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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 365 352
Rank change year-on-year -141 -13 +58
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 127 160 245
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.54% 0.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.18% 3.83% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 112 182
10th Percentile £311 £314 £400
25th Percentile £351 £398 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £443 £536
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -17.44% +2.10%
75th Percentile £547 £525 £622
90th Percentile £638 £606 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% -2.00%
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 5,825 4,174 5,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.19% 14.20% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,825 2,787 3,434
10th Percentile £348 £340 £353
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £704 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 72 202
10th Percentile £36.55 £26.19 £33.20
25th Percentile £59.19 £47.88 £46.38
Median hourly rate £66.75 £60.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.79% -7.31% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.19 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £79.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 May 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 13 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 May 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 -134 106 £450 +2.80% 42
London -72 68 £448 +5.29% 13
Work from Home -56 48 £450 +5.88% 23
UK excluding London -109 40 £500 +11.11% 39
North of England -45 26 £485 +38.57% 15
North West -27 17 £500 +0.45% 7
Yorkshire -52 9 £350 +27.27% 7
Midlands -66 6 £575 +27.78% 2
West Midlands -58 5 £438 -2.78%
Scotland -11 3 £588 +30.56% 6
East of England -31 3 £300 -45.45% 1
South East -69 3 £500 -13.04% 10
East Midlands -35 1 £725 +61.11% 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 20 (15.75%) Confluence
2 2 (1.57%) Camunda
3 1 (0.79%) Apache
3 1 (0.79%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.79%) CMS
3 1 (0.79%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.79%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 6 (4.72%) Shopify
2 1 (0.79%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 40 (31.50%) GitHub
2 39 (30.71%) AWS
3 37 (29.13%) Azure
4 29 (22.83%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (15.75%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (9.45%) Serverless
7 11 (8.66%) Amazon S3
7 11 (8.66%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (7.87%) Figma
9 9 (7.09%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (7.09%) GCP
10 8 (6.30%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (4.72%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.94%) Slack
13 4 (3.15%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (3.15%) npm
14 3 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (2.36%) Datadog
14 3 (2.36%) OpenShift
14 3 (2.36%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.09%) DynamoDB
2 6 (4.72%) Amazon Athena
2 6 (4.72%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.15%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.15%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.57%) MySQL
5 2 (1.57%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.79%) Power BI
6 1 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 61 (48.03%) Selenium
2 32 (25.20%) Git
3 27 (21.26%) JIRA
4 23 (18.11%) Postman
5 18 (14.17%) Jenkins
6 17 (13.39%) JUnit
7 15 (11.81%) GitLab
8 14 (11.02%) Cucumber
8 14 (11.02%) REST Assured
9 10 (7.87%) CircleCI
9 10 (7.87%) JMeter
10 8 (6.30%) Mocha
11 7 (5.51%) WebDriver
11 7 (5.51%) webpack
12 6 (4.72%) Appium
13 5 (3.94%) Maven
13 5 (3.94%) TestNG
13 5 (3.94%) TestRail
13 5 (3.94%) Vite
14 3 (2.36%) LoadRunner
General
1 27 (21.26%) Public Sector
2 24 (18.90%) Social Skills
3 17 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.45%) Banking
5 7 (5.51%) Finance
6 4 (3.15%) Military
7 3 (2.36%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.57%) Advertising
8 2 (1.57%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.57%) Law
9 1 (0.79%) Back Office
9 1 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.79%) Front Office
9 1 (0.79%) Games
9 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.79%) Police
9 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Publishing
9 1 (0.79%) Retail
9 1 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (25.98%) Developer
2 27 (21.26%) Senior
3 18 (14.17%) QA Engineer
3 18 (14.17%) Tester
4 15 (11.81%) Lead
5 14 (11.02%) Test Engineer
6 11 (8.66%) React Developer
7 9 (7.09%) Automation Engineer
7 9 (7.09%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (6.30%) Automation Tester
8 8 (6.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 8 (6.30%) QA Automation Engineer
9 7 (5.51%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 7 (5.51%) QA Tester
9 7 (5.51%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.72%) Quality Engineer
11 5 (3.94%) Java Developer
11 5 (3.94%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (3.94%) Senior Test Engineer
12 4 (3.15%) User Experience Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (55.12%) Playwright
2 53 (41.73%) React
3 34 (26.77%) Jest
4 33 (25.98%) REST
5 19 (14.96%) Node.js
6 16 (12.60%) Next.js
7 15 (11.81%) CSS
8 13 (10.24%) HTML
9 12 (9.45%) Redux
9 12 (9.45%) RESTful
9 12 (9.45%) Spring
9 12 (9.45%) Spring Boot
10 8 (6.30%) .NET
10 8 (6.30%) AngularJS
10 8 (6.30%) GraphQL
11 7 (5.51%) pytest
12 6 (4.72%) CSS3
12 6 (4.72%) HTML5
13 5 (3.94%) Vue
14 4 (3.15%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.66%) Cloud Native
1 11 (8.66%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.94%) Mobile App
2 5 (3.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 4 (3.15%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.57%) Genomics
5 2 (1.57%) Life Science
5 2 (1.57%) NHS
5 2 (1.57%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.79%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.79%) Blog
6 1 (0.79%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.79%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.79%) iPhone
6 1 (0.79%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.15%) Android
1 4 (3.15%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (74.80%) Test Automation
2 68 (53.54%) Agile
3 65 (51.18%) CI/CD
4 47 (37.01%) DevOps
5 29 (22.83%) User Experience
6 28 (22.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (18.90%) API Testing
7 24 (18.90%) End-to-End Testing
8 23 (18.11%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (17.32%) Full-Stack Development
10 21 (16.54%) UX Design
11 20 (15.75%) Software Testing
12 19 (14.96%) Test Strategy
13 18 (14.17%) Microservices
13 18 (14.17%) Performance Testing
13 18 (14.17%) Software Engineering
14 16 (12.60%) Test Scripting
15 15 (11.81%) Containerisation
15 15 (11.81%) User Research
16 14 (11.02%) AI
Programming Languages
1 59 (46.46%) TypeScript
2 51 (40.16%) JavaScript
3 35 (27.56%) Java
4 25 (19.69%) Python
5 17 (13.39%) SQL
6 15 (11.81%) C#
7 4 (3.15%) Scala
8 3 (2.36%) Go
9 2 (1.57%) Bash
10 1 (0.79%) Bicep
10 1 (0.79%) C++
10 1 (0.79%) Groovy
10 1 (0.79%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.79%) Ruby
10 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.79%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.79%) VBA
10 1 (0.79%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (27.56%) Security Cleared
2 29 (22.83%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.09%) Degree
4 8 (6.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (6.30%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.30%) ISTQB
5 7 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.79%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (45.67%) QA
2 52 (40.94%) Accessibility
3 28 (22.05%) WCAG
4 2 (1.57%) NCSC
5 1 (0.79%) GxP
System Software
1 19 (14.96%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (10.24%) Terraform
2 12 (9.45%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.72%) Grafana
4 4 (3.15%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.57%) Ansible
5 2 (1.57%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.57%) Kibana
5 2 (1.57%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.57%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.79%) Podman
6 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (6.30%) Splunk
2 7 (5.51%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.15%) HP
4 3 (2.36%) Micro Focus
4 3 (2.36%) OpenText
4 3 (2.36%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.57%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.57%) Google
5 2 (1.57%) Oracle
5 2 (1.57%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.79%) Adobe
6 1 (0.79%) Aprimo
6 1 (0.79%) IBM
6 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.79%) Xamarin