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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 396 386 383
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 +61
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 178 167 255
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.46% 0.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.32% 3.54% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 121 186
10th Percentile £360 £340 £413
25th Percentile £409 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £632
90th Percentile £675 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £475
% change year-on-year +4.71% +0.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £72.35
25th Percentile - £42.50 £72.88
Median hourly rate - £45.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - -41.94% +10.71%
75th Percentile - £47.50 £81.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £77.50

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 5,364 4,715 6,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.28% 12.99% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,704 2,930 4,254
10th Percentile £331 £348 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £539
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.53% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £505
% change year-on-year -2.56% -3.47% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 131 241
10th Percentile £29.00 £24.84 £45.88
25th Percentile £50.00 £46.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.44 £88.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 17 November 2025.

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 16 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 17 November 2025. 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 -30 143 £500 -4.76% 126
UK excluding London -10 86 £500 +4.71% 90
London -6 75 £481 -15.20% 60
Work from Home +24 71 £500 -0.40% 64
North of England -23 26 £423 +5.63% 26
South West +14 21 £529 +0.67% 15
Scotland +3 17 £510 +11.72% 8
North West -12 17 £420 +5.00% 18
Midlands -20 10 £575 +22.67% 5
West Midlands - 8 £575 - 1
Yorkshire -31 7 £475 -2.56% 7
South East -6 6 £650 +100.00% 30
Wales -1 4 £520 -2.16% 2
East of England -13 3 £425 - 1
North East -7 2 £450 - 1
East Midlands -14 2 £573 +22.24% 4

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 9 (5.06%) Confluence
2 4 (2.25%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.12%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) Drupal
4 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 73 (41.01%) AWS
2 49 (27.53%) Azure
3 47 (26.40%) GitHub
4 27 (15.17%) Serverless
5 26 (14.61%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (11.80%) GCP
7 20 (11.24%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (11.24%) npm
8 17 (9.55%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (7.30%) Amazon S3
10 11 (6.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (6.18%) OpenShift
11 7 (3.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (3.37%) Amazon Cognito
12 6 (3.37%) Figma
13 5 (2.81%) Azure AKS
13 5 (2.81%) Datadog
13 5 (2.81%) Pulumi
14 4 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (2.25%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.12%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (1.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.80%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.62%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (3.93%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (3.93%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.25%) Redis
6 3 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.12%) Big Data
7 2 (1.12%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.12%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.12%) MySQL
7 2 (1.12%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.56%) Looker
8 1 (0.56%) Power BI
8 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 56 (31.46%) Selenium
2 42 (23.60%) Git
3 36 (20.22%) Postman
4 32 (17.98%) Jenkins
5 27 (15.17%) GitLab
6 25 (14.04%) JUnit
7 24 (13.48%) JIRA
8 22 (12.36%) REST Assured
9 21 (11.80%) Cucumber
10 15 (8.43%) SonarQube
11 11 (6.18%) JMeter
12 8 (4.49%) webpack
13 7 (3.93%) gulp
13 7 (3.93%) Maven
14 6 (3.37%) Appium
14 6 (3.37%) Gatling
14 6 (3.37%) Grunt
14 6 (3.37%) Sonatype Nexus
15 4 (2.25%) CircleCI
15 4 (2.25%) TestRail
General
1 38 (21.35%) Social Skills
2 34 (19.10%) Public Sector
3 30 (16.85%) Finance
4 20 (11.24%) Banking
5 11 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.81%) Military
7 4 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.25%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.69%) Publishing
9 2 (1.12%) Digital Health
9 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Front Office
10 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (25.84%) Developer
2 36 (20.22%) Senior
3 30 (16.85%) Tester
4 28 (15.73%) Automation Tester
5 27 (15.17%) Lead
6 18 (10.11%) Test Engineer
7 15 (8.43%) QA Engineer
7 15 (8.43%) Software Engineer
8 10 (5.62%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (5.06%) QA Leader
10 8 (4.49%) Senior Test Engineer
11 7 (3.93%) React Developer
11 7 (3.93%) UI Developer
12 6 (3.37%) Automation Engineer
12 6 (3.37%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 6 (3.37%) Java Developer
12 6 (3.37%) Technical Leader
13 5 (2.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 5 (2.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 5 (2.81%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (43.26%) React
2 58 (32.58%) Jest
2 58 (32.58%) Playwright
3 41 (23.03%) Node.js
4 36 (20.22%) REST
4 36 (20.22%) RESTful
5 35 (19.66%) CSS
6 29 (16.29%) HTML
7 24 (13.48%) Redux
8 20 (11.24%) AngularJS
9 19 (10.67%) Sass
10 18 (10.11%) .NET
11 17 (9.55%) Next.js
12 16 (8.99%) JSON
13 14 (7.87%) Enzyme
13 14 (7.87%) HTML5
14 13 (7.30%) CSS3
15 12 (6.74%) AWS CDK
16 11 (6.18%) .NET Core
16 11 (6.18%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.30%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.62%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.62%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (3.93%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.37%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.25%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.25%) Genomics
5 4 (2.25%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.69%) Life Science
7 2 (1.12%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.12%) Blog
7 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.93%) Linux
2 4 (2.25%) Android
2 4 (2.25%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (64.61%) Test Automation
2 109 (61.24%) CI/CD
3 96 (53.93%) Agile
4 68 (38.20%) DevOps
5 43 (24.16%) Software Engineering
6 39 (21.91%) Test Strategy
7 35 (19.66%) Microservices
8 34 (19.10%) End-to-End Testing
9 32 (17.98%) Front End Development
10 30 (16.85%) Containerisation
10 30 (16.85%) Full-Stack Development
11 29 (16.29%) API Testing
12 26 (14.61%) Software Testing
13 25 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (14.04%) User Experience
14 24 (13.48%) Clean Code
14 24 (13.48%) TDD
15 22 (12.36%) BDD
15 22 (12.36%) Code Quality
15 22 (12.36%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 94 (52.81%) JavaScript
2 78 (43.82%) TypeScript
3 52 (29.21%) Java
4 27 (15.17%) Python
5 25 (14.04%) SQL
6 12 (6.74%) C#
7 5 (2.81%) JSX
8 3 (1.69%) Bash
9 2 (1.12%) Elm
9 2 (1.12%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.12%) Perl
9 2 (1.12%) PHP
10 1 (0.56%) Ada
10 1 (0.56%) Go
10 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 57 (32.02%) Security Cleared
2 45 (25.28%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.62%) Degree
4 9 (5.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.93%) ISTQB
6 6 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.37%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.12%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.56%) ISEB
9 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (34.83%) QA
2 59 (33.15%) Accessibility
3 25 (14.04%) WCAG
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) MiFID
4 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 44 (24.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (14.61%) Kubernetes
2 25 (14.04%) Terraform
3 12 (6.74%) Ansible
3 12 (6.74%) Grafana
4 6 (3.37%) Puppet
5 4 (2.25%) Podman
5 4 (2.25%) Progress Chef
5 4 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 12 (6.74%) Splunk
2 10 (5.62%) Google
2 10 (5.62%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.37%) Perforce
4 3 (1.69%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.69%) Xamarin
5 2 (1.12%) Adobe
5 2 (1.12%) Cisco
5 2 (1.12%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.12%) OneLogin
5 2 (1.12%) Oracle
6 1 (0.56%) Dundas
6 1 (0.56%) IBM
6 1 (0.56%) UiPath
6 1 (0.56%) Virgin Media