pytest Contract Job Trends in the City of London

pytest
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring pytest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 116 129
Rank change year-on-year -10 +13 +53
Contract jobs citing pytest 2 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.11% 0.15% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.47% 0.57% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £684 - £518
25th Percentile £697 £413 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £425 £581
Median % change year-on-year +70.59% -26.88% +5.68%
75th Percentile £759 £438 £636
90th Percentile £776 - £659
Central London median daily rate £725 £425 £581
% change year-on-year +70.59% -26.88% +5.68%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 424 528 587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.03% 25.68% 23.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 320 408
10th Percentile £361 £413 £400
25th Percentile £436 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £593
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% - -1.25%
75th Percentile £675 £691 £713
90th Percentile £750 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £44.38 - -
25th Percentile £47.19 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.61% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £59.69 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.13 - -
Central London median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +39.61% -18.95% -20.17%

pytest
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing pytest relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

pytest job vacancy trend in the City of London

pytest
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing pytest.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing pytest

pytest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Run
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) OpenLDAP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Backend Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) boto
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (50.00%) Flake8
1 1 (50.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) mypy
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (50.00%) Google