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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 377 351
Rank change year-on-year -123 -26 +54
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 160 176 221
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.53% 0.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.57% 3.55% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 113 178
10th Percentile £306 £356 £380
25th Percentile £350 £400 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £569
Median % change year-on-year - -20.88% +8.33%
75th Percentile £565 £538 £650
90th Percentile £625 £625 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% +3.09%
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 6,231 4,956 4,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.64% 14.97% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,997 3,338 3,281
10th Percentile £352 £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 £591 £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 261 112 199
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.99 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.63
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.03 £73.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.00%

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

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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 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 17 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 -112 124 £470 +4.44% 104
London -66 82 £500 +17.65% 50
UK excluding London -122 56 £400 -15.79% 73
Work from Home -102 50 £438 -0.57% 69
North of England -64 21 £400 -9.55% 20
Midlands -38 17 £313 -30.56% 11
West Midlands -42 17 £313 -35.90% 9
Scotland -23 13 £450 -5.26% 6
Yorkshire -29 12 £400 -4.76% 3
North West -42 6 £425 -9.38% 11
North East - 3 £380 - 6
South West -54 2 £513 -14.58% 13
Wales -17 1 £413 -20.67% 1
East of England -21 1 £575 +35.29% 2
South East -67 1 £400 -23.81% 14

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 18 (11.25%) Confluence
2 4 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) Appian
3 1 (0.63%) CMS
3 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (5.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.13%) Shopify
3 1 (0.63%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 61 (38.13%) AWS
2 59 (36.88%) Azure
3 49 (30.63%) GitHub
4 32 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (19.38%) Serverless
6 23 (14.38%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (12.50%) GCP
8 19 (11.88%) Amazon S3
9 16 (10.00%) Figma
10 12 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (5.63%) Power Automate
13 8 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (4.38%) AWS Step Functions
15 6 (3.75%) Azure Functions
16 5 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (3.13%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.00%) DynamoDB
3 6 (3.75%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.25%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 83 (51.88%) Selenium
2 40 (25.00%) Git
3 38 (23.75%) Postman
4 28 (17.50%) JIRA
5 23 (14.38%) Jenkins
6 20 (12.50%) Cucumber
6 20 (12.50%) REST Assured
7 15 (9.38%) JMeter
8 13 (8.13%) GitLab
9 12 (7.50%) Gatling
9 12 (7.50%) WebDriver
10 10 (6.25%) JUnit
11 9 (5.63%) Appium
11 9 (5.63%) Storybook
12 8 (5.00%) TestRail
13 7 (4.38%) webpack
14 6 (3.75%) TestNG
15 5 (3.13%) Vite
16 4 (2.50%) Newman
16 4 (2.50%) SpecFlow
General
1 43 (26.88%) Social Skills
2 36 (22.50%) Public Sector
3 31 (19.38%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.63%) Finance
5 11 (6.88%) Banking
5 11 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.38%) Military
7 4 (2.50%) Retail
8 3 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.88%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.25%) Back Office
9 2 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.25%) Legal
9 2 (1.25%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.63%) Local Government
10 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.63%) Marketing
10 1 (0.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 37 (23.13%) Developer
2 30 (18.75%) Senior
3 22 (13.75%) Lead
4 19 (11.88%) Tester
5 18 (11.25%) Test Engineer
6 17 (10.63%) Analyst
6 17 (10.63%) QA Engineer
7 16 (10.00%) Test Analyst
8 11 (6.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 10 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
10 9 (5.63%) Architect
10 9 (5.63%) Automation Tester
10 9 (5.63%) React Developer
11 8 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (5.00%) Test Leader
12 7 (4.38%) QA Automation Engineer
13 6 (3.75%) Lead Test Analyst
13 6 (3.75%) QA Leader
13 6 (3.75%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (57.50%) Playwright
2 53 (33.13%) React
3 41 (25.63%) REST
4 39 (24.38%) Jest
5 31 (19.38%) CSS
6 28 (17.50%) HTML
7 25 (15.63%) Node.js
8 24 (15.00%) RESTful
9 21 (13.13%) HTML5
10 20 (12.50%) CSS3
11 17 (10.63%) GraphQL
12 13 (8.13%) Next.js
13 12 (7.50%) Kafka
14 11 (6.88%) Gherkin
14 11 (6.88%) Redux
15 10 (6.25%) OAuth
16 9 (5.63%) JWT
16 9 (5.63%) OAuth2
16 9 (5.63%) Vue
17 8 (5.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.75%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.25%) Product Ownership
3 14 (8.75%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.75%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (3.75%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.13%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.88%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.25%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.25%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.25%) Genomics
8 2 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.25%) Life Science
8 2 (1.25%) NHS
8 2 (1.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.63%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.50%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.63%) AIX
2 1 (0.63%) Android
2 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (73.13%) Test Automation
2 93 (58.13%) CI/CD
3 84 (52.50%) Agile
4 67 (41.88%) DevOps
5 44 (27.50%) API Testing
6 43 (26.88%) Test Strategy
7 39 (24.38%) Microservices
7 39 (24.38%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (23.13%) AI
8 37 (23.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (23.13%) End-to-End Testing
9 29 (18.13%) User Experience
10 28 (17.50%) Scrum
11 27 (16.88%) BDD
12 23 (14.38%) TDD
13 22 (13.75%) Infrastructure as Code
14 21 (13.13%) Performance Testing
14 21 (13.13%) SDLC
15 19 (11.88%) Containerisation
15 19 (11.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 83 (51.88%) JavaScript
2 80 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 35 (21.88%) Python
4 31 (19.38%) Java
5 21 (13.13%) SQL
6 19 (11.88%) C#
7 6 (3.75%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.50%) Scala
9 2 (1.25%) Bash
9 2 (1.25%) Ruby
10 1 (0.63%) C++
10 1 (0.63%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 48 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 39 (24.38%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.00%) ISTQB
4 14 (8.75%) DV Cleared
5 13 (8.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (5.00%) Degree
7 6 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.25%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (41.88%) QA
2 51 (31.88%) Accessibility
3 31 (19.38%) WCAG
4 9 (5.63%) GDPR
5 3 (1.88%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.25%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.63%) GRC
7 1 (0.63%) GxP
7 1 (0.63%) SEPA
System Software
1 25 (15.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (13.75%) Kubernetes
2 19 (11.88%) Terraform
3 11 (6.88%) Grafana
4 8 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.88%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.25%) Kibana
7 1 (0.63%) Ansible
7 1 (0.63%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.63%) Podman
7 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (8.13%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.38%) Splunk
3 4 (2.50%) Google
3 4 (2.50%) Oracle
4 3 (1.88%) HP
4 3 (1.88%) Micro Focus
4 3 (1.88%) OpenText
5 2 (1.25%) New Relic
6 1 (0.63%) Adobe
6 1 (0.63%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.63%) Aprimo
6 1 (0.63%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.63%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.63%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.63%) IBM
6 1 (0.63%) OneLogin
6 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.63%) TOWER Software