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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 451 552
Rank change year-on-year +3 +101 +78
Contract jobs citing pytest 90 54 34
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.18% 0.087%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.30% 0.81% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 36 27
10th Percentile £375 £349 £406
25th Percentile £444 £400 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £678 £569 £649
90th Percentile £850 £629 £738
UK median daily rate £498 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% - -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +15.38%

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 6,919 6,683 8,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.77% 21.67% 22.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,668 4,253 6,302
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £633 £670 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 98 183
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £36.37
25th Percentile £43.00 £41.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.15 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.12% -14.34%

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 +20 54 £644 +28.80% 57
Midlands -16 19 £491 -10.73% 5
West Midlands -9 18 £491 -10.73% 3
North of England -37 8 £463 -11.90% 4
North West -21 6 £463 -15.91% 3
East of England -20 4 £400 -6.32% 2
Yorkshire -42 2 £463 -6.57%
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
South East - 1 £375 - 11
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 17 (18.89%) SAS
2 11 (12.22%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (10.00%) Confluence
4 8 (8.89%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Endur
2 1 (1.11%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 32 (35.56%) GitHub
2 26 (28.89%) AWS
3 22 (24.44%) GCP
4 19 (21.11%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (17.78%) OpenShift
6 14 (15.56%) Azure
6 14 (15.56%) Serverless
7 12 (13.33%) Amazon S3
7 12 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (11.11%) Cloud Run
9 9 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (4.44%) IaaS
13 3 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (3.33%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.56%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (1.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.89%) NoSQL
2 7 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.67%) BigQuery
4 5 (5.56%) Big Data
4 5 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.56%) Oracle Database
4 5 (5.56%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 4 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (3.33%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.22%) Metadata
7 2 (2.22%) Redis
7 2 (2.22%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 1 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.11%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.11%) Looker
8 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.11%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (54.44%) Git
2 22 (24.44%) GitLab
3 21 (23.33%) Jenkins
3 21 (23.33%) Selenium
4 16 (17.78%) JUnit
5 13 (14.44%) JIRA
6 4 (4.44%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.44%) SonarQube
7 3 (3.33%) JMeter
7 3 (3.33%) Locust
7 3 (3.33%) Postman
7 3 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (2.22%) PyCharm
8 2 (2.22%) PyUnit
8 2 (2.22%) Robot Framework
9 1 (1.11%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.11%) MSTest
9 1 (1.11%) Pylint
9 1 (1.11%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.11%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.89%) Pharmaceutical
3 12 (13.33%) Finance
4 6 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Banking
6 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (21.11%) Developer
2 17 (18.89%) Python Developer
3 16 (17.78%) Test Specialist
4 12 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 10 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (11.11%) Python Engineer
6 9 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 9 (10.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 9 (10.00%) Senior
7 8 (8.89%) Test Automation Specialist
8 6 (6.67%) Tester
9 5 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Lead
9 5 (5.56%) React Developer
9 5 (5.56%) Test Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) DevOps Specialist
10 4 (4.44%) Python Software Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (28.89%) FastAPI
2 23 (25.56%) REST
3 16 (17.78%) React
4 12 (13.33%) Jest
4 12 (13.33%) RESTful
5 10 (11.11%) Playwright
6 9 (10.00%) Next.js
7 8 (8.89%) boto
8 7 (7.78%) LangGraph
8 7 (7.78%) LDAP
8 7 (7.78%) mypy
9 6 (6.67%) Flake8
9 6 (6.67%) Kafka
10 5 (5.56%) scikit-learn
10 5 (5.56%) TensorFlow
11 4 (4.44%) Django
11 4 (4.44%) LangChain
11 4 (4.44%) PySpark
12 3 (3.33%) pydantic
12 3 (3.33%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.33%) Genomics
2 11 (12.22%) Life Science
3 10 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.22%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.22%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.11%) FMCG
7 1 (1.11%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.22%) Android
1 2 (2.22%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (62.22%) Agile
1 56 (62.22%) CI/CD
2 55 (61.11%) Test Automation
3 49 (54.44%) DevOps
4 37 (41.11%) Containerisation
5 31 (34.44%) Data Pipeline
6 30 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (32.22%) AI
8 28 (31.11%) Machine Learning
9 23 (25.56%) Analytics
10 21 (23.33%) Software Engineering
11 20 (22.22%) Code Quality
11 20 (22.22%) Test Strategy
12 18 (20.00%) Unit Testing
13 16 (17.78%) Regression Testing
14 15 (16.67%) Data Management
14 15 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
15 14 (15.56%) Microservices
15 14 (15.56%) Natural Language Processing
16 13 (14.44%) Visual Analytics
Programming Languages
1 85 (94.44%) Python
2 28 (31.11%) SQL
3 11 (12.22%) TypeScript
4 7 (7.78%) Go
5 5 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.33%) Java
6 3 (3.33%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.22%) C#
7 2 (2.22%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 25 (27.78%) SC Cleared
1 25 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 17 (18.89%) Degree
3 5 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.22%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.67%) QA
2 4 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (45.56%) Docker
2 5 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (43.33%) Kubernetes
2 17 (18.89%) Terraform
3 2 (2.22%) Ansible
3 2 (2.22%) Control-M
3 2 (2.22%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.11%) Grafana
4 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (18.89%) Google
2 7 (7.78%) Oracle
3 6 (6.67%) Databricks
4 5 (5.56%) Atlassian
5 4 (4.44%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.22%) SAP
6 2 (2.22%) VMware
7 1 (1.11%) Okta
7 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow