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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 381 347
Rank change year-on-year -126 -34 +43
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 148 171 248
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.54% 0.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.43% 3.69% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 108 195
10th Percentile £304 £309 £390
25th Percentile £350 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £551
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -18.26% +4.86%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £650
90th Percentile £635 £616 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £428 £472 £500
% change year-on-year -9.43% -5.60% -
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 6,096 4,634 5,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.77% 14.57% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,916 3,104 3,569
10th Percentile £350 £330 £350
25th Percentile £413 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £693 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 94 251
10th Percentile £26.15 £21.22 £31.25
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.44
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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -126 117 £440 +2.92% 50
London -72 73 £470 +10.59% 16
UK excluding London -125 57 £428 -9.43% 40
Work from Home -75 53 £450 +5.88% 30
North of England -66 25 £450 +6.51% 12
Scotland -22 14 £450 -5.26% 4
North West -37 14 £475 +2.32% 7
West Midlands -52 11 £313 -30.56% 1
Midlands -57 11 £313 -30.56% 3
Yorkshire -51 8 £350 -2.10% 2
East of England -29 3 £300 -47.83% 1
North East - 3 £380 - 3
South West -40 2 £513 -14.58% 10
South East -56 2 £450 -21.74% 8

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 (13.51%) Confluence
2 2 (1.35%) CMS
2 2 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.68%) Appian
3 1 (0.68%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (4.05%) Shopify
2 4 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.68%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 46 (31.08%) AWS
2 44 (29.73%) GitHub
3 43 (29.05%) Azure
4 33 (22.30%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (17.57%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (14.86%) Serverless
7 18 (12.16%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (10.81%) Amazon S3
9 11 (7.43%) Figma
9 11 (7.43%) GCP
10 9 (6.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (4.73%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (4.05%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (3.38%) Slack
15 4 (2.70%) npm
15 4 (2.70%) Power Automate
16 3 (2.03%) GitHub Copilot
16 3 (2.03%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.05%) Amazon Athena
1 6 (4.05%) DynamoDB
1 6 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.70%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.70%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.35%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.68%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 77 (52.03%) Selenium
2 35 (23.65%) Postman
3 32 (21.62%) Git
4 29 (19.59%) JIRA
5 26 (17.57%) REST Assured
6 21 (14.19%) Jenkins
7 18 (12.16%) Cucumber
8 14 (9.46%) JMeter
9 13 (8.78%) WebDriver
10 11 (7.43%) JUnit
11 10 (6.76%) Appium
11 10 (6.76%) Gatling
11 10 (6.76%) GitLab
12 8 (5.41%) TestRail
12 8 (5.41%) webpack
13 6 (4.05%) Mocha
13 6 (4.05%) SpecFlow
13 6 (4.05%) TestNG
14 5 (3.38%) CircleCI
14 5 (3.38%) Vite
General
1 39 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 37 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 28 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.11%) Banking
5 8 (5.41%) Finance
6 7 (4.73%) Military
7 5 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.03%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.03%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.03%) Retail
9 2 (1.35%) Advertising
9 2 (1.35%) Back Office
9 2 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.35%) Legal
9 2 (1.35%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Front Office
10 1 (0.68%) Games
10 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.68%) Police
10 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (24.32%) Developer
2 24 (16.22%) Senior
3 21 (14.19%) Test Engineer
4 20 (13.51%) QA Engineer
4 20 (13.51%) Tester
5 14 (9.46%) Analyst
5 14 (9.46%) Lead
6 13 (8.78%) React Developer
7 12 (8.11%) Test Analyst
8 10 (6.76%) Automation Tester
8 10 (6.76%) Test Automation Engineer
9 9 (6.08%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 8 (5.41%) QA Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.41%) QA Tester
11 7 (4.73%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (4.05%) Quality Engineer
13 5 (3.38%) Software Engineer
14 4 (2.70%) Consultant
14 4 (2.70%) User Experience Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (54.73%) Playwright
2 48 (32.43%) React
3 38 (25.68%) REST
4 31 (20.95%) Jest
5 18 (12.16%) CSS
5 18 (12.16%) Node.js
6 17 (11.49%) Redux
7 15 (10.14%) HTML
7 15 (10.14%) Next.js
8 13 (8.78%) GraphQL
9 10 (6.76%) pytest
9 10 (6.76%) RESTful
10 9 (6.08%) HTML5
11 8 (5.41%) CSS3
12 7 (4.73%) AWS CDK
12 7 (4.73%) Kafka
13 5 (3.38%) Gherkin
13 5 (3.38%) JSON
13 5 (3.38%) Sass
13 5 (3.38%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.84%) Cloud Native
2 18 (12.16%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.73%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (4.05%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (4.05%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.38%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.35%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.35%) Genomics
9 2 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.35%) Life Science
9 2 (1.35%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.35%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.35%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.68%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.70%) Mac OS
2 3 (2.03%) Android
3 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (72.97%) Test Automation
2 83 (56.08%) Agile
3 77 (52.03%) CI/CD
4 52 (35.14%) DevOps
5 46 (31.08%) API Testing
6 33 (22.30%) End-to-End Testing
7 31 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (20.95%) Test Strategy
8 27 (18.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (15.54%) Microservices
9 23 (15.54%) Scrum
9 23 (15.54%) TDD
9 23 (15.54%) User Experience
10 22 (14.86%) AI
10 22 (14.86%) BDD
10 22 (14.86%) Performance Testing
11 21 (14.19%) Software Testing
12 17 (11.49%) User Acceptance Testing
12 17 (11.49%) UX Design
13 16 (10.81%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 70 (47.30%) TypeScript
2 69 (46.62%) JavaScript
3 36 (24.32%) Python
4 34 (22.97%) Java
5 19 (12.84%) C#
6 18 (12.16%) SQL
7 6 (4.05%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.70%) Scala
9 1 (0.68%) Bash
9 1 (0.68%) Bicep
9 1 (0.68%) C++
9 1 (0.68%) Ruby
9 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.68%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.68%) VBA
9 1 (0.68%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 44 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 36 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.78%) DV Cleared
3 13 (8.78%) ISTQB
4 9 (6.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (5.41%) Degree
6 6 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.68%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (43.24%) QA
2 54 (36.49%) Accessibility
3 28 (18.92%) WCAG
4 4 (2.70%) GDPR
5 2 (1.35%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.68%) GRC
6 1 (0.68%) GxP
6 1 (0.68%) SEPA
System Software
1 15 (10.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (9.46%) Terraform
2 13 (8.78%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.38%) Grafana
4 4 (2.70%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.35%) Kibana
5 2 (1.35%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.35%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 9 (6.08%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.05%) Splunk
3 4 (2.70%) HP
4 3 (2.03%) Google
4 3 (2.03%) Micro Focus
4 3 (2.03%) OpenText
4 3 (2.03%) Oracle
5 2 (1.35%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.35%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.68%) Aprimo
6 1 (0.68%) IBM
6 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.68%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.68%) Xamarin