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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 377 361
Rank change year-on-year -129 -16 +15
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 169 182 216
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.55% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.70% 3.63% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 117 169
10th Percentile £306 £359 £381
25th Percentile £353 £400 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £450 £551
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -18.26% +4.86%
75th Percentile £550 £546 £650
90th Percentile £625 £630 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £475 £494
% change year-on-year -15.79% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 6,256 5,009 5,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.51% 15.22% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,008 3,374 3,271
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 111 179
10th Percentile £25.54 £30.75 £30.20
25th Percentile £51.27 £50.50 £51.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £87.50 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -111 130 £470 +4.44% 91
London -77 88 £495 +16.47% 50
UK excluding London -125 54 £400 -15.79% 50
Work from Home -101 53 £428 -1.16% 105
North of England -67 22 £400 -5.88% 19
Midlands -38 15 £313 -43.18% 5
West Midlands -39 15 £313 -45.65% 3
Yorkshire -34 12 £400 -4.76% 6
Scotland -38 12 £450 -5.26% 3
North West -62 7 £400 -5.88% 12
North East - 3 £380 - 1
South West -53 2 £513 -14.58% 9
Wales -17 1 £413 -20.67%
East of England -23 1 £575 +35.29% 2
South East -68 1 £400 -23.81% 10

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 18 (10.65%) Confluence
2 4 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.59%) Appian
3 1 (0.59%) CMS
3 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (5.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.78%) Shopify
3 1 (0.59%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (36.69%) AWS
1 62 (36.69%) Azure
2 49 (28.99%) GitHub
3 35 (20.71%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (18.93%) Serverless
5 30 (17.75%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (14.20%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (11.83%) Amazon S3
7 20 (11.83%) GCP
8 16 (9.47%) Figma
9 12 (7.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (6.51%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (5.92%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (5.92%) Power Automate
12 9 (5.33%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (5.33%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (4.14%) Azure Functions
14 6 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (2.96%) npm
15 5 (2.96%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.51%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.55%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.96%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.37%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.18%) Redis
7 1 (0.59%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 84 (49.70%) Selenium
2 42 (24.85%) Git
2 42 (24.85%) Postman
3 28 (16.57%) Jenkins
3 28 (16.57%) JIRA
4 23 (13.61%) Cucumber
5 21 (12.43%) REST Assured
6 19 (11.24%) JMeter
7 17 (10.06%) GitLab
8 14 (8.28%) WebDriver
9 12 (7.10%) Gatling
10 10 (5.92%) JUnit
11 9 (5.33%) Appium
11 9 (5.33%) Storybook
12 8 (4.73%) webpack
13 6 (3.55%) TestNG
13 6 (3.55%) Vite
14 5 (2.96%) TestRail
15 4 (2.37%) Mocha
15 4 (2.37%) Newman
General
1 50 (29.59%) Social Skills
2 41 (24.26%) Public Sector
3 36 (21.30%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (13.61%) Finance
5 13 (7.69%) Banking
6 12 (7.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.14%) Military
8 5 (2.96%) Retail
9 3 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.78%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.18%) Back Office
10 2 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.18%) Legal
10 2 (1.18%) Local Government
10 2 (1.18%) Police
10 2 (1.18%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.59%) Law
11 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 37 (21.89%) Developer
2 32 (18.93%) Senior
3 23 (13.61%) Tester
4 22 (13.02%) Lead
4 22 (13.02%) Test Engineer
5 20 (11.83%) Analyst
6 18 (10.65%) Test Analyst
7 16 (9.47%) QA Engineer
8 13 (7.69%) Automation Tester
9 12 (7.10%) Test Automation Engineer
10 9 (5.33%) Architect
10 9 (5.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 9 (5.33%) React Developer
10 9 (5.33%) Test Leader
11 8 (4.73%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (4.73%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (4.14%) Lead Test Analyst
12 7 (4.14%) QA Automation Engineer
12 7 (4.14%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (4.14%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (56.21%) Playwright
2 51 (30.18%) React
3 43 (25.44%) REST
4 39 (23.08%) Jest
5 33 (19.53%) CSS
6 30 (17.75%) HTML
7 26 (15.38%) RESTful
8 25 (14.79%) Node.js
9 21 (12.43%) HTML5
10 20 (11.83%) CSS3
11 18 (10.65%) Terraform
12 17 (10.06%) GraphQL
13 13 (7.69%) Gherkin
13 13 (7.69%) Kafka
14 11 (6.51%) AngularJS
14 11 (6.51%) Next.js
14 11 (6.51%) Redux
15 10 (5.92%) JWT
15 10 (5.92%) OAuth
16 8 (4.73%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.61%) Cloud Native
2 22 (13.02%) Product Ownership
3 16 (9.47%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.73%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.14%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.14%) Virtual Team
6 6 (3.55%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.78%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.78%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.18%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.18%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.18%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.18%) Genomics
9 2 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.18%) Life Science
9 2 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.37%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.59%) AIX
2 1 (0.59%) Android
2 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (74.56%) Test Automation
2 98 (57.99%) CI/CD
3 90 (53.25%) Agile
4 71 (42.01%) DevOps
5 47 (27.81%) API Testing
6 44 (26.04%) Test Strategy
7 42 (24.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 42 (24.85%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (24.26%) End-to-End Testing
8 41 (24.26%) Microservices
9 40 (23.67%) AI
10 33 (19.53%) Scrum
11 27 (15.98%) BDD
11 27 (15.98%) Performance Testing
11 27 (15.98%) User Experience
12 23 (13.61%) Stakeholder Management
13 22 (13.02%) Integration Testing
13 22 (13.02%) SDLC
13 22 (13.02%) TDD
13 22 (13.02%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 95 (56.21%) JavaScript
2 87 (51.48%) TypeScript
3 34 (20.12%) Python
4 32 (18.93%) Java
5 23 (13.61%) SQL
6 19 (11.24%) C#
7 6 (3.55%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.78%) Scala
9 2 (1.18%) Bash
10 1 (0.59%) Bicep
10 1 (0.59%) C++
10 1 (0.59%) Groovy
10 1 (0.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 53 (31.36%) Security Cleared
2 44 (26.04%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.06%) ISTQB
4 15 (8.88%) DV Cleared
5 13 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (4.73%) Degree
7 7 (4.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.78%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.59%) ISEB
10 1 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (44.38%) QA
2 51 (30.18%) Accessibility
3 31 (18.34%) WCAG
4 10 (5.92%) GDPR
5 3 (1.78%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.18%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.59%) GRC
7 1 (0.59%) GxP
7 1 (0.59%) SEPA
System Software
1 26 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (13.02%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.51%) Grafana
3 8 (4.73%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.18%) Ansible
4 2 (1.18%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.18%) Kibana
5 1 (0.59%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.59%) Podman
5 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (10.06%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.96%) Splunk
3 4 (2.37%) Google
3 4 (2.37%) Oracle
4 3 (1.78%) Micro Focus
4 3 (1.78%) OpenText
5 2 (1.18%) HP
5 2 (1.18%) New Relic
6 1 (0.59%) Adobe
6 1 (0.59%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.59%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.59%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.59%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.59%) IBM
6 1 (0.59%) OneLogin
6 1 (0.59%) TOWER Software