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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 384 372
Rank change year-on-year -38 -12 +75
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 176 161 239
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.47% 0.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.20% 3.55% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 120 171
10th Percentile £357 £330 £413
25th Percentile £412 £375 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £532
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -10.71% +3.80%
75th Percentile £568 £571 £600
90th Percentile £675 £602 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £468 £475
% change year-on-year +10.52% -1.42% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £72.35
25th Percentile - £42.50 £72.88
Median hourly rate - £45.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - -41.94% +10.71%
75th Percentile - £47.50 £81.25
90th Percentile - - -
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 5,504 4,538 5,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.04% 13.27% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,780 2,867 3,981
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.74% -3.93%
75th Percentile £600 £629 £638
90th Percentile £690 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.88% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 89 215
10th Percentile £39.00 £38.30 £45.88
25th Percentile £53.75 £51.00 £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 £77.02
90th Percentile £83.80 £75.00 £89.50
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 18 December 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 16 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 18 December 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 -29 138 £500 +5.26% 70
London -2 79 £475 - 23
UK excluding London -32 76 £518 +10.52% 61
Work from Home +1 68 £515 +14.44% 48
North of England -38 26 £425 +6.25% 19
Scotland +8 16 £510 +12.71% 3
North West -11 15 £420 +5.00% 12
South West -2 13 £529 +3.12% 12
Midlands -30 11 £575 +22.67% 5
Yorkshire -37 9 £500 +42.86% 4
West Midlands - 8 £575 - 3
South East -24 7 £688 +111.54% 21
Wales +4 4 £520 -2.12%
East Midlands -15 3 £725 +54.67% 2
North East - 2 £450 - 3
East of England -21 1 - - 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 11 (6.25%) Confluence
2 5 (2.84%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.14%) Apache
3 2 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.14%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.57%) Drupal
4 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.57%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 72 (40.91%) AWS
2 51 (28.98%) Azure
3 42 (23.86%) GitHub
4 27 (15.34%) GitHub Actions
5 24 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (13.07%) Serverless
7 20 (11.36%) GCP
8 19 (10.80%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (9.09%) npm
10 15 (8.52%) Amazon S3
11 12 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (5.68%) OpenShift
13 8 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 7 (3.98%) Datadog
15 6 (3.41%) Amazon Cognito
15 6 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (3.41%) Azure AKS
15 6 (3.41%) Figma
16 5 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
16 5 (2.84%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.93%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (5.11%) MongoDB
2 9 (5.11%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (3.98%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.27%) Redis
6 3 (1.70%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.70%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.70%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.14%) Big Data
7 2 (1.14%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.14%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.14%) MySQL
7 2 (1.14%) Power BI
8 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.57%) Looker
8 1 (0.57%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 62 (35.23%) Selenium
2 38 (21.59%) Git
3 34 (19.32%) Jenkins
3 34 (19.32%) Postman
4 31 (17.61%) GitLab
5 26 (14.77%) JUnit
6 21 (11.93%) Cucumber
7 20 (11.36%) REST Assured
8 18 (10.23%) JIRA
9 13 (7.39%) SonarQube
10 9 (5.11%) JMeter
11 8 (4.55%) Maven
11 8 (4.55%) webpack
12 7 (3.98%) CircleCI
13 5 (2.84%) Artifactory
13 5 (2.84%) Bitbucket
13 5 (2.84%) Gradle
13 5 (2.84%) Snyk
