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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 454 486 538
Rank change year-on-year +32 +52 +111
Contract jobs citing pytest 60 42 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.98% 0.58% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 30 29
10th Percentile £409 £361 £400
25th Percentile £463 £452 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £725 £573 £738
90th Percentile £810 £753 £793
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00

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 6,134 7,272 9,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.28% 22.37% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,155 4,795 6,860
10th Percentile £350 £357 £377
25th Percentile £410 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £678
90th Percentile £750 £813 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 176 165
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.38 £36.37
25th Percentile £42.88 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.35 £62.93 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.63% +4.88% -4.13%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £73.65
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.47 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.77% +2.67% -2.44%

pytest
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing pytest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for pytest 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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 +50 44 £670 +34.00% 11
North of England -9 11 £488 -2.50% 6
North West -9 6 £463 -7.50% 5
Yorkshire -12 5 £500 +1.01% 1
Midlands -10 2 £650 +28.40%
West Midlands -10 1 £650 +18.18%
East of England - 1 £413 - 1
East Midlands - 1 - -
South East - 1 £375 - 7
pytest
UK

pytest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (15.00%) Confluence
2 7 (11.67%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (6.67%) Jupyter
4 2 (3.33%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.67%) Apache
5 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.67%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Endur
2 1 (1.67%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 30 (50.00%) AWS
2 27 (45.00%) GitHub
3 22 (36.67%) GitHub Actions
4 16 (26.67%) Azure
5 13 (21.67%) Serverless
6 12 (20.00%) GCP
7 11 (18.33%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (16.67%) Amazon S3
9 9 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (6.67%) Amazon Bedrock
13 4 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (6.67%) Cloud Run
13 4 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 3 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
14 3 (5.00%) BlazeMeter
14 3 (5.00%) dbt
14 3 (5.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.33%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (5.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (8.33%) Big Data
3 4 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 4 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.33%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.33%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.33%) Metadata
5 2 (3.33%) Redis
6 1 (1.67%) Airbyte
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.67%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.67%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.67%) Looker
6 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (40.00%) Git
2 14 (23.33%) JIRA
3 8 (13.33%) GitLab
3 8 (13.33%) Selenium
4 4 (6.67%) JMeter
4 4 (6.67%) Locust
4 4 (6.67%) MLflow
5 3 (5.00%) Cypress.io
5 3 (5.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.00%) Robot Framework
5 3 (5.00%) SonarQube
5 3 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (3.33%) Poetry
6 2 (3.33%) Postman
6 2 (3.33%) webpack
7 1 (1.67%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.67%) MSTest
7 1 (1.67%) Pylint
7 1 (1.67%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.67%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (21.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.67%) Finance
3 8 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (28.33%) Developer
2 14 (23.33%) Python Developer
3 9 (15.00%) Python Engineer
3 9 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Data Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Senior
5 5 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (8.33%) Lead
6 4 (6.67%) Backend Developer
6 4 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) DevOps Specialist
6 4 (6.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 3 (5.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Python Software Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Test Leader
7 3 (5.00%) Tester
8 2 (3.33%) Development Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Senior Python Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (33.33%) FastAPI
2 9 (15.00%) REST
3 8 (13.33%) boto
3 8 (13.33%) LangChain
3 8 (13.33%) RESTful
3 8 (13.33%) SQLAlchemy
4 7 (11.67%) LDAP
4 7 (11.67%) mypy
4 7 (11.67%) Pandas
4 7 (11.67%) Playwright
4 7 (11.67%) pydantic
4 7 (11.67%) React
4 7 (11.67%) TensorFlow
5 6 (10.00%) Flake8
5 6 (10.00%) Jest
5 6 (10.00%) Kafka
5 6 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 6 (10.00%) scikit-learn
6 5 (8.33%) Hugging Face
7 4 (6.67%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.00%) Genomics
2 3 (5.00%) Life Science
3 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.67%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.67%) FMCG
4 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (56.67%) CI/CD
2 27 (45.00%) DevOps
2 27 (45.00%) Test Automation
3 24 (40.00%) Agile
4 21 (35.00%) Microservices
5 18 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 18 (30.00%) Machine Learning
6 13 (21.67%) Code Quality
7 12 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
7 12 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (18.33%) Software Engineering
9 10 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (15.00%) Containerisation
10 9 (15.00%) Unit Testing
11 8 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (13.33%) Data Science
11 8 (13.33%) ETL
11 8 (13.33%) Mentoring
11 8 (13.33%) Migration
11 8 (13.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 58 (96.67%) Python
2 20 (33.33%) SQL
3 7 (11.67%) Go
3 7 (11.67%) TypeScript
4 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.00%) Bash
6 2 (3.33%) C#
6 2 (3.33%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 15 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.00%) Degree
3 5 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 5 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.33%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.67%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (30.00%) QA
2 4 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (33.33%) Docker
2 5 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 21 (35.00%) Terraform
3 2 (3.33%) Ansible
3 2 (3.33%) Control-M
3 2 (3.33%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.67%) Grafana
4 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (10.00%) Databricks
1 6 (10.00%) Google
2 5 (8.33%) Atlassian
3 3 (5.00%) Dataiku
3 3 (5.00%) DataRobot
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.33%) Informatica
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle
4 2 (3.33%) UiPath
4 2 (3.33%) VMware
5 1 (1.67%) Okta
5 1 (1.67%) SAP
5 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow