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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 424 511
Rank change year-on-year -23 +87 +45
Contract jobs citing pytest 119 66 46
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.26% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.55% 1.14% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 49 31
10th Percentile £352 £400 £406
25th Percentile £385 £413 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £454 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% -11.41% -14.58%
75th Percentile £500 £556 £675
90th Percentile £658 £675 £825
UK median daily rate £463 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +0.65% -8.10% -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 7,655 5,800 7,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.71% 22.67% 20.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,155 3,795 5,444
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £418 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.69% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 80 208
10th Percentile £35.03 £27.04 £22.27
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.31 £43.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £78.85 £80.10 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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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 25 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 25 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 -27 67 £439 +2.03% 9
Midlands - 30 £477 - 2
West Midlands - 22 £481 - 1
East Midlands - 8 £393 - 1
East of England -21 6 £350 -18.03% 2
North of England -67 6 £430 -20.00% 1
North West -36 5 £360 -34.55%
South West -25 1 - - 1
South East -36 1 £358 -18.29% 2
Yorkshire -63 1 £500 +1.01% 1
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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 22 (18.49%) SAS
2 10 (8.40%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (8.40%) Apache Spark
3 8 (6.72%) Appian
4 3 (2.52%) Confluence
5 1 (0.84%) CMS
5 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) CPLEX
1 1 (0.84%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.52%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 38 (31.93%) GitHub
2 36 (30.25%) AWS
3 26 (21.85%) Azure
4 23 (19.33%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (17.65%) OpenShift
6 17 (14.29%) GCP
7 12 (10.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (8.40%) Amazon S3
8 10 (8.40%) Serverless
9 9 (7.56%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (6.72%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (6.72%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (6.72%) Azure AI
10 8 (6.72%) Cloud Run
10 8 (6.72%) Power Automate
11 5 (4.20%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (3.36%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (3.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (3.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (2.52%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.24%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.40%) NoSQL
3 9 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (6.72%) Aerospike
4 8 (6.72%) Pinecone
5 7 (5.88%) Big Data
5 7 (5.88%) Oracle Database
5 7 (5.88%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 6 (5.04%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (5.04%) Redis
7 5 (4.20%) BigQuery
7 5 (4.20%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.52%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 2 (1.68%) Power BI
9 2 (1.68%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.68%) Tableau
10 1 (0.84%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 56 (47.06%) Git
2 41 (34.45%) Jenkins
3 35 (29.41%) GitLab
4 32 (26.89%) Selenium
5 28 (23.53%) JUnit
6 13 (10.92%) Postman
7 11 (9.24%) JIRA
8 8 (6.72%) MLflow
9 7 (5.88%) Cypress.io
10 6 (5.04%) PyCharm
10 6 (5.04%) PyUnit
11 4 (3.36%) Robot Framework
11 4 (3.36%) SonarQube
12 3 (2.52%) Cucumber
12 3 (2.52%) REST Assured
12 3 (2.52%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (1.68%) Android Studio
13 2 (1.68%) CircleCI
13 2 (1.68%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (1.68%) Xcode
General
1 56 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.17%) Finance
3 17 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
4 8 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.20%) Banking
7 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (26.05%) Developer
2 22 (18.49%) Python Developer
3 21 (17.65%) Test Specialist
4 15 (12.61%) Full-Stack Developer
5 12 (10.08%) Automation Engineer
5 12 (10.08%) Data Engineer
5 12 (10.08%) Test Automation Specialist
6 11 (9.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 10 (8.40%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 9 (7.56%) Test Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) Senior
9 8 (6.72%) Tester
10 7 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
11 6 (5.04%) Python Engineer
11 6 (5.04%) QA Engineer
11 6 (5.04%) Software Engineer
12 5 (4.20%) React Developer
13 4 (3.36%) Lead
13 4 (3.36%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (26.89%) FastAPI
2 29 (24.37%) REST
3 23 (19.33%) RESTful
4 19 (15.97%) Playwright
5 17 (14.29%) Django
6 14 (11.76%) Jest
6 14 (11.76%) React
7 13 (10.92%) Flask
8 12 (10.08%) Kafka
9 11 (9.24%) Next.js
9 11 (9.24%) NumPy
9 11 (9.24%) Pandas
9 11 (9.24%) PyTorch
9 11 (9.24%) scikit-learn
9 11 (9.24%) Swagger
9 11 (9.24%) TensorFlow
10 10 (8.40%) CSS
10 10 (8.40%) Node.js
10 10 (8.40%) OAuth
10 10 (8.40%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.97%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (8.40%) Genomics
3 9 (7.56%) Life Science
4 8 (6.72%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (6.72%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.52%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.68%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.68%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.84%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.84%) FMCG
7 1 (0.84%) NHS
7 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.72%) Android
2 6 (5.04%) Apple iOS
2 6 (5.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (69.75%) Test Automation
2 77 (64.71%) CI/CD
3 72 (60.50%) Agile
4 52 (43.70%) Containerisation
5 51 (42.86%) DevOps
6 48 (40.34%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (37.82%) Data Pipeline
8 35 (29.41%) AI
9 31 (26.05%) Analytics
10 29 (24.37%) Stakeholder Management
11 27 (22.69%) Data Engineering
12 26 (21.85%) Machine Learning
12 26 (21.85%) Unit Testing
12 26 (21.85%) Validation
13 25 (21.01%) Deployment Automation
13 25 (21.01%) Integration Testing
13 25 (21.01%) Scrum
13 25 (21.01%) Test Strategy
14 23 (19.33%) Code Quality
15 22 (18.49%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 101 (84.87%) Python
2 42 (35.29%) SQL
3 18 (15.13%) Java
4 14 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 11 (9.24%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.88%) Shell Script
7 6 (5.04%) C#
8 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (26.05%) Security Cleared
2 30 (25.21%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.40%) Degree
4 6 (5.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.68%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.68%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.84%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.84%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.45%) QA
2 10 (8.40%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.52%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.52%) GDPR
3 3 (2.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (47.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (37.82%) Kubernetes
2 13 (10.92%) Terraform
3 3 (2.52%) Grafana
3 3 (2.52%) Kibana
4 2 (1.68%) Control-M
4 2 (1.68%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.68%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 13 (10.92%) Databricks
1 13 (10.92%) Google
2 11 (9.24%) Oracle
3 8 (6.72%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (6.72%) OpenAI
3 8 (6.72%) UiPath
4 5 (4.20%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.36%) SAP
6 2 (1.68%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.84%) Okta
7 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.84%) Splunk