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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 420 513
Rank change year-on-year -37 +93 +55
Contract jobs citing pytest 107 64 45
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.25% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.46% 1.09% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 45 31
10th Percentile £361 £400 £406
25th Percentile £393 £413 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -7.32% -13.14%
75th Percentile £502 £573 £663
90th Percentile £719 £713 £800
UK median daily rate £450 £481 £500
% change year-on-year -6.49% -3.75% -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 7,315 5,845 7,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.94% 22.38% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,894 3,729 5,590
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £658
90th Percentile £738 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £536 £535
% change year-on-year -4.38% +0.19% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 77 180
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.40 £25.48
25th Percentile £50.00 £46.18 £46.11
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.13 £65.75 £68.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.80 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing pytest in England over the 6 months to 4 February 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 4 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
London -14 62 £463 +7.50% 16
Midlands -27 26 £480 -12.73%
West Midlands -24 19 £490 -10.91%
East Midlands - 7 £393 -
North of England -64 5 £500 -6.98% 3
East of England -27 4 £400 -6.32% 2
North West -27 4 £430 -21.82% 2
South West -18 1 - - 1
Yorkshire -53 1 £500 +1.01% 1
South East - 1 £375 - 10
pytest
UK

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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 18 (16.82%) SAS
2 9 (8.41%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (8.41%) Apache Spark
3 7 (6.54%) Appian
4 3 (2.80%) Confluence
5 1 (0.93%) CMS
5 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.93%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 35 (32.71%) GitHub
2 32 (29.91%) AWS
3 22 (20.56%) Azure
3 22 (20.56%) GitHub Actions
4 20 (18.69%) GCP
5 17 (15.89%) OpenShift
6 11 (10.28%) Serverless
7 10 (9.35%) Amazon S3
7 10 (9.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (8.41%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (8.41%) Cloud Run
9 7 (6.54%) Anthropic Claude
9 7 (6.54%) Azure AI
9 7 (6.54%) Power Automate
10 6 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (4.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (2.80%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (2.80%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (2.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.35%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.41%) NoSQL
3 8 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.54%) Aerospike
4 7 (6.54%) Pinecone
4 7 (6.54%) Redis
5 6 (5.61%) Big Data
5 6 (5.61%) Oracle Database
5 6 (5.61%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 5 (4.67%) BigQuery
6 5 (4.67%) DynamoDB
7 4 (3.74%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.87%) Power BI
9 2 (1.87%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.87%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 2 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 54 (50.47%) Git
2 31 (28.97%) Jenkins
3 28 (26.17%) GitLab
4 24 (22.43%) JUnit
5 23 (21.50%) Selenium
6 10 (9.35%) Postman
7 9 (8.41%) JIRA
8 7 (6.54%) MLflow
9 5 (4.67%) PyCharm
9 5 (4.67%) PyUnit
10 4 (3.74%) SonarQube
11 3 (2.80%) Cucumber
11 3 (2.80%) Robot Framework
11 3 (2.80%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (1.87%) CircleCI
12 2 (1.87%) Cypress.io
12 2 (1.87%) Locust
12 2 (1.87%) Snyk
12 2 (1.87%) Storybook
12 2 (1.87%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 48 (44.86%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.56%) Finance
3 18 (16.82%) Pharmaceutical
4 8 (7.48%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.87%) Banking
6 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (28.04%) Developer
2 21 (19.63%) Python Developer
3 17 (15.89%) Test Specialist
4 15 (14.02%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (9.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 10 (9.35%) Automation Engineer
5 10 (9.35%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 9 (8.41%) Data Engineer
6 9 (8.41%) Software Engineer
6 9 (8.41%) Test Automation Specialist
6 9 (8.41%) Tester
7 6 (5.61%) Python Engineer
7 6 (5.61%) Senior
7 6 (5.61%) Test Engineer
8 5 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (4.67%) Lead
8 5 (4.67%) React Developer
9 4 (3.74%) Automation Tester
9 4 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.74%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (29.91%) FastAPI
2 26 (24.30%) REST
3 22 (20.56%) RESTful
4 16 (14.95%) Playwright
5 15 (14.02%) Django
6 14 (13.08%) Jest
6 14 (13.08%) React
7 12 (11.21%) Flask
8 11 (10.28%) Kafka
8 11 (10.28%) Next.js
9 10 (9.35%) PyTorch
9 10 (9.35%) scikit-learn
9 10 (9.35%) Swagger
9 10 (9.35%) TensorFlow
10 9 (8.41%) Node.js
10 9 (8.41%) NumPy
10 9 (8.41%) OAuth
10 9 (8.41%) OpenAPI
10 9 (8.41%) Pandas
11 8 (7.48%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.89%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.28%) Genomics
3 10 (9.35%) Life Science
4 8 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (6.54%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (6.54%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.80%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.87%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.93%) FMCG
8 1 (0.93%) NHS
8 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.67%) Android
1 5 (4.67%) Apple iOS
1 5 (4.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (68.22%) Test Automation
2 69 (64.49%) CI/CD
3 63 (58.88%) Agile
4 48 (44.86%) Containerisation
5 44 (41.12%) DevOps
6 41 (38.32%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (36.45%) Data Pipeline
8 36 (33.64%) AI
9 28 (26.17%) Machine Learning
10 25 (23.36%) Unit Testing
11 24 (22.43%) Code Quality
11 24 (22.43%) Deployment Automation
12 23 (21.50%) Analytics
12 23 (21.50%) Data Engineering
12 23 (21.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 22 (20.56%) Validation
14 21 (19.63%) Test Strategy
15 20 (18.69%) Clean Code
15 20 (18.69%) Natural Language Processing
15 20 (18.69%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 96 (89.72%) Python
2 39 (36.45%) SQL
3 13 (12.15%) Java
4 11 (10.28%) TypeScript
5 9 (8.41%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.61%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.74%) C#
8 2 (1.87%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.93%) Bicep
9 1 (0.93%) Go
9 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (25.23%) Security Cleared
2 26 (24.30%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.28%) Degree
4 6 (5.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.87%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.87%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.93%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.15%) QA
2 10 (9.35%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.80%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.87%) GDPR
4 2 (1.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 55 (51.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (38.32%) Kubernetes
2 13 (12.15%) Terraform
3 2 (1.87%) Control-M
3 2 (1.87%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.93%) Grafana
4 1 (0.93%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (14.02%) Google
2 11 (10.28%) Databricks
3 10 (9.35%) Oracle
4 7 (6.54%) Automation Anywhere
4 7 (6.54%) OpenAI
4 7 (6.54%) UiPath
5 6 (5.61%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.87%) SAP
7 1 (0.93%) Okta
7 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.93%) Splunk