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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 363 367
Rank change year-on-year -126 +4 +45
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 134 158 225
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.54% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.31% 3.83% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 112 159
10th Percentile £312 £301 £398
25th Percentile £358 £361 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £430 £513
Median % change year-on-year +9.30% -16.10% -2.38%
75th Percentile £539 £520 £613
90th Percentile £608 £606 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% -2.00%
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 5,790 4,129 5,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.54% 14.03% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,857 2,775 3,471
10th Percentile £343 £338 £356
25th Percentile £404 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £625
90th Percentile £686 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 68 180
10th Percentile £39.53 £27.06 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.46 £51.77 £45.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £76.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.93 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.40% - +1.63%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -119 114 £470 +7.37% 55
London -63 72 £450 +5.26% 19
Work from Home -49 48 £473 +16.31% 41
UK excluding London -113 45 £500 +11.11% 41
North of England -65 24 £485 +29.33% 21
North West -32 18 £500 +6.33% 12
Midlands -68 7 £583 +26.98% 2
Scotland 0 5 £588 +30.56% 2
South East -51 5 £650 +85.71% 9
Yorkshire -58 5 £470 +70.91% 9
West Midlands -61 5 £438 -2.78% 1
East of England -31 3 £300 -45.45% 2
South West -32 3 £508 -5.58% 2
East Midlands -32 2 £725 +55.08% 1
North East - 1 £350 -

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 14 (10.45%) Confluence
2 2 (1.49%) Apache
2 2 (1.49%) Camunda
3 1 (0.75%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.75%) CMS
3 1 (0.75%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.75%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 6 (4.48%) Shopify
2 1 (0.75%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 49 (36.57%) AWS
2 46 (34.33%) GitHub
3 45 (33.58%) Azure
4 35 (26.12%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (17.16%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (12.69%) Serverless
7 15 (11.19%) Amazon S3
7 15 (11.19%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (6.72%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (6.72%) GCP
9 8 (5.97%) AWS Step Functions
10 6 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (4.48%) npm
11 5 (3.73%) Figma
12 4 (2.99%) Amazon Cognito
12 4 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (2.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (2.24%) Azure AKS
13 3 (2.24%) Datadog
13 3 (2.24%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.72%) DynamoDB
1 9 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.97%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.48%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (3.73%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.99%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.49%) MySQL
7 2 (1.49%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.75%) Power BI
8 1 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 62 (46.27%) Selenium
2 36 (26.87%) Git
3 29 (21.64%) Postman
4 24 (17.91%) JIRA
5 20 (14.93%) Jenkins
6 19 (14.18%) REST Assured
7 16 (11.94%) GitLab
7 16 (11.94%) JUnit
8 11 (8.21%) Cucumber
9 10 (7.46%) CircleCI
10 9 (6.72%) JMeter
11 8 (5.97%) Mocha
11 8 (5.97%) TestRail
11 8 (5.97%) WebDriver
12 6 (4.48%) Appium
12 6 (4.48%) webpack
13 5 (3.73%) Maven
13 5 (3.73%) Vite
14 4 (2.99%) ESLint
14 4 (2.99%) Jasmine
General
1 29 (21.64%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.16%) Public Sector
3 16 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.70%) Banking
5 9 (6.72%) Finance
6 4 (2.99%) Publishing
7 3 (2.24%) Military
7 3 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.49%) Advertising
8 2 (1.49%) Law
9 1 (0.75%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Front Office
9 1 (0.75%) Games
9 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.75%) Police
9 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (29.10%) Developer
2 29 (21.64%) Senior
3 21 (15.67%) QA Engineer
4 17 (12.69%) Tester
5 16 (11.94%) Test Engineer
6 13 (9.70%) React Developer
7 12 (8.96%) Lead
8 11 (8.21%) Automation Tester
9 10 (7.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 10 (7.46%) QA Automation Engineer
9 10 (7.46%) Software Engineer
10 9 (6.72%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (6.72%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (5.22%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 7 (5.22%) Java Developer
12 6 (4.48%) Quality Engineer
12 6 (4.48%) Senior Developer
13 5 (3.73%) Analyst
13 5 (3.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 5 (3.73%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (51.49%) Playwright
2 59 (44.03%) React
3 42 (31.34%) Jest
4 34 (25.37%) REST
5 22 (16.42%) Node.js
6 21 (15.67%) CSS
6 21 (15.67%) RESTful
7 16 (11.94%) Redux
8 15 (11.19%) HTML
8 15 (11.19%) Next.js
9 14 (10.45%) Spring
9 14 (10.45%) Spring Boot
10 12 (8.96%) AngularJS
11 8 (5.97%) .NET
12 7 (5.22%) CSS3
12 7 (5.22%) GraphQL
12 7 (5.22%) HTML5
12 7 (5.22%) pytest
12 7 (5.22%) Sass
12 7 (5.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.21%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.46%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.72%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.99%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.24%) Blog
6 3 (2.24%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.49%) Genomics
7 2 (1.49%) Life Science
7 2 (1.49%) NHS
7 2 (1.49%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.75%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.75%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.75%) iPhone
8 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.22%) Android
2 4 (2.99%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.75%) Linux
3 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (75.37%) Test Automation
2 79 (58.96%) Agile
3 76 (56.72%) CI/CD
4 52 (38.81%) DevOps
5 31 (23.13%) End-to-End Testing
6 30 (22.39%) API Testing
6 30 (22.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (20.90%) Full-Stack Development
7 28 (20.90%) User Experience
8 23 (17.16%) Software Testing
8 23 (17.16%) Test Strategy
9 22 (16.42%) Microservices
9 22 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (16.42%) Software Engineering
10 20 (14.93%) Containerisation
11 19 (14.18%) Test Scripting
12 18 (13.43%) UX Design
13 17 (12.69%) BDD
14 16 (11.94%) Front End Development
15 15 (11.19%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 60 (44.78%) TypeScript
2 58 (43.28%) JavaScript
3 43 (32.09%) Java
4 28 (20.90%) Python
5 26 (19.40%) SQL
6 16 (11.94%) C#
7 3 (2.24%) Go
7 3 (2.24%) JSX
8 2 (1.49%) Bash
8 2 (1.49%) Scala
9 1 (0.75%) Bicep
9 1 (0.75%) C++
9 1 (0.75%) Groovy
9 1 (0.75%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.75%) Ruby
9 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.75%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.75%) VBA
9 1 (0.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 39 (29.10%) Security Cleared
2 30 (22.39%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.70%) ISTQB
4 9 (6.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (6.72%) Degree
5 7 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.73%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.49%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.75%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (47.01%) QA
2 49 (36.57%) Accessibility
3 27 (20.15%) WCAG
4 2 (1.49%) NCSC
5 1 (0.75%) GxP
5 1 (0.75%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 24 (17.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (11.94%) Terraform
2 14 (10.45%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.22%) Grafana
4 4 (2.99%) Ansible
4 4 (2.99%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.49%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.49%) Kibana
5 2 (1.49%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.49%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.75%) Podman
6 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (5.97%) Splunk
2 7 (5.22%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.99%) HP
3 4 (2.99%) Xamarin
4 3 (2.24%) Micro Focus
4 3 (2.24%) OpenText
4 3 (2.24%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.49%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.49%) Google
5 2 (1.49%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.75%) Adobe
6 1 (0.75%) Aprimo
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle
6 1 (0.75%) Salesforce