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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 450 493
Rank change year-on-year -70 +43 +52
Contract jobs citing pytest 98 53 38
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.16% 0.87% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 38 25
10th Percentile £300 £410 £355
25th Percentile £385 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £544 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.75% -3.61%
75th Percentile £556 £719 £601
90th Percentile £700 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £475 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -6.86% +2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 - -

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 8,454 6,126 7,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.54% 22.17% 22.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,534 4,206 5,037
10th Percentile £363 £350 £358
25th Percentile £431 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £640 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 152 226
10th Percentile £28.72 £31.25 £24.09
25th Percentile £46.39 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -7.35%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.91 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%

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

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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

pytest
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing pytest in England over the 6 months to 11 August 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 11 August 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 -65 60 £538 -16.54% 19
South East -61 13 £358 -31.25% 4
Yorkshire -43 10 £426 -5.28% 4
North of England -75 10 £426 -5.28% 4
East of England - 7 £450 - 5
Midlands -49 6 £471 - 3
West Midlands - 4 £477 - 1
East Midlands -9 2 £459 - 2
South West - 2 £435 - 1
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 9 (9.18%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.08%) Confluence
2 4 (4.08%) SAS
3 3 (3.06%) Apache
4 2 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.04%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (7.14%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 3 (3.06%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.02%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 37 (37.76%) Azure
2 24 (24.49%) AWS
3 23 (23.47%) GitHub
4 18 (18.37%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (18.37%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (10.20%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (7.14%) GCP
6 7 (7.14%) Serverless
7 6 (6.12%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (6.12%) OpenShift
8 5 (5.10%) Azure Functions
9 4 (4.08%) Apigee
9 4 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.06%) Azure Stack
11 2 (2.04%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (2.04%) Cloud Run
11 2 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.29%) Internet
2 2 (2.04%) 4G
2 2 (2.04%) 5G
2 2 (2.04%) DNS
2 2 (2.04%) DSL
2 2 (2.04%) HTTP
2 2 (2.04%) SSH
2 2 (2.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 12 (12.24%) NoSQL
2 12 (12.24%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.14%) Neo4j
4 6 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (5.10%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.08%) Redis
6 4 (4.08%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.04%) Aerospike
8 2 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.04%) MySQL
8 2 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.02%) Big Data
9 1 (1.02%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.02%) InfluxDB
9 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.02%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 1 (1.02%) Spark SQL
9 1 (1.02%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (34.69%) Git
2 22 (22.45%) Jenkins
3 21 (21.43%) GitLab
4 16 (16.33%) Selenium
5 12 (12.24%) JIRA
6 9 (9.18%) Postman
7 7 (7.14%) JUnit
8 6 (6.12%) SonarQube
9 5 (5.10%) Zephyr
10 4 (4.08%) Newman
10 4 (4.08%) Robot Framework
11 3 (3.06%) Cypress.io
11 3 (3.06%) REST Assured
12 2 (2.04%) Cucumber
12 2 (2.04%) Gatling
12 2 (2.04%) JMeter
12 2 (2.04%) NeoLoad
12 2 (2.04%) NUnit
13 1 (1.02%) PyCharm
13 1 (1.02%) TestRail
General
1 21 (21.43%) Finance
2 20 (20.41%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.22%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.16%) Banking
5 5 (5.10%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.06%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.02%) Front Office
8 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.02%) Legal
8 1 (1.02%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (21.43%) Developer
1 21 (21.43%) Senior
2 18 (18.37%) Python Developer
3 17 (17.35%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 13 (13.27%) Lead
5 11 (11.22%) Data Engineer
6 10 (10.20%) Test Automation Engineer
6 10 (10.20%) Test Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) Python Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) QA Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Tester
10 4 (4.08%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Test Specialist
11 3 (3.06%) Analyst
11 3 (3.06%) AWS Data Engineer
11 3 (3.06%) Azure Developer
11 3 (3.06%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 3 (3.06%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (19.39%) FastAPI
2 18 (18.37%) Pandas
3 16 (16.33%) RESTful
4 15 (15.31%) REST
5 14 (14.29%) Flask
5 14 (14.29%) Kafka
5 14 (14.29%) Playwright
5 14 (14.29%) PySpark
6 13 (13.27%) React
7 12 (12.24%) RabbitMQ
8 11 (11.22%) Django
9 9 (9.18%) NumPy
10 8 (8.16%) Great Expectations
10 8 (8.16%) Node.js
10 8 (8.16%) Swagger
11 7 (7.14%) CSS
11 7 (7.14%) HTML
11 7 (7.14%) OpenAPI
12 6 (6.12%) .NET
12 6 (6.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.39%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.18%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (8.16%) Data Structures
4 7 (7.14%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.06%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.06%) Life Science
5 3 (3.06%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.04%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.02%) IoT
7 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.02%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.10%) Linux
2 1 (1.02%) Android
2 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (65.31%) CI/CD
2 56 (57.14%) DevOps
3 44 (44.90%) Test Automation
4 38 (38.78%) Validation
5 36 (36.73%) Agile
6 35 (35.71%) AI
7 32 (32.65%) Software Engineering
8 26 (26.53%) LLM
8 26 (26.53%) OOP
8 26 (26.53%) Unit Testing
9 24 (24.49%) Analytics
9 24 (24.49%) Machine Learning
10 22 (22.45%) Containerisation
10 22 (22.45%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (22.45%) Design Patterns
10 22 (22.45%) Generative AI
10 22 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (19.39%) Scrum
12 18 (18.37%) Clean Code
12 18 (18.37%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 89 (90.82%) Python
2 33 (33.67%) SQL
3 13 (13.27%) Java
4 11 (11.22%) TypeScript
5 7 (7.14%) C#
6 6 (6.12%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.08%) Bash
7 4 (4.08%) Cypher
8 3 (3.06%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.04%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.04%) R
9 2 (2.04%) SHACL
10 1 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 24 (24.49%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.37%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.06%) Degree
3 3 (3.06%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.04%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.04%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (23.47%) QA
2 10 (10.20%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.06%) GDPR
3 3 (3.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (41.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (39.80%) Kubernetes
2 14 (14.29%) Terraform
3 7 (7.14%) Grafana
4 4 (4.08%) Argo
5 3 (3.06%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.04%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (19.39%) Databricks
2 11 (11.22%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.10%) Google
4 3 (3.06%) SAP
5 2 (2.04%) FactSet
5 2 (2.04%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.04%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.02%) Oracle
6 1 (1.02%) SimCorp