pytest
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for pytest skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited pytest over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 571 696
Rank change year-on-year +38 +125 -86
Contract jobs citing pytest 46 129 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.22% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.51% 0.92% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 72 122
10th Percentile £432 £456 £417
25th Percentile £474 £475 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £775 £600
90th Percentile £857 £813 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £600 £515
% change year-on-year -14.58% +16.45% +5.42%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

pytest is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,938 13,979 24,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.52% 23.31% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,209 10,212 17,679
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £764 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 155 243
10th Percentile £20.82 £30.30 £21.20
25th Percentile £39.94 £46.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.70 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £63.25 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.90% +29.08% +8.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for pytest in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for pytest in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing pytest over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for pytest in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for pytest in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing pytest within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 +40 43 £506 -15.63% 8
London +50 32 £638 -5.56% 1
Work from Home +69 10 £500 -16.67% 5
UK excluding London +59 8 £513 -14.58% 7
North of England +25 5 £506 -15.63%
North West +23 4 £506 -
South West +21 3 £550 -8.33% 2
Yorkshire +15 1 - -

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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 6 (13.04%) Tornado
2 3 (6.52%) Confluence
3 2 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 28 (60.87%) Azure
2 13 (28.26%) GitHub
3 10 (21.74%) AWS
4 9 (19.57%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (15.22%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (8.70%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (8.70%) Azure Storage
6 4 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (6.52%) BrowserStack
7 3 (6.52%) Sauce Labs
8 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.17%) GCP
8 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (30.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.87%) NoSQL
3 4 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (8.70%) DynamoDB
3 4 (8.70%) Redis
4 3 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.35%) Data Hub
5 2 (4.35%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.17%) Big Data
6 1 (2.17%) Couchbase
6 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.17%) Data Mart
6 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.17%) Power BI
6 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.17%) Spark SQL
6 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (41.30%) Git
2 10 (21.74%) GitLab
2 10 (21.74%) Selenium
3 7 (15.22%) JIRA
4 6 (13.04%) Cucumber
5 5 (10.87%) Pylint
6 4 (8.70%) CircleCI
6 4 (8.70%) Jenkins
6 4 (8.70%) Mercurial
7 3 (6.52%) Appium
7 3 (6.52%) Bitbucket
8 2 (4.35%) SonarQube
9 1 (2.17%) JUnit
9 1 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (2.17%) PyCharm
9 1 (2.17%) PyUnit
9 1 (2.17%) Robot Framework
9 1 (2.17%) Spock
9 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
9 1 (2.17%) TestNG
General
1 19 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 12 (26.09%) Finance
3 9 (19.57%) Banking
4 8 (17.39%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
7 3 (6.52%) Back Office
7 3 (6.52%) Investment Banking
7 3 (6.52%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (2.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (41.30%) Developer
2 15 (32.61%) Python Developer
3 12 (26.09%) Senior
4 7 (15.22%) Senior Developer
5 6 (13.04%) Data Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Python Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Senior Python Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Automation Tester
8 3 (6.52%) Tester
9 2 (4.35%) Analyst
9 2 (4.35%) IT Analyst
9 2 (4.35%) IT Business Analyst
9 2 (4.35%) QA Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (4.35%) Software Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (28.26%) Django
1 13 (28.26%) Kafka
2 12 (26.09%) WebSockets
3 11 (23.91%) React
4 8 (17.39%) Pandas
5 7 (15.22%) Flask
5 7 (15.22%) HTML
5 7 (15.22%) Node.js
6 6 (13.04%) Bokeh
6 6 (13.04%) FastAPI
6 6 (13.04%) OAuth
6 6 (13.04%) OAuth2
7 5 (10.87%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (10.87%) PySpark
7 5 (10.87%) REST
7 5 (10.87%) RESTful
8 4 (8.70%) Web Services
8 4 (8.70%) YAML
9 3 (6.52%) ADO
9 3 (6.52%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.91%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (10.87%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (10.87%) Renewable Energy
2 5 (10.87%) Solar Panel
3 3 (6.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (4.35%) Life Science
4 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.35%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 14 (30.43%) Linux
2 4 (8.70%) Alpine Linux
2 4 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (8.70%) Unix
3 1 (2.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (45.65%) Agile
1 21 (45.65%) DevOps
2 18 (39.13%) CI/CD
3 14 (30.43%) Software Engineering
3 14 (30.43%) Test Automation
4 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (26.09%) Open Source
6 10 (21.74%) Front End Development
7 9 (19.57%) Data Engineering
7 9 (19.57%) TDD
8 8 (17.39%) SDLC
9 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
9 7 (15.22%) CQRS
9 7 (15.22%) Visualisation
10 6 (13.04%) BDD
10 6 (13.04%) Code Quality
10 6 (13.04%) Design Patterns
10 6 (13.04%) End-to-End Testing
10 6 (13.04%) OO
10 6 (13.04%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 45 (97.83%) Python
2 26 (56.52%) SQL
3 14 (30.43%) JavaScript
4 11 (23.91%) Java
5 6 (13.04%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.35%) C#
7 1 (2.17%) Groovy
7 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) Degree
2 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (34.78%) Docker
2 4 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (47.83%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.87%) Grafana
2 5 (10.87%) Prometheus
3 4 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Databricks
2 5 (10.87%) Confluent
3 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.52%) Perfecto Mobile
4 2 (4.35%) Oracle
5 1 (2.17%) Google
5 1 (2.17%) Informatica
5 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.17%) SAP
5 1 (2.17%) Sun