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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 458 489
Rank change year-on-year -59 +31 +51
Contract jobs citing pytest 116 56 41
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.20% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% 0.81% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 44 29
10th Percentile £300 £413 £360
25th Percentile £379 £458 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £560 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £575 £706 £575
90th Percentile £660 £750 £755
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £500
% change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% -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 9,753 6,874 8,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.36% 24.93% 24.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,422 4,723 5,577
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 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 166 182
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £31.63
25th Percentile £50.38 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -0.79%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.59 £76.85 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -47 73 £538 -15.35% 41
Yorkshire -30 13 £455 +1.11% 1
North of England -64 13 £455 +1.11% 3
South East -51 12 £358 -20.11% 4
East of England - 9 £450 - 3
East Midlands -8 7 £350 - 1
Midlands -49 7 £350 -46.15% 2
South West - 2 £435 - 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 7 (6.03%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.31%) Confluence
3 4 (3.45%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.59%) Apache
5 1 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.86%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (6.03%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.86%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 40 (34.48%) Azure
2 34 (29.31%) AWS
3 28 (24.14%) GitHub
4 23 (19.83%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (15.52%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (12.07%) Serverless
7 13 (11.21%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (9.48%) GCP
9 8 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (6.03%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (4.31%) Azure Functions
11 5 (4.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (3.45%) Apigee
12 4 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (2.59%) Amazon EventBridge
13 3 (2.59%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.07%) Internet
2 4 (3.45%) 4G
2 4 (3.45%) 5G
2 4 (3.45%) DNS
2 4 (3.45%) HTTP
2 4 (3.45%) SSH
2 4 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.72%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.10%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (14.66%) MongoDB
3 16 (13.79%) NoSQL
4 11 (9.48%) Redis
5 10 (8.62%) MySQL
6 7 (6.03%) Neo4j
7 5 (4.31%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (3.45%) Metadata
8 4 (3.45%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.45%) Spark SQL
9 3 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.72%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.86%) Aerospike
11 1 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.86%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.86%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.86%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 37 (31.90%) Git
2 20 (17.24%) GitLab
3 18 (15.52%) Jenkins
4 17 (14.66%) JIRA
4 17 (14.66%) Selenium
5 9 (7.76%) Postman
6 7 (6.03%) Zephyr
7 5 (4.31%) Newman
7 5 (4.31%) SonarQube
8 4 (3.45%) JMeter
8 4 (3.45%) Robot Framework
8 4 (3.45%) TestRail
9 3 (2.59%) JUnit
10 2 (1.72%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.72%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.72%) Gatling
10 2 (1.72%) NeoLoad
10 2 (1.72%) NUnit
10 2 (1.72%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.86%) Locust
General
1 21 (18.10%) Finance
2 16 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.62%) Banking
5 5 (4.31%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.86%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.86%) Front Office
7 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.86%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.86%) Legal
7 1 (0.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (24.14%) Lead
2 24 (20.69%) Developer
2 24 (20.69%) Senior
3 22 (18.97%) Python Developer
4 20 (17.24%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 14 (12.07%) Test Automation Engineer
6 12 (10.34%) Test Engineer
7 11 (9.48%) Data Engineer
8 9 (7.76%) Python Engineer
9 8 (6.90%) QA Leader
10 7 (6.03%) QA Engineer
11 6 (5.17%) Lead Data Engineer
12 5 (4.31%) Automation Engineer
12 5 (4.31%) QA Automation Engineer
12 5 (4.31%) Software Engineer
12 5 (4.31%) Tester
13 4 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
13 4 (3.45%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 4 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
13 4 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (24.14%) Playwright
2 27 (23.28%) FastAPI
3 21 (18.10%) RESTful
4 20 (17.24%) Pandas
5 19 (16.38%) Kafka
5 19 (16.38%) Terraform
6 17 (14.66%) Flask
6 17 (14.66%) React
6 17 (14.66%) REST
7 16 (13.79%) Django
8 15 (12.93%) RabbitMQ
9 14 (12.07%) PySpark
10 12 (10.34%) Great Expectations
11 10 (8.62%) NumPy
12 9 (7.76%) Swagger
13 8 (6.90%) Jinja
13 8 (6.90%) OpenAPI
14 7 (6.03%) Node.js
14 7 (6.03%) XML
15 6 (5.17%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.52%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.48%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.90%) Algorithms
3 8 (6.90%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.31%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.45%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.59%) Life Science
7 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.72%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.72%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.72%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.86%) IoT
8 1 (0.86%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (61.21%) CI/CD
2 63 (54.31%) DevOps
3 53 (45.69%) AI
4 48 (41.38%) Test Automation
5 39 (33.62%) Validation
6 37 (31.90%) Agile
7 35 (30.17%) Software Engineering
8 33 (28.45%) LLM
9 32 (27.59%) OOP
10 29 (25.00%) Machine Learning
11 27 (23.28%) Generative AI
12 26 (22.41%) Unit Testing
13 25 (21.55%) Containerisation
14 24 (20.69%) Design Patterns
15 23 (19.83%) Clean Code
16 22 (18.97%) TDD
17 21 (18.10%) Analytics
17 21 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
17 21 (18.10%) Scrum
18 20 (17.24%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 113 (97.41%) Python
2 37 (31.90%) SQL
3 12 (10.34%) TypeScript
4 11 (9.48%) Java
5 7 (6.03%) Bash
5 7 (6.03%) C#
5 7 (6.03%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.45%) Cypher
6 4 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.59%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.72%) R
8 2 (1.72%) SHACL
9 1 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.24%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.45%) Degree
4 3 (2.59%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.59%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.59%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (31.90%) QA
2 14 (12.07%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.59%) GDPR
4 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.72%) NIST
4 2 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 58 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (36.21%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.76%) Grafana
3 7 (6.03%) Argo
4 6 (5.17%) Ansible
5 5 (4.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (14.66%) Databricks
2 15 (12.93%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.90%) Google
4 2 (1.72%) FactSet
4 2 (1.72%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.86%) Foundry
5 1 (0.86%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.86%) SAP
5 1 (0.86%) SimCorp