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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 383 354
Rank change year-on-year -122 -29 +43
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 157 172 223
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.52% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.53% 3.55% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 111 180
10th Percentile £302 £313 £405
25th Percentile £330 £393 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -21.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £565 £538 £650
90th Percentile £633 £688 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -15.79% -7.32% +2.50%

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 6,197 4,845 5,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.74% 14.70% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,975 3,270 3,358
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 106 221
10th Percentile £26.00 £24.05 £25.99
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.68 £84.50 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cypress.io over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cypress.io in the UK

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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 July 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 -113 124 £428 +0.59% 54
London -54 80 £500 +17.65% 26
UK excluding London -111 56 £400 -15.79% 34
Work from Home -83 52 £450 +5.88% 38
North of England -69 20 £400 -5.88% 11
West Midlands -41 16 £313 -30.56% 3
Midlands -44 16 £313 -30.56% 4
Scotland -13 13 £450 -5.26% 1
Yorkshire -45 9 £350 -16.67% 2
North West -48 8 £425 -8.45% 5
East of England -18 3 £300 -29.41% 1
North East - 3 £380 - 4
South West -53 2 £513 -14.58% 7
South East -76 2 £450 -14.29% 11

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 (12.74%) Confluence
2 3 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.64%) Appian
3 1 (0.64%) CMS
3 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (5.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.82%) Shopify
3 1 (0.64%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 59 (37.58%) AWS
2 53 (33.76%) Azure
3 50 (31.85%) GitHub
4 35 (22.29%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (19.75%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (18.47%) Serverless
7 22 (14.01%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (12.10%) Amazon S3
9 15 (9.55%) Figma
10 14 (8.92%) GCP
11 12 (7.64%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (6.37%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (5.73%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (5.73%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (5.10%) GitHub Copilot
14 8 (5.10%) Power Automate
15 7 (4.46%) AWS Step Functions
16 5 (3.18%) Azure Functions
16 5 (3.18%) Slack
17 4 (2.55%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.10%) DynamoDB
1 8 (5.10%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.82%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (2.55%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.55%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 79 (50.32%) Selenium
2 37 (23.57%) Postman
3 34 (21.66%) Git
4 28 (17.83%) JIRA
5 24 (15.29%) Jenkins
6 23 (14.65%) REST Assured
7 21 (13.38%) Cucumber
8 14 (8.92%) JMeter
9 12 (7.64%) WebDriver
10 11 (7.01%) Gatling
11 10 (6.37%) Appium
11 10 (6.37%) GitLab
12 9 (5.73%) JUnit
12 9 (5.73%) webpack
13 8 (5.10%) Storybook
13 8 (5.10%) TestRail
14 6 (3.82%) TestNG
15 5 (3.18%) SpecFlow
15 5 (3.18%) Vite
16 3 (1.91%) CircleCI
General
1 42 (26.75%) Social Skills
2 36 (22.93%) Public Sector
3 29 (18.47%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.28%) Finance
5 11 (7.01%) Banking
6 9 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.46%) Military
8 4 (2.55%) Retail
9 3 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.91%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.27%) Advertising
10 2 (1.27%) Back Office
10 2 (1.27%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.27%) Legal
10 2 (1.27%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.64%) Law
11 1 (0.64%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.64%) Marketing
11 1 (0.64%) Police
Job Titles
1 35 (22.29%) Developer
2 27 (17.20%) Senior
3 23 (14.65%) Test Engineer
4 21 (13.38%) Lead
5 18 (11.46%) QA Engineer
6 17 (10.83%) Analyst
7 16 (10.19%) Test Analyst
7 16 (10.19%) Tester
8 11 (7.01%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 11 (7.01%) Test Automation Engineer
9 10 (6.37%) React Developer
10 8 (5.10%) Architect
10 8 (5.10%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) Automation Tester
11 7 (4.46%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.46%) QA Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) QA Leader
11 7 (4.46%) QA Tester
11 7 (4.46%) Test Leader
12 5 (3.18%) Lead Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (54.78%) Playwright
2 50 (31.85%) React
3 42 (26.75%) REST
4 35 (22.29%) Jest
5 28 (17.83%) CSS
6 25 (15.92%) HTML
7 21 (13.38%) Node.js
8 19 (12.10%) HTML5
9 18 (11.46%) CSS3
9 18 (11.46%) RESTful
10 16 (10.19%) GraphQL
11 14 (8.92%) Redux
12 13 (8.28%) Next.js
13 10 (6.37%) Gherkin
13 10 (6.37%) Kafka
14 9 (5.73%) pytest
15 8 (5.10%) AWS CDK
15 8 (5.10%) JSON
15 8 (5.10%) OAuth2
15 8 (5.10%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.38%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.46%) Product Ownership
3 11 (7.01%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.82%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (3.18%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.18%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.91%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.27%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.27%) Genomics
8 2 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.27%) Life Science
8 2 (1.27%) NHS
8 2 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.64%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.64%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.55%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.27%) Android
3 1 (0.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (73.89%) Test Automation
2 88 (56.05%) CI/CD
3 86 (54.78%) Agile
4 61 (38.85%) DevOps
5 47 (29.94%) API Testing
6 39 (24.84%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (24.84%) Test Strategy
7 37 (23.57%) End-to-End Testing
8 35 (22.29%) Microservices
9 33 (21.02%) AI
9 33 (21.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (17.20%) User Experience
11 25 (15.92%) BDD
12 24 (15.29%) Scrum
13 23 (14.65%) TDD
14 22 (14.01%) Performance Testing
15 20 (12.74%) SDLC
16 18 (11.46%) Integration Testing
16 18 (11.46%) Regression Testing
16 18 (11.46%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 78 (49.68%) JavaScript
2 72 (45.86%) TypeScript
3 34 (21.66%) Python
4 31 (19.75%) Java
5 17 (10.83%) C#
5 17 (10.83%) SQL
6 6 (3.82%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.55%) Scala
8 2 (1.27%) Bash
9 1 (0.64%) Bicep
9 1 (0.64%) Groovy
9 1 (0.64%) Ruby
9 1 (0.64%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 44 (28.03%) Security Cleared
2 35 (22.29%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.55%) ISTQB
4 14 (8.92%) DV Cleared
5 12 (7.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (5.10%) Degree
7 6 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.64%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (42.68%) QA
2 54 (34.39%) Accessibility
3 31 (19.75%) WCAG
4 8 (5.10%) GDPR
5 2 (1.27%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.64%) GRC
6 1 (0.64%) GxP
6 1 (0.64%) SEPA
System Software
1 23 (14.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (11.46%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.19%) Terraform
3 11 (7.01%) Grafana
4 7 (4.46%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.55%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.91%) Kibana
7 2 (1.27%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.64%) Ansible
8 1 (0.64%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.64%) Podman
8 1 (0.64%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (8.28%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.46%) Splunk
3 4 (2.55%) HP
4 3 (1.91%) Google
4 3 (1.91%) Micro Focus
4 3 (1.91%) OpenText
4 3 (1.91%) Oracle
5 2 (1.27%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.64%) Adobe
6 1 (0.64%) Aprimo
6 1 (0.64%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.64%) IBM
6 1 (0.64%) New Relic
6 1 (0.64%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.64%) TOWER Software