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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 354 373
Rank change year-on-year -64 +19 +56
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 168 166 235
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.53% 0.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.07% 3.89% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 123 165
10th Percentile £358 £330 £403
25th Percentile £413 £372 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £552 £547 £588
90th Percentile £636 £600 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £468 £450
% change year-on-year +10.16% +3.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £68.85
25th Percentile - £42.50 £70.88
Median hourly rate - £45.00 £74.75
Median % change year-on-year - -39.80% +20.56%
75th Percentile - £47.50 £81.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £77.50
% change year-on-year - - +43.52%

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 5,480 4,266 5,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.42% 13.49% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,767 2,682 3,767
10th Percentile £344 £331 £363
25th Percentile £406 £410 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -5.36%
75th Percentile £589 £625 £634
90th Percentile £697 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 73 212
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.70 £41.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £82.30 £76.05 £89.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 -51 142 £500 +5.26% 156
London -19 76 £475 - 26
UK excluding London -47 75 £515 +10.16% 153
Work from Home -21 59 £475 +11.11% 107
North of England -42 34 £475 +22.58% 28
North West -16 23 £450 +12.50% 9
Scotland +1 13 £588 +29.83% 7
South West -14 13 £529 +0.67% 20
Midlands -37 11 £575 +22.67% 11
Yorkshire -56 9 £500 +81.82% 14
West Midlands - 8 £575 - 4
South East -30 5 £688 +111.54% 51
East Midlands -25 3 £725 +54.67% 7
North East - 2 £450 - 5
East of England -17 1 - - 28

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 (5.36%) Confluence
2 5 (2.98%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.19%) Apache
3 2 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.19%) Camunda
3 2 (1.19%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.60%) CMS
4 1 (0.60%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 63 (37.50%) AWS
2 50 (29.76%) Azure
3 42 (25.00%) GitHub
4 32 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (15.48%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (11.31%) Serverless
7 18 (10.71%) GCP
8 16 (9.52%) npm
9 15 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (6.55%) Amazon S3
10 11 (6.55%) OpenShift
11 9 (5.36%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (4.17%) Azure AKS
13 7 (4.17%) Figma
14 6 (3.57%) Amazon Cognito
14 6 (3.57%) Datadog
15 5 (2.98%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (2.98%) Pulumi
16 4 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.60%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.98%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (1.79%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.79%) Redis
6 2 (1.19%) Big Data
6 2 (1.19%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.19%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.19%) MySQL
6 2 (1.19%) Power BI
6 2 (1.19%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.60%) Looker
7 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 64 (38.10%) Selenium
2 40 (23.81%) Git
3 35 (20.83%) Postman
4 32 (19.05%) GitLab
4 32 (19.05%) Jenkins
5 31 (18.45%) JUnit
6 23 (13.69%) REST Assured
7 20 (11.90%) Cucumber
8 18 (10.71%) JIRA
9 12 (7.14%) CircleCI
9 12 (7.14%) SonarQube
10 10 (5.95%) Maven
11 9 (5.36%) webpack
12 8 (4.76%) WebDriver
13 7 (4.17%) Gradle
13 7 (4.17%) JMeter
14 6 (3.57%) Mocha
15 5 (2.98%) Artifactory
15 5 (2.98%) Bitbucket
15 5 (2.98%) TestRail
General
1 39 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 31 (18.45%) Public Sector
3 23 (13.69%) Finance
4 17 (10.12%) Banking
5 12 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.17%) Military
7 4 (2.38%) Publishing
8 3 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.19%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.60%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.60%) Games
10 1 (0.60%) Law
10 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (28.57%) Developer
2 44 (26.19%) Senior
3 28 (16.67%) Tester
4 24 (14.29%) Automation Tester
5 20 (11.90%) Test Engineer
6 18 (10.71%) Lead
7 16 (9.52%) Software Engineer
8 14 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 14 (8.33%) QA Engineer
9 10 (5.95%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 10 (5.95%) Java Developer
9 10 (5.95%) React Developer
9 10 (5.95%) Senior Test Engineer
10 9 (5.36%) QA Leader
11 7 (4.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 6 (3.57%) Senior Automation Tester
12 6 (3.57%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.57%) Senior Tester
13 5 (2.98%) JavaScript Engineer
13 5 (2.98%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (44.64%) React
2 68 (40.48%) Playwright
3 55 (32.74%) Jest
4 43 (25.60%) Node.js
5 42 (25.00%) REST
6 33 (19.64%) RESTful
7 28 (16.67%) CSS
8 22 (13.10%) HTML
8 22 (13.10%) Redux
8 22 (13.10%) Spring
9 21 (12.50%) Spring Boot
10 15 (8.93%) AngularJS
10 15 (8.93%) Next.js
11 13 (7.74%) JSON
11 13 (7.74%) Sass
12 11 (6.55%) .NET
12 11 (6.55%) Enzyme
12 11 (6.55%) GraphQL
12 11 (6.55%) HTML5
13 10 (5.95%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 12 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (6.55%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.95%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.98%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.38%) Genomics
5 4 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.79%) Blog
6 3 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.79%) Life Science
6 3 (1.79%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.19%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.19%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.60%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.76%) Linux
2 6 (3.57%) Android
3 5 (2.98%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 106 (63.10%) CI/CD
3 93 (55.36%) Agile
4 70 (41.67%) DevOps
5 37 (22.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 35 (20.83%) Microservices
7 34 (20.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 34 (20.24%) Test Strategy
7 34 (20.24%) User Experience
8 33 (19.64%) Containerisation
8 33 (19.64%) Software Engineering
9 32 (19.05%) Software Testing
10 30 (17.86%) End-to-End Testing
11 29 (17.26%) Front End Development
12 28 (16.67%) API Testing
13 27 (16.07%) Test Scripting
14 23 (13.69%) BDD
15 22 (13.10%) TDD
16 20 (11.90%) Clean Code
16 20 (11.90%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 77 (45.83%) TypeScript
2 76 (45.24%) JavaScript
3 57 (33.93%) Java
4 27 (16.07%) Python
4 27 (16.07%) SQL
5 16 (9.52%) C#
6 5 (2.98%) JSX
7 4 (2.38%) Bash
7 4 (2.38%) Go
8 2 (1.19%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.19%) Perl
9 1 (0.60%) C++
9 1 (0.60%) Groovy
9 1 (0.60%) PHP
9 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.60%) VBA
9 1 (0.60%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 61 (36.31%) Security Cleared
2 47 (27.98%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.74%) ISTQB
4 10 (5.95%) Degree
5 8 (4.76%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.60%) ISEB
9 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (39.88%) QA
2 60 (35.71%) Accessibility
3 31 (18.45%) WCAG
4 2 (1.19%) NCSC
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) MiFID
5 1 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 46 (27.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (14.88%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.71%) Terraform
3 13 (7.74%) Ansible
4 11 (6.55%) Grafana
5 6 (3.57%) Puppet
6 5 (2.98%) Podman
6 5 (2.98%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.98%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.19%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.60%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.60%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 13 (7.74%) Splunk
2 9 (5.36%) Google
3 8 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.38%) Xamarin
5 3 (1.79%) Adobe
5 3 (1.79%) Perforce
6 2 (1.19%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.19%) OneLogin
6 2 (1.19%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.19%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.60%) Dundas
7 1 (0.60%) HP
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle
7 1 (0.60%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.60%) Virgin Media