pytest Contract Job Trends in Central London

pytest
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring pytest skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 127 147
Rank change year-on-year +4 +20 +39
Contract jobs citing pytest 1 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.052% 0.26% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.22% 1.08% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £503 -
25th Percentile - £506 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year +28.51% +2.49% -6.82%
75th Percentile - £556 £519
90th Percentile - £568 -
London median daily rate £670 £500 £648
% change year-on-year +34.00% -22.78% +12.61%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

pytest falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 461 556 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 23.84% 23.74% 24.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 350 527
10th Percentile £381 £413 £413
25th Percentile £435 £500 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £714
90th Percentile £762 £838 £825
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £52.83 £27.67 -
25th Percentile £55.99 £31.07 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.34% -27.36% +11.58%
75th Percentile £76.25 £41.00 -
90th Percentile £83.75 £41.45 -
London median hourly rate £51.97 £42.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.28% -32.00% -3.85%

pytest
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for pytest in Central London

pytest
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing pytest.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing pytest

pytest
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing pytest within the Central London region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
City of London -5 1 £675 +28.51% 8
pytest
London

pytest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) OpenLDAP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) boto
1 1 (100.00%) Flake8
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) mypy
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian