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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 387 349
Rank change year-on-year -124 -38 +52
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 157 176 220
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.53% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.52% 3.58% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 116 178
10th Percentile £301 £313 £404
25th Percentile £335 £396 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £570
Median % change year-on-year - -21.05% +3.64%
75th Percentile £565 £540 £650
90th Percentile £635 £638 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% -

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 6,229 4,911 4,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.72% 14.83% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,994 3,324 3,304
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 £594 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 109 214
10th Percentile £26.25 £25.24 £26.59
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.20
Median hourly rate £65.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.58 £84.05 £73.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%

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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 3 August 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

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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 3 August 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 -116 126 £425 - 70
London -60 80 £525 +23.53% 36
UK excluding London -112 58 £400 -15.79% 51
Work from Home -92 50 £450 +5.88% 55
North of England -65 22 £400 -9.55% 8
Midlands -38 17 £313 -30.56% 4
West Midlands -49 17 £313 -35.90% 3
Scotland -15 13 £450 -5.26% 2
Yorkshire -41 12 £400 -4.76% 1
North West -54 7 £400 -14.71% 5
East of England -14 3 £300 -29.41%
North East - 3 £380 - 2
South West -50 2 £513 -14.58% 17
South East -75 1 £400 -23.81% 9

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 9 (5.73%) 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 57 (36.31%) Azure
3 50 (31.85%) GitHub
4 32 (20.38%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (19.75%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (19.75%) Serverless
6 23 (14.65%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (12.74%) Amazon S3
8 17 (10.83%) GCP
9 15 (9.55%) Figma
10 12 (7.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (6.37%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (6.37%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (6.37%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (5.73%) Power Automate
13 8 (5.10%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (4.46%) AWS Step Functions
15 6 (3.82%) Azure Functions
16 5 (3.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (3.18%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (5.73%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.10%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.82%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (3.18%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.18%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 81 (51.59%) Selenium
2 37 (23.57%) Git
3 36 (22.93%) Postman
4 31 (19.75%) JIRA
5 24 (15.29%) Jenkins
6 21 (13.38%) REST Assured
7 20 (12.74%) Cucumber
8 13 (8.28%) JMeter
9 12 (7.64%) Gatling
9 12 (7.64%) WebDriver
10 10 (6.37%) Appium
10 10 (6.37%) GitLab
10 10 (6.37%) JUnit
11 8 (5.10%) Storybook
11 8 (5.10%) TestRail
11 8 (5.10%) webpack
12 6 (3.82%) TestNG
13 5 (3.18%) Vite
14 4 (2.55%) Mocha
14 4 (2.55%) SpecFlow
General
1 39 (24.84%) Social Skills
2 36 (22.93%) Public Sector
3 30 (19.11%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.92%) Finance
5 12 (7.64%) Banking
6 10 (6.37%) 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%) Front Office
11 1 (0.64%) Law
11 1 (0.64%) Local Government
11 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (22.93%) Developer
2 26 (16.56%) Senior
3 22 (14.01%) Lead
4 21 (13.38%) Test Engineer
5 18 (11.46%) Analyst
6 17 (10.83%) QA Engineer
6 17 (10.83%) Test Analyst
7 14 (8.92%) Tester
8 11 (7.01%) Test Automation Engineer
9 10 (6.37%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 10 (6.37%) React Developer
10 8 (5.10%) Architect
10 8 (5.10%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.10%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (5.10%) Test Leader
11 7 (4.46%) QA Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) QA Leader
12 6 (3.82%) Automation Tester
12 6 (3.82%) Lead Test Analyst
12 6 (3.82%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (53.50%) Playwright
2 52 (33.12%) React
3 40 (25.48%) REST
4 39 (24.84%) Jest
5 27 (17.20%) CSS
6 26 (16.56%) Node.js
7 25 (15.92%) HTML
8 21 (13.38%) RESTful
9 19 (12.10%) HTML5
10 18 (11.46%) CSS3
11 16 (10.19%) GraphQL
12 12 (7.64%) Next.js
12 12 (7.64%) Redux
13 11 (7.01%) Gherkin
14 10 (6.37%) Kafka
14 10 (6.37%) OAuth
15 9 (5.73%) OAuth2
15 9 (5.73%) pytest
16 8 (5.10%) JSON
16 8 (5.10%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.01%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.83%) Product Ownership
3 12 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.82%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (3.82%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.18%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
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%) 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%) Onboarding
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 87 (55.41%) CI/CD
3 84 (53.50%) Agile
4 65 (41.40%) DevOps
5 44 (28.03%) API Testing
6 40 (25.48%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (24.84%) Test Strategy
8 38 (24.20%) End-to-End Testing
9 36 (22.93%) AI
9 36 (22.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (22.93%) Microservices
10 26 (16.56%) BDD
10 26 (16.56%) User Experience
11 25 (15.92%) Scrum
12 23 (14.65%) TDD
13 21 (13.38%) Infrastructure as Code
13 21 (13.38%) Performance Testing
14 20 (12.74%) SDLC
15 19 (12.10%) Full-Stack Development
15 19 (12.10%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 80 (50.96%) JavaScript
2 74 (47.13%) TypeScript
3 35 (22.29%) Python
4 32 (20.38%) Java
5 18 (11.46%) SQL
6 17 (10.83%) C#
7 6 (3.82%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.55%) Scala
9 2 (1.27%) Bash
10 1 (0.64%) Groovy
10 1 (0.64%) Ruby
10 1 (0.64%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 45 (28.66%) Security Cleared
2 35 (22.29%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.55%) ISTQB
4 14 (8.92%) DV Cleared
5 11 (7.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (5.10%) Degree
7 6 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.64%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (41.40%) QA
2 52 (33.12%) Accessibility
3 32 (20.38%) WCAG
4 9 (5.73%) 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 24 (15.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (13.38%) Kubernetes
2 19 (12.10%) Terraform
3 12 (7.64%) Grafana
4 7 (4.46%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.55%) HP ALM
5 4 (2.55%) Kibana
6 2 (1.27%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.64%) Ansible
7 1 (0.64%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.64%) Podman
7 1 (0.64%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (7.64%) 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
5 2 (1.27%) New Relic
6 1 (0.64%) Adobe
6 1 (0.64%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.64%) Aprimo
6 1 (0.64%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.64%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.64%) IBM
6 1 (0.64%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.64%) TOWER Software