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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 369 379
Rank change year-on-year -12 +10 +65
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 183 191 269
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.52% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.58% 3.89% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 149 194
10th Percentile £375 £354 £400
25th Percentile £412 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% +1.90%
75th Percentile £573 £650 £637
90th Percentile £638 £778 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £473
% change year-on-year +2.15% +3.60% -0.53%
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 5,112 4,906 6,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.41% 13.24% 13.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,459 3,061 4,464
10th Percentile £327 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £549
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.24% -0.90%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £723 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £513
% change year-on-year -3.06% -4.39% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 164 242
10th Percentile £20.42 £26.33 £45.88
25th Percentile £44.13 £50.56 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.84%
75th Percentile £69.06 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.25 £71.88 £90.00
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 20 October 2025.

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 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 20 October 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 -11 135 £494 -12.61% 86
UK excluding London +27 93 £500 +2.15% 72
Work from Home +37 73 £475 -8.39% 57
London -25 68 £475 -17.39% 27
North of England -7 28 £425 -5.56% 18
Scotland +13 24 £475 +4.05%
South West +16 19 £540 +8.00% 14
North West -3 15 £425 +6.25% 15
Yorkshire -20 12 £450 -11.50% 3
Midlands - 9 £575 - 5
West Midlands - 7 £575 - 3
South East +8 6 £575 +48.39% 29
Wales -5 4 £520 -2.16%
East of England - 3 £425 - 3
East Midlands - 2 £436 - 2
North East -5 1 £550 - 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 8 (4.37%) Confluence
2 4 (2.19%) Drupal
2 4 (2.19%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.19%) WordPress
3 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.55%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.55%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 77 (42.08%) AWS
2 47 (25.68%) GitHub
3 46 (25.14%) Azure
4 31 (16.94%) Serverless
5 29 (15.85%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (13.11%) GCP
7 22 (12.02%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (10.38%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (9.84%) npm
10 15 (8.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (7.65%) Amazon S3
11 14 (7.65%) OpenShift
12 8 (4.37%) Amazon Cognito
13 7 (3.83%) AWS CodePipeline
13 7 (3.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 5 (2.73%) BrowserStack
14 5 (2.73%) Datadog
14 5 (2.73%) Figma
14 5 (2.73%) Pulumi
15 4 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.09%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (1.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 11 (6.01%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.28%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.73%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.19%) Redis
7 3 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.09%) Big Data
8 2 (1.09%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.09%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.09%) MySQL
9 1 (0.55%) Looker
9 1 (0.55%) Power BI
9 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 58 (31.69%) Selenium
2 43 (23.50%) Jenkins
3 36 (19.67%) Git
3 36 (19.67%) Postman
4 32 (17.49%) GitLab
5 26 (14.21%) JUnit
6 25 (13.66%) Cucumber
7 24 (13.11%) REST Assured
8 23 (12.57%) JIRA
9 17 (9.29%) JMeter
10 16 (8.74%) SonarQube
11 11 (6.01%) Maven
12 9 (4.92%) TestNG
13 8 (4.37%) Storybook
13 8 (4.37%) webpack
14 7 (3.83%) gulp
15 6 (3.28%) Gatling
15 6 (3.28%) Grunt
15 6 (3.28%) Sonatype Nexus
16 5 (2.73%) CircleCI
General
1 42 (22.95%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.13%) Public Sector
3 27 (14.75%) Finance
4 16 (8.74%) Banking
5 11 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.19%) Military
6 4 (2.19%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.64%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.55%) Front Office
9 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (29.51%) Developer
2 36 (19.67%) Senior
3 27 (14.75%) Tester
4 25 (13.66%) Automation Tester
4 25 (13.66%) Lead
5 22 (12.02%) Test Engineer
6 14 (7.65%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (7.65%) React Developer
6 14 (7.65%) Software Engineer
7 13 (7.10%) QA Engineer
8 11 (6.01%) Senior Test Engineer
9 9 (4.92%) QA Leader
10 6 (3.28%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 6 (3.28%) Technical Leader
10 6 (3.28%) UI Developer
11 5 (2.73%) Automation Engineer
11 5 (2.73%) JavaScript Developer
12 4 (2.19%) Java Engineer
12 4 (2.19%) Python Developer
12 4 (2.19%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (40.44%) React
2 65 (35.52%) Playwright
3 58 (31.69%) Jest
4 47 (25.68%) Node.js
5 37 (20.22%) CSS
6 36 (19.67%) REST
7 32 (17.49%) HTML
7 32 (17.49%) RESTful
8 21 (11.48%) Redux
9 18 (9.84%) Next.js
10 17 (9.29%) GraphQL
10 17 (9.29%) Sass
11 16 (8.74%) .NET
11 16 (8.74%) AWS CDK
12 15 (8.20%) AngularJS
13 13 (7.10%) JSON
14 11 (6.01%) FastAPI
14 11 (6.01%) HTML5
14 11 (6.01%) OAuth
15 10 (5.46%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.29%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.92%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.73%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.19%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.19%) Client/Server
4 4 (2.19%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.19%) Genomics
4 4 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.19%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.64%) Life Science
5 3 (1.64%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.55%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.83%) Linux
2 1 (0.55%) Android
2 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (62.30%) Test Automation
2 113 (61.75%) CI/CD
3 90 (49.18%) Agile
4 76 (41.53%) DevOps
5 40 (21.86%) Software Engineering
6 37 (20.22%) Test Strategy
7 34 (18.58%) Full-Stack Development
8 31 (16.94%) Microservices
9 30 (16.39%) Front End Development
10 29 (15.85%) TDD
11 28 (15.30%) Containerisation
12 27 (14.75%) API Testing
12 27 (14.75%) End-to-End Testing
13 26 (14.21%) User Experience
14 25 (13.66%) Infrastructure as Code
15 24 (13.11%) Clean Code
15 24 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
17 22 (12.02%) Performance Optimisation
17 22 (12.02%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 97 (53.01%) JavaScript
2 82 (44.81%) TypeScript
3 49 (26.78%) Java
4 29 (15.85%) Python
5 17 (9.29%) SQL
6 10 (5.46%) C#
7 5 (2.73%) Bash
7 5 (2.73%) PHP
8 2 (1.09%) Elm
8 2 (1.09%) JSX
8 2 (1.09%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.09%) Perl
9 1 (0.55%) Ada
9 1 (0.55%) Go
9 1 (0.55%) Groovy
9 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 54 (29.51%) Security Cleared
2 44 (24.04%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.92%) Degree
4 6 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.73%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.19%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.55%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (30.60%) Accessibility
2 55 (30.05%) QA
3 26 (14.21%) WCAG
4 2 (1.09%) GDPR
5 1 (0.55%) MiFID
5 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 50 (27.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (15.30%) Kubernetes
1 28 (15.30%) Terraform
2 12 (6.56%) Grafana
3 11 (6.01%) Ansible
4 6 (3.28%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.28%) Puppet
5 4 (2.19%) Podman
5 4 (2.19%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.09%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 12 (6.56%) Splunk
2 11 (6.01%) Google
3 9 (4.92%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.28%) Perforce
5 3 (1.64%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.09%) Adobe
6 2 (1.09%) Cisco
6 2 (1.09%) HP
6 2 (1.09%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.09%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.55%) Dundas
7 1 (0.55%) IBM
7 1 (0.55%) Nintex
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle
7 1 (0.55%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.55%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.55%) UiPath
7 1 (0.55%) Virgin Media