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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 459 494
Rank change year-on-year -46 +35 +62
Contract jobs citing pytest 123 58 42
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.21% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.25% 0.83% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 45 30
10th Percentile £300 £409 £361
25th Percentile £393 £463 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £575 £725 £573
90th Percentile £656 £810 £753
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -4.76%
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 9,813 6,959 8,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.08% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,443 4,755 5,537
10th Percentile £380 £353 £363
25th Percentile £440 £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 270 162 177
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.29 £27.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.82 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.10 £70.00 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £65.83 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +25.39% -14.77% -1.83%

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 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for pytest in England

pytest
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 13 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 -53 78 £538 -19.78% 42
Yorkshire -29 15 £500 - 1
North of England -65 15 £500 +2.56% 4
South East -51 12 £358 -4.67% 11
East of England -13 9 £450 +9.09% 3
East Midlands -11 6 £300 -
Midlands -39 6 £300 -53.85% 1
South West - 2 £435 - 3
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 (7.32%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.88%) Confluence
3 4 (3.25%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.44%) Apache
5 2 (1.63%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (5.69%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.81%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.81%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 41 (33.33%) Azure
2 38 (30.89%) AWS
3 33 (26.83%) GitHub
4 26 (21.14%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (13.82%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (12.20%) Serverless
7 14 (11.38%) GCP
8 9 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (6.50%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (6.50%) Microsoft Copilot
10 7 (5.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (4.88%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (3.25%) Apigee
12 4 (3.25%) Azure Functions
12 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (2.44%) Amazon EventBridge
13 3 (2.44%) Azure AKS
13 3 (2.44%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.38%) Internet
2 4 (3.25%) 4G
2 4 (3.25%) 5G
2 4 (3.25%) DNS
2 4 (3.25%) HTTP
2 4 (3.25%) SSH
2 4 (3.25%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.63%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (20.33%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (15.45%) MongoDB
3 16 (13.01%) NoSQL
4 14 (11.38%) MySQL
5 10 (8.13%) Redis
6 7 (5.69%) Neo4j
7 6 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (4.88%) Data Lake
8 5 (4.07%) SQL Server
9 4 (3.25%) Metadata
9 4 (3.25%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.25%) Spark SQL
10 3 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
12 1 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.81%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.81%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.81%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 44 (35.77%) Git
2 22 (17.89%) GitLab
3 20 (16.26%) JIRA
4 17 (13.82%) Jenkins
4 17 (13.82%) Selenium
5 8 (6.50%) Postman
6 7 (5.69%) SonarQube
6 7 (5.69%) Zephyr
7 5 (4.07%) Newman
8 4 (3.25%) JMeter
8 4 (3.25%) Robot Framework
8 4 (3.25%) TestRail
9 2 (1.63%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.63%) Gatling
9 2 (1.63%) JUnit
9 2 (1.63%) NeoLoad
9 2 (1.63%) NUnit
9 2 (1.63%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.81%) Locust
General
1 25 (20.33%) Finance
2 20 (16.26%) Social Skills
3 17 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.38%) Banking
5 5 (4.07%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.25%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.63%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.63%) Front Office
8 1 (0.81%) Automotive
8 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.81%) Legal
8 1 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (23.58%) Lead
1 29 (23.58%) Senior
2 26 (21.14%) Developer
3 23 (18.70%) Python Developer
4 22 (17.89%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 14 (11.38%) Test Automation Engineer
6 12 (9.76%) Data Engineer
6 12 (9.76%) Python Engineer
6 12 (9.76%) Test Engineer
7 9 (7.32%) QA Leader
8 7 (5.69%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (5.69%) QA Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 6 (4.88%) Lead Data Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) QA Automation Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (24.39%) FastAPI
2 28 (22.76%) Playwright
3 23 (18.70%) RESTful
4 21 (17.07%) Pandas
4 21 (17.07%) Terraform
5 20 (16.26%) Kafka
6 19 (15.45%) Flask
6 19 (15.45%) REST
7 18 (14.63%) Django
7 18 (14.63%) React
8 17 (13.82%) RabbitMQ
9 13 (10.57%) PySpark
10 11 (8.94%) Great Expectations
10 11 (8.94%) NumPy
11 9 (7.32%) Swagger
12 8 (6.50%) Jinja
12 8 (6.50%) OpenAPI
13 7 (5.69%) CSS
13 7 (5.69%) HTML
13 7 (5.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.89%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.50%) Algorithms
3 8 (6.50%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.07%) AI Agents
4 5 (4.07%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.25%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.44%) Life Science
7 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.63%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.81%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.81%) IoT
8 1 (0.81%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (60.98%) CI/CD
2 67 (54.47%) DevOps
3 59 (47.97%) AI
4 47 (38.21%) Test Automation
5 40 (32.52%) Agile
6 39 (31.71%) OOP
7 38 (30.89%) Validation
8 36 (29.27%) LLM
9 35 (28.46%) Software Engineering
10 32 (26.02%) Machine Learning
11 30 (24.39%) Generative AI
12 28 (22.76%) Unit Testing
13 26 (21.14%) Containerisation
14 24 (19.51%) Clean Code
14 24 (19.51%) Design Patterns
14 24 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (19.51%) Scrum
15 23 (18.70%) Analytics
15 23 (18.70%) TDD
16 22 (17.89%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 120 (97.56%) Python
2 42 (34.15%) SQL
3 14 (11.38%) TypeScript
4 10 (8.13%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.32%) Bash
5 9 (7.32%) Java
6 6 (4.88%) C#
7 4 (3.25%) Cypher
7 4 (3.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (2.44%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.63%) R
9 2 (1.63%) SHACL
10 1 (0.81%) Go
10 1 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (20.33%) Security Cleared
2 21 (17.07%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.88%) Degree
4 3 (2.44%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.44%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.44%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (34.15%) QA
2 14 (11.38%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.44%) GDPR
4 2 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.63%) NIST
4 2 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
System Software
1 65 (52.85%) Docker
2 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (40.65%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.32%) Grafana
3 7 (5.69%) Argo
4 6 (4.88%) Ansible
5 5 (4.07%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (13.82%) Databricks
2 14 (11.38%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.50%) Google
4 2 (1.63%) FactSet
4 2 (1.63%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.63%) SAP
5 1 (0.81%) Foundry
5 1 (0.81%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.81%) SimCorp