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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 380 395
Rank change year-on-year -76 +15 +26
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 156 153 203
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.52% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.70% 3.78% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 113 141
10th Percentile £323 £302 £400
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £506
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -11.07% -1.27%
75th Percentile £547 £538 £600
90th Percentile £606 £609 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £468 £480
% change year-on-year +10.16% -2.60% -1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £68.75
25th Percentile - - £70.63
Median hourly rate - - £77.50
75th Percentile - - £81.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £77.50
% change year-on-year - - +43.52%

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 5,780 4,049 5,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.50% 13.74% 11.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,886 2,671 3,586
10th Percentile £342 £330 £357
25th Percentile £405 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £627
90th Percentile £688 £725 £714
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 69 202
10th Percentile £33.58 £24.17 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.94 £71.25 £70.94
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £82.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -83 133 £500 +11.11% 49
London -57 72 £473 +7.33% 20
UK excluding London -76 66 £515 +10.16% 31
Work from Home -22 53 £475 +18.75% 25
North of England -47 31 £500 +33.33% 12
North West -20 21 £500 +18.34% 8
South West -21 13 £529 +0.67% 8
Midlands -59 10 £575 +22.99% 4
Yorkshire -54 8 £513 +86.36% 4
Scotland +10 7 £588 +38.24%
West Midlands -56 7 £575 +35.29% 3
South East -58 5 £650 +100.00% 6
East Midlands -32 3 £725 +54.67% 1
East of England -27 2 £300 -45.45%
North East - 2 £450 -

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 11 (7.05%) Confluence
2 3 (1.92%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.28%) Apache
3 2 (1.28%) Camunda
4 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.64%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.64%) CMS
4 1 (0.64%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (32.69%) AWS
2 47 (30.13%) Azure
2 47 (30.13%) GitHub
3 35 (22.44%) GitHub Actions
4 28 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (8.97%) Serverless
6 11 (7.05%) Amazon S3
6 11 (7.05%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (7.05%) GCP
6 11 (7.05%) npm
7 6 (3.85%) Amazon Cognito
7 6 (3.85%) Figma
7 6 (3.85%) OpenShift
8 5 (3.21%) Azure AKS
9 4 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (2.56%) Datadog
10 3 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.13%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.49%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.85%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.21%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.28%) MySQL
6 2 (1.28%) Redis
6 2 (1.28%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.64%) Big Data
7 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.64%) Power BI
7 1 (0.64%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 69 (44.23%) Selenium
2 39 (25.00%) Postman
3 34 (21.79%) Git
4 26 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 26 (16.67%) REST Assured
5 25 (16.03%) GitLab
6 24 (15.38%) JIRA
7 22 (14.10%) JUnit
8 18 (11.54%) Cucumber
9 11 (7.05%) CircleCI
10 9 (5.77%) WebDriver
11 8 (5.13%) TestRail
11 8 (5.13%) webpack
12 7 (4.49%) Maven
12 7 (4.49%) Mocha
12 7 (4.49%) SonarQube
13 5 (3.21%) Gradle
13 5 (3.21%) JMeter
14 4 (2.56%) ESLint
14 4 (2.56%) Jasmine
General
1 35 (22.44%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.87%) Public Sector
3 17 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.33%) Banking
5 10 (6.41%) Finance
6 6 (3.85%) Military
7 4 (2.56%) Publishing
8 3 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.64%) Advertising
9 1 (0.64%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.64%) Games
9 1 (0.64%) Law
9 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (26.92%) Senior
2 39 (25.00%) Developer
3 23 (14.74%) Test Engineer
3 23 (14.74%) Tester
4 20 (12.82%) Lead
4 20 (12.82%) QA Engineer
5 19 (12.18%) Automation Tester
6 14 (8.97%) Software Engineer
7 11 (7.05%) QA Leader
7 11 (7.05%) React Developer
8 10 (6.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 10 (6.41%) Senior Test Engineer
9 9 (5.77%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 9 (5.77%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (4.49%) Java Developer
10 7 (4.49%) QA Automation Engineer
11 6 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
11 6 (3.85%) Senior Automation Tester
11 6 (3.85%) Senior Tester
12 5 (3.21%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (48.72%) Playwright
2 62 (39.74%) React
3 49 (31.41%) Jest
4 38 (24.36%) REST
5 31 (19.87%) Node.js
6 26 (16.67%) RESTful
7 24 (15.38%) CSS
8 18 (11.54%) Redux
9 16 (10.26%) HTML
10 15 (9.62%) Spring
10 15 (9.62%) Spring Boot
11 14 (8.97%) Next.js
12 12 (7.69%) AngularJS
13 11 (7.05%) Sass
14 8 (5.13%) .NET
14 8 (5.13%) HTML5
14 8 (5.13%) JSON
14 8 (5.13%) Zustand
15 7 (4.49%) pytest
15 7 (4.49%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (6.41%) Mobile App
2 10 (6.41%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.77%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.21%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (2.56%) Genomics
6 3 (1.92%) Blog
6 3 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.92%) Life Science
6 3 (1.92%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.92%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.92%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.28%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.28%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.28%) NHS
8 1 (0.64%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.64%) iPhone
8 1 (0.64%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.49%) Android
2 5 (3.21%) Linux
3 4 (2.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (73.72%) Test Automation
2 88 (56.41%) Agile
2 88 (56.41%) CI/CD
3 58 (37.18%) DevOps
4 37 (23.72%) Test Strategy
5 36 (23.08%) API Testing
5 36 (23.08%) Software Testing
6 33 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 33 (21.15%) End-to-End Testing
7 31 (19.87%) User Experience
8 29 (18.59%) Test Scripting
9 28 (17.95%) Full-Stack Development
9 28 (17.95%) Software Engineering
10 26 (16.67%) Microservices
11 25 (16.03%) Containerisation
12 24 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (14.74%) BDD
14 21 (13.46%) Front End Development
15 20 (12.82%) AI
16 19 (12.18%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 68 (43.59%) TypeScript
2 66 (42.31%) JavaScript
3 54 (34.62%) Java
4 28 (17.95%) SQL
5 26 (16.67%) Python
6 17 (10.90%) C#
7 5 (3.21%) JSX
8 3 (1.92%) Go
9 2 (1.28%) Bash
9 2 (1.28%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.64%) Bicep
10 1 (0.64%) C++
10 1 (0.64%) Groovy
10 1 (0.64%) Perl
10 1 (0.64%) Ruby
10 1 (0.64%) Scala
10 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.64%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.64%) VBA
10 1 (0.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 58 (37.18%) Security Cleared
2 47 (30.13%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.97%) ISTQB
4 9 (5.77%) Degree
5 7 (4.49%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.64%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.64%) ISEB
9 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (46.15%) QA
2 54 (34.62%) Accessibility
3 29 (18.59%) WCAG
4 2 (1.28%) NCSC
5 1 (0.64%) MiFID
5 1 (0.64%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 34 (21.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (10.90%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.33%) Terraform
3 11 (7.05%) Grafana
4 7 (4.49%) Ansible
5 3 (1.92%) HP ALM
5 3 (1.92%) Podman
5 3 (1.92%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.92%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.92%) Puppet
6 2 (1.28%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.28%) Kibana
6 2 (1.28%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 11 (7.05%) Splunk
2 8 (5.13%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.21%) Google
4 4 (2.56%) Xamarin
5 3 (1.92%) HP
5 3 (1.92%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.28%) Adobe
6 2 (1.28%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.28%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.64%) Aprimo
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle
7 1 (0.64%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.64%) Virgin Media