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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 435 509
Rank change year-on-year +2 +74 +56
Contract jobs citing pytest 107 59 39
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.22% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.52% 1.00% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 40 29
10th Percentile £363 £399 £406
25th Percentile £404 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £481 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% -6.10% -13.14%
75th Percentile £617 £573 £650
90th Percentile £794 £755 £780
UK median daily rate £476 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -3.16% -1.75% -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 7,048 5,926 7,743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.14% 21.99% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,723 3,793 5,554
10th Percentile £356 £360 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £673
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £510 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 70 168
10th Percentile £32.31 £26.25 £29.36
25th Percentile £44.01 £44.17 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +14.09% -15.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £75.10 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -15.38%

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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 16 January 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 16 January 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 +18 65 £505 +17.37% 18
Midlands -21 24 £480 -12.73% 2
West Midlands -20 18 £491 -10.73% 1
East Midlands - 6 £393 - 1
North of England -52 5 £500 -4.76% 4
North West -16 4 £430 -21.82% 1
East of England -19 4 £400 -6.32% 8
South West -17 1 - - 3
Yorkshire -54 1 £500 +1.01% 2
South East - 1 £375 - 25
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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 17 (15.89%) SAS
2 9 (8.41%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (8.41%) Apache Spark
2 9 (8.41%) Confluence
3 4 (3.74%) Appian
4 1 (0.93%) CMS
4 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 40 (37.38%) GitHub
2 37 (34.58%) AWS
3 26 (24.30%) GitHub Actions
4 21 (19.63%) GCP
5 19 (17.76%) Azure
6 16 (14.95%) OpenShift
6 16 (14.95%) Serverless
7 15 (14.02%) Amazon S3
8 14 (13.08%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (10.28%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (9.35%) Cloud Run
11 9 (8.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (6.54%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (5.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 4 (3.74%) Anthropic Claude
14 4 (3.74%) Azure AI
14 4 (3.74%) IaaS
14 4 (3.74%) Power Automate
15 3 (2.80%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (0.93%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.41%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.54%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.61%) Aerospike
4 6 (5.61%) Big Data
4 6 (5.61%) Redis
5 5 (4.67%) BigQuery
5 5 (4.67%) Oracle Database
5 5 (4.67%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 4 (3.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.74%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.74%) Pinecone
7 3 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.87%) Power BI
8 2 (1.87%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.87%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 2 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (52.34%) Git
2 31 (28.97%) GitLab
3 28 (26.17%) Jenkins
4 22 (20.56%) Selenium
5 21 (19.63%) JUnit
6 15 (14.02%) JIRA
7 8 (7.48%) Postman
8 4 (3.74%) MLflow
8 4 (3.74%) PyCharm
8 4 (3.74%) PyUnit
8 4 (3.74%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.80%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.80%) Cypress.io
9 3 (2.80%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.87%) JMeter
10 2 (1.87%) Locust
10 2 (1.87%) Robot Framework
10 2 (1.87%) Snyk
10 2 (1.87%) Storybook
10 2 (1.87%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 44 (41.12%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.76%) Finance
3 18 (16.82%) Pharmaceutical
4 9 (8.41%) 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 29 (27.10%) Developer
2 21 (19.63%) Python Developer
3 16 (14.95%) Test Specialist
4 15 (14.02%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (9.35%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 10 (9.35%) Python Engineer
5 10 (9.35%) Software Engineer
6 8 (7.48%) Data Engineer
6 8 (7.48%) Senior
6 8 (7.48%) Test Automation Specialist
6 8 (7.48%) Tester
7 7 (6.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 7 (6.54%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) Lead
8 6 (5.61%) Test Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) React Developer
10 4 (3.74%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) DevOps Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (30.84%) FastAPI
2 28 (26.17%) REST
3 18 (16.82%) RESTful
4 16 (14.95%) React
5 15 (14.02%) Jest
5 15 (14.02%) Playwright
6 11 (10.28%) Django
6 11 (10.28%) Kafka
6 11 (10.28%) Next.js
7 10 (9.35%) Node.js
8 9 (8.41%) Flask
9 8 (7.48%) boto
9 8 (7.48%) CSS
10 7 (6.54%) LangGraph
10 7 (6.54%) LDAP
10 7 (6.54%) mypy
10 7 (6.54%) PyTorch
10 7 (6.54%) scikit-learn
10 7 (6.54%) Swagger
10 7 (6.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.95%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.21%) Genomics
3 11 (10.28%) Life Science
4 10 (9.35%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.74%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.80%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.87%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.93%) FMCG
8 1 (0.93%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.74%) Android
1 4 (3.74%) Apple iOS
1 4 (3.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (64.49%) Test Automation
2 67 (62.62%) CI/CD
3 66 (61.68%) Agile
4 48 (44.86%) DevOps
5 44 (41.12%) Containerisation
6 39 (36.45%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (32.71%) AI
7 35 (32.71%) Data Pipeline
8 28 (26.17%) Code Quality
8 28 (26.17%) Machine Learning
9 26 (24.30%) Unit Testing
10 22 (20.56%) Analytics
11 21 (19.63%) Deployment Automation
12 20 (18.69%) Test Strategy
13 19 (17.76%) Data Engineering
13 19 (17.76%) Scrum
13 19 (17.76%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (16.82%) Integration Testing
14 18 (16.82%) Software Engineering
14 18 (16.82%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 97 (90.65%) Python
2 36 (33.64%) SQL
3 11 (10.28%) TypeScript
4 10 (9.35%) Java
5 9 (8.41%) JavaScript
6 7 (6.54%) Go
7 5 (4.67%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.74%) C#
9 2 (1.87%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.93%) Bicep
10 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (26.17%) Security Cleared
2 27 (25.23%) SC Cleared
3 14 (13.08%) Degree
4 10 (9.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.87%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.87%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.93%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.89%) QA
2 8 (7.48%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.87%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.87%) GDPR
3 2 (1.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (47.66%) Docker
2 5 (4.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (39.25%) Kubernetes
2 16 (14.95%) Terraform
3 2 (1.87%) Control-M
4 1 (0.93%) Grafana
4 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (14.95%) Google
2 10 (9.35%) Databricks
3 8 (7.48%) Oracle
4 5 (4.67%) Atlassian
4 5 (4.67%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.74%) Automation Anywhere
5 4 (3.74%) OpenAI
5 4 (3.74%) UiPath
6 2 (1.87%) SAP
7 1 (0.93%) Okta
7 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.93%) Splunk