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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 460 494
Rank change year-on-year -58 +34 +49
Contract jobs citing pytest 106 52 39
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.26% 0.85% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 37 26
10th Percentile £300 £413 £356
25th Percentile £411 £460 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £725 £594
90th Percentile £675 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £496 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -4.62% +4.00% -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 8,439 6,123 7,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.47% 22.03% 22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,519 4,186 5,028
10th Percentile £366 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 158 220
10th Percentile £28.58 £31.25 £24.16
25th Percentile £45.94 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -5.42%
75th Percentile £73.11 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.03 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £52.50
% change year-on-year +18.45% +4.52% -12.50%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing pytest in England over the 6 months to 17 August 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 17 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 -47 66 £538 -18.19% 21
South East -50 13 £358 -31.25% 5
Yorkshire -31 11 £450 - 3
North of England -68 11 £450 - 4
East of England - 8 £450 - 3
Midlands -41 6 £471 - 2
West Midlands - 4 £477 - 1
East Midlands -15 2 £459 - 1
South West - 2 £435 - 1
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 9 (8.49%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.72%) Confluence
3 4 (3.77%) SAS
4 3 (2.83%) Apache
5 2 (1.89%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.89%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (6.60%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 3 (2.83%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.94%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 38 (35.85%) Azure
2 27 (25.47%) AWS
3 23 (21.70%) GitHub
4 18 (16.98%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (16.98%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (9.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (8.49%) GCP
7 8 (7.55%) Serverless
8 7 (6.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (6.60%) OpenShift
9 6 (5.66%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (5.66%) Azure Functions
10 4 (3.77%) Apigee
10 4 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.83%) Azure Stack
11 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (1.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.21%) Internet
2 2 (1.89%) 4G
2 2 (1.89%) 5G
2 2 (1.89%) DNS
2 2 (1.89%) DSL
2 2 (1.89%) HTTP
2 2 (1.89%) SSH
2 2 (1.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.21%) MongoDB
1 14 (13.21%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (11.32%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.60%) Neo4j
4 6 (5.66%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (4.72%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.77%) Redis
6 4 (3.77%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.89%) Aerospike
8 2 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.89%) Metadata
8 2 (1.89%) MySQL
8 2 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.89%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.94%) Power BI
9 1 (0.94%) SAS EBI
9 1 (0.94%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 1 (0.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (33.96%) Git
2 23 (21.70%) GitLab
3 22 (20.75%) Jenkins
4 17 (16.04%) Selenium
5 13 (12.26%) JIRA
6 9 (8.49%) Postman
7 7 (6.60%) JUnit
8 6 (5.66%) SonarQube
8 6 (5.66%) Zephyr
9 5 (4.72%) Robot Framework
10 4 (3.77%) Newman
11 2 (1.89%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.89%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.89%) Gatling
11 2 (1.89%) JMeter
11 2 (1.89%) NeoLoad
11 2 (1.89%) NUnit
11 2 (1.89%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.89%) TestRail
12 1 (0.94%) Subversion
General
1 21 (19.81%) Finance
1 21 (19.81%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.55%) Banking
4 6 (5.66%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.83%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.94%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.94%) Front Office
7 1 (0.94%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.94%) Legal
7 1 (0.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (20.75%) Developer
1 22 (20.75%) Senior
2 19 (17.92%) Lead
2 19 (17.92%) Python Developer
3 18 (16.98%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 12 (11.32%) Data Engineer
5 11 (10.38%) Test Automation Engineer
6 10 (9.43%) Test Engineer
7 9 (8.49%) Python Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) QA Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Tester
10 4 (3.77%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Lead Data Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) QA Leader
10 4 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Test Specialist
11 3 (2.83%) AWS Data Engineer
11 3 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
11 3 (2.83%) Full-Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (18.87%) FastAPI
2 18 (16.98%) Pandas
3 17 (16.04%) RESTful
4 16 (15.09%) Kafka
4 16 (15.09%) REST
5 15 (14.15%) Playwright
5 15 (14.15%) PySpark
6 14 (13.21%) Flask
6 14 (13.21%) React
7 13 (12.26%) RabbitMQ
8 12 (11.32%) Django
9 9 (8.49%) Great Expectations
9 9 (8.49%) NumPy
10 8 (7.55%) Node.js
10 8 (7.55%) Swagger
11 7 (6.60%) CSS
11 7 (6.60%) HTML
11 7 (6.60%) OpenAPI
12 6 (5.66%) .NET
12 6 (5.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.87%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.43%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.55%) Data Structures
4 7 (6.60%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.77%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.83%) Life Science
6 3 (2.83%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.89%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.89%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.94%) IoT
8 1 (0.94%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.72%) Linux
2 1 (0.94%) Android
2 1 (0.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (64.15%) CI/CD
2 59 (55.66%) DevOps
3 48 (45.28%) Test Automation
4 42 (39.62%) AI
5 39 (36.79%) Validation
6 38 (35.85%) Agile
7 33 (31.13%) Software Engineering
8 28 (26.42%) LLM
9 27 (25.47%) OOP
10 26 (24.53%) Unit Testing
11 25 (23.58%) Analytics
11 25 (23.58%) Containerisation
11 25 (23.58%) Machine Learning
12 23 (21.70%) Design Patterns
12 23 (21.70%) Generative AI
13 22 (20.75%) Data Pipeline
13 22 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (18.87%) Clean Code
14 20 (18.87%) Scrum
15 19 (17.92%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 97 (91.51%) Python
2 35 (33.02%) SQL
3 12 (11.32%) Java
4 11 (10.38%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.66%) C#
5 6 (5.66%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.77%) Bash
6 4 (3.77%) Cypher
7 3 (2.83%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.89%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.89%) R
8 2 (1.89%) SHACL
9 1 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 26 (24.53%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.87%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.83%) Degree
3 3 (2.83%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.89%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.89%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (25.47%) QA
2 11 (10.38%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.83%) GDPR
3 3 (2.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.94%) NIST
System Software
1 46 (43.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (39.62%) Kubernetes
2 17 (16.04%) Terraform
3 7 (6.60%) Grafana
4 5 (4.72%) Argo
5 4 (3.77%) Ansible
6 3 (2.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (17.92%) Databricks
2 12 (11.32%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.60%) Google
4 3 (2.83%) SAP
5 2 (1.89%) FactSet
5 2 (1.89%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.89%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle
6 1 (0.94%) SimCorp