Cypress.io Contracts

Cypress.io
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cypress.io skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cypress.io over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 356 387
Rank change year-on-year -13 +31 +76
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 168 249 317
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.58% 0.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.74% 4.69% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 195 222
10th Percentile £308 £390 £404
25th Percentile £400 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £551 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +4.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £610
90th Percentile £618 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.60% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £53.80
25th Percentile - £67.50 £56.50
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - +12.90% -20.51%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £66.50
90th Percentile - - £68.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 £54.00
% 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 4,492 5,306 7,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.58% 12.29% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,999 3,522 5,519
10th Percentile £331 £353 £363
25th Percentile £409 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £590 £625 £650
90th Percentile £695 £725 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 251 232
10th Percentile £20.86 £31.25 £46.19
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £73.13 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £86.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

Cypress.io
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cypress.io as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cypress.io in the UK

Cypress.io
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cypress.io.

Daily rate trend for Cypress.io in the UK

Cypress.io
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cypress.io over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cypress.io in the UK

Cypress.io
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cypress.io.

Hourly rate trend for Cypress.io in the UK

Cypress.io
Top 14 Contract 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 1 July 2025. 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 -20 121 £440 -23.48% 533
Work from Home +41 78 £425 -15.00% 325
London -33 71 £425 -26.09% 240
UK excluding London +36 70 £472 -5.60% 351
Scotland +16 22 £475 +3.37% 34
North of England +7 16 £423 -6.11% 92
South West +38 15 £600 - 40
Midlands +12 8 £450 +5.88% 30
North West +8 8 £464 +6.11% 65
Yorkshire +4 8 £358 -30.85% 23
South East +54 6 £575 +27.78% 97
West Midlands +7 6 £450 +5.88% 18
East of England - 3 £575 - 38
East Midlands +2 2 £450 +9.09% 11

