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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 391 359
Rank change year-on-year -117 -32 +27
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 169 176 222
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.53% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.75% 3.53% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 114 175
10th Percentile £306 £361 £390
25th Percentile £354 £400 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £450 £551
Median % change year-on-year +3.11% -18.33% +5.45%
75th Percentile £565 £549 £650
90th Percentile £625 £634 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% +4.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 6,140 4,992 5,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.42% 15.15% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,939 3,363 3,279
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 115 180
10th Percentile £35.63 £28.65 £27.80
25th Percentile £54.84 £50.00 £51.19
Median hourly rate £67.49 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.82% - -
75th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.36 £86.60 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 August 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 31 August 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 -107 130 £475 +5.56% 80
London -57 88 £500 +17.65% 43
UK excluding London -109 56 £400 -15.79% 56
Work from Home -81 53 £444 +0.85% 47
North of England -66 21 £400 -5.88% 15
West Midlands -34 17 £313 -45.65% 4
Midlands -41 17 £313 -40.48% 6
Scotland -31 13 £450 -5.26% 1
Yorkshire -39 12 £400 -4.76% 3
North West -53 6 £400 -12.95% 10
North East - 3 £380 - 2
South West -53 2 £513 -14.58% 14
Wales -17 1 £413 -20.67%
East of England -17 1 £575 +35.29% 1
South East -72 1 £400 -23.81% 15

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 (11.83%) Confluence
2 4 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.59%) Appian
3 1 (0.59%) CMS
3 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (5.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.37%) Shopify
3 1 (0.59%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 64 (37.87%) AWS
2 62 (36.69%) Azure
3 51 (30.18%) GitHub
4 36 (21.30%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (19.53%) GitHub Actions
5 33 (19.53%) Serverless
6 25 (14.79%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (12.43%) Amazon S3
8 20 (11.83%) GCP
9 16 (9.47%) Figma
10 12 (7.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (6.51%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (6.51%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (5.92%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (5.33%) GitHub Copilot
13 9 (5.33%) Power Automate
14 7 (4.14%) AWS Step Functions
15 6 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (3.55%) Azure Functions
16 5 (2.96%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (5.92%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.73%) DynamoDB
3 6 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (2.96%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.96%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.18%) Redis
6 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.59%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 86 (50.89%) Selenium
2 44 (26.04%) Git
3 41 (24.26%) Postman
4 32 (18.93%) JIRA
5 26 (15.38%) Jenkins
6 22 (13.02%) Cucumber
7 21 (12.43%) REST Assured
8 17 (10.06%) JMeter
9 16 (9.47%) GitLab
10 13 (7.69%) WebDriver
11 12 (7.10%) Gatling
12 10 (5.92%) JUnit
13 9 (5.33%) Appium
13 9 (5.33%) Storybook
14 8 (4.73%) TestRail
14 8 (4.73%) webpack
15 6 (3.55%) TestNG
15 6 (3.55%) Vite
16 4 (2.37%) LoadRunner
16 4 (2.37%) Mocha
General
1 49 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 40 (23.67%) Public Sector
3 36 (21.30%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.83%) Finance
5 13 (7.69%) Banking
6 11 (6.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.14%) Military
8 5 (2.96%) Retail
9 3 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.78%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.18%) Back Office
10 2 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.18%) Legal
10 2 (1.18%) Local Government
10 2 (1.18%) Police
10 2 (1.18%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.59%) Advertising
11 1 (0.59%) Law
11 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (23.08%) Developer
2 32 (18.93%) Senior
3 22 (13.02%) Tester
4 21 (12.43%) Lead
4 21 (12.43%) Test Engineer
5 19 (11.24%) Analyst
6 18 (10.65%) Test Analyst
7 17 (10.06%) QA Engineer
8 13 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
9 12 (7.10%) Automation Tester
10 11 (6.51%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 9 (5.33%) Architect
11 9 (5.33%) React Developer
12 8 (4.73%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (4.73%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.73%) Test Leader
13 7 (4.14%) QA Automation Engineer
14 6 (3.55%) Lead Test Analyst
14 6 (3.55%) QA Tester
14 6 (3.55%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (56.21%) Playwright
2 54 (31.95%) React
3 44 (26.04%) REST
4 40 (23.67%) Jest
5 33 (19.53%) CSS
6 30 (17.75%) HTML
7 27 (15.98%) RESTful
8 26 (15.38%) Node.js
9 22 (13.02%) HTML5
10 21 (12.43%) CSS3
11 20 (11.83%) Terraform
12 17 (10.06%) GraphQL
13 13 (7.69%) Kafka
14 12 (7.10%) Gherkin
14 12 (7.10%) Next.js
14 12 (7.10%) Redux
15 11 (6.51%) OAuth
16 10 (5.92%) JWT
17 9 (5.33%) AngularJS
17 9 (5.33%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.61%) Cloud Native
2 22 (13.02%) Product Ownership
3 16 (9.47%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.73%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.55%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (3.55%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.55%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.78%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.18%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.18%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.18%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.18%) Genomics
8 2 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.18%) Life Science
8 2 (1.18%) NHS
8 2 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.37%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.59%) AIX
2 1 (0.59%) Android
2 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (73.96%) Test Automation
2 99 (58.58%) CI/CD
3 89 (52.66%) Agile
4 71 (42.01%) DevOps
5 47 (27.81%) API Testing
6 44 (26.04%) Test Strategy
7 42 (24.85%) End-to-End Testing
7 42 (24.85%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (24.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (24.26%) Microservices
9 37 (21.89%) AI
10 31 (18.34%) Scrum
11 30 (17.75%) User Experience
12 25 (14.79%) BDD
12 25 (14.79%) Performance Testing
13 23 (13.61%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (13.61%) SDLC
14 22 (13.02%) TDD
15 21 (12.43%) Integration Testing
15 21 (12.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (53.25%) JavaScript
2 86 (50.89%) TypeScript
3 35 (20.71%) Python
4 32 (18.93%) Java
5 25 (14.79%) SQL
6 18 (10.65%) C#
7 6 (3.55%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.78%) Scala
9 2 (1.18%) Bash
9 2 (1.18%) Ruby
10 1 (0.59%) C++
10 1 (0.59%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 52 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 43 (25.44%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.06%) ISTQB
4 15 (8.88%) DV Cleared
5 14 (8.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (4.73%) Degree
7 6 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.78%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.59%) ISEB
9 1 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (43.79%) QA
2 50 (29.59%) Accessibility
3 32 (18.93%) WCAG
4 9 (5.33%) GDPR
5 3 (1.78%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.18%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.59%) GRC
7 1 (0.59%) GxP
7 1 (0.59%) SEPA
System Software
1 27 (15.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (13.61%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.51%) Grafana
3 8 (4.73%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.78%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.18%) Ansible
5 2 (1.18%) Kibana
6 1 (0.59%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.59%) Podman
6 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (8.88%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.14%) Splunk
3 4 (2.37%) Google
3 4 (2.37%) Oracle
4 3 (1.78%) HP
4 3 (1.78%) Micro Focus
4 3 (1.78%) OpenText
5 2 (1.18%) New Relic
6 1 (0.59%) Adobe
6 1 (0.59%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.59%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.59%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.59%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.59%) IBM
6 1 (0.59%) OneLogin
6 1 (0.59%) TOWER Software