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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 439 519
Rank change year-on-year -1 +80 +61
Contract jobs citing pytest 108 58 37
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.21% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.53% 0.96% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 39 27
10th Percentile £363 £382 £406
25th Percentile £406 £411 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -15.25%
75th Percentile £639 £553 £650
90th Percentile £822 £611 £745
UK median daily rate £477 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.26% -2.50% -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 7,060 6,067 7,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.28% 21.79% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,712 3,873 5,700
10th Percentile £356 £358 £363
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £763
UK median daily rate £509 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.39% -2.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 70 166
10th Percentile £32.72 £26.25 £31.63
25th Percentile £45.00 £43.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.20
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +19.74% -19.70%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.48 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -1.60% +14.68% -16.15%

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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 2 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 2 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 +10 65 £555 +29.07% 14
Midlands -15 23 £480 -12.73%
West Midlands -20 18 £491 -10.73%
North of England -39 7 £425 -19.05% 2
North West -28 5 £425 -22.73%
East Midlands - 5 £398 -
East of England -20 4 £400 -6.32% 6
Yorkshire -50 2 £463 -6.57% 1
South West -12 1 - - 2
South East - 1 £375 - 7
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 17 (15.74%) SAS
2 10 (9.26%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (9.26%) Apache Spark
3 9 (8.33%) Confluence
4 3 (2.78%) Appian
5 1 (0.93%) CMS
5 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 41 (37.96%) GitHub
2 38 (35.19%) AWS
3 26 (24.07%) GitHub Actions
4 21 (19.44%) GCP
5 17 (15.74%) Azure
6 16 (14.81%) Amazon S3
6 16 (14.81%) OpenShift
6 16 (14.81%) Serverless
7 14 (12.96%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (10.19%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (9.26%) Cloud Run
10 9 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (3.70%) IaaS
14 3 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
14 3 (2.78%) Power Automate
14 3 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.63%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (0.93%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.41%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.56%) Big Data
3 6 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.63%) Aerospike
4 5 (4.63%) BigQuery
4 5 (4.63%) Oracle Database
4 5 (4.63%) Redis
4 5 (4.63%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 4 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.78%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.78%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.85%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.85%) Power BI
7 2 (1.85%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.85%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 2 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (51.85%) Git
2 29 (26.85%) GitLab
3 26 (24.07%) Jenkins
4 22 (20.37%) Selenium
5 20 (18.52%) JUnit
6 15 (13.89%) JIRA
7 7 (6.48%) Postman
8 4 (3.70%) Cypress.io
8 4 (3.70%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.78%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.78%) JMeter
9 3 (2.78%) Locust
9 3 (2.78%) MLflow
9 3 (2.78%) PyCharm
9 3 (2.78%) PyUnit
9 3 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.85%) Snyk
10 2 (1.85%) Storybook
10 2 (1.85%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.93%) REST Assured
General
1 43 (39.81%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.59%) Finance
3 18 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 9 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Banking
7 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (25.00%) Developer
2 20 (18.52%) Python Developer
3 16 (14.81%) Test Specialist
4 15 (13.89%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (10.19%) Software Engineer
6 10 (9.26%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 9 (8.33%) Data Engineer
7 9 (8.33%) Python Engineer
7 9 (8.33%) Senior
8 8 (7.41%) Test Automation Specialist
8 8 (7.41%) Tester
9 6 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (5.56%) Lead
9 6 (5.56%) Test Engineer
10 5 (4.63%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (4.63%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.63%) React Developer
11 4 (3.70%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) DevOps Specialist
11 4 (3.70%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (30.56%) FastAPI
2 27 (25.00%) REST
3 17 (15.74%) React
3 17 (15.74%) RESTful
4 16 (14.81%) Playwright
5 15 (13.89%) Jest
6 11 (10.19%) Kafka
6 11 (10.19%) Next.js
7 10 (9.26%) Node.js
8 9 (8.33%) Django
9 8 (7.41%) boto
9 8 (7.41%) Flask
9 8 (7.41%) scikit-learn
9 8 (7.41%) TensorFlow
10 7 (6.48%) CSS
10 7 (6.48%) LangGraph
10 7 (6.48%) LDAP
10 7 (6.48%) mypy
10 7 (6.48%) Pandas
11 6 (5.56%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.11%) Genomics
3 11 (10.19%) Life Science
4 10 (9.26%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.78%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.85%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.85%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.93%) FMCG
7 1 (0.93%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.78%) Android
1 3 (2.78%) Apple iOS
1 3 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (63.89%) Test Automation
2 68 (62.96%) CI/CD
3 67 (62.04%) Agile
4 50 (46.30%) DevOps
5 43 (39.81%) Containerisation
6 39 (36.11%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (32.41%) AI
8 34 (31.48%) Data Pipeline
9 31 (28.70%) Machine Learning
10 27 (25.00%) Code Quality
11 25 (23.15%) Unit Testing
12 24 (22.22%) Analytics
13 21 (19.44%) Software Engineering
13 21 (19.44%) Test Strategy
14 19 (17.59%) Deployment Automation
15 18 (16.67%) Data Engineering
15 18 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
15 18 (16.67%) Microservices
15 18 (16.67%) Scrum
15 18 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 99 (91.67%) Python
2 37 (34.26%) SQL
3 11 (10.19%) TypeScript
4 8 (7.41%) Java
4 8 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.48%) Go
6 4 (3.70%) C#
6 4 (3.70%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.85%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.93%) Bicep
8 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (26.85%) Security Cleared
2 28 (25.93%) SC Cleared
3 17 (15.74%) Degree
4 9 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.85%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.85%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.93%) ISEB
7 1 (0.93%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.81%) QA
2 6 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.85%) WCAG
4 1 (0.93%) GDPR
4 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (46.30%) Docker
2 5 (4.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 18 (16.67%) Terraform
3 2 (1.85%) Control-M
4 1 (0.93%) Grafana
4 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (14.81%) Google
2 9 (8.33%) Databricks
3 8 (7.41%) Oracle
4 5 (4.63%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.70%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.78%) Automation Anywhere
6 3 (2.78%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.78%) UiPath
7 2 (1.85%) SAP
8 1 (0.93%) Okta
8 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.93%) Splunk