraphQL
14 9 (5.56%) HTML5
14 9 (5.56%) JSON
15 8 (4.94%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (6.79%) Product Ownership
3 10 (6.17%) Mobile App
4 9 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (2.47%) Genomics
7 3 (1.85%) Blog
7 3 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.85%) Life Science
7 3 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.85%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.85%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.23%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.23%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.62%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.62%) iPhone
9 1 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.62%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.94%) Android
2 5 (3.09%) Apple iOS
2 5 (3.09%) Linux
3 1 (0.62%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (71.60%) Test Automation
2 92 (56.79%) CI/CD
3 89 (54.94%) Agile
4 60 (37.04%) DevOps
5 36 (22.22%) Test Strategy
6 34 (20.99%) End-to-End Testing
7 33 (20.37%) API Testing
7 33 (20.37%) Software Testing
8 32 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (19.14%) Software Engineering
10 30 (18.52%) Test Scripting
11 29 (17.90%) User Experience
12 28 (17.28%) Full-Stack Development
13 27 (16.67%) Microservices
14 24 (14.81%) Containerisation
14 24 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (14.20%) BDD
16 21 (12.96%) Front End Development
17 20 (12.35%) AI
17 20 (12.35%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 72 (44.44%) JavaScript
1 72 (44.44%) TypeScript
2 55 (33.95%) Java
3 25 (15.43%) Python
4 24 (14.81%) SQL
5 19 (11.73%) C#
6 5 (3.09%) JSX
7 3 (1.85%) Go
8 2 (1.23%) Bash
8 2 (1.23%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.62%) Bicep
9 1 (0.62%) C++
9 1 (0.62%) Groovy
9 1 (0.62%) Perl
9 1 (0.62%) Scala
9 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.62%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.62%) VBA
9 1 (0.62%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 61 (37.65%) Security Cleared
2 48 (29.63%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.02%) ISTQB
4 9 (5.56%) Degree
5 7 (4.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.32%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.62%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.62%) ISEB
9 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (43.21%) QA
2 59 (36.42%) Accessibility
3 30 (18.52%) WCAG
4 2 (1.23%) NCSC
5 1 (0.62%) MiFID
5 1 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 34 (20.99%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (10.49%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.41%) Terraform
3 11 (6.79%) Grafana
4 7 (4.32%) Ansible
5 3 (1.85%) Podman
5 3 (1.85%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.85%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.85%) Puppet
6 2 (1.23%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.23%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.23%) Kibana
6 2 (1.23%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 9 (5.56%) Splunk
2 8 (4.94%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.09%) Google
4 4 (2.47%) Xamarin
5 3 (1.85%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.23%) Adobe
6 2 (1.23%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.23%) HP
6 2 (1.23%) Perforce
6 2 (1.23%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.62%) Aprimo
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle
7 1 (0.62%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.62%) Virgin Media