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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 369 409
Rank change year-on-year +1 +40 +53
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 153 240 326
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.55% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.73% 4.64% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 176 236
10th Percentile £300 £386 £410
25th Percentile £376 £434 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £513 £613 £602
90th Percentile £602 £788 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £503 £507
% change year-on-year -10.54% -0.79% +6.74%
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 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

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 30 April 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 15 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 30 April 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 +5 129 £430 -20.32% 132
London -18 86 £425 -26.09% 55
Work from Home +19 62 £413 -15.82% 116
UK excluding London +28 48 £450 -10.54% 88
North of England +23 12 £350 -22.22% 36
Midlands +21 9 £450 +5.88% 9
South West +42 8 £550 -8.33% 14
Scotland +1 8 £450 -6.25% 7
South East +48 7 £350 -27.08% 8
Yorkshire +17 6 £275 -46.81% 9
North West +7 6 £496 +13.26% 25
West Midlands +14 5 £450 +5.88% 6
East Midlands +9 4 £459 +1.94% 3
East of England - 3 £550 - 11
Wales -10 1 £425 -20.23% 2

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 10 (6.54%) Confluence
2 2 (1.31%) WordPress
3 1 (0.65%) CMS
3 1 (0.65%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.65%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.65%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Shopify
2 1 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (34.64%) AWS
2 26 (16.99%) Azure
2 26 (16.99%) GitHub
3 23 (15.03%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (11.11%) Serverless
5 16 (10.46%) BrowserStack
6 12 (7.84%) SaaS
7 9 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (4.58%) Amazon S3
8 7 (4.58%) GCP
9 5 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.61%) Amazon Cognito
10 4 (2.61%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (1.96%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.96%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.96%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.96%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.61%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.92%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.27%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.61%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.31%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.65%) Metadata
6 1 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (33.99%) Postman
2 38 (24.84%) Jenkins
3 36 (23.53%) Selenium
4 35 (22.88%) JIRA
5 26 (16.99%) Git
6 24 (15.69%) Cucumber
7 19 (12.42%) JMeter
7 19 (12.42%) REST Assured
8 18 (11.76%) SoapUI
9 14 (9.15%) GitLab
10 12 (7.84%) Appium
11 9 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (3.92%) Bitbucket
12 6 (3.92%) JUnit
13 5 (3.27%) Gatling
13 5 (3.27%) Mocha
13 5 (3.27%) TeamCity
13 5 (3.27%) Visual Studio
14 4 (2.61%) SpecFlow
14 4 (2.61%) TestComplete
General
1 36 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.03%) Public Sector
3 16 (10.46%) Finance
4 11 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.92%) Banking
6 5 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.27%) Law
6 5 (3.27%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.61%) Marketing
7 4 (2.61%) Retail
8 3 (1.96%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.96%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.65%) Automotive
9 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Electronics
9 1 (0.65%) Front Office
9 1 (0.65%) Military
9 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 47 (30.72%) Tester
2 35 (22.88%) Developer
3 31 (20.26%) Automation Tester
4 29 (18.95%) Test Engineer
5 26 (16.99%) Senior
6 18 (11.76%) QA Engineer
7 17 (11.11%) Lead
8 16 (10.46%) Test Automation Engineer
9 13 (8.50%) React Developer
10 12 (7.84%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (6.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 9 (5.88%) QA Tester
12 9 (5.88%) Senior Test Engineer
13 8 (5.23%) Test Leader
14 7 (4.58%) Software Engineer
15 6 (3.92%) Analyst
15 6 (3.92%) Senior Developer
15 6 (3.92%) Test Analyst
16 5 (3.27%) Automation Test Lead
16 5 (3.27%) Java Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (24.84%) React
2 32 (20.92%) Playwright
3 31 (20.26%) Node.js
4 27 (17.65%) Jest
5 20 (13.07%) RESTful
6 19 (12.42%) Next.js
6 19 (12.42%) REST
7 15 (9.80%) Redux
8 14 (9.15%) .NET
8 14 (9.15%) GraphQL
9 13 (8.50%) CSS
10 12 (7.84%) HTML
11 10 (6.54%) AngularJS
12 8 (5.23%) Express.js
12 8 (5.23%) Puppeteer
12 8 (5.23%) Vue
13 7 (4.58%) AWS CDK
13 7 (4.58%) HTML5
14 6 (3.92%) Kafka
14 6 (3.92%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.46%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.58%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.58%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.61%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.61%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.96%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.96%) Client/Server
4 3 (1.96%) Educational Technology
4 3 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.96%) Vector Graphics
5 2 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.31%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.31%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.65%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.92%) Linux
2 5 (3.27%) Windows
3 2 (1.31%) Android
3 2 (1.31%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.65%) AIX
4 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (77.12%) Test Automation
2 78 (50.98%) Agile
3 73 (47.71%) CI/CD
4 51 (33.33%) DevOps
5 43 (28.10%) API Testing
6 32 (20.92%) Test Strategy
7 28 (18.30%) Test Scripting
8 27 (17.65%) Performance Testing
9 26 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (15.69%) Continuous Integration
10 24 (15.69%) Microservices
11 23 (15.03%) Scrum
12 22 (14.38%) Front End Development
12 22 (14.38%) Manual Testing
13 21 (13.73%) Mentoring
14 20 (13.07%) TDD
15 19 (12.42%) BDD
16 17 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
17 16 (10.46%) End-to-End Testing
17 16 (10.46%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 87 (56.86%) JavaScript
2 62 (40.52%) TypeScript
3 39 (25.49%) Java
4 20 (13.07%) Python
5 19 (12.42%) C#
6 9 (5.88%) SQL
7 4 (2.61%) Bash
7 4 (2.61%) PHP
7 4 (2.61%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.96%) C++
8 3 (1.96%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.96%) VBA
8 3 (1.96%) VBScript
9 2 (1.31%) Swift
10 1 (0.65%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 42 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 33 (21.57%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.23%) Degree
4 7 (4.58%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.27%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.96%) ISEB
7 3 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (28.10%) QA
2 29 (18.95%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.27%) WCAG
4 3 (1.96%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (1.31%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.65%) GDPR
6 1 (0.65%) GxP
6 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.23%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.27%) Terraform
3 2 (1.31%) Grafana
3 2 (1.31%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.65%) Ansible
4 1 (0.65%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (3.92%) Adobe
1 6 (3.92%) Google
1 6 (3.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.61%) Bloomberg
2 4 (2.61%) Reuters
3 3 (1.96%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.96%) SAP
3 3 (1.96%) Splunk
4 2 (1.31%) Nintex
4 2 (1.31%) Oracle
4 2 (1.31%) PagerDuty
4 2 (1.31%) Sitecore
4 2 (1.31%) Solace
4 2 (1.31%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.65%) Perfecto Mobile