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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 375 389
Rank change year-on-year -9 +14 +62
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 192 179 252
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.49% 0.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.58% 3.72% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 135 181
10th Percentile £360 £345 £406
25th Percentile £409 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +5.21%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £644
90th Percentile £675 £740 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +1.06%
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 5,358 4,810 6,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.48% 13.17% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,686 3,014 4,213
10th Percentile £326 £348 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -4.41% -1.98%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £681 £721 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £507
% change year-on-year -2.56% -3.89% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 136 236
10th Percentile £19.63 £25.07 £45.24
25th Percentile £48.13 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £78.25 £74.22 £85.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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

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 6 November 2025.

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 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 6 November 2025. 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 +9 149 £494 -7.06% 214
UK excluding London -5 94 £500 +5.26% 173
Work from Home +31 78 £488 -1.32% 126
London -26 77 £475 -16.67% 90
North of England -14 31 £425 +6.25% 56
South West +20 22 £537 +2.29% 21
Scotland +8 20 £520 +13.91% 10
North West -4 17 £420 +5.00% 41
Yorkshire -20 12 £450 -7.69% 12
Midlands -24 9 £575 +22.67% 8
West Midlands - 7 £575 - 6
South East -2 6 £650 +67.74% 63
Wales -3 4 £520 -1.05% 5
East of England -12 3 £425 - 4
North East -10 2 £450 - 3
East Midlands -17 2 £573 +22.24% 2

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 9 (4.69%) Confluence
2 4 (2.08%) Drupal
2 4 (2.08%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.08%) WordPress
3 2 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.52%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.52%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 78 (40.63%) AWS
2 50 (26.04%) Azure
3 49 (25.52%) GitHub
4 29 (15.10%) GitHub Actions
5 28 (14.58%) Serverless
6 22 (11.46%) GCP
7 20 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (10.42%) npm
8 18 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (6.77%) Amazon S3
9 13 (6.77%) OpenShift
10 12 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (3.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (3.13%) Amazon Cognito
13 5 (2.60%) Azure AKS
13 5 (2.60%) Datadog
13 5 (2.60%) Figma
13 5 (2.60%) Pulumi
14 4 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (2.08%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.04%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (1.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.21%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (2.60%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.08%) Redis
7 3 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.04%) Big Data
8 2 (1.04%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.04%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.04%) MySQL
8 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.52%) Looker
9 1 (0.52%) Power BI
9 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 62 (32.29%) Selenium
2 43 (22.40%) Git
3 40 (20.83%) Postman
4 39 (20.31%) Jenkins
5 32 (16.67%) GitLab
6 29 (15.10%) JUnit
7 27 (14.06%) REST Assured
8 26 (13.54%) Cucumber
9 24 (12.50%) JIRA
10 16 (8.33%) JMeter
10 16 (8.33%) SonarQube
11 11 (5.73%) Maven
12 10 (5.21%) TestNG
13 8 (4.17%) webpack
14 7 (3.65%) gulp
15 6 (3.13%) Appium
15 6 (3.13%) Gatling
15 6 (3.13%) Grunt
15 6 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
16 5 (2.60%) Snyk
General
1 43 (22.40%) Social Skills
2 37 (19.27%) Public Sector
3 28 (14.58%) Finance
4 19 (9.90%) Banking
5 12 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.60%) Military
7 4 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.08%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.56%) Publishing
9 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.52%) Front Office
10 1 (0.52%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (28.13%) Developer
2 37 (19.27%) Senior
3 30 (15.63%) Tester
4 28 (14.58%) Automation Tester
5 24 (12.50%) Test Engineer
6 23 (11.98%) Lead
7 16 (8.33%) QA Engineer
7 16 (8.33%) Software Engineer
8 14 (7.29%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (5.21%) React Developer
9 10 (5.21%) Senior Test Engineer
10 8 (4.17%) QA Leader
11 6 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
11 6 (3.13%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 6 (3.13%) Java Developer
11 6 (3.13%) Technical Leader
11 6 (3.13%) Test Automation Engineer
11 6 (3.13%) UI Developer
12 5 (2.60%) QA Automation Engineer
12 5 (2.60%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (40.63%) React
2 63 (32.81%) Jest
3 62 (32.29%) Playwright
4 51 (26.56%) Node.js
5 38 (19.79%) CSS
6 35 (18.23%) HTML
6 35 (18.23%) RESTful
7 34 (17.71%) REST
8 26 (13.54%) Redux
9 21 (10.94%) Sass
10 19 (9.90%) AngularJS
11 18 (9.38%) Next.js
12 16 (8.33%) .NET
13 15 (7.81%) JSON
14 14 (7.29%) Enzyme
15 13 (6.77%) HTML5
16 12 (6.25%) AWS CDK
16 12 (6.25%) CSS3
17 11 (5.73%) FastAPI
17 11 (5.73%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.77%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.21%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (3.65%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.08%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.08%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.08%) Genomics
5 4 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.08%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.56%) Life Science
7 2 (1.04%) Blog
7 2 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.52%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.65%) Linux
2 4 (2.08%) Android
2 4 (2.08%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (64.06%) Test Automation
2 121 (63.02%) CI/CD
3 102 (53.13%) Agile
4 75 (39.06%) DevOps
5 44 (22.92%) Software Engineering
6 41 (21.35%) Test Strategy
7 35 (18.23%) Full-Stack Development
8 33 (17.19%) Microservices
9 32 (16.67%) API Testing
9 32 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 32 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
9 32 (16.67%) Front End Development
10 31 (16.15%) TDD
11 27 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (13.54%) BDD
13 25 (13.02%) Test Scripting
14 24 (12.50%) Clean Code
14 24 (12.50%) Software Testing
15 23 (11.98%) Code Quality
15 23 (11.98%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 105 (54.69%) JavaScript
2 85 (44.27%) TypeScript
3 56 (29.17%) Java
4 31 (16.15%) Python
5 23 (11.98%) SQL
6 11 (5.73%) C#
7 5 (2.60%) JSX
7 5 (2.60%) PHP
8 4 (2.08%) Bash
9 2 (1.04%) Elm
9 2 (1.04%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.04%) Perl
10 1 (0.52%) Ada
10 1 (0.52%) Go
10 1 (0.52%) Groovy
10 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 63 (32.81%) Security Cleared
2 50 (26.04%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.21%) Degree
4 9 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.13%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.13%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.52%) ISEB
7 1 (0.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (32.81%) Accessibility
1 63 (32.81%) QA
2 29 (15.10%) WCAG
3 1 (0.52%) GDPR
3 1 (0.52%) MiFID
3 1 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 54 (28.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (15.63%) Kubernetes
1 30 (15.63%) Terraform
2 13 (6.77%) Ansible
3 12 (6.25%) Grafana
4 6 (3.13%) Puppet
5 5 (2.60%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.08%) Podman
6 4 (2.08%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.04%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 12 (6.25%) Splunk
2 10 (5.21%) Google
3 9 (4.69%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.13%) Perforce
5 3 (1.56%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.56%) Xamarin
6 2 (1.04%) Adobe
6 2 (1.04%) Cisco
6 2 (1.04%) HP
6 2 (1.04%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.04%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.52%) Dundas
7 1 (0.52%) IBM
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle
7 1 (0.52%) UiPath
7 1 (0.52%) Virgin Media