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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 362 366
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +81
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 181 217 292
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.57% 0.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.61% 4.28% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 172 208
10th Percentile £359 £376 £408
25th Percentile £400 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £610
90th Percentile £625 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £475
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £72.18
25th Percentile - £42.50 £72.44
Median hourly rate - £45.00 £74.75
Median % change year-on-year - -39.80% +15.00%
75th Percentile - £47.50 £78.94
90th Percentile - - £80.33
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 5,013 5,075 6,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.22% 13.27% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,372 3,242 4,640
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 175 243
10th Percentile £31.28 £28.09 £45.94
25th Percentile £50.75 £51.13 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £77.25
90th Percentile £87.05 £73.00 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

Cypress.io
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cypress.io as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cypress.io 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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 +2 131 £460 -20.09% 79
Work from Home +22 84 £450 -12.96% 50
UK excluding London +15 84 £475 -3.85% 65
London -18 74 £425 -26.09% 30
Scotland +3 25 £475 +3.71% 4
North of England -5 20 £425 -8.11% 29
South West +27 16 £552 +10.40% 5
North West -5 13 £425 +6.25% 17
Midlands -5 9 £575 +79.69% 4
South East +23 7 £525 +27.27% 17
West Midlands -6 7 £575 +79.69% 2
Yorkshire -8 7 £420 -18.76% 11
Wales -11 4 £520 -1.00% 1
East of England - 3 £425 - 4
East Midlands - 2 £450 - 2

Cypress.io
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.97%) Confluence
2 4 (2.21%) Drupal
2 4 (2.21%) WordPress
3 2 (1.10%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.55%) CMS
4 1 (0.55%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.55%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.55%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.55%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 77 (42.54%) AWS
2 48 (26.52%) GitHub
3 44 (24.31%) Azure
4 36 (19.89%) Serverless
5 28 (15.47%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (14.92%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (10.50%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (9.94%) GCP
9 16 (8.84%) Amazon S3
10 14 (7.73%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (7.18%) npm
12 12 (6.63%) OpenShift
13 9 (4.97%) Amazon Cognito
14 8 (4.42%) AWS CodePipeline
15 6 (3.31%) BrowserStack
16 5 (2.76%) Apigee
16 5 (2.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 5 (2.76%) SaaS
17 4 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 4 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.76%) HTTP
2 2 (1.10%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.50%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.63%) Amazon Aurora
2 12 (6.63%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.21%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.21%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.66%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.10%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.10%) MySQL
6 2 (1.10%) Redis
7 1 (0.55%) Big Data
7 1 (0.55%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.55%) Looker
7 1 (0.55%) Power BI
7 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 53 (29.28%) Jenkins
2 52 (28.73%) Selenium
3 37 (20.44%) Postman
4 35 (19.34%) Git
5 29 (16.02%) JIRA
6 27 (14.92%) GitLab
7 24 (13.26%) Cucumber
7 24 (13.26%) REST Assured
8 22 (12.15%) JUnit
9 18 (9.94%) JMeter
10 14 (7.73%) SonarQube
11 10 (5.52%) TestNG
12 9 (4.97%) Maven
13 8 (4.42%) Storybook
14 7 (3.87%) Gatling
15 6 (3.31%) Appium
15 6 (3.31%) Grunt
15 6 (3.31%) gulp
16 5 (2.76%) CircleCI
16 5 (2.76%) webpack
General
1 39 (21.55%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.57%) Finance
3 28 (15.47%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.29%) Banking
5 10 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.21%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.21%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.55%) Automotive
