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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 459 484
Rank change year-on-year -70 +25 +63
Contract jobs citing pytest 111 55 39
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.20% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.13% 0.80% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 41 26
10th Percentile £300 £413 £356
25th Percentile £393 £460 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £570 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £575 £725 £594
90th Percentile £661 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.44%
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 9,865 6,895 8,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.49% 24.86% 24.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,497 4,739 5,609
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 166 193
10th Percentile £30.10 £31.25 £25.72
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.94 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +18.32% -10.82% -5.23%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £76.85 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.43
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.10% -2.49%

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 23 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for pytest in England

pytest
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 23 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 -63 68 £538 -18.19% 6
Yorkshire -33 13 £450 - 1
North of England -55 13 £450 - 1
South East -57 13 £358 -20.11% 2
East of England - 8 £450 - 3
East Midlands -9 7 £350 -
Midlands -40 7 £350 -46.15% 1
South West - 2 £435 - 1
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 7 (6.31%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.50%) Confluence
3 3 (2.70%) Apache
4 2 (1.80%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.90%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (6.31%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.90%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 39 (35.14%) Azure
2 30 (27.03%) AWS
3 26 (23.42%) GitHub
4 21 (18.92%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (14.41%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (11.71%) Serverless
7 10 (9.01%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (9.01%) GCP
8 8 (7.21%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (6.31%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (6.31%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (5.41%) Azure Functions
11 5 (4.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (3.60%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (3.60%) Apigee
12 4 (3.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (2.70%) Azure AKS
13 3 (2.70%) Azure Stack
13 3 (2.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.61%) Internet
2 2 (1.80%) 4G
2 2 (1.80%) 5G
2 2 (1.80%) DNS
2 2 (1.80%) DSL
2 2 (1.80%) HTTP
2 2 (1.80%) SSH
2 2 (1.80%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.22%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (13.51%) MongoDB
3 13 (11.71%) NoSQL
4 9 (8.11%) Redis
5 7 (6.31%) MySQL
5 7 (6.31%) Neo4j
6 5 (4.50%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (3.60%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.70%) Metadata
8 3 (2.70%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.80%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.90%) Aerospike
10 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.90%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.90%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.90%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 34 (30.63%) Git
2 17 (15.32%) GitLab
3 16 (14.41%) Jenkins
3 16 (14.41%) JIRA
4 13 (11.71%) Selenium
5 8 (7.21%) Postman
6 7 (6.31%) Zephyr
7 5 (4.50%) SonarQube
8 4 (3.60%) Newman
8 4 (3.60%) Robot Framework
9 3 (2.70%) JUnit
10 2 (1.80%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.80%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.80%) Gatling
10 2 (1.80%) JMeter
10 2 (1.80%) NeoLoad
10 2 (1.80%) NUnit
10 2 (1.80%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.80%) TestRail
11 1 (0.90%) Subversion
General
1 20 (18.02%) Finance
2 16 (14.41%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.11%) Banking
5 6 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.70%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.90%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.90%) Front Office
8 1 (0.90%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.90%) Legal
8 1 (0.90%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (24.32%) Lead
2 23 (20.72%) Developer
3 22 (19.82%) Senior
4 20 (18.02%) Python Developer
5 19 (17.12%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 12 (10.81%) Test Automation Engineer
7 11 (9.91%) Test Engineer
8 10 (9.01%) Data Engineer
9 9 (8.11%) Python Engineer
10 8 (7.21%) QA Leader
11 5 (4.50%) Lead Data Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) QA Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Software Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Tester
12 4 (3.60%) Automation Engineer
12 4 (3.60%) Azure Developer
12 4 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (3.60%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 4 (3.60%) Senior Software Engineer
13 3 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (22.52%) FastAPI
2 22 (19.82%) Playwright
3 19 (17.12%) Pandas
4 18 (16.22%) RESTful
5 17 (15.32%) REST
5 17 (15.32%) Terraform
6 16 (14.41%) Django
6 16 (14.41%) Kafka
6 16 (14.41%) React
7 14 (12.61%) Flask
7 14 (12.61%) PySpark
8 13 (11.71%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (9.01%) Great Expectations
9 10 (9.01%) NumPy
10 8 (7.21%) Swagger
11 7 (6.31%) Node.js
11 7 (6.31%) OpenAPI
11 7 (6.31%) XML
12 6 (5.41%) .NET
12 6 (5.41%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.12%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.21%) Algorithms
3 8 (7.21%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.60%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.70%) Life Science
5 3 (2.70%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.80%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.90%) IoT
7 1 (0.90%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (57.66%) CI/CD
2 59 (53.15%) DevOps
3 48 (43.24%) AI
4 44 (39.64%) Test Automation
5 36 (32.43%) Agile
5 36 (32.43%) Validation
6 34 (30.63%) Software Engineering
7 29 (26.13%) LLM
7 29 (26.13%) OOP
8 27 (24.32%) Unit Testing
9 26 (23.42%) Machine Learning
10 24 (21.62%) Generative AI
11 23 (20.72%) Containerisation
11 23 (20.72%) Design Patterns
12 22 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (18.92%) Clean Code
13 21 (18.92%) TDD
14 20 (18.02%) Analytics
15 19 (17.12%) MLOps
15 19 (17.12%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 107 (96.40%) Python
2 35 (31.53%) SQL
3 12 (10.81%) TypeScript
4 11 (9.91%) Java
5 6 (5.41%) C#
5 6 (5.41%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.50%) Bash
7 4 (3.60%) Cypher
8 3 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.80%) R
9 2 (1.80%) SHACL
9 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 26 (23.42%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.02%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.70%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.70%) Degree
3 3 (2.70%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.80%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (27.93%) QA
2 12 (10.81%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.80%) GDPR
3 2 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.90%) NIST
System Software
1 53 (47.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (36.04%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.31%) Grafana
3 6 (5.41%) Argo
4 5 (4.50%) Ansible
5 3 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (15.32%) Databricks
2 14 (12.61%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.21%) Google
4 2 (1.80%) FactSet
4 2 (1.80%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.80%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.90%) SAP
5 1 (0.90%) SimCorp