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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 374 359
Rank change year-on-year -141 -15 +15
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 174 186 201
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.56% 0.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.72% 3.66% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 124 157
10th Percentile £306 £375 £356
25th Percentile £363 £400 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% -13.64% +2.80%
75th Percentile £550 £571 £650
90th Percentile £605 £638 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £488 £494
% change year-on-year -17.95% -1.32% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 6,393 5,082 5,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.71% 15.43% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,091 3,451 3,151
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £493
% change year-on-year - -3.55% -3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 111 169
10th Percentile £22.68 £16.84 £30.20
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.75 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.08 £75.00 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -127 133 £454 -4.40% 142
London -71 90 £491 +9.17% 77
UK excluding London -136 56 £400 -17.95% 80
Work from Home -81 54 £444 -5.08% 84
North of England -70 22 £400 -5.88% 26
Midlands -31 16 £313 -45.65% 5
West Midlands -35 16 £313 -45.65% 3
Scotland -34 13 £450 -5.26% 12
Yorkshire -31 11 £375 -16.67% 3
North West -52 8 £400 -5.88% 15
North East -37 3 £380 -30.91% 8
Wales -18 2 £419 -19.47% 3
South West -44 2 £513 -7.16% 7
South East -71 1 £400 -30.43% 16

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 15 (8.62%) Confluence
2 5 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.15%) CMS
4 1 (0.57%) Appian
4 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (6.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 66 (37.93%) Azure
2 59 (33.91%) AWS
3 52 (29.89%) GitHub
4 41 (23.56%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (17.82%) Serverless
6 30 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (12.64%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (9.77%) Amazon S3
8 17 (9.77%) GCP
9 15 (8.62%) Figma
10 14 (8.05%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (6.32%) Power Automate
12 10 (5.75%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (4.60%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (4.60%) Azure Functions
13 8 (4.60%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (4.02%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (3.45%) npm
16 5 (2.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (2.87%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.47%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.02%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.30%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.30%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.72%) Redis
6 2 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.15%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.57%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 85 (48.85%) Selenium
2 47 (27.01%) Postman
3 39 (22.41%) Git
4 34 (19.54%) Jenkins
5 28 (16.09%) JIRA
6 26 (14.94%) Cucumber
7 20 (11.49%) REST Assured
8 19 (10.92%) GitLab
9 18 (10.34%) JMeter
10 15 (8.62%) WebDriver
11 11 (6.32%) Gatling
11 11 (6.32%) JUnit
12 10 (5.75%) Storybook
13 8 (4.60%) webpack
14 7 (4.02%) SpecFlow
15 6 (3.45%) Appium
15 6 (3.45%) TestNG
16 5 (2.87%) TestRail
17 4 (2.30%) Maven
17 4 (2.30%) Vite
General
1 55 (31.61%) Social Skills
2 44 (25.29%) Public Sector
3 37 (21.26%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (16.67%) Finance
5 17 (9.77%) Banking
6 13 (7.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.60%) Military
8 5 (2.87%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.87%) Retail
9 4 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.30%) Local Government
9 4 (2.30%) Social Housing
10 3 (1.72%) Legal
11 2 (1.15%) Back Office
11 2 (1.15%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.15%) Police
11 2 (1.15%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.57%) Front Office
12 1 (0.57%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 37 (21.26%) Developer
1 37 (21.26%) Senior
2 27 (15.52%) Test Engineer
3 25 (14.37%) Lead
3 25 (14.37%) Tester
4 21 (12.07%) Analyst
5 19 (10.92%) Test Analyst
6 18 (10.34%) QA Engineer
7 16 (9.20%) Automation Tester
8 13 (7.47%) Test Automation Engineer
9 11 (6.32%) Automation Engineer
10 10 (5.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 10 (5.75%) Senior Test Engineer
10 10 (5.75%) Test Leader
11 9 (5.17%) Architect
11 9 (5.17%) QA Automation Engineer
11 9 (5.17%) QA Leader
12 8 (4.60%) Lead Test Analyst
12 8 (4.60%) Senior Analyst
12 8 (4.60%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (57.47%) Playwright
2 48 (27.59%) React
3 43 (24.71%) REST
4 38 (21.84%) Jest
5 32 (18.39%) CSS
6 29 (16.67%) HTML
7 28 (16.09%) RESTful
8 24 (13.79%) Node.js
9 21 (12.07%) HTML5
10 20 (11.49%) CSS3
11 15 (8.62%) GraphQL
11 15 (8.62%) Kafka
11 15 (8.62%) Terraform
12 14 (8.05%) Gherkin
13 13 (7.47%) AngularJS
13 13 (7.47%) Redux
14 12 (6.90%) Next.js
15 11 (6.32%) OAuth
16 10 (5.75%) JWT
17 9 (5.17%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.79%) Product Ownership
2 21 (12.07%) Cloud Native
3 20 (11.49%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.60%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.45%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.72%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.72%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.72%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.15%) Digital Wallet
9 2 (1.15%) Genomics
9 2 (1.15%) Housing Association
9 2 (1.15%) Life Science
9 2 (1.15%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.30%) macOS
2 2 (1.15%) AIX
3 1 (0.57%) Android
3 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (75.29%) Test Automation
2 104 (59.77%) CI/CD
3 96 (55.17%) Agile
4 74 (42.53%) DevOps
5 54 (31.03%) API Testing
6 53 (30.46%) Test Strategy
7 47 (27.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 44 (25.29%) Microservices
9 42 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (23.56%) End-to-End Testing
11 40 (22.99%) AI
12 36 (20.69%) Scrum
13 32 (18.39%) Performance Testing
14 31 (17.82%) BDD
15 28 (16.09%) User Experience
16 27 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
17 25 (14.37%) Integration Testing
17 25 (14.37%) SDLC
18 23 (13.22%) Software Testing
19 22 (12.64%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 98 (56.32%) JavaScript
2 91 (52.30%) TypeScript
3 35 (20.11%) Python
4 33 (18.97%) Java
5 26 (14.94%) C#
6 24 (13.79%) SQL
7 6 (3.45%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.72%) Scala
9 2 (1.15%) Ruby
10 1 (0.57%) Bash
10 1 (0.57%) Bicep
10 1 (0.57%) C++
10 1 (0.57%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 57 (32.76%) Security Cleared
2 48 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 25 (14.37%) ISTQB
4 16 (9.20%) DV Cleared
5 13 (7.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (5.17%) Degree
7 8 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.30%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (1.15%) ISEB
11 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (46.55%) QA
2 55 (31.61%) Accessibility
3 30 (17.24%) WCAG
4 11 (6.32%) GDPR
5 4 (2.30%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.15%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.57%) GRC
7 1 (0.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 26 (14.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (13.22%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.90%) Grafana
3 8 (4.60%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.72%) Ansible
5 2 (1.15%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.15%) Kibana
6 1 (0.57%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.57%) Podman
6 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.45%) Oracle
3 4 (2.30%) Google
3 4 (2.30%) Splunk
4 2 (1.15%) HP
4 2 (1.15%) New Relic
4 2 (1.15%) OneLogin
5 1 (0.57%) Adobe
5 1 (0.57%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.57%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.57%) Guidewire
5 1 (0.57%) IBM
5 1 (0.57%) NEC
5 1 (0.57%) SAP
5 1 (0.57%) TOWER Software