8 1 (0.55%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.55%) Front Office
8 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.55%) Military
8 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (32.60%) Developer
2 29 (16.02%) Senior
2 29 (16.02%) Tester
3 27 (14.92%) Automation Tester
4 23 (12.71%) Lead
5 21 (11.60%) Test Engineer
6 18 (9.94%) React Developer
7 15 (8.29%) Full-Stack Developer
8 13 (7.18%) QA Engineer
9 12 (6.63%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.42%) Analyst
10 8 (4.42%) Senior Test Engineer
10 8 (4.42%) Test Analyst
11 7 (3.87%) JavaScript Developer
11 7 (3.87%) Test Automation Engineer
12 6 (3.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 6 (3.31%) Technical Leader
12 6 (3.31%) UI Developer
13 5 (2.76%) Automation Test Analyst
13 5 (2.76%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (41.99%) React
2 58 (32.04%) Jest
2 58 (32.04%) Playwright
3 50 (27.62%) Node.js
4 37 (20.44%) REST
5 36 (19.89%) CSS
6 35 (19.34%) RESTful
7 32 (17.68%) HTML
8 27 (14.92%) Next.js
9 25 (13.81%) GraphQL
9 25 (13.81%) Redux
10 22 (12.15%) .NET
11 20 (11.05%) AWS CDK
12 17 (9.39%) Sass
13 15 (8.29%) AngularJS
14 12 (6.63%) HTML5
14 12 (6.63%) OAuth
15 11 (6.08%) Enzyme
15 11 (6.08%) Express.js
16 10 (5.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.84%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.63%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.87%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.31%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.31%) Client/Server
4 6 (3.31%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.66%) Vector Graphics
8 2 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.10%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.10%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.55%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.55%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.87%) Linux
2 4 (2.21%) Windows
3 1 (0.55%) Android
3 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (64.64%) CI/CD
2 113 (62.43%) Test Automation
3 89 (49.17%) Agile
4 79 (43.65%) DevOps
5 37 (20.44%) Software Engineering
6 35 (19.34%) Microservices
7 34 (18.78%) TDD
8 33 (18.23%) Front End Development
9 32 (17.68%) Full-Stack Development
10 31 (17.13%) Test Strategy
11 30 (16.57%) API Testing
11 30 (16.57%) User Experience
12 24 (13.26%) Infrastructure as Code
13 22 (12.15%) End-to-End Testing
13 22 (12.15%) Test Scripting
14 21 (11.60%) Containerisation
14 21 (11.60%) Performance Optimisation
15 20 (11.05%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
15 20 (11.05%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 106 (58.56%) JavaScript
2 82 (45.30%) TypeScript
3 51 (28.18%) Java
4 28 (15.47%) Python
5 17 (9.39%) C#
5 17 (9.39%) SQL
6 6 (3.31%) Bash
7 5 (2.76%) PHP
8 2 (1.10%) C++
8 2 (1.10%) Elm
8 2 (1.10%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.10%) VBA
8 2 (1.10%) VBScript
9 1 (0.55%) Ada
9 1 (0.55%) Go
9 1 (0.55%) Groovy
9 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.55%) Perl
9 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 46 (25.41%) Security Cleared
2 35 (19.34%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.87%) Degree
5 6 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.31%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.76%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.10%) ISEB
7 2 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (28.73%) Accessibility
2 51 (28.18%) QA
3 22 (12.15%) WCAG
4 2 (1.10%) GDPR
5 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (22.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (14.92%) Terraform
2 26 (14.36%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.97%) Grafana
4 8 (4.42%) Ansible
5 6 (3.31%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.21%) Puppet
7 2 (1.10%) HP ALM
7 2 (1.10%) Podman
7 2 (1.10%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.55%) Kibana
8 1 (0.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 11 (6.08%) Google
2 8 (4.42%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.87%) Splunk
4 6 (3.31%) Perforce
5 5 (2.76%) Adobe
6 4 (2.21%) Bloomberg
6 4 (2.21%) Reuters
7 3 (1.66%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.66%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.10%) Cisco
8 2 (1.10%) HP
8 2 (1.10%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.10%) Nintex
8 2 (1.10%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.55%) Dundas
9 1 (0.55%) IBM
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle
9 1 (0.55%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.55%) UiPath