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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 382 368
Rank change year-on-year -40 -14 +65
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 168 156 231
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.49% 0.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.09% 3.65% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 115 160
10th Percentile £350 £330 £413
25th Percentile £413 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £588 £561 £600
90th Percentile £653 £600 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £468 £473
% change year-on-year +10.52% -0.90% -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 5,436 4,272 5,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.62% 13.41% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,740 2,691 3,698
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -4.02%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £513
% change year-on-year -0.42% -6.93% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 71 202
10th Percentile £39.00 £27.50 £44.73
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.25 £51.56
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £81.80 £76.25 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 16 January 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 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 16 January 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 -32 138 £500 +5.26% 107
London -15 76 £475 - 20
UK excluding London -34 75 £518 +10.52% 104
Work from Home -7 61 £515 +13.19% 82
North of England -30 30 £475 +18.75% 23
North West -6 19 £425 +6.25% 12
South West -12 13 £529 +0.67% 14
Scotland +4 12 £588 +29.83% 6
Midlands -35 11 £575 +22.67% 5
Yorkshire -47 9 £500 +42.86% 8
West Midlands - 8 £575 - 3
South East -25 6 £650 +100.00% 34
Wales -2 4 £520 -2.12% 6
East Midlands -25 3 £725 +54.67% 2
North East - 2 £450 - 3
East of England -18 1 - - 18

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 10 (5.95%) Confluence
2 5 (2.98%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.19%) Apache
3 2 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.19%) Camunda
3 2 (1.19%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 65 (38.69%) AWS
2 48 (28.57%) Azure
3 41 (24.40%) GitHub
4 28 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (13.10%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (11.31%) GCP
6 19 (11.31%) Serverless
7 15 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (8.93%) npm
8 11 (6.55%) Amazon S3
8 11 (6.55%) OpenShift
9 9 (5.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 7 (4.17%) Datadog
11 7 (4.17%) Figma
12 6 (3.57%) Amazon Cognito
12 6 (3.57%) Azure AKS
13 5 (2.98%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (2.98%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.98%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.60%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.31%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (5.36%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (4.76%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.98%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.38%) Redis
6 3 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.79%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.79%) MySQL
7 2 (1.19%) Big Data
7 2 (1.19%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.19%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.19%) Power BI
7 2 (1.19%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.60%) Looker
8 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 60 (35.71%) Selenium
2 40 (23.81%) Git
3 33 (19.64%) Postman
4 32 (19.05%) GitLab
5 31 (18.45%) Jenkins
6 28 (16.67%) JUnit
7 20 (11.90%) REST Assured
8 19 (11.31%) Cucumber
9 17 (10.12%) JIRA
10 12 (7.14%) SonarQube
11 10 (5.95%) CircleCI
11 10 (5.95%) Maven
12 9 (5.36%) webpack
13 7 (4.17%) Gradle
14 6 (3.57%) JMeter
15 5 (2.98%) Artifactory
15 5 (2.98%) Bitbucket
15 5 (2.98%) Mocha
15 5 (2.98%) TestRail
15 5 (2.98%) WebDriver
General
1 36 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 33 (19.64%) Public Sector
3 23 (13.69%) Finance
4 17 (10.12%) Banking
5 10 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.17%) Military
7 4 (2.38%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.79%) Publishing
9 2 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.60%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.60%) Law
10 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (26.19%) Senior
2 43 (25.60%) Developer
3 26 (15.48%) Tester
4 24 (14.29%) Lead
5 22 (13.10%) Automation Tester
5 22 (13.10%) Test Engineer
6 15 (8.93%) Software Engineer
7 12 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (7.14%) QA Engineer
8 10 (5.95%) Senior Test Engineer
9 9 (5.36%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 9 (5.36%) Java Developer
9 9 (5.36%) QA Leader
9 9 (5.36%) React Developer
10 6 (3.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (3.57%) Senior Automation Tester
10 6 (3.57%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.57%) Senior Tester
11 5 (2.98%) QA Automation Engineer
11 5 (2.98%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (45.83%) React
2 62 (36.90%) Playwright
3 60 (35.71%) Jest
4 44 (26.19%) Node.js
5 37 (22.02%) REST
6 33 (19.64%) RESTful
7 27 (16.07%) CSS
8 22 (13.10%) HTML
9 20 (11.90%) Redux
10 19 (11.31%) Next.js
10 19 (11.31%) Spring
11 18 (10.71%) Spring Boot
12 16 (9.52%) .NET
13 15 (8.93%) AngularJS
14 13 (7.74%) JSON
15 12 (7.14%) Sass
16 11 (6.55%) Enzyme
16 11 (6.55%) GraphQL
16 11 (6.55%) HTML5
17 10 (5.95%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 12 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (5.95%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.57%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.98%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.98%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.38%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.38%) Genomics
6 3 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.79%) Life Science
7 2 (1.19%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.19%) Blog
7 2 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.19%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.60%) Synthetic Data
8 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.76%) Linux
2 5 (2.98%) Android
3 4 (2.38%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (64.88%) Test Automation
2 106 (63.10%) CI/CD
3 90 (53.57%) Agile
4 72 (42.86%) DevOps
5 39 (23.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 38 (22.62%) Software Engineering
7 37 (22.02%) Test Strategy
8 36 (21.43%) Microservices
9 35 (20.83%) Containerisation
10 33 (19.64%) End-to-End Testing
11 32 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
12 31 (18.45%) User Experience
13 30 (17.86%) Front End Development
13 30 (17.86%) Software Testing
14 26 (15.48%) Test Scripting
15 25 (14.88%) API Testing
16 22 (13.10%) BDD
16 22 (13.10%) TDD
17 21 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
18 19 (11.31%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 76 (45.24%) TypeScript
2 75 (44.64%) JavaScript
3 52 (30.95%) Java
4 30 (17.86%) SQL
5 28 (16.67%) Python
6 13 (7.74%) C#
7 5 (2.98%) JSX
8 4 (2.38%) Bash
8 4 (2.38%) Go
9 2 (1.19%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.19%) Perl
10 1 (0.60%) Groovy
10 1 (0.60%) PHP
Qualifications
1 58 (34.52%) Security Cleared
2 44 (26.19%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.14%) Degree
4 11 (6.55%) ISTQB
5 8 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.76%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.60%) ISEB
8 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (39.29%) QA
2 62 (36.90%) Accessibility
3 33 (19.64%) WCAG
4 2 (1.19%) NCSC
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) MiFID
5 1 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (29.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (14.88%) Kubernetes
2 21 (12.50%) Terraform
3 14 (8.33%) Ansible
4 12 (7.14%) Grafana
5 7 (4.17%) Puppet
6 5 (2.98%) Podman
6 5 (2.98%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.98%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.19%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.60%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.60%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 14 (8.33%) Splunk
2 10 (5.95%) Google
3 9 (5.36%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.79%) Adobe
4 3 (1.79%) Perforce
4 3 (1.79%) Xamarin
5 2 (1.19%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.19%) OneLogin
5 2 (1.19%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.60%) Dundas
6 1 (0.60%) HP
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle
6 1 (0.60%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.60%) Virgin Media