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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 373 341
Rank change year-on-year -133 -32 +64
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 139 165 253
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.55% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.31% 3.76% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 105 195
10th Percentile £306 £305 £390
25th Percentile £350 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -18.33% +4.95%
75th Percentile £566 £538 £650
90th Percentile £638 £620 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £464 £500
% change year-on-year -0.76% -7.30% -
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 6,017 4,386 5,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.86% 14.65% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,891 2,927 3,538
10th Percentile £350 £331 £355
25th Percentile £410 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £625
90th Percentile £688 £695 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 86 253
10th Percentile £26.20 £20.86 £28.65
25th Percentile £55.94 £46.42 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% -11.35% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.48 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.83% -7.69% +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 22 June 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 14 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 22 June 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 -115 110 £450 - 22
London -74 69 £473 +11.18% 4
UK excluding London -115 53 £460 -0.76% 23
Work from Home -71 50 £470 +10.59% 9
North of England -66 24 £450 +6.51% 11
North West -31 15 £500 +7.70% 6
Scotland -11 13 £481 +2.78% 2
Yorkshire -54 8 £350 -2.10% 2
Midlands -55 8 £313 -30.56%
West Midlands -56 8 £313 -30.56%
East of England -24 3 £300 -47.83%
South East -64 3 £500 -13.04% 4
South West -46 2 £513 -14.58% 3
North East - 1 - - 3

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 19 (13.67%) Confluence
2 2 (1.44%) Camunda
2 2 (1.44%) CMS
3 1 (0.72%) Appian
3 1 (0.72%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 6 (4.32%) Shopify
2 2 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.72%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 46 (33.09%) AWS
2 44 (31.65%) GitHub
3 41 (29.50%) Azure
4 34 (24.46%) GitHub Actions
5 24 (17.27%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (13.67%) Serverless
7 16 (11.51%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (10.79%) Amazon S3
9 11 (7.91%) GCP
10 9 (6.47%) Figma
11 8 (5.76%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (5.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (4.32%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (3.60%) Slack
15 4 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
15 4 (2.88%) npm
16 3 (2.16%) SaaS
17 2 (1.44%) Cloud Run
17 2 (1.44%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.32%) Amazon Athena
2 6 (4.32%) DynamoDB
3 4 (2.88%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.88%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.44%) MySQL
4 2 (1.44%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.72%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 71 (51.08%) Selenium
2 32 (23.02%) Git
2 32 (23.02%) Postman
3 27 (19.42%) JIRA
4 22 (15.83%) REST Assured
5 19 (13.67%) Jenkins
6 18 (12.95%) Cucumber
7 14 (10.07%) JUnit
8 13 (9.35%) JMeter
9 12 (8.63%) WebDriver
10 11 (7.91%) GitLab
11 9 (6.47%) Appium
11 9 (6.47%) Gatling
12 8 (5.76%) TestRail
13 7 (5.04%) webpack
14 6 (4.32%) CircleCI
14 6 (4.32%) Mocha
14 6 (4.32%) SpecFlow
15 5 (3.60%) TestNG
16 4 (2.88%) Ant
General
1 38 (27.34%) Social Skills
2 36 (25.90%) Public Sector
3 23 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.63%) Banking
5 8 (5.76%) Military
6 6 (4.32%) Finance
7 3 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.16%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.16%) Retail
8 2 (1.44%) Advertising
8 2 (1.44%) Back Office
8 2 (1.44%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.44%) Law
8 2 (1.44%) Legal
8 2 (1.44%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.72%) Front Office
9 1 (0.72%) Games
9 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (24.46%) Developer
2 24 (17.27%) Senior
3 22 (15.83%) Test Engineer
4 20 (14.39%) QA Engineer
5 19 (13.67%) Tester
6 13 (9.35%) Lead
7 12 (8.63%) React Developer
8 10 (7.19%) Test Automation Engineer
9 9 (6.47%) Automation Engineer
9 9 (6.47%) Automation Tester
10 8 (5.76%) QA Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.76%) QA Tester
11 7 (5.04%) Analyst
11 7 (5.04%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (5.04%) Software Engineer
12 6 (4.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 6 (4.32%) Quality Engineer
12 6 (4.32%) Test Analyst
13 5 (3.60%) Senior Software Engineer
14 4 (2.88%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (55.40%) Playwright
2 47 (33.81%) React
3 36 (25.90%) REST
4 29 (20.86%) Jest
5 16 (11.51%) CSS
5 16 (11.51%) Node.js
6 14 (10.07%) HTML
6 14 (10.07%) Redux
7 13 (9.35%) Next.js
8 10 (7.19%) GraphQL
9 9 (6.47%) pytest
10 8 (5.76%) RESTful
10 8 (5.76%) Spring
10 8 (5.76%) Spring Boot
11 7 (5.04%) HTML5
12 6 (4.32%) .NET
12 6 (4.32%) AWS CDK
12 6 (4.32%) CSS3
12 6 (4.32%) Kafka
13 5 (3.60%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.67%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.07%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.32%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.60%) Mobile App
5 5 (3.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 5 (3.60%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.44%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.44%) Genomics
7 2 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.44%) Life Science
8 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.72%) Blog
8 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.88%) Mac OS
2 3 (2.16%) Android
3 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (74.10%) Test Automation
2 80 (57.55%) Agile
3 68 (48.92%) CI/CD
4 49 (35.25%) DevOps
5 39 (28.06%) API Testing
6 29 (20.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 29 (20.86%) End-to-End Testing
7 26 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (17.99%) Test Strategy
9 23 (16.55%) User Experience
10 22 (15.83%) Microservices
10 22 (15.83%) TDD
11 21 (15.11%) Software Testing
12 19 (13.67%) Scrum
13 18 (12.95%) AI
13 18 (12.95%) BDD
13 18 (12.95%) Performance Testing
14 17 (12.23%) UX Design
15 16 (11.51%) Infrastructure as Code
15 16 (11.51%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 65 (46.76%) TypeScript
2 63 (45.32%) JavaScript
3 34 (24.46%) Java
3 34 (24.46%) Python
4 19 (13.67%) SQL
5 18 (12.95%) C#
6 6 (4.32%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.88%) Scala
8 2 (1.44%) Go
9 1 (0.72%) Bash
9 1 (0.72%) Bicep
9 1 (0.72%) C++
9 1 (0.72%) Ruby
9 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.72%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.72%) VBA
9 1 (0.72%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 43 (30.94%) Security Cleared
2 34 (24.46%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.35%) DV Cleared
4 12 (8.63%) ISTQB
5 8 (5.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (5.76%) Degree
6 6 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (41.73%) QA
2 51 (36.69%) Accessibility
3 26 (18.71%) WCAG
4 2 (1.44%) GDPR
4 2 (1.44%) NCSC
5 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.72%) GRC
5 1 (0.72%) GxP
5 1 (0.72%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 18 (12.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (10.79%) Kubernetes
1 15 (10.79%) Terraform
2 4 (2.88%) Grafana
2 4 (2.88%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.44%) Kibana
3 2 (1.44%) Rundeck
4 1 (0.72%) Ansible
4 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (5.04%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.32%) Splunk
3 4 (2.88%) HP
4 3 (2.16%) Google
4 3 (2.16%) Micro Focus
4 3 (2.16%) OpenText
4 3 (2.16%) Oracle
5 2 (1.44%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.44%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.44%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.72%) Aprimo
6 1 (0.72%) IBM
6 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.72%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.72%) Xamarin