pytest Contract Job Trends in England

pytest
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring pytest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 405 506
Rank change year-on-year -57 +101 +61
Contract jobs citing pytest 116 71 44
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.29% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.48% 1.28% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 53 27
10th Percentile £351 £392 £406
25th Percentile £389 £413 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £454 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% -9.20% -16.67%
75th Percentile £500 £556 £700
90th Percentile £675 £645 £835
UK median daily rate £450 £460 £500
% change year-on-year -2.07% -8.10% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,829 5,537 7,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.20% 22.60% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,252 3,758 5,402
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -0.37% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £790 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 86 193
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.30 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.19 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.38 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.20 £83.48 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

pytest
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

pytest job vacancy trend in England

pytest
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing pytest.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing pytest

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing pytest in England over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for pytest in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing pytest.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing pytest

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing pytest within the England region over the 6 months to 18 March 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
London -26 66 £429 -2.61% 15
Midlands - 31 £477 - 3
West Midlands - 22 £481 - 1
East Midlands - 9 £398 - 2
East of England -23 5 £325 -23.89% 2
South East -48 3 £390 -18.54% 5
North of England -69 3 £403 -26.82% 3
Yorkshire -61 2 £451 +19.54% 1
South West -23 1 - -
North West -38 1 £355 -35.45% 2
pytest
UK

pytest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 22 (18.97%) SAS
2 10 (8.62%) Apache Spark
3 8 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (6.90%) Appian
4 3 (2.59%) Confluence
5 1 (0.86%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.72%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 3 (2.59%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 34 (29.31%) AWS
1 34 (29.31%) GitHub
2 32 (27.59%) Azure
3 22 (18.97%) OpenShift
4 21 (18.10%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (12.07%) GCP
6 13 (11.21%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (8.62%) Serverless
9 8 (6.90%) Amazon S3
9 8 (6.90%) Anthropic Claude
9 8 (6.90%) Azure AI
9 8 (6.90%) Power Automate
10 6 (5.17%) Cloud Run
11 5 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (3.45%) Azure Functions
12 4 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (2.59%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (8.62%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.76%) Aerospike
3 8 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.90%) Pinecone
4 7 (6.03%) Oracle Database
4 7 (6.03%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 6 (5.17%) DynamoDB
5 6 (5.17%) Redis
6 5 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (4.31%) Big Data
6 5 (4.31%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.59%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.59%) Power BI
8 3 (2.59%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.59%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 2 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.72%) Tableau
10 1 (0.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 56 (48.28%) Git
2 43 (37.07%) Jenkins
3 36 (31.03%) GitLab
4 32 (27.59%) Selenium
5 29 (25.00%) JUnit
6 13 (11.21%) Postman
7 8 (6.90%) JIRA
7 8 (6.90%) MLflow
8 7 (6.03%) Cypress.io
9 6 (5.17%) PyCharm
9 6 (5.17%) PyUnit
10 5 (4.31%) Robot Framework
11 4 (3.45%) Cucumber
11 4 (3.45%) SonarQube
12 3 (2.59%) REST Assured
13 2 (1.72%) CircleCI
13 2 (1.72%) Snyk
13 2 (1.72%) Sourcetree
13 2 (1.72%) Storybook
13 2 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 51 (43.97%) Social Skills
2 25 (21.55%) Finance
3 13 (11.21%) Pharmaceutical
4 9 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.03%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.17%) Banking
7 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.86%) Front Office
8 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 28 (24.14%) Developer
2 21 (18.10%) Test Specialist
3 19 (16.38%) Python Developer
4 12 (10.34%) Automation Engineer
4 12 (10.34%) Data Engineer
4 12 (10.34%) Test Automation Specialist
5 11 (9.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 10 (8.62%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (8.62%) Tester
7 9 (7.76%) Senior
8 8 (6.90%) Test Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) Python Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Automation Tester
10 6 (5.17%) AWS Data Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 6 (5.17%) QA Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.45%) Senior Developer
12 4 (3.45%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (28.45%) REST
2 30 (25.86%) FastAPI
3 19 (16.38%) Django
3 19 (16.38%) RESTful
4 15 (12.93%) Flask
4 15 (12.93%) Kafka
4 15 (12.93%) Playwright
5 14 (12.07%) Pandas
5 14 (12.07%) React
6 13 (11.21%) Node.js
6 13 (11.21%) NumPy
7 12 (10.34%) CSS
7 12 (10.34%) Jest
8 11 (9.48%) OAuth
8 11 (9.48%) PyTorch
8 11 (9.48%) scikit-learn
8 11 (9.48%) TensorFlow
9 10 (8.62%) OpenAPI
9 10 (8.62%) Swagger
10 9 (7.76%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.10%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.21%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.76%) Genomics
4 8 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (6.90%) Life Science
4 8 (6.90%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.59%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.59%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.72%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.86%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.90%) Android
2 6 (5.17%) Apple iOS
2 6 (5.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (68.10%) Test Automation
2 74 (63.79%) CI/CD
3 67 (57.76%) Agile
4 50 (43.10%) Containerisation
4 50 (43.10%) DevOps
5 46 (39.66%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (38.79%) Data Pipeline
7 34 (29.31%) Analytics
8 31 (26.72%) AI
9 28 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 27 (23.28%) Validation
11 26 (22.41%) Integration Testing
11 26 (22.41%) Scrum
11 26 (22.41%) Unit Testing
12 25 (21.55%) Data Engineering
13 23 (19.83%) Deployment Automation
13 23 (19.83%) Machine Learning
13 23 (19.83%) Test Scripting
13 23 (19.83%) Test Strategy
14 22 (18.97%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 97 (83.62%) Python
2 39 (33.62%) SQL
3 21 (18.10%) Java
4 13 (11.21%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.03%) Shell Script
5 7 (6.03%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.17%) C#
7 2 (1.72%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 32 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 28 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.90%) Degree
4 6 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.72%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.86%) ISEB
6 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.52%) QA
2 12 (10.34%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.59%) GDPR
3 3 (2.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (43.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (36.21%) Kubernetes
2 11 (9.48%) Terraform
3 3 (2.59%) Grafana
3 3 (2.59%) Kibana
4 2 (1.72%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.72%) Rundeck
5 1 (0.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (13.79%) Databricks
2 11 (9.48%) Google
3 9 (7.76%) Oracle
4 8 (6.90%) Automation Anywhere
4 8 (6.90%) OpenAI
4 8 (6.90%) UiPath
5 4 (3.45%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.45%) SAP
6 2 (1.72%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.86%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.86%) Splunk