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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 374 366
Rank change year-on-year -66 -8 +57
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 166 157 237
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.51% 0.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.97% 3.72% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 116 165
10th Percentile £327 £323 £413
25th Percentile £400 £367 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -5.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £539 £568 £575
90th Percentile £606 £616 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £468 £462
% change year-on-year +10.16% +1.25% -2.79%
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 5,587 4,226 5,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.92% 13.65% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,821 2,692 3,758
10th Percentile £343 £338 £363
25th Percentile £405 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 66 210
10th Percentile £35.40 £25.75 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £47.63 £48.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.19
90th Percentile £82.90 £79.23 £88.75
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

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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 14 February 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 14 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 -64 143 £475 - 55
London -46 76 £460 -3.16% 21
UK excluding London -47 73 £515 +10.16% 38
Work from Home -6 57 £475 +15.15% 32
North of England -38 34 £488 +30.00% 9
North West -15 24 £438 +3.55% 2
South West -13 13 £529 +0.67% 11
Midlands -44 10 £575 +22.67%
Scotland +7 9 £588 +37.43% 2
Yorkshire -56 8 £513 +86.36% 7
West Midlands - 7 £575 -
South East -29 6 £650 +100.00% 14
East of England -22 3 £300 -45.45% 2
East Midlands -25 3 £725 +54.67%
North East - 2 £450 -

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 (6.63%) Confluence
2 4 (2.41%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.20%) Apache
3 2 (1.20%) Camunda
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.60%) CMS
4 1 (0.60%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (34.94%) AWS
2 48 (28.92%) Azure
3 44 (26.51%) GitHub
4 34 (20.48%) GitHub Actions
5 29 (17.47%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (9.64%) npm
7 15 (9.04%) Serverless
8 13 (7.83%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (7.83%) GCP
9 10 (6.02%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.82%) OpenShift
11 7 (4.22%) Figma
12 6 (3.61%) Amazon Cognito
12 6 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (3.61%) Azure AKS
13 5 (3.01%) Datadog
14 4 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (2.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 4 (2.41%) Pulumi
15 3 (1.81%) Cloud Run
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (4.22%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.22%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.01%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.81%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.20%) MySQL
5 2 (1.20%) Redis
5 2 (1.20%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.60%) Big Data
6 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.60%) Power BI
6 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 67 (40.36%) Selenium
2 38 (22.89%) Postman
3 37 (22.29%) Git
4 33 (19.88%) Jenkins
5 28 (16.87%) GitLab
5 28 (16.87%) JUnit
6 26 (15.66%) REST Assured
7 22 (13.25%) JIRA
8 21 (12.65%) Cucumber
9 11 (6.63%) CircleCI
9 11 (6.63%) SonarQube
10 9 (5.42%) Maven
10 9 (5.42%) WebDriver
10 9 (5.42%) webpack
11 6 (3.61%) Gradle
11 6 (3.61%) JMeter
11 6 (3.61%) Mocha
11 6 (3.61%) TestRail
12 4 (2.41%) Appium
12 4 (2.41%) Bitbucket
General
1 37 (22.29%) Social Skills
2 33 (19.88%) Public Sector
3 16 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (9.64%) Finance
4 15 (9.04%) Banking
5 7 (4.22%) Military
6 4 (2.41%) Publishing
7 3 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.20%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.60%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.60%) Games
9 1 (0.60%) Law
9 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (25.90%) Senior
2 41 (24.70%) Developer
3 30 (18.07%) Tester
4 25 (15.06%) Automation Tester
5 24 (14.46%) Test Engineer
6 19 (11.45%) Lead
7 17 (10.24%) Software Engineer
8 16 (9.64%) QA Engineer
9 10 (6.02%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (6.02%) QA Leader
9 10 (6.02%) React Developer
9 10 (6.02%) Senior Test Engineer
10 9 (5.42%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 8 (4.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 8 (4.82%) Java Developer
12 6 (3.61%) Senior Automation Tester
12 6 (3.61%) Senior Tester
13 5 (3.01%) QA Automation Engineer
13 5 (3.01%) Senior Developer
13 5 (3.01%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (45.18%) Playwright
2 70 (42.17%) React
3 52 (31.33%) Jest
4 42 (25.30%) REST
5 37 (22.29%) Node.js
6 27 (16.27%) CSS
6 27 (16.27%) RESTful
7 22 (13.25%) Redux
8 19 (11.45%) Spring
8 19 (11.45%) Spring Boot
9 18 (10.84%) HTML
10 15 (9.04%) Next.js
11 14 (8.43%) Sass
12 12 (7.23%) AngularJS
13 11 (6.63%) Enzyme
13 11 (6.63%) JSON
14 10 (6.02%) GraphQL
14 10 (6.02%) HTML5
15 9 (5.42%) .NET
15 9 (5.42%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.23%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (6.63%) Product Ownership
3 10 (6.02%) Mobile App
4 9 (5.42%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (2.41%) Genomics
6 4 (2.41%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.81%) Blog
7 3 (1.81%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.81%) Life Science
7 3 (1.81%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.81%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.20%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.60%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.60%) iPhone
9 1 (0.60%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.82%) Android
2 6 (3.61%) Linux
3 5 (3.01%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (70.48%) Test Automation
2 96 (57.83%) CI/CD
3 89 (53.61%) Agile
4 62 (37.35%) DevOps
5 36 (21.69%) Test Strategy
6 34 (20.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 34 (20.48%) End-to-End Testing
7 33 (19.88%) Software Testing
8 32 (19.28%) API Testing
8 32 (19.28%) Software Engineering
8 32 (19.28%) User Experience
9 30 (18.07%) Test Scripting
10 29 (17.47%) Full-Stack Development
10 29 (17.47%) Microservices
11 26 (15.66%) Containerisation
12 24 (14.46%) Front End Development
12 24 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (12.65%) BDD
13 21 (12.65%) Clean Code
14 20 (12.05%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 75 (45.18%) JavaScript
1 75 (45.18%) TypeScript
2 57 (34.34%) Java
3 25 (15.06%) SQL
4 24 (14.46%) Python
5 18 (10.84%) C#
6 5 (3.01%) JSX
7 3 (1.81%) Go
8 2 (1.20%) Bash
8 2 (1.20%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.60%) Bicep
9 1 (0.60%) C++
9 1 (0.60%) Groovy
9 1 (0.60%) Perl
9 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.60%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.60%) VBA
9 1 (0.60%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 62 (37.35%) Security Cleared
2 48 (28.92%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.83%) ISTQB
4 9 (5.42%) Degree
5 8 (4.82%) DV Cleared
6 7 (4.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.60%) ISEB
10 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (41.57%) QA
2 60 (36.14%) Accessibility
3 30 (18.07%) WCAG
4 2 (1.20%) NCSC
5 1 (0.60%) MiFID
5 1 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 37 (22.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (10.84%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.43%) Terraform
3 12 (7.23%) Grafana
4 9 (5.42%) Ansible
5 4 (2.41%) Podman
5 4 (2.41%) Progress Chef
5 4 (2.41%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.41%) Puppet
6 2 (1.20%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.20%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.20%) Kibana
6 2 (1.20%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 10 (6.02%) Splunk
2 8 (4.82%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.01%) Google
4 4 (2.41%) Xamarin
5 3 (1.81%) Perforce
5 3 (1.81%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.20%) Adobe
6 2 (1.20%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.20%) HP
6 2 (1.20%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle
7 1 (0.60%) Virgin Media