Cypress.io Contracts

Cypress.io
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cypress.io skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cypress.io over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 342 410
Rank change year-on-year -13 +68 +57
Contract jobs citing Cypress.io 153 248 330
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.57% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.69% 4.79% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 184 238
10th Percentile £306 £391 £406
25th Percentile £383 £450 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £523 £613 £605
90th Percentile £603 £788 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £503
% change year-on-year -10.00% -0.50% +5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £53.80
25th Percentile - £67.50 £56.50
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - +12.90% -20.51%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £66.50
90th Percentile - - £68.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - +29.63% -

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 4,144 5,177 8,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.14% 11.93% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,766 3,484 6,238
10th Percentile £340 £355 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £714 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 204 242
10th Percentile £27.54 £33.60 £44.68
25th Percentile £49.50 £46.63 £53.75
Median hourly rate £61.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +5.69% +17.14%
75th Percentile £74.06 £70.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £83.67 £80.70 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

Cypress.io
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cypress.io as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cypress.io in the UK

Cypress.io
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cypress.io.

Daily rate trend for Cypress.io in the UK

Cypress.io
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cypress.io over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cypress.io in the UK

Cypress.io
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cypress.io.

Hourly rate trend for Cypress.io in the UK

Cypress.io
Top 15 Contract 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 7 May 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 -6 123 £431 -21.73% 161
London -10 85 £425 -26.09% 74
Work from Home +9 64 £425 -13.27% 126
UK excluding London +27 50 £450 -10.00% 111
Scotland +16 14 £450 -6.25% 4
North of England +11 11 £350 -22.22% 39
South East +39 8 £575 +19.79% 28
South West +28 7 £610 +1.58% 19
Midlands +17 7 £450 +5.88% 8
North West +12 6 £498 +13.77% 27
Yorkshire +16 5 £275 -46.81% 11
West Midlands +16 5 £450 +5.88% 6
East Midlands +8 2 £450 - 2
East of England - 2 £550 - 10
Wales -7 1 £425 -20.23% 1

