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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 368 363
Rank change year-on-year -70 -5 +58
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 167 160 232
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.51% 0.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.04% 3.78% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 117 162
10th Percentile £349 £328 £407
25th Percentile £400 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -6.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £545 £556 £575
90th Percentile £607 £608 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £458 £461
% change year-on-year +12.45% -0.65% -2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £68.85
25th Percentile - £42.50 £70.88
Median hourly rate - £45.00 £74.75
Median % change year-on-year - -39.80% +20.56%
75th Percentile - £47.50 £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 5,494 4,236 5,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.03% 13.59% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,765 2,671 3,779
10th Percentile £344 £338 £363
25th Percentile £406 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £630
90th Percentile £695 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 64 212
10th Percentile £35.43 £26.33 £41.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £47.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £75.57
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.13 £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

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 6 February 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 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 6 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 -55 139 £488 +2.63% 63
UK excluding London -55 75 £515 +12.45% 53
London -42 74 £475 - 23
Work from Home -23 57 £475 +15.15% 40
North of England -36 33 £500 +29.03% 16
North West -13 23 £450 +12.50% 7
South West -15 13 £529 +0.67% 13
Scotland +11 12 £588 +38.24% 4
Midlands -46 10 £575 +22.67% 2
Yorkshire -54 8 £513 +86.36% 9
West Midlands - 7 £575 - 1
South East -36 6 £650 +100.00% 15
East of England -24 3 £300 -45.45% 3
East Midlands -25 3 £725 +54.67% 1
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 12 (7.19%) Confluence
2 4 (2.40%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.20%) Apache
3 2 (1.20%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.20%) Camunda
3 2 (1.20%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.60%) CMS
4 1 (0.60%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 59 (35.33%) AWS
2 48 (28.74%) Azure
3 43 (25.75%) GitHub
4 32 (19.16%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (16.17%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (10.18%) Serverless
7 16 (9.58%) GCP
7 16 (9.58%) npm
8 13 (7.78%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (5.39%) Amazon S3
9 9 (5.39%) OpenShift
10 7 (4.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.19%) Figma
11 6 (3.59%) Amazon Cognito
11 6 (3.59%) Azure AKS
11 6 (3.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (2.99%) Datadog
13 4 (2.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.40%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.19%) MongoDB
3 7 (4.19%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.99%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.80%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.20%) Big Data
6 2 (1.20%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.20%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.20%) MySQL
6 2 (1.20%) Power BI
6 2 (1.20%) Redis
6 2 (1.20%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.60%) Looker
7 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 63 (37.72%) Selenium
2 38 (22.75%) Postman
3 37 (22.16%) Git
4 31 (18.56%) Jenkins
5 29 (17.37%) GitLab
5 29 (17.37%) JUnit
6 24 (14.37%) REST Assured
7 21 (12.57%) Cucumber
8 20 (11.98%) JIRA
9 11 (6.59%) CircleCI
9 11 (6.59%) SonarQube
10 9 (5.39%) Maven
10 9 (5.39%) WebDriver
10 9 (5.39%) webpack
11 8 (4.79%) JMeter
12 6 (3.59%) Gradle
12 6 (3.59%) Mocha
12 6 (3.59%) TestRail
13 5 (2.99%) Appium
14 4 (2.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 39 (23.35%) Social Skills
2 32 (19.16%) Public Sector
3 18 (10.78%) Finance
4 16 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.58%) Banking
5 7 (4.19%) Military
6 4 (2.40%) Publishing
7 3 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.80%) 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 46 (27.54%) Developer
