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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 376 403
Rank change year-on-year -78 +27 +22
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 156 153 201
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.52% 0.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.70% 3.78% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 113 138
10th Percentile £313 £302 £400
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -11.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £542 £538 £600
90th Percentile £606 £605 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £468 £471
% change year-on-year +10.16% -0.80% -3.33%
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 5,770 4,050 5,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.51% 13.76% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,886 2,668 3,594
10th Percentile £341 £330 £356
25th Percentile £405 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £628
90th Percentile £688 £725 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 69 205
10th Percentile £35.00 £24.17 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £77.31 £71.25 £72.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £78.77 £82.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 12 March 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 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 12 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 -86 133 £488 +8.94% 59
London -57 73 £470 +9.24% 21
UK excluding London -72 65 £515 +10.16% 41
Work from Home -21 53 £475 +18.75% 31
North of England -47 31 £500 +33.33% 18
North West -23 21 £500 +18.34% 9
South West -17 13 £529 +0.67% 8
Midlands -55 9 £575 +22.99% 5
Yorkshire -62 8 £513 +86.36% 8
Scotland +8 7 £588 +38.24% 1
West Midlands -57 6 £575 +35.29% 4
South East -49 5 £650 +100.00% 7
East Midlands -31 3 £725 +54.67% 1
East of England -26 2 £300 -45.45% 1
North East - 2 £450 - 1

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 (6.41%) 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 50 (32.05%) AWS
2 47 (30.13%) Azure
3 46 (29.49%) GitHub
4 34 (21.79%) GitHub Actions
5 28 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (8.33%) Serverless
7 11 (7.05%) GCP
7 11 (7.05%) npm
8 10 (6.41%) Amazon S3
8 10 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.85%) Amazon Cognito
9 6 (3.85%) Figma
9 6 (3.85%) OpenShift
10 5 (3.21%) Azure AKS
11 4 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.56%) Datadog
12 3 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
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 4 (2.56%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.28%) MySQL
6 2 (1.28%) Redis
6 2 (1.28%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
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 70 (44.87%) Selenium
2 39 (25.00%) Postman
3 33 (21.15%) Git
4 26 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 26 (16.67%) REST Assured
5 25 (16.03%) GitLab
6 23 (14.74%) 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 38 (24.36%) Developer
3 24 (15.38%) Tester
4 23 (14.74%) Test Engineer
5 20 (12.82%) Lead
5 20 (12.82%) QA Engineer
6 19 (12.18%) Automation Tester
7 14 (8.97%) Software Engineer
8 11 (7.05%) QA Leader
8 11 (7.05%) React Developer
9 10 (6.41%) Senior Test Engineer
10 9 (5.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 9 (5.77%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 9 (5.77%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.49%) Java Developer
11 7 (4.49%) QA Automation Engineer
12 6 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
12 6 (3.85%) Senior Automation Tester
12 6 (3.85%) Senior Tester
13 5 (3.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (49.36%) Playwright
2 61 (39.10%) 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%) Enzyme
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%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
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
1 114 (73.08%) Test Automation
2 88 (56.41%) CI/CD
3 87 (55.77%) Agile
4 58 (37.18%) DevOps
5 37 (23.72%) Test Strategy
6 36 (23.08%) API Testing
6 36 (23.08%) Software Testing
7 33 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (21.15%) End-to-End Testing
8 31 (19.87%) User Experience
9 29 (18.59%) Test Scripting
10 28 (17.95%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (17.95%) Software Engineering
11 26 (16.67%) Microservices
12 25 (16.03%) Containerisation
13 24 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (14.74%) BDD
15 20 (12.82%) AI
15 20 (12.82%) Front End Development
16 19 (12.18%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 67 (42.95%) TypeScript
2 65 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 54 (34.62%) Java
4 28 (17.95%) SQL
5 25 (16.03%) 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 55 (35.26%) Accessibility
3 30 (19.23%) 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 12 (7.69%) 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 10 (6.41%) 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