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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 370 352
Rank change year-on-year -119 -18 +60
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 128 157 243
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.54% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.22% 3.80% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 109 179
10th Percentile £311 £300 £387
25th Percentile £351 £380 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £430 £520
Median % change year-on-year +7.56% -17.31% -0.95%
75th Percentile £541 £506 £613
90th Percentile £638 £601 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £67.50
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £72.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £70.00
% 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 5,766 4,128 5,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.22% 14.09% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,807 2,751 3,468
10th Percentile £349 £340 £355
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £716 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 71 202
10th Percentile £36.65 £27.50 £33.20
25th Percentile £59.63 £50.00 £46.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.38 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.25 £80.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 4 May 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 13 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 4 May 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 -126 107 £465 +8.08% 38
London -67 69 £448 +5.29% 16
Work from Home -48 48 £460 +9.26% 19
UK excluding London -111 39 £500 +11.11% 30
North of England -48 25 £500 +42.86% 13
North West -27 16 £500 +0.45% 7
Yorkshire -44 9 £350 +27.27% 6
Midlands -74 6 £575 +27.78% 4
West Midlands -61 5 £438 -2.78% 2
Scotland -19 3 £588 +30.56% 2
East of England -35 3 £300 -45.45% 2
South East -59 3 £500 +42.86% 5
East Midlands -35 1 £725 +58.04% 2

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 20 (15.63%) Confluence
2 2 (1.56%) Camunda
3 1 (0.78%) Apache
3 1 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.78%) CMS
3 1 (0.78%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 6 (4.69%) Shopify
2 1 (0.78%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 41 (32.03%) Azure
1 41 (32.03%) GitHub
2 40 (31.25%) AWS
3 30 (23.44%) GitHub Actions
4 23 (17.97%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (9.38%) Serverless
6 11 (8.59%) Amazon S3
6 11 (8.59%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (7.81%) Figma
8 9 (7.03%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (7.03%) GCP
9 8 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
10 6 (4.69%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.91%) Slack
12 4 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (3.13%) npm
13 3 (2.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (2.34%) Datadog
13 3 (2.34%) OpenShift
13 3 (2.34%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.03%) DynamoDB
2 6 (4.69%) Amazon Athena
2 6 (4.69%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.13%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.13%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.56%) MySQL
5 2 (1.56%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.78%) Power BI
6 1 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 63 (49.22%) Selenium
2 31 (24.22%) Git
3 29 (22.66%) JIRA
4 26 (20.31%) Postman
5 19 (14.84%) Jenkins
6 17 (13.28%) JUnit
7 16 (12.50%) REST Assured
8 15 (11.72%) GitLab
9 14 (10.94%) Cucumber
10 10 (7.81%) CircleCI
10 10 (7.81%) JMeter
11 8 (6.25%) Mocha
11 8 (6.25%) WebDriver
12 7 (5.47%) TestRail
13 6 (4.69%) Appium
13 6 (4.69%) TestNG
13 6 (4.69%) webpack
14 5 (3.91%) Maven
14 5 (3.91%) Vite
15 3 (2.34%) Gatling
General
1 27 (21.09%) Public Sector
2 25 (19.53%) Social Skills
3 16 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.59%) Banking
5 8 (6.25%) Finance
6 4 (3.13%) Military
7 3 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.56%) Advertising
8 2 (1.56%) Law
9 1 (0.78%) Back Office
9 1 (0.78%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Front Office
9 1 (0.78%) Games
9 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.78%) Police
9 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (25.00%) Developer
2 26 (20.31%) Senior
3 19 (14.84%) QA Engineer
4 18 (14.06%) Tester
5 17 (13.28%) Lead
6 14 (10.94%) Test Engineer
7 10 (7.81%) Automation Engineer
7 10 (7.81%) React Developer
8 9 (7.03%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (7.03%) QA Automation Engineer
9 8 (6.25%) Automation Tester
9 8 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 7 (5.47%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 7 (5.47%) QA Tester
10 7 (5.47%) Software Engineer
11 6 (4.69%) Quality Engineer
12 5 (3.91%) Java Developer
12 5 (3.91%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (3.91%) Test Leader
13 4 (3.13%) User Experience Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (55.47%) Playwright
2 52 (40.63%) React
3 32 (25.00%) REST
4 31 (24.22%) Jest
5 19 (14.84%) Node.js
6 15 (11.72%) Next.js
7 14 (10.94%) CSS
8 12 (9.38%) HTML
8 12 (9.38%) RESTful
8 12 (9.38%) Spring
8 12 (9.38%) Spring Boot
9 11 (8.59%) Redux
10 8 (6.25%) .NET
10 8 (6.25%) AngularJS
11 7 (5.47%) GraphQL
11 7 (5.47%) pytest
12 5 (3.91%) CSS3
12 5 (3.91%) HTML5
12 5 (3.91%) Vue
13 4 (3.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.59%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.03%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.91%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 4 (3.13%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.56%) Genomics
6 2 (1.56%) Life Science
6 2 (1.56%) NHS
6 2 (1.56%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.78%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.78%) Blog
7 1 (0.78%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.78%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.78%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.13%) Android
1 4 (3.13%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (76.56%) Test Automation
2 68 (53.13%) Agile
3 66 (51.56%) CI/CD
4 51 (39.84%) DevOps
5 29 (22.66%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (22.66%) User Experience
6 28 (21.88%) API Testing
7 25 (19.53%) End-to-End Testing
8 23 (17.97%) Full-Stack Development
9 22 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (17.19%) Software Testing
10 21 (16.41%) UX Design
11 18 (14.06%) Microservices
11 18 (14.06%) Performance Testing
11 18 (14.06%) Test Strategy
12 17 (13.28%) Software Engineering
12 17 (13.28%) Test Scripting
13 15 (11.72%) AI
13 15 (11.72%) Containerisation
13 15 (11.72%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 57 (44.53%) TypeScript
2 49 (38.28%) JavaScript
3 36 (28.13%) Java
4 26 (20.31%) Python
5 19 (14.84%) SQL
6 16 (12.50%) C#
7 4 (3.13%) Scala
8 3 (2.34%) Go
9 2 (1.56%) Bash
10 1 (0.78%) Bicep
10 1 (0.78%) C++
10 1 (0.78%) Groovy
10 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.78%) Ruby
10 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.78%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.78%) VBA
10 1 (0.78%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 38 (29.69%) Security Cleared
2 31 (24.22%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.81%) ISTQB
4 9 (7.03%) Degree
4 9 (7.03%) DV Cleared
5 8 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.78%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (46.09%) QA
2 50 (39.06%) Accessibility
3 27 (21.09%) WCAG
4 2 (1.56%) NCSC
5 1 (0.78%) GxP
System Software
1 19 (14.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (10.16%) Terraform
2 12 (9.38%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.69%) Grafana
4 4 (3.13%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.56%) Ansible
5 2 (1.56%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.56%) Kibana
5 2 (1.56%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.56%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.78%) Podman
6 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (6.25%) Splunk
2 7 (5.47%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.13%) HP
4 3 (2.34%) Micro Focus
4 3 (2.34%) OpenText
4 3 (2.34%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.56%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.56%) Google
5 2 (1.56%) Oracle
5 2 (1.56%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.78%) Adobe
6 1 (0.78%) Aprimo
6 1 (0.78%) IBM
6 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.78%) Xamarin