2 42 (25.15%) Senior
3 30 (17.96%) Tester
4 25 (14.97%) Automation Tester
5 21 (12.57%) Test Engineer
6 18 (10.78%) Lead
7 17 (10.18%) Software Engineer
8 14 (8.38%) Full-Stack Developer
8 14 (8.38%) QA Engineer
9 10 (5.99%) React Developer
9 10 (5.99%) Senior Test Engineer
10 9 (5.39%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 9 (5.39%) Java Developer
10 9 (5.39%) QA Leader
11 8 (4.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 6 (3.59%) Senior Automation Tester
12 6 (3.59%) Senior Tester
13 5 (2.99%) QA Automation Engineer
13 5 (2.99%) Senior Developer
13 5 (2.99%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (43.71%) React
2 72 (43.11%) Playwright
3 53 (31.74%) Jest
4 41 (24.55%) Node.js
5 40 (23.95%) REST
6 30 (17.96%) RESTful
7 27 (16.17%) CSS
8 24 (14.37%) Redux
9 20 (11.98%) HTML
9 20 (11.98%) Spring
9 20 (11.98%) Spring Boot
10 15 (8.98%) Next.js
11 14 (8.38%) Sass
12 13 (7.78%) AngularJS
13 12 (7.19%) .NET
13 12 (7.19%) JSON
14 11 (6.59%) Enzyme
15 10 (5.99%) GraphQL
15 10 (5.99%) HTML5
16 9 (5.39%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.19%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (6.59%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.99%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.99%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (2.40%) Genomics
5 4 (2.40%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.40%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.80%) Blog
6 3 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.80%) Life Science
6 3 (1.80%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.20%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.60%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.60%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.79%) Android
2 7 (4.19%) Linux
3 5 (2.99%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (68.26%) Test Automation
2 100 (59.88%) CI/CD
3 92 (55.09%) Agile
4 63 (37.72%) DevOps
5 37 (22.16%) Test Strategy
6 36 (21.56%) End-to-End Testing
7 35 (20.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (20.36%) User Experience
9 33 (19.76%) Full-Stack Development
10 32 (19.16%) API Testing
10 32 (19.16%) Microservices
10 32 (19.16%) Software Engineering
11 31 (18.56%) Software Testing
12 29 (17.37%) Containerisation
13 28 (16.77%) Test Scripting
14 27 (16.17%) Front End Development
15 23 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
16 22 (13.17%) BDD
17 21 (12.57%) Clean Code
17 21 (12.57%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 77 (46.11%) TypeScript
2 76 (45.51%) JavaScript
3 57 (34.13%) Java
4 25 (14.97%) Python
4 25 (14.97%) SQL
5 17 (10.18%) C#
6 5 (2.99%) JSX
7 3 (1.80%) Bash
7 3 (1.80%) Go
8 2 (1.20%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.20%) Perl
9 1 (0.60%) Bicep
9 1 (0.60%) C++
9 1 (0.60%) Groovy
9 1 (0.60%) PHP
9 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.60%) VBA
9 1 (0.60%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 62 (37.13%) Security Cleared
2 48 (28.74%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.78%) ISTQB
4 9 (5.39%) Degree
5 8 (4.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (4.79%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.60%) ISEB
9 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (39.52%) QA
2 63 (37.72%) Accessibility
3 32 (19.16%) WCAG
4 2 (1.20%) NCSC
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) MiFID
5 1 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 40 (23.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (12.57%) Kubernetes
2 17 (10.18%) Terraform
3 12 (7.19%) Grafana
4 11 (6.59%) Ansible
5 4 (2.40%) Podman
5 4 (2.40%) Progress Chef
5 4 (2.40%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.40%) Puppet
6 2 (1.20%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.20%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.20%) Kibana
6 2 (1.20%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.60%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 11 (6.59%) Splunk
2 9 (5.39%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.79%) Google
4 4 (2.40%) Xamarin
5 3 (1.80%) Adobe
5 3 (1.80%) Perforce
5 3 (1.80%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.20%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.20%) HP
6 2 (1.20%) OneLogin
6 2 (1.20%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.60%) Dundas
7 1 (0.60%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle
7 1 (0.60%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.60%) Virgin Media