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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 447 515
Rank change year-on-year -61 +68 +13
Contract jobs citing pytest 90 50 41
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.09% 0.89% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 35 27
10th Percentile £325 £407 £363
25th Percentile £368 £413 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% -5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £508 £566 £656
90th Percentile £653 £775 £860
UK median daily rate £464 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.37% -5.00% -16.67%
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 8,250 5,629 7,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.10% 22.61% 20.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,443 3,906 5,518
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £740 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 110 261
10th Percentile £30.66 £32.10 £22.75
25th Percentile £52.19 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.05 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £51.00
% change year-on-year +15.56% +10.29% -21.54%

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

pytest
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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -58 52 £505 +7.45% 4
Midlands -48 11 £463 - 1
South East -53 11 £358 -25.33% 3
North of England -77 8 £379 -24.25% 6
Yorkshire -60 7 £403 -15.26% 5
East Midlands -12 6 £393 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £481 -
East of England - 5 £375 - 2
South West - 2 £435 -
North West -44 1 £355 -35.45%
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 (7.78%) Appian
2 5 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.56%) Confluence
2 5 (5.56%) SAS
3 2 (2.22%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.11%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (8.89%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 3 (3.33%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.11%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 37 (41.11%) Azure
2 29 (32.22%) AWS
3 23 (25.56%) GitHub
4 20 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (18.89%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (14.44%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (10.00%) Serverless
8 7 (7.78%) Anthropic Claude
8 7 (7.78%) Azure AI
8 7 (7.78%) OpenShift
8 7 (7.78%) Power Automate
9 5 (5.56%) Apigee
9 5 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
10 4 (4.44%) Azure Functions
10 4 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (2.22%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.78%) Internet
2 1 (1.11%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (12.22%) MongoDB
2 11 (12.22%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.89%) SQL Server
4 7 (7.78%) Pinecone
5 6 (6.67%) Aerospike
5 6 (6.67%) Redis
6 5 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (5.56%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.33%) Big Data
7 3 (3.33%) Neo4j
7 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.22%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.22%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.22%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 1 (1.11%) Power BI
9 1 (1.11%) SAS EBI
9 1 (1.11%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 30 (33.33%) Git
2 28 (31.11%) Jenkins
3 21 (23.33%) GitLab
4 18 (20.00%) Selenium
5 13 (14.44%) JUnit
6 11 (12.22%) Postman
7 9 (10.00%) JIRA
8 8 (8.89%) Cypress.io
9 7 (7.78%) MLflow
10 6 (6.67%) Robot Framework
11 4 (4.44%) Cucumber
12 3 (3.33%) Newman
12 3 (3.33%) PyCharm
12 3 (3.33%) PyUnit
12 3 (3.33%) SonarQube
13 2 (2.22%) Appium
13 2 (2.22%) REST Assured
13 2 (2.22%) Snyk
13 2 (2.22%) Sourcetree
13 2 (2.22%) Storybook
General
1 30 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 22 (24.44%) Finance
3 11 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.89%) Banking
5 5 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.11%) Front Office
8 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (26.67%) Developer
2 16 (17.78%) Python Developer
3 13 (14.44%) Senior
4 10 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) Test Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Python Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Lead
9 5 (5.56%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Test Specialist
9 5 (5.56%) Tester
10 4 (4.44%) AWS Data Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) QA Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Test Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (24.44%) FastAPI
1 22 (24.44%) Pandas
2 21 (23.33%) Django
3 20 (22.22%) Flask
4 18 (20.00%) RESTful
5 17 (18.89%) Kafka
5 17 (18.89%) NumPy
5 17 (18.89%) REST
6 16 (17.78%) Swagger
7 15 (16.67%) OpenAPI
8 12 (13.33%) OAuth
9 10 (11.11%) Node.js
9 10 (11.11%) Playwright
9 10 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (10.00%) JWT
11 8 (8.89%) CSS
11 8 (8.89%) PySpark
12 7 (7.78%) React
12 7 (7.78%) scikit-learn
12 7 (7.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.33%) Cloud Native
2 13 (14.44%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (10.00%) Data Structures
4 8 (8.89%) Algorithms
5 7 (7.78%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (7.78%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.22%) Life Science
6 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.11%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.11%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.11%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.56%) Android
2 3 (3.33%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (67.78%) CI/CD
2 48 (53.33%) Test Automation
3 44 (48.89%) DevOps
4 36 (40.00%) Agile
5 31 (34.44%) Validation
6 29 (32.22%) Containerisation
7 28 (31.11%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (28.89%) Data Pipeline
9 24 (26.67%) Software Engineering
10 23 (25.56%) Unit Testing
11 22 (24.44%) AI
12 21 (23.33%) Data Modelling
13 19 (21.11%) Analytics
13 19 (21.11%) Clean Code
14 18 (20.00%) Machine Learning
15 17 (18.89%) LLM
15 17 (18.89%) Microservices
15 17 (18.89%) OOP
16 16 (17.78%) Generative AI
16 16 (17.78%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 76 (84.44%) Python
2 28 (31.11%) SQL
3 21 (23.33%) Java
4 8 (8.89%) C#
5 7 (7.78%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.33%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.33%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.11%) Cypher
8 1 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.11%) R
8 1 (1.11%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 25 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 21 (23.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.33%) DV Cleared
3 3 (3.33%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (20.00%) QA
2 15 (16.67%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.22%) GDPR
3 2 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (43.33%) Kubernetes
2 13 (14.44%) Terraform
3 5 (5.56%) Grafana
4 3 (3.33%) Kibana
4 3 (3.33%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.22%) Rundeck
6 1 (1.11%) Ansible
6 1 (1.11%) Argo
Vendors
1 17 (18.89%) Databricks
2 8 (8.89%) OpenAI
3 7 (7.78%) Automation Anywhere
3 7 (7.78%) UiPath
4 5 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.33%) Oracle
5 3 (3.33%) SAP
6 2 (2.22%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.22%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.11%) FactSet
7 1 (1.11%) Google
7 1 (1.11%) SimCorp