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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 365 369
Rank change year-on-year -144 +4 +41
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 136 153 240
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.52% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.33% 3.73% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 108 176
10th Percentile £311 £300 £386
25th Percentile £354 £376 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £428 £523
Median % change year-on-year +6.73% -18.18% -0.48%
75th Percentile £545 £513 £613
90th Percentile £638 £602 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £503
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.54% -0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £67.50
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £72.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +29.63%

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 5,825 4,097 5,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.35% 14.02% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,858 2,742 3,476
10th Percentile £347 £340 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £716 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 66 195
10th Percentile £37.93 £26.77 £32.23
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.30 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.69 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £86.38 £81.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.40% -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 30 April 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 13 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 30 April 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 -122 114 £450 +4.59% 26
London -63 73 £450 +5.88% 10
Work from Home -50 50 £470 +13.94% 11
UK excluding London -106 43 £500 +11.11% 25
North of England -60 28 £460 +31.43% 11
North West -25 19 £500 +0.91% 7
Yorkshire -54 9 £350 +27.27% 4
Midlands -72 6 £575 +27.78% 2
West Midlands -59 5 £438 -2.78% 1
Scotland -5 4 £588 +30.56% 1
East of England -38 3 £300 -45.45% 2
South East -54 3 £500 +42.86% 4
East Midlands -31 1 £725 +58.04% 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 20 (14.71%) Confluence
2 2 (1.47%) Camunda
3 1 (0.74%) Apache
3 1 (0.74%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.74%) CMS
3 1 (0.74%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 6 (4.41%) Shopify
2 1 (0.74%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 45 (33.09%) AWS
1 45 (33.09%) GitHub
2 41 (30.15%) Azure
3 34 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 22 (16.18%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (11.76%) Serverless
6 15 (11.03%) Amazon S3
6 15 (11.03%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (7.35%) Figma
8 9 (6.62%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (6.62%) GCP
9 8 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
10 6 (4.41%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (4.41%) npm
11 5 (3.68%) Slack
12 4 (2.94%) Amazon Cognito
12 4 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (2.21%) OpenShift
13 3 (2.21%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.62%) DynamoDB
2 8 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.15%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.41%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (4.41%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.94%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.94%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.47%) MySQL
6 2 (1.47%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.74%) Power BI
7 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 63 (46.32%) Selenium
2 34 (25.00%) Git
3 29 (21.32%) JIRA
4 25 (18.38%) Postman
5 19 (13.97%) Jenkins
6 18 (13.24%) JUnit
7 16 (11.76%) REST Assured
8 15 (11.03%) GitLab
9 14 (10.29%) Cucumber
10 10 (7.35%) CircleCI
10 10 (7.35%) JMeter
11 8 (5.88%) Mocha
11 8 (5.88%) WebDriver
12 7 (5.15%) TestRail
13 6 (4.41%) Appium
13 6 (4.41%) TestNG
13 6 (4.41%) webpack
14 5 (3.68%) Maven
14 5 (3.68%) Vite
15 4 (2.94%) ESLint
General
1 28 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.85%) Public Sector
3 16 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.29%) Banking
5 9 (6.62%) Finance
6 4 (2.94%) Military
6 4 (2.94%) Publishing
7 3 (2.21%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.47%) Advertising
8 2 (1.47%) Law
9 1 (0.74%) Back Office
9 1 (0.74%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Front Office
9 1 (0.74%) Games
9 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.74%) Police
9 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (26.47%) Developer
2 28 (20.59%) Senior
3 19 (13.97%) Tester
4 18 (13.24%) QA Engineer
5 17 (12.50%) Lead
6 14 (10.29%) Test Engineer
7 13 (9.56%) React Developer
8 10 (7.35%) Software Engineer
9 9 (6.62%) Automation Engineer
9 9 (6.62%) Automation Tester
9 9 (6.62%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 8 (5.88%) QA Automation Engineer
11 7 (5.15%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 7 (5.15%) QA Tester
12 6 (4.41%) Java Developer
12 6 (4.41%) Quality Engineer
13 5 (3.68%) Senior Developer
13 5 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
13 5 (3.68%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (52.21%) Playwright
2 60 (44.12%) React
3 39 (28.68%) Jest
4 32 (23.53%) REST
5 23 (16.91%) Node.js
6 18 (13.24%) CSS
7 17 (12.50%) RESTful
8 15 (11.03%) Next.js
9 14 (10.29%) Redux
10 13 (9.56%) Spring
10 13 (9.56%) Spring Boot
11 12 (8.82%) HTML
12 9 (6.62%) AngularJS
13 8 (5.88%) .NET
14 7 (5.15%) GraphQL
14 7 (5.15%) pytest
14 7 (5.15%) Sass
14 7 (5.15%) Zustand
15 6 (4.41%) Enzyme
15 6 (4.41%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.09%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.35%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.88%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (2.94%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.21%) Blog
6 3 (2.21%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.47%) Genomics
7 2 (1.47%) Life Science
7 2 (1.47%) NHS
7 2 (1.47%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.74%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.74%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.74%) iPhone
8 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.15%) Android
2 4 (2.94%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.94%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (74.26%) Test Automation
2 75 (55.15%) Agile
3 73 (53.68%) CI/CD
4 51 (37.50%) DevOps
5 31 (22.79%) End-to-End Testing
6 30 (22.06%) User Experience
7 29 (21.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (19.85%) API Testing
9 25 (18.38%) Full-Stack Development
10 22 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (16.18%) Software Testing
10 22 (16.18%) UX Design
11 20 (14.71%) Software Engineering
11 20 (14.71%) Test Strategy
12 19 (13.97%) Microservices
13 17 (12.50%) BDD
13 17 (12.50%) Performance Testing
13 17 (12.50%) Test Scripting
14 16 (11.76%) Containerisation
15 15 (11.03%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 64 (47.06%) TypeScript
2 55 (40.44%) JavaScript
3 37 (27.21%) Java
4 27 (19.85%) Python
5 24 (17.65%) SQL
6 16 (11.76%) C#
7 4 (2.94%) Scala
8 3 (2.21%) Go
8 3 (2.21%) JSX
9 2 (1.47%) Bash
10 1 (0.74%) Bicep
10 1 (0.74%) C++
10 1 (0.74%) Groovy
10 1 (0.74%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.74%) Ruby
10 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.74%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.74%) VBA
10 1 (0.74%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 41 (30.15%) Security Cleared
2 33 (24.26%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.09%) ISTQB
4 9 (6.62%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (6.62%) Degree
4 9 (6.62%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.74%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.74%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (44.12%) QA
2 54 (39.71%) Accessibility
3 30 (22.06%) WCAG
4 2 (1.47%) NCSC
5 1 (0.74%) GxP
System Software
1 20 (14.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (10.29%) Terraform
2 12 (8.82%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.41%) Grafana
4 4 (2.94%) HP ALM
5 3 (2.21%) Ansible
6 2 (1.47%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.47%) Kibana
6 2 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.47%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.74%) Podman
7 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.74%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (5.88%) Splunk
2 7 (5.15%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.94%) HP
3 4 (2.94%) Xamarin
4 3 (2.21%) Micro Focus
4 3 (2.21%) OpenText
4 3 (2.21%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.47%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.47%) Google
5 2 (1.47%) Oracle
5 2 (1.47%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.74%) Adobe
6 1 (0.74%) Aprimo
6 1 (0.74%) IBM
6 1 (0.74%) Salesforce