13 5 (2.84%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (2.84%) TestRail
General
1 36 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 28 (15.91%) Finance
4 19 (10.80%) Banking
5 7 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.41%) Military
7 4 (2.27%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.70%) Publishing
9 2 (1.14%) Digital Health
9 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (23.86%) Senior
2 39 (22.16%) Developer
3 32 (18.18%) Tester
4 29 (16.48%) Automation Tester
5 28 (15.91%) Lead
6 21 (11.93%) Test Engineer
7 13 (7.39%) Software Engineer
8 12 (6.82%) QA Engineer
9 10 (5.68%) Senior Test Engineer
10 9 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (5.11%) QA Leader
11 8 (4.55%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 8 (4.55%) React Developer
12 7 (3.98%) Senior Automation Tester
12 7 (3.98%) Senior Tester
12 7 (3.98%) Technical Leader
13 6 (3.41%) Automation Engineer
13 6 (3.41%) Java Developer
13 6 (3.41%) QA Automation Engineer
14 5 (2.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (42.61%) React
2 60 (34.09%) Playwright
3 57 (32.39%) Jest
4 43 (24.43%) Node.js
5 36 (20.45%) RESTful
6 33 (18.75%) REST
7 30 (17.05%) CSS
8 24 (13.64%) HTML
9 20 (11.36%) Next.js
9 20 (11.36%) Redux
10 19 (10.80%) .NET
11 14 (7.95%) JSON
11 14 (7.95%) Sass
12 13 (7.39%) AngularJS
12 13 (7.39%) Spring
13 12 (6.82%) Spring Boot
14 11 (6.25%) .NET Core
14 11 (6.25%) Enzyme
14 11 (6.25%) HTML5
14 11 (6.25%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.39%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.98%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.41%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.84%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.27%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.27%) Genomics
8 3 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.70%) Life Science
9 2 (1.14%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.14%) Blog
9 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.57%) iPhone
10 1 (0.57%) NHS
10 1 (0.57%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.55%) Linux
2 5 (2.84%) Android
3 4 (2.27%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (64.77%) Test Automation
2 111 (63.07%) CI/CD
3 91 (51.70%) Agile
4 72 (40.91%) DevOps
5 41 (23.30%) Software Engineering
6 38 (21.59%) Test Strategy
7 37 (21.02%) Microservices
8 35 (19.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (19.89%) End-to-End Testing
9 31 (17.61%) Containerisation
10 29 (16.48%) Front End Development
10 29 (16.48%) Software Testing
11 28 (15.91%) API Testing
11 28 (15.91%) Full-Stack Development
12 27 (15.34%) User Experience
13 24 (13.64%) BDD
13 24 (13.64%) Test Scripting
14 23 (13.07%) Infrastructure as Code
15 22 (12.50%) TDD
16 20 (11.36%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 82 (46.59%) JavaScript
2 77 (43.75%) TypeScript
3 52 (29.55%) Java
4 31 (17.61%) Python
5 29 (16.48%) SQL
6 11 (6.25%) C#
7 5 (2.84%) JSX
8 4 (2.27%) Bash
9 2 (1.14%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.14%) Perl
9 2 (1.14%) PHP
10 1 (0.57%) Go
10 1 (0.57%) Groovy
10 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 43 (24.43%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.39%) Degree
4 10 (5.68%) ISTQB
5 9 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (4.55%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.57%) ISEB
9 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (38.07%) QA
2 61 (34.66%) Accessibility
3 28 (15.91%) WCAG
4 1 (0.57%) GDPR
4 1 (0.57%) MiFID
4 1 (0.57%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 47 (26.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (14.20%) Kubernetes
2 21 (11.93%) Terraform
3 14 (7.95%) Grafana
4 13 (7.39%) Ansible
5 7 (3.98%) Puppet
6 5 (2.84%) Podman
6 5 (2.84%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.84%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.14%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.57%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 14 (7.95%) Splunk
2 10 (5.68%) Google
3 9 (5.11%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.70%) Perforce
4 3 (1.70%) Xamarin
5 2 (1.14%) Adobe
5 2 (1.14%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.14%) OneLogin
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle
6 1 (0.57%) Dundas
6 1 (0.57%) HP
6 1 (0.57%) IBM
6 1 (0.57%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.57%) UiPath
6 1 (0.57%) Virgin Media