Cypress.io
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.57%) Confluence
2 4 (2.38%) Drupal
2 4 (2.38%) WordPress
3 1 (0.60%) CMS
3 1 (0.60%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.60%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.19%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.60%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.60%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 71 (42.26%) AWS
2 41 (24.40%) GitHub
3 34 (20.24%) Azure
4 33 (19.64%) Serverless
5 28 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (11.90%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (9.52%) Amazon S3
9 11 (6.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (5.95%) Amazon Cognito
10 10 (5.95%) BrowserStack
10 10 (5.95%) GCP
11 9 (5.36%) AWS CodePipeline
11 9 (5.36%) OpenShift
12 8 (4.76%) npm
13 7 (4.17%) SaaS
14 3 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (1.79%) Google Analytics
14 3 (1.79%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.98%) HTTP
2 2 (1.19%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (6.55%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (5.95%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.98%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.98%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.38%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.19%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.60%) Metadata
7 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 46 (27.38%) Jenkins
2 39 (23.21%) Postman
3 36 (21.43%) JIRA
3 36 (21.43%) Selenium
4 29 (17.26%) Git
5 26 (15.48%) REST Assured
6 22 (13.10%) JMeter
7 21 (12.50%) Cucumber
8 19 (11.31%) GitLab
9 11 (6.55%) JUnit
10 10 (5.95%) SoapUI
11 9 (5.36%) TestNG
12 8 (4.76%) SonarQube
13 7 (4.17%) Appium
13 7 (4.17%) Gatling
13 7 (4.17%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (3.57%) Bitbucket
14 6 (3.57%) Maven
14 6 (3.57%) Storybook
15 5 (2.98%) Grunt
General
1 43 (25.60%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.86%) Public Sector
3 18 (10.71%) Finance
4 14 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.95%) Banking
6 7 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.98%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.38%) Law
9 3 (1.79%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.79%) Retail
10 2 (1.19%) Front Office
10 2 (1.19%) Marketing
11 1 (0.60%) Automotive
11 1 (0.60%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Military
11 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (35.12%) Developer
2 33 (19.64%) Tester
3 26 (15.48%) Automation Tester
3 26 (15.48%) Test Engineer
4 22 (13.10%) Lead
4 22 (13.10%) Senior
5 21 (12.50%) React Developer
6 18 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (8.93%) QA Engineer
8 14 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
9 9 (5.36%) Analyst
9 9 (5.36%) Senior Test Engineer
9 9 (5.36%) Software Engineer
9 9 (5.36%) Test Analyst
10 8 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 8 (4.76%) Test Leader
11 5 (2.98%) QA Tester
11 5 (2.98%) Senior Developer
11 5 (2.98%) Software Developer
11 5 (2.98%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (33.33%) React
2 47 (27.98%) Playwright
3 44 (26.19%) Node.js
4 43 (25.60%) Jest
5 32 (19.05%) CSS
6 29 (17.26%) RESTful
7 26 (15.48%) HTML
8 24 (14.29%) REST
9 23 (13.69%) Next.js
10 22 (13.10%) GraphQL
11 21 (12.50%) AWS CDK
12 20 (11.90%) Redux
13 16 (9.52%) AngularJS
14 15 (8.93%) .NET
15 14 (8.33%) Sass
16 12 (7.14%) Express.js
17 9 (5.36%) HTML5
18 8 (4.76%) Tailwind CSS
19 7 (4.17%) Lambda Expressions
20 6 (3.57%) Enzyme
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.74%) Product Ownership
2 12 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.57%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.98%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.98%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.79%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.79%) Vector Graphics
7 2 (1.19%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.19%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.19%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.60%) Derivative
8 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.98%) Linux
1 5 (2.98%) Windows
2 1 (0.60%) Android
2 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (64.88%) Test Automation
2 91 (54.17%) CI/CD
3 84 (50.00%) Agile
4 61 (36.31%) DevOps
5 38 (22.62%) API Testing
6 34 (20.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 31 (18.45%) Test Strategy
8 28 (16.67%) Microservices
8 28 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (16.67%) TDD
8 28 (16.67%) Test Scripting
9 27 (16.07%) Continuous Integration
10 26 (15.48%) Front End Development
11 25 (14.88%) Software Engineering
11 25 (14.88%) User Experience
12 23 (13.69%) Mentoring
12 23 (13.69%) Scrum
13 22 (13.10%) Performance Testing
14 21 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
15 18 (10.71%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 104 (61.90%) JavaScript
2 80 (47.62%) TypeScript
3 49 (29.17%) Java
4 19 (11.31%) C#
5 18 (10.71%) Python
6 8 (4.76%) SQL
7 6 (3.57%) PHP
8 5 (2.98%) Bash
9 3 (1.79%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.19%) C++
10 2 (1.19%) Elm
10 2 (1.19%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.19%) VBA
10 2 (1.19%) VBScript
11 1 (0.60%) Ada
11 1 (0.60%) Groovy
11 1 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 50 (29.76%) Security Cleared
2 38 (22.62%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 5 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.38%) Degree
5 4 (2.38%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.19%) ISEB
6 2 (1.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (23.81%) Accessibility
2 38 (22.62%) QA
3 12 (7.14%) WCAG
4 2 (1.19%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.19%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) GxP
5 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (16.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (11.90%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.52%) Terraform
3 6 (3.57%) Grafana
4 4 (2.38%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.19%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.60%) Ansible
6 1 (0.60%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.57%) Adobe
2 6 (3.57%) Google
3 4 (2.38%) Bloomberg
3 4 (2.38%) Reuters
3 4 (2.38%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.79%) PagerDuty
4 3 (1.79%) Perforce
5 2 (1.19%) Cisco
5 2 (1.19%) HP
5 2 (1.19%) Nintex
5 2 (1.19%) Oracle
5 2 (1.19%) SAP
5 2 (1.19%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.19%) Solace
6 1 (0.60%) IBM
6 1 (0.60%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.60%) Splunk