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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 454 479
Rank change year-on-year -49 +25 +75
Contract jobs citing pytest 142 69 49
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.25% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.42% 0.96% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 53 37
10th Percentile £320 £365 £349
25th Percentile £413 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £495
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +8.59% -12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £725 £556
90th Percentile £656 £844 £623
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £495
% change year-on-year -3.38% +4.55% -4.58%

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 9,971 7,176 7,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.29% 25.51% 24.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,559 4,849 5,151
10th Percentile £381 £356 £360
25th Percentile £447 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -5.91% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 171 157
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £32.10
25th Percentile £54.37 £41.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +10.94%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.00 £73.85
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
% change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%

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 14 October 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

pytest
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 14 October 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 -53 96 £538 -19.78% 45
Yorkshire -20 19 £500 -
North of England -64 19 £500 - 1
South East -52 11 £341 -9.00% 6
East of England -22 9 £450 +12.50% 6
East Midlands -12 6 £300 - 1
Midlands -47 6 £300 -53.85% 4
pytest
UK

pytest
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 8 (5.63%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.93%) Confluence
3 5 (3.52%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.11%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.41%) Apache
5 2 (1.41%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (4.23%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.70%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.70%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 49 (34.51%) AWS
2 46 (32.39%) GitHub
3 44 (30.99%) Azure
4 32 (22.54%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (17.61%) GCP
6 23 (16.20%) Serverless
7 18 (12.68%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (11.97%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (7.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (6.34%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (5.63%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (5.63%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (5.63%) Snowflake
12 6 (4.23%) Amazon S3
12 6 (4.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (3.52%) Amazon Kinesis
14 4 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (2.82%) Azure Functions
14 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.27%) Internet
2 7 (4.93%) DNS
2 7 (4.93%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.52%) 4G
3 5 (3.52%) 5G
3 5 (3.52%) HTTP
3 5 (3.52%) SSH
4 4 (2.82%) Network Security
5 2 (1.41%) BGP
5 2 (1.41%) DSL
5 2 (1.41%) Firewall
5 2 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.41%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.41%) VPN
5 2 (1.41%) WAN
6 1 (0.70%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (19.01%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (16.20%) MongoDB
3 15 (10.56%) MySQL
3 15 (10.56%) NoSQL
4 11 (7.75%) Redis
5 7 (4.93%) Neo4j
6 6 (4.23%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.52%) Metadata
8 4 (2.82%) Spark SQL
8 4 (2.82%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.11%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.41%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.41%) Power BI
10 2 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.41%) ZAP BI
11 1 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.70%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.70%) Parquet
11 1 (0.70%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 53 (37.32%) Git
2 31 (21.83%) JIRA
3 22 (15.49%) GitLab
4 18 (12.68%) Jenkins
5 16 (11.27%) Selenium
6 10 (7.04%) Postman
7 7 (4.93%) Newman
7 7 (4.93%) Zephyr
8 6 (4.23%) JMeter
8 6 (4.23%) SonarQube
9 5 (3.52%) TestRail
10 4 (2.82%) Cucumber
10 4 (2.82%) REST Assured
10 4 (2.82%) Robot Framework
11 3 (2.11%) JUnit
12 2 (1.41%) Applitools
12 2 (1.41%) Cypress.io
12 2 (1.41%) Gatling
12 2 (1.41%) NeoLoad
13 1 (0.70%) Locust
General
1 36 (25.35%) Finance
2 27 (19.01%) Social Skills
3 26 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.86%) Banking
5 6 (4.23%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.11%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.70%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.70%) Automotive
7 1 (0.70%) Back Office
7 1 (0.70%) Front Office
7 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.70%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.70%) Legal
7 1 (0.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 35 (24.65%) Lead
2 33 (23.24%) Senior
3 27 (19.01%) Developer
4 25 (17.61%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 24 (16.90%) Python Developer
6 18 (12.68%) Python Engineer
7 15 (10.56%) Test Automation Engineer
8 14 (9.86%) Data Engineer
9 13 (9.15%) Test Engineer
10 10 (7.04%) QA Leader
11 7 (4.93%) QA Engineer
12 6 (4.23%) Architect
12 6 (4.23%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (4.23%) Lead Data Engineer
12 6 (4.23%) Senior Data Engineer
13 5 (3.52%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 5 (3.52%) Databricks Engineer
13 5 (3.52%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 5 (3.52%) QA Automation Engineer
14 4 (2.82%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (25.35%) FastAPI
2 29 (20.42%) Playwright
2 29 (20.42%) Terraform
3 23 (16.20%) Pandas
3 23 (16.20%) REST
4 22 (15.49%) RESTful
5 20 (14.08%) Kafka
6 16 (11.27%) Django
6 16 (11.27%) RabbitMQ
7 15 (10.56%) Flask
7 15 (10.56%) React
8 14 (9.86%) PySpark
9 12 (8.45%) NumPy
10 9 (6.34%) Great Expectations
11 8 (5.63%) CSS
11 8 (5.63%) HTML
11 8 (5.63%) Jinja
11 8 (5.63%) Swagger
12 7 (4.93%) LDAP
12 7 (4.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (18.31%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.63%) AI Agents
3 7 (4.93%) Algorithms
3 7 (4.93%) Data Structures
3 7 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.52%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.82%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.82%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.11%) Life Science
7 2 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.41%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.41%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.70%) Equities
8 1 (0.70%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.15%) Linux
2 1 (0.70%) Android
2 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (67.61%) CI/CD
2 80 (56.34%) DevOps
3 73 (51.41%) AI
4 55 (38.73%) Test Automation
5 52 (36.62%) Agile
6 48 (33.80%) Validation
7 45 (31.69%) OOP
8 41 (28.87%) LLM
9 39 (27.46%) Machine Learning
10 36 (25.35%) Generative AI
11 34 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (23.94%) Unit Testing
12 33 (23.24%) Software Engineering
13 29 (20.42%) Infrastructure as Code
14 28 (19.72%) Clean Code
15 26 (18.31%) Design Patterns
15 26 (18.31%) TDD
16 25 (17.61%) Analytics
16 25 (17.61%) MLOps
17 24 (16.90%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 140 (98.59%) Python
2 53 (37.32%) SQL
3 17 (11.97%) TypeScript
4 14 (9.86%) Bash
5 13 (9.15%) JavaScript
6 8 (5.63%) Go
7 7 (4.93%) Java
8 5 (3.52%) C#
9 4 (2.82%) Cypher
9 4 (2.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (2.82%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.41%) R
10 2 (1.41%) SHACL
11 1 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 23 (16.20%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.08%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.93%) Degree
4 5 (3.52%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.82%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.41%) CISSP
6 2 (1.41%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.70%) CISA
7 1 (0.70%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.70%) GSEC
7 1 (0.70%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.70%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (32.39%) QA
2 15 (10.56%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.82%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.11%) GDPR
4 3 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.11%) NIST
5 2 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 70 (49.30%) Docker
2 3 (2.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (42.25%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.34%) Grafana
3 8 (5.63%) Argo
4 7 (4.93%) Ansible
5 5 (3.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (15.49%) Databricks
2 18 (12.68%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.15%) Google
4 4 (2.82%) Foundry
5 3 (2.11%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.11%) OutSystems
6 2 (1.41%) FactSet
6 2 (1.41%) Palantir
7 1 (0.70%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle
7 1 (0.70%) SAP
7 1 (0.70%) SimCorp