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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 361 334
Rank change year-on-year -149 -27 +51
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 135 164 251
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.56% 0.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.29% 3.85% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 115 191
10th Percentile £311 £300 £400
25th Percentile £359 £383 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £431 £551
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -21.80% +4.86%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £650
90th Percentile £638 £612 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £450 £494
% change year-on-year +6.78% -8.91% -1.20%
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 5,901 4,260 5,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.01% 14.63% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,843 2,856 3,456
10th Percentile £350 £340 £350
25th Percentile £409 £410 £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 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 74 223
10th Percentile £35.00 £22.10 £26.59
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.75 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.07 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.20% -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 31 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 31 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 -130 109 £470 +9.30% 47
London -84 69 £450 +5.88% 19
Work from Home -73 50 £470 +10.59% 19
UK excluding London -110 49 £481 +6.78% 36
North of England -67 26 £485 +20.12% 11
North West -30 19 £500 +6.33% 6
Scotland -11 10 £481 +4.74% 5
Yorkshire -61 7 £350 +22.81% 4
Midlands -56 6 £525 +16.67% 4
West Midlands -58 6 £525 +16.67% 2
East of England -32 3 £300 -45.45% 3
South East -60 3 £500 -13.04% 7
South West -39 1 £425 -29.17% 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 20 (14.81%) Confluence
2 2 (1.48%) Camunda
2 2 (1.48%) CMS
3 1 (0.74%) Appian
3 1 (0.74%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 6 (4.44%) Shopify
2 1 (0.74%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 46 (34.07%) AWS
2 44 (32.59%) GitHub
3 39 (28.89%) Azure
4 33 (24.44%) GitHub Actions
5 19 (14.07%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (13.33%) Serverless
7 16 (11.85%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (11.11%) Amazon S3
9 10 (7.41%) Figma
9 10 (7.41%) GCP
10 9 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (5.93%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (4.44%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (3.70%) npm
14 5 (3.70%) Slack
15 3 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 3 (2.22%) Datadog
15 3 (2.22%) OpenShift
15 3 (2.22%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
1 6 (4.44%) DynamoDB
2 4 (2.96%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.22%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.48%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.48%) MySQL
5 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.74%) Power BI
5 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 66 (48.89%) Selenium
2 31 (22.96%) Git
3 27 (20.00%) JIRA
3 27 (20.00%) Postman
4 18 (13.33%) REST Assured
5 17 (12.59%) Jenkins
5 17 (12.59%) JUnit
6 13 (9.63%) Cucumber
6 13 (9.63%) GitLab
6 13 (9.63%) JMeter
7 10 (7.41%) CircleCI
8 9 (6.67%) WebDriver
9 8 (5.93%) Mocha
10 7 (5.19%) Appium
10 7 (5.19%) TestRail
10 7 (5.19%) webpack
11 5 (3.70%) TestNG
12 4 (2.96%) Ant
12 4 (2.96%) Maven
12 4 (2.96%) Vite
General
1 34 (25.19%) Public Sector
2 30 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.15%) Banking
5 5 (3.70%) Military
6 4 (2.96%) Finance
7 3 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.48%) Advertising
8 2 (1.48%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.48%) Law
8 2 (1.48%) Legal
8 2 (1.48%) Retail
9 1 (0.74%) Back Office
9 1 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.74%) Front Office
9 1 (0.74%) Games
9 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Publishing
9 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (28.15%) Developer
2 26 (19.26%) Senior
3 19 (14.07%) QA Engineer
3 19 (14.07%) Tester
4 18 (13.33%) Test Engineer
5 12 (8.89%) Lead
5 12 (8.89%) React Developer
6 9 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (5.93%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (5.93%) Automation Tester
7 8 (5.93%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 8 (5.93%) QA Tester
8 7 (5.19%) QA Automation Engineer
8 7 (5.19%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 6 (4.44%) Quality Engineer
10 5 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (3.70%) Senior Test Engineer
10 5 (3.70%) Test Automation Engineer
11 4 (2.96%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (54.07%) Playwright
2 50 (37.04%) React
3 38 (28.15%) REST
4 30 (22.22%) Jest
5 17 (12.59%) Node.js
6 15 (11.11%) CSS
7 14 (10.37%) Next.js
8 13 (9.63%) HTML
8 13 (9.63%) Redux
9 10 (7.41%) Spring
9 10 (7.41%) Spring Boot
10 9 (6.67%) GraphQL
10 9 (6.67%) pytest
10 9 (6.67%) RESTful
11 7 (5.19%) .NET
11 7 (5.19%) HTML5
12 6 (4.44%) AWS CDK
12 6 (4.44%) CSS3
13 5 (3.70%) AngularJS
13 5 (3.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.07%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.15%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.70%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 4 (2.96%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.48%) Genomics
6 2 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.48%) Life Science
7 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.74%) Blog
7 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.74%) iPhone
7 1 (0.74%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.96%) Android
1 4 (2.96%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (74.81%) Test Automation
2 76 (56.30%) Agile
3 66 (48.89%) CI/CD
4 48 (35.56%) DevOps
5 30 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (20.74%) API Testing
7 26 (19.26%) User Experience
8 24 (17.78%) Test Strategy
9 23 (17.04%) End-to-End Testing
10 22 (16.30%) Microservices
10 22 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (14.81%) Performance Testing
11 20 (14.81%) Software Testing
12 19 (14.07%) Full-Stack Development
12 19 (14.07%) UX Design
13 18 (13.33%) TDD
14 17 (12.59%) AI
14 17 (12.59%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (12.59%) Scrum
14 17 (12.59%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 63 (46.67%) TypeScript
2 61 (45.19%) JavaScript
3 33 (24.44%) Python
4 32 (23.70%) Java
5 16 (11.85%) SQL
6 15 (11.11%) C#
7 4 (2.96%) Scala
8 3 (2.22%) Go
9 1 (0.74%) Bash
9 1 (0.74%) Bicep
9 1 (0.74%) C++
9 1 (0.74%) Ruby
9 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.74%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.74%) VBA
9 1 (0.74%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 38 (28.15%) Security Cleared
2 30 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.15%) DV Cleared
4 10 (7.41%) ISTQB
5 8 (5.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (5.93%) Degree
6 6 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.74%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (43.70%) QA
2 52 (38.52%) Accessibility
3 27 (20.00%) WCAG
4 2 (1.48%) NCSC
5 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.74%) GxP
System Software
1 18 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (11.85%) Terraform
2 14 (10.37%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.96%) Grafana
4 3 (2.22%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.48%) Ansible
5 2 (1.48%) Kibana
5 2 (1.48%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.48%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.74%) Podman
6 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.74%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (5.19%) Splunk
2 6 (4.44%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.22%) Google
3 3 (2.22%) HP
3 3 (2.22%) Micro Focus
3 3 (2.22%) OpenText
4 2 (1.48%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.48%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.48%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.74%) Adobe
5 1 (0.74%) Aprimo
5 1 (0.74%) IBM
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle
5 1 (0.74%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.74%) Xamarin