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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 376 356
Rank change year-on-year -113 -20 +41
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 135 152 233
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.52% 0.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.32% 3.70% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 106 169
10th Percentile £313 £300 £398
25th Percentile £357 £367 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £430 £517
Median % change year-on-year +8.14% -16.83% -1.52%
75th Percentile £547 £517 £613
90th Percentile £635 £603 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £506
% change year-on-year +11.11% -11.07% -
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 5,811 4,111 5,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.41% 14.00% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,866 2,759 3,462
10th Percentile £343 £340 £356
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £585 £600 £625
90th Percentile £687 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 67 192
10th Percentile £36.95 £26.92 £31.84
25th Percentile £59.19 £51.53 £46.11
Median hourly rate £66.75 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £73.19 £75.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £86.15 £84.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 27 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 14 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 27 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 £465 +6.23% 37
London -79 73 £450 +5.26% 10
Work from Home -39 49 £473 +14.55% 40
UK excluding London -91 44 £500 +11.11% 37
North of England -48 27 £470 +34.29% 16
North West -25 18 £500 +0.91% 9
Yorkshire -61 8 £410 +49.09% 6
Midlands -62 6 £575 +27.78% 3
Scotland +3 5 £588 +30.56% 1
West Midlands -58 5 £438 -2.78% 1
South East -66 4 £575 +64.29% 6
East of England -33 3 £300 -45.45% 1
East Midlands -40 1 £725 +58.04% 2
North East - 1 £350 - 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 17 (12.59%) Confluence
2 2 (1.48%) 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 (4.44%) Shopify
2 1 (0.74%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 47 (34.81%) AWS
2 45 (33.33%) GitHub
3 43 (31.85%) Azure
4 34 (25.19%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (16.30%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (11.85%) Serverless
7 15 (11.11%) Amazon S3
7 15 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (6.67%) GCP
9 8 (5.93%) AWS Step Functions
9 8 (5.93%) Figma
10 6 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (4.44%) npm
11 4 (2.96%) Amazon Cognito
11 4 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.22%) Datadog
12 3 (2.22%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.22%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.67%) DynamoDB
2 8 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (5.19%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (2.96%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.96%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.48%) MySQL
6 2 (1.48%) 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 62 (45.93%) Selenium
2 35 (25.93%) Git
3 27 (20.00%) JIRA
4 25 (18.52%) Postman
5 19 (14.07%) Jenkins
6 18 (13.33%) JUnit
7 16 (11.85%) REST Assured
8 15 (11.11%) GitLab
9 14 (10.37%) Cucumber
10 10 (7.41%) CircleCI
10 10 (7.41%) JMeter
11 8 (5.93%) Mocha
11 8 (5.93%) TestRail
11 8 (5.93%) WebDriver
12 6 (4.44%) Appium
12 6 (4.44%) webpack
13 5 (3.70%) Maven
13 5 (3.70%) TestNG
13 5 (3.70%) Vite
14 4 (2.96%) ESLint
General
1 30 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.26%) Public Sector
3 17 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.37%) Banking
5 10 (7.41%) Finance
6 4 (2.96%) Publishing
7 3 (2.22%) Military
7 3 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.48%) Advertising
8 2 (1.48%) 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 38 (28.15%) Developer
2 29 (21.48%) Senior
3 20 (14.81%) QA Engineer
4 18 (13.33%) Tester
5 16 (11.85%) Lead
6 15 (11.11%) Test Engineer
7 13 (9.63%) React Developer
8 10 (7.41%) Software Engineer
9 9 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
9 9 (6.67%) Automation Tester
9 9 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 9 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (6.67%) QA Automation Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 7 (5.19%) Java Developer
11 6 (4.44%) QA Tester
11 6 (4.44%) Quality Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Senior Developer
12 5 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (3.70%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (51.85%) Playwright
2 60 (44.44%) React
3 41 (30.37%) Jest
4 33 (24.44%) REST
5 23 (17.04%) Node.js
6 19 (14.07%) CSS
6 19 (14.07%) RESTful
7 15 (11.11%) Next.js
7 15 (11.11%) Redux
8 14 (10.37%) Spring
8 14 (10.37%) Spring Boot
9 13 (9.63%) HTML
10 11 (8.15%) AngularJS
11 8 (5.93%) .NET
12 7 (5.19%) GraphQL
12 7 (5.19%) pytest
12 7 (5.19%) Sass
12 7 (5.19%) Zustand
13 6 (4.44%) Enzyme
13 6 (4.44%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.15%) Cloud Native
1 11 (8.15%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.67%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 4 (2.96%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.22%) Blog
5 3 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.48%) Genomics
6 2 (1.48%) Life Science
6 2 (1.48%) NHS
6 2 (1.48%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.74%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.74%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.74%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.74%) iPhone
7 1 (0.74%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.19%) Android
2 4 (2.96%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.22%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (73.33%) Test Automation
2 77 (57.04%) Agile
3 75 (55.56%) CI/CD
4 52 (38.52%) DevOps
5 31 (22.96%) Continuous Improvement
6 30 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
6 30 (22.22%) User Experience
7 28 (20.74%) API Testing
8 27 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 23 (17.04%) Software Testing
10 22 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (16.30%) Software Engineering
11 21 (15.56%) Microservices
11 21 (15.56%) UX Design
12 20 (14.81%) Test Strategy
13 18 (13.33%) BDD
13 18 (13.33%) Containerisation
14 17 (12.59%) Test Scripting
15 16 (11.85%) Performance Testing
16 15 (11.11%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 63 (46.67%) TypeScript
2 57 (42.22%) JavaScript
3 41 (30.37%) Java
4 27 (20.00%) Python
5 25 (18.52%) SQL
6 16 (11.85%) C#
7 3 (2.22%) Go
7 3 (2.22%) JSX
7 3 (2.22%) Scala
8 2 (1.48%) 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%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.74%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.74%) VBA
9 1 (0.74%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 39 (28.89%) Security Cleared
2 31 (22.96%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.63%) ISTQB
4 10 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (7.41%) Degree
5 8 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (5.19%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.48%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.74%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (45.19%) QA
2 53 (39.26%) Accessibility
3 29 (21.48%) WCAG
4 2 (1.48%) NCSC
5 1 (0.74%) GxP
System Software
1 22 (16.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (11.11%) Terraform
2 13 (9.63%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.44%) Grafana
4 4 (2.96%) Ansible
4 4 (2.96%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.48%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.48%) Kibana
5 2 (1.48%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.48%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.74%) Podman
6 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.74%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (5.93%) Splunk
2 7 (5.19%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.96%) HP
3 4 (2.96%) Xamarin
4 3 (2.22%) Micro Focus
4 3 (2.22%) OpenText
4 3 (2.22%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.48%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.48%) Google
5 2 (1.48%) Oracle
5 2 (1.48%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.74%) Adobe
6 1 (0.74%) Aprimo
6 1 (0.74%) Salesforce