pytest Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

pytest
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring pytest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing pytest 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.80% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £379 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 - -
75th Percentile £402 - -
90th Percentile £431 - -
England median daily rate £470 £454 £513
% change year-on-year +3.52% -11.41% -13.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 155 95 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.45% 16.27% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 77 70
10th Percentile £360 £312 £269
25th Percentile £400 £350 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £418
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% -4.36% -2.73%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £525
90th Percentile £625 £552 £625
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile £15.84 - -
25th Percentile £19.29 - £10.90
Median hourly rate £25.08 - £21.73
75th Percentile £25.13 - £33.25
90th Percentile £25.14 - £56.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year +4.00% +19.74% -19.70%

pytest
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

pytest job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

pytest
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing pytest.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing pytest

pytest
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing pytest within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 February 2026. 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
Northamptonshire - 8 £393 - 1
pytest
England

pytest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (37.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) GitHub
2 7 (87.50%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Aerospike
2 6 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (62.50%) DynamoDB
3 5 (62.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (87.50%) GitLab
3 5 (62.50%) JUnit
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
2 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Database Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) Kafka
1 8 (100.00%) Node.js
2 5 (62.50%) Jest
3 3 (37.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 8 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) Backtesting
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 8 (100.00%) Fraud Detection
2 7 (87.50%) Code Quality
2 7 (87.50%) Data Protection
2 7 (87.50%) Deployment Automation
2 7 (87.50%) Integration Testing
2 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (87.50%) Secure Coding
2 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
2 7 (87.50%) Unit Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
3 5 (62.50%) Microservices
3 5 (62.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) Analytics
4 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) ETL
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Databricks