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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 375 381
Rank change year-on-year -117 +6 +39
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 136 154 220
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.53% 0.50%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.34% 3.77% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 111 154
10th Percentile £313 £300 £400
25th Percentile £360 £357 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £445 £506
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -11.97% -3.71%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £613
90th Percentile £606 £610 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £468 £480
% change year-on-year +8.66% -2.60% -4.00%
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 5,804 4,089 5,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.66% 13.97% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,857 2,742 3,495
10th Percentile £340 £338 £356
25th Percentile £405 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £581 £601 £625
90th Percentile £688 £719 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 72 176
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.28 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.91 £51.20 £43.99
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% +2.02% +0.81%
75th Percentile £75.88 £75.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.10 £86.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £64.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.65% +3.20% +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 12 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 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 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 -135 116 £475 +5.56% 51
London -81 71 £450 +4.53% 19
Work from Home -50 48 £475 +15.15% 29
UK excluding London -95 48 £508 +8.66% 35
North of England -66 22 £500 +33.33% 15
North West -25 17 £500 +6.33% 11
South West -25 8 £515 -4.19% 5
Midlands -65 7 £583 +24.60% 3
Scotland +4 5 £588 +30.56%
South East -55 5 £650 +85.71% 10
West Midlands -65 5 £438 -2.78% 2
Yorkshire -60 4 £498 +80.91% 4
East of England -40 3 £300 -45.45% 1
East Midlands -34 2 £725 +54.67% 1
North East - 1 £350 -

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 12 (8.82%) Confluence
2 2 (1.47%) Apache
2 2 (1.47%) Camunda
3 1 (0.74%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.74%) CMS
3 1 (0.74%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 6 (4.41%) Shopify
2 1 (0.74%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 46 (33.82%) AWS
2 45 (33.09%) Azure
3 43 (31.62%) GitHub
4 34 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 24 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (11.03%) Serverless
7 13 (9.56%) Amazon S3
7 13 (9.56%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (5.15%) npm
9 6 (4.41%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (4.41%) GCP
10 4 (2.94%) Amazon Cognito
10 4 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.21%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.21%) Figma
11 3 (2.21%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.21%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.15%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (5.15%) DynamoDB
4 5 (3.68%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (2.94%) MongoDB
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 65 (47.79%) Selenium
2 32 (23.53%) Git
2 32 (23.53%) Postman
3 23 (16.91%) REST Assured
4 22 (16.18%) JIRA
5 20 (14.71%) Jenkins
6 16 (11.76%) GitLab
6 16 (11.76%) JUnit
7 10 (7.35%) CircleCI
7 10 (7.35%) Cucumber
8 9 (6.62%) JMeter
9 8 (5.88%) Mocha
9 8 (5.88%) TestRail
9 8 (5.88%) WebDriver
10 7 (5.15%) webpack
11 6 (4.41%) Appium
12 5 (3.68%) Maven
12 5 (3.68%) Vite
13 4 (2.94%) ESLint
13 4 (2.94%) Jasmine
General
1 29 (21.32%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.91%) Public Sector
3 16 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.56%) Banking
5 9 (6.62%) Finance
6 4 (2.94%) Publishing
7 3 (2.21%) Military
8 2 (1.47%) Advertising
8 2 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.47%) Law
9 1 (0.74%) Digital Health
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%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.74%) Police
9 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (29.41%) Developer
2 31 (22.79%) Senior
3 21 (15.44%) QA Engineer
4 17 (12.50%) Tester
5 16 (11.76%) Test Engineer
6 15 (11.03%) Lead
7 13 (9.56%) React Developer
8 12 (8.82%) Automation Tester
9 10 (7.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 10 (7.35%) QA Automation Engineer
10 9 (6.62%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (5.88%) Software Engineer
12 7 (5.15%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 7 (5.15%) Java Developer
12 7 (5.15%) QA Leader
13 6 (4.41%) Quality Engineer
13 6 (4.41%) Senior Developer
14 5 (3.68%) Analyst
15 4 (2.94%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (50.74%) Playwright
2 57 (41.91%) React
3 44 (32.35%) Jest
4 35 (25.74%) REST
5 24 (17.65%) Node.js
6 23 (16.91%) CSS
7 21 (15.44%) RESTful
8 17 (12.50%) HTML
8 17 (12.50%) Redux
9 15 (11.03%) Next.js
10 14 (10.29%) Spring
10 14 (10.29%) Spring Boot
11 12 (8.82%) AngularJS
12 8 (5.88%) .NET
12 8 (5.88%) HTML5
12 8 (5.88%) Sass
13 7 (5.15%) CSS3
13 7 (5.15%) GraphQL
13 7 (5.15%) pytest
13 7 (5.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.35%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.62%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.62%) Mobile App
3 8 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (2.94%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.21%) Blog
7 2 (1.47%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.47%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.47%) NHS
7 2 (1.47%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.74%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.74%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.74%) iPhone
8 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.15%) Android
2 4 (2.94%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 77 (56.62%) CI/CD
3 75 (55.15%) Agile
4 50 (36.76%) DevOps
5 32 (23.53%) End-to-End Testing
6 31 (22.79%) API Testing
7 30 (22.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (20.59%) User Experience
9 27 (19.85%) Software Testing
9 27 (19.85%) Test Strategy
10 24 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
11 23 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (16.91%) Test Scripting
12 22 (16.18%) Microservices
13 20 (14.71%) Software Engineering
14 18 (13.24%) Containerisation
14 18 (13.24%) UX Design
15 17 (12.50%) Front End Development
16 16 (11.76%) BDD
17 15 (11.03%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 58 (42.65%) TypeScript
2 56 (41.18%) JavaScript
3 43 (31.62%) Java
4 26 (19.12%) SQL
5 24 (17.65%) Python
6 16 (11.76%) C#
7 3 (2.21%) Go
7 3 (2.21%) JSX
8 2 (1.47%) Bash
9 1 (0.74%) Bicep
9 1 (0.74%) C++
9 1 (0.74%) Groovy
9 1 (0.74%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.74%) Ruby
9 1 (0.74%) Scala
9 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.74%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.74%) VBA
9 1 (0.74%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 44 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 35 (25.74%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.56%) ISTQB
4 7 (5.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (5.15%) Degree
5 5 (3.68%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.47%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.74%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (48.53%) QA
2 49 (36.03%) Accessibility
3 28 (20.59%) WCAG
4 2 (1.47%) NCSC
5 1 (0.74%) GxP
5 1 (0.74%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 22 (16.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (10.29%) Terraform
2 13 (9.56%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.41%) Grafana
4 4 (2.94%) Ansible
4 4 (2.94%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.47%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.47%) Kibana
5 2 (1.47%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.74%) Podman
6 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.74%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.41%) Splunk
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%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.74%) Adobe
6 1 (0.74%) Aprimo
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle
6 1 (0.74%) Salesforce