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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 423 512
Rank change year-on-year -28 +89 +56
Contract jobs citing pytest 115 66 45
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.26% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.52% 1.14% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 49 31
10th Percentile £350 £400 £406
25th Percentile £375 £413 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £454 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -11.41% -13.14%
75th Percentile £500 £556 £675
90th Percentile £638 £675 £825
UK median daily rate £450 £460 £500
% change year-on-year -2.07% -8.10% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 -

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 7,566 5,809 7,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.88% 22.50% 20.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,080 3,770 5,493
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £416 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £526 £534
% change year-on-year -2.57% -1.50% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 74 189
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.80 £23.75
25th Percentile £51.00 £51.56 £43.88
Median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +14.55% -16.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £76.37 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £54.56
% change year-on-year +2.40% +14.55% -16.06%

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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 18 February 2026.

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 18 February 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 -14 66 £438 +1.74% 7
Midlands - 26 £480 - 4
West Midlands - 19 £490 - 2
East Midlands - 7 £393 - 2
East of England -25 6 £350 -18.03% 2
North of England -61 6 £430 -20.00% 1
North West -27 5 £360 -34.55%
South East -28 2 £366 -16.29% 4
South West -21 1 - - 1
Yorkshire -55 1 £500 +1.01% 1
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UK

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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 18 (15.65%) SAS
2 9 (7.83%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.83%) Apache Spark
3 8 (6.96%) Appian
4 5 (4.35%) Confluence
5 1 (0.87%) CMS
5 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) CPLEX
1 1 (0.87%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.87%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 37 (32.17%) GitHub
2 34 (29.57%) AWS
3 25 (21.74%) Azure
4 22 (19.13%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (15.65%) GCP
6 17 (14.78%) OpenShift
7 11 (9.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (9.57%) Serverless
8 10 (8.70%) Amazon S3
9 9 (7.83%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (7.83%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (6.96%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (6.96%) Azure AI
10 8 (6.96%) Cloud Run
10 8 (6.96%) Power Automate
11 6 (5.22%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (3.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (2.61%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (2.61%) Azure Key Vault
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.57%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 9 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (6.96%) Pinecone
5 7 (6.09%) Aerospike
5 7 (6.09%) Big Data
5 7 (6.09%) Redis
6 6 (5.22%) Oracle Database
6 6 (5.22%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 5 (4.35%) BigQuery
7 5 (4.35%) DynamoDB
8 4 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.74%) Power BI
10 2 (1.74%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.74%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 2 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (47.83%) Git
2 36 (31.30%) Jenkins
3 30 (26.09%) GitLab
4 29 (25.22%) Selenium
5 24 (20.87%) JUnit
6 13 (11.30%) JIRA
6 13 (11.30%) Postman
7 8 (6.96%) MLflow
8 7 (6.09%) Cypress.io
9 6 (5.22%) PyCharm
9 6 (5.22%) PyUnit
10 4 (3.48%) Robot Framework
10 4 (3.48%) SonarQube
11 3 (2.61%) Cucumber
11 3 (2.61%) REST Assured
11 3 (2.61%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (1.74%) Appium
12 2 (1.74%) Locust
12 2 (1.74%) Snyk
12 2 (1.74%) Sourcetree
General
1 51 (44.35%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.87%) Finance
3 17 (14.78%) Pharmaceutical
4 8 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.09%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.35%) Banking
7 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (26.96%) Developer
2 