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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 449 462 531
Rank change year-on-year +13 +69 +74
Contract jobs citing pytest 99 57 38
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.19% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.42% 0.85% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 36 28
10th Percentile £373 £349 £406
25th Percentile £413 £408 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £495 £506
Median % change year-on-year -0.56% -2.22% -11.96%
75th Percentile £670 £570 £656
90th Percentile £834 £629 £749
UK median daily rate £492 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -1.11% -0.50% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -13.33% +15.38%
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +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 6,983 6,671 8,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.42% 21.82% 21.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,690 4,248 6,048
10th Percentile £350 £359 £369
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.36% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 98 172
10th Percentile £31.15 £26.43 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.30 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.85% +21.50% -17.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.30 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.66% -15.72%

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 4 December 2025.

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

pytest
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 4 December 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 +17 58 £629 +39.67% 7
Midlands -8 22 £485 -11.82%
West Midlands -12 18 £491 -10.73%
North of England -42 8 £463 -7.50% 2
North West -19 6 £463 -15.91%
East of England -16 4 £400 -6.32% 5
East Midlands - 4 £402 -
Yorkshire -32 2 £463 -6.57% 2
South East - 1 £375 - 4
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 (17.17%) SAS
2 10 (10.10%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (10.10%) Apache Spark
3 9 (9.09%) Confluence
4 1 (1.01%) CMS
4 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Endur
1 1 (1.01%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 35 (35.35%) GitHub
2 32 (32.32%) AWS
3 22 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
4 21 (21.21%) GCP
5 16 (16.16%) OpenShift
6 15 (15.15%) Azure
7 14 (14.14%) Amazon S3
7 14 (14.14%) Serverless
8 12 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (10.10%) Cloud Run
10 9 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (6.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (4.04%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (4.04%) IaaS
14 3 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
14 3 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
14 3 (3.03%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.05%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (1.01%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.08%) NoSQL
1 8 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.05%) Big Data
2 5 (5.05%) BigQuery
2 5 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (5.05%) Oracle Database
2 5 (5.05%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 4 (4.04%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (4.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (3.03%) Aerospike
4 3 (3.03%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.03%) Redis
5 2 (2.02%) Metadata
5 2 (2.02%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.02%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 1 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.01%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.01%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.01%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 50 (50.51%) Git
2 25 (25.25%) GitLab
3 24 (24.24%) Jenkins
4 21 (21.21%) Selenium
5 17 (17.17%) JUnit
6 14 (14.14%) JIRA
7 5 (5.05%) Postman
8 4 (4.04%) Cypress.io
8 4 (4.04%) SonarQube
9 3 (3.03%) JMeter
9 3 (3.03%) Locust
9 3 (3.03%) PyCharm
9 3 (3.03%) PyUnit
9 3 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (2.02%) Robot Framework
11 1 (1.01%) Artifactory
11 1 (1.01%) MSTest
11 1 (1.01%) Pylint
11 1 (1.01%) SpecFlow
11 1 (1.01%) Zephyr
General
1 36 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.18%) Pharmaceutical
3 14 (14.14%) Finance
4 8 (8.08%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.01%) Banking
6 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.01%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (21.21%) Developer
2 19 (19.19%) Python Developer
3 16 (16.16%) Test Specialist
4 12 (12.12%) Software Engineer
5 10 (10.10%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (10.10%) Python Engineer
6 9 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 9 (9.09%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 9 (9.09%) Tester
7 8 (8.08%) Senior
7 8 (8.08%) Test Automation Specialist
8 6 (6.06%) Lead
8 6 (6.06%) Test Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) React Developer
10 4 (4.04%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 4 (4.04%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.04%) DevOps Specialist
10 4 (4.04%) Python Software Engineer
11 3 (3.03%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (26.26%) FastAPI
2 24 (24.24%) REST
3 16 (16.16%) React
4 13 (13.13%) Jest
5 12 (12.12%) Playwright
5 12 (12.12%) RESTful
6 9 (9.09%) Kafka
6 9 (9.09%) Next.js
7 8 (8.08%) boto
8 7 (7.07%) LangGraph
8 7 (7.07%) LDAP
8 7 (7.07%) mypy
8 7 (7.07%) PySpark
9 6 (6.06%) Django
9 6 (6.06%) Flake8
9 6 (6.06%) Node.js
10 5 (5.05%) scikit-learn
10 5 (5.05%) TensorFlow
11 4 (4.04%) CSS
11 4 (4.04%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.13%) Cloud Native
2 12 (12.12%) Genomics
3 11 (11.11%) Life Science
4 8 (8.08%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.02%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.01%) FMCG
7 1 (1.01%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.03%) Android
1 3 (3.03%) Apple iOS
1 3 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (61.62%) Test Automation
2 60 (60.61%) Agile
3 59 (59.60%) CI/CD
4 48 (48.48%) DevOps
5 38 (38.38%) Containerisation
6 34 (34.34%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (31.31%) Data Pipeline
8 30 (30.30%) AI
9 28 (28.28%) Machine Learning
10 25 (25.25%) Analytics
11 23 (23.23%) Code Quality
12 22 (22.22%) Software Engineering
12 22 (22.22%) Unit Testing
13 21 (21.21%) Test Strategy
14 16 (16.16%) Microservices
14 16 (16.16%) Regression Testing
15 15 (15.15%) Data Management
15 15 (15.15%) Integration Testing
15 15 (15.15%) Scrum
15 15 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 94 (94.95%) Python
2 29 (29.29%) SQL
3 11 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 7 (7.07%) Go
5 6 (6.06%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.05%) Java
7 4 (4.04%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.02%) C#
8 2 (2.02%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.01%) Bicep
9 1 (1.01%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (28.28%) Security Cleared
2 27 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 17 (17.17%) Degree
4 5 (5.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.02%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.02%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.01%) ISEB
6 1 (1.01%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.15%) QA
2 3 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.02%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (43.43%) Docker
2 5 (5.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (39.39%) Kubernetes
2 18 (18.18%) Terraform
3 2 (2.02%) Ansible
3 2 (2.02%) Control-M
3 2 (2.02%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.01%) Grafana
4 1 (1.01%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (16.16%) Google
2 9 (9.09%) Databricks
3 7 (7.07%) Oracle
4 5 (5.05%) Atlassian
5 4 (4.04%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.02%) SAP
6 2 (2.02%) VMware
7 1 (1.01%) Okta
7 1 (1.01%) ServiceNow