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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 367 380
Rank change year-on-year -97 +13 +48
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 151 156 207
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.53% 0.47%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.59% 3.84% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 113 143
10th Percentile £313 £310 £400
25th Percentile £400 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +2.94%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £606
90th Percentile £606 £612 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -1.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £68.13
25th Percentile - - £69.06
Median hourly rate - - £73.75
75th Percentile - - £79.06
90th Percentile - - £80.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £73.75
% change year-on-year - - +36.57%

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 5,839 4,060 5,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.42% 13.88% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,945 2,695 3,535
10th Percentile £341 £338 £358
25th Percentile £405 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 68 196
10th Percentile £35.00 £23.76 £37.19
25th Percentile £55.44 £47.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.75 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% +0.81% +0.81%
75th Percentile £79.38 £71.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.89 £81.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.20% - +1.63%

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 20 March 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 20 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 -97 129 £475 +5.56% 57
London -67 72 £450 - 20
UK excluding London -70 62 £500 +11.11% 40
Work from Home -36 52 £475 +18.75% 29
North of England -54 32 £500 +33.33% 19
North West -19 21 £500 +12.36% 11
South West -27 9 £515 -4.19% 7
Yorkshire -57 9 £500 +81.82% 8
Midlands -59 9 £575 +25.34% 3
Scotland +8 7 £588 +30.56%
West Midlands -60 6 £575 +31.43% 1
South East -61 5 £650 +100.00% 8
East Midlands -35 3 £725 +54.67% 2
East of England -21 2 £300 -45.45% 1
North East - 2 £450 -

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 (5.96%) Confluence
2 2 (1.32%) Apache
2 2 (1.32%) Camunda
2 2 (1.32%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.66%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.66%) CMS
3 1 (0.66%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.65%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (33.77%) AWS
2 47 (31.13%) Azure
3 46 (30.46%) GitHub
4 34 (22.52%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (17.88%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (9.27%) Serverless
7 11 (7.28%) Amazon S3
7 11 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (6.62%) GCP
8 10 (6.62%) npm
9 6 (3.97%) Amazon Cognito
9 6 (3.97%) Figma
10 4 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.65%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (2.65%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.65%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.99%) Datadog
11 3 (1.99%) SaaS
12 2 (1.32%) TestFlight
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.95%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.30%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.64%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.97%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.31%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.32%) MySQL
6 2 (1.32%) Redis
6 2 (1.32%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.66%) Power BI
7 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 65 (43.05%) Selenium
2 33 (21.85%) Git
2 33 (21.85%) Postman
3 23 (15.23%) Jenkins
3 23 (15.23%) REST Assured
4 22 (14.57%) GitLab
5 20 (13.25%) JIRA
6 19 (12.58%) JUnit
7 16 (10.60%) Cucumber
8 11 (7.28%) CircleCI
9 9 (5.96%) WebDriver
10 8 (5.30%) Mocha
10 8 (5.30%) TestRail
10 8 (5.30%) webpack
11 7 (4.64%) JMeter
12 6 (3.97%) Maven
13 5 (3.31%) Appium
14 4 (2.65%) Gradle
14 4 (2.65%) Jasmine
14 4 (2.65%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (22.52%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.53%) Public Sector
3 19 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.61%) Banking
5 9 (5.96%) Finance
6 6 (3.97%) Military
7 4 (2.65%) Publishing
8 3 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.32%) Advertising
10 1 (0.66%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.66%) Games
10 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.66%) Law
10 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (25.83%) Developer
1 39 (25.83%) Senior
2 23 (15.23%) Test Engineer
3 22 (14.57%) QA Engineer
4 21 (13.91%) Tester
5 17 (11.26%) Automation Tester
5 17 (11.26%) Lead
6 14 (9.27%) Software Engineer
7 12 (7.95%) React Developer
8 10 (6.62%) Senior Test Engineer
9 9 (5.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 9 (5.96%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 9 (5.96%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (5.30%) QA Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.64%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.64%) Java Developer
11 7 (4.64%) QA Leader
12 6 (3.97%) Quality Engineer
13 5 (3.31%) Analyst
13 5 (3.31%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (51.66%) Playwright
2 62 (41.06%) React
3 49 (32.45%) Jest
4 39 (25.83%) REST
5 32 (21.19%) Node.js
6 25 (16.56%) CSS
6 25 (16.56%) RESTful
7 18 (11.92%) Redux
8 17 (11.26%) HTML
9 15 (9.93%) Spring
9 15 (9.93%) Spring Boot
10 14 (9.27%) Next.js
11 12 (7.95%) AngularJS
12 11 (7.28%) Sass
13 9 (5.96%) HTML5
14 8 (5.30%) CSS3
14 8 (5.30%) Enzyme
14 8 (5.30%) GraphQL
14 8 (5.30%) Zustand
15 7 (4.64%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.62%) Mobile App
1 10 (6.62%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.96%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (2.65%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.99%) Blog
6 3 (1.99%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.99%) Genomics
6 3 (1.99%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.32%) Life Science
7 2 (1.32%) NHS
7 2 (1.32%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.66%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.64%) Android
2 4 (2.65%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (72.85%) Test Automation
2 87 (57.62%) CI/CD
3 84 (55.63%) Agile
4 56 (37.09%) DevOps
5 36 (23.84%) End-to-End Testing
6 33 (21.85%) API Testing
7 32 (21.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (21.19%) Software Testing
8 31 (20.53%) Test Strategy
8 31 (20.53%) User Experience
9 28 (18.54%) Full-Stack Development
10 27 (17.88%) Software Engineering
11 26 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (16.56%) Microservices
13 24 (15.89%) Test Scripting
14 22 (14.57%) BDD
14 22 (14.57%) Containerisation
15 20 (13.25%) Front End Development
15 20 (13.25%) UX Design
16 18 (11.92%) AI
Programming Languages
1 67 (44.37%) TypeScript
2 65 (43.05%) JavaScript
3 54 (35.76%) Java
4 28 (18.54%) SQL
5 24 (15.89%) Python
6 16 (10.60%) C#
7 5 (3.31%) JSX
8 3 (1.99%) Go
9 2 (1.32%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.66%) Bash
10 1 (0.66%) Bicep
10 1 (0.66%) C++
10 1 (0.66%) Groovy
10 1 (0.66%) Ruby
10 1 (0.66%) Scala
10 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.66%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.66%) VBA
10 1 (0.66%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 51 (33.77%) Security Cleared
2 41 (27.15%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.27%) ISTQB
4 8 (5.30%) Degree
5 6 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.97%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.32%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.66%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.66%) ISEB
8 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (45.70%) QA
2 54 (35.76%) Accessibility
3 29 (19.21%) WCAG
4 2 (1.32%) NCSC
5 1 (0.66%) GxP
5 1 (0.66%) MiFID
5 1 (0.66%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 29 (19.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (9.93%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.95%) Terraform
3 10 (6.62%) Grafana
4 6 (3.97%) Ansible
5 3 (1.99%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.32%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.32%) Kibana
6 2 (1.32%) Podman
6 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.32%) Puppet
6 2 (1.32%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 8 (5.30%) Microsoft
1 8 (5.30%) Splunk
2 4 (2.65%) Google
2 4 (2.65%) Xamarin
3 3 (1.99%) HP
3 3 (1.99%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.32%) Adobe
4 2 (1.32%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.32%) Micro Focus
4 2 (1.32%) OpenText
4 2 (1.32%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.66%) Aprimo
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle
5 1 (0.66%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.66%) Virgin Media