Cypress.io
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.88%) Confluence
2 2 (1.31%) WordPress
3 1 (0.65%) CMS
3 1 (0.65%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.65%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.65%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Shopify
2 1 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 56 (36.60%) AWS
2 30 (19.61%) GitHub
3 27 (17.65%) Azure
4 23 (15.03%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (14.38%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (14.38%) Serverless
6 16 (10.46%) BrowserStack
7 14 (9.15%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (7.84%) Amazon S3
9 11 (7.19%) SaaS
10 10 (6.54%) Amazon Cognito
11 9 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
12 7 (4.58%) GCP
13 6 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
15 4 (2.61%) OpenShift
16 3 (1.96%) AWS CodeBuild
16 3 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
16 3 (1.96%) Power Platform
16 3 (1.96%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.61%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.58%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (4.58%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.27%) DynamoDB
3 5 (3.27%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.61%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.31%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.65%) Metadata
6 1 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 48 (31.37%) Postman
2 40 (26.14%) Jenkins
3 34 (22.22%) JIRA
4 32 (20.92%) Selenium
5 25 (16.34%) Git
6 22 (14.38%) Cucumber
7 18 (11.76%) JMeter
7 18 (11.76%) REST Assured
8 17 (11.11%) SoapUI
9 14 (9.15%) GitLab
10 12 (7.84%) Appium
11 9 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
12 7 (4.58%) Storybook
13 6 (3.92%) Bitbucket
13 6 (3.92%) JUnit
14 5 (3.27%) Gatling
14 5 (3.27%) TeamCity
14 5 (3.27%) Visual Studio
15 4 (2.61%) HP UFT
15 4 (2.61%) Mocha
General
1 37 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.03%) Public Sector
3 13 (8.50%) Finance
4 11 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.27%) Banking
5 5 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.27%) Law
5 5 (3.27%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.61%) Marketing
6 4 (2.61%) Retail
7 3 (1.96%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.96%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.65%) Automotive
8 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Electronics
8 1 (0.65%) Front Office
8 1 (0.65%) Military
8 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 46 (30.07%) Tester
2 41 (26.80%) Developer
3 30 (19.61%) Automation Tester
4 26 (16.99%) Senior
5 24 (15.69%) Test Engineer
6 20 (13.07%) React Developer
7 17 (11.11%) Lead
8 16 (10.46%) Test Automation Engineer
9 14 (9.15%) QA Engineer
10 12 (7.84%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (6.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 8 (5.23%) QA Tester
12 8 (5.23%) Senior Test Engineer
12 8 (5.23%) Test Leader
13 7 (4.58%) Software Engineer
14 6 (3.92%) Analyst
14 6 (3.92%) Senior Developer
14 6 (3.92%) Test Analyst
15 5 (3.27%) Automation Test Lead
15 5 (3.27%) Java Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (28.76%) React
2 35 (22.88%) Playwright
3 32 (20.92%) Jest
4 30 (19.61%) Node.js
5 26 (16.99%) RESTful
6 21 (13.73%) GraphQL
7 19 (12.42%) Next.js
7 19 (12.42%) REST
8 18 (11.76%) CSS
9 15 (9.80%) Redux
10 13 (8.50%) .NET
11 11 (7.19%) AWS CDK
11 11 (7.19%) HTML
12 9 (5.88%) AngularJS
12 9 (5.88%) Puppeteer
13 8 (5.23%) Express.js
13 8 (5.23%) Tailwind CSS
14 7 (4.58%) Vue
15 6 (3.92%) Lambda Expressions
15 6 (3.92%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.84%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.54%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.58%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.96%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.96%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.96%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.96%) Vector Graphics
6 2 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.31%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.31%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.31%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.65%) Derivative
7 1 (0.65%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.92%) Linux
2 5 (3.27%) Windows
3 1 (0.65%) AIX
3 1 (0.65%) Android
3 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (71.90%) Test Automation
2 75 (49.02%) Agile
2 75 (49.02%) CI/CD
3 54 (35.29%) DevOps
4 39 (25.49%) API Testing
5 31 (20.26%) Test Strategy
6 28 (18.30%) Test Scripting
7 27 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (16.99%) Microservices
8 26 (16.99%) Performance Testing
9 25 (16.34%) Front End Development
10 23 (15.03%) User Experience
11 22 (14.38%) Continuous Integration
11 22 (14.38%) Full-Stack Development
11 22 (14.38%) Scrum
12 20 (13.07%) End-to-End Testing
12 20 (13.07%) Manual Testing
13 19 (12.42%) Mentoring
13 19 (12.42%) TDD
14 17 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 82 (53.59%) JavaScript
2 64 (41.83%) TypeScript
3 37 (24.18%) Java
4 19 (12.42%) Python
5 18 (11.76%) C#
6 10 (6.54%) SQL
7 4 (2.61%) Bash
7 4 (2.61%) PHP
7 4 (2.61%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.96%) C++
8 3 (1.96%) VBA
8 3 (1.96%) VBScript
9 2 (1.31%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.65%) Swift
Qualifications
1 41 (26.80%) Security Cleared
2 33 (21.57%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.58%) Degree
4 6 (3.92%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.27%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.96%) ISEB
7 3 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (24.84%) QA
2 31 (20.26%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.58%) WCAG
4 3 (1.96%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (1.31%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.65%) GDPR
6 1 (0.65%) GxP
6 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (6.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.27%) Terraform
3 3 (1.96%) Grafana
3 3 (1.96%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.65%) Ansible
4 1 (0.65%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (4.58%) Google
2 6 (3.92%) Adobe
2 6 (3.92%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.61%) Bloomberg
3 4 (2.61%) Reuters
4 3 (1.96%) PagerDuty
4 3 (1.96%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.96%) SAP
5 2 (1.31%) Nintex
5 2 (1.31%) Oracle
5 2 (1.31%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.31%) Solace
5 2 (1.31%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.65%) Perfecto Mobile
6 1 (0.65%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.65%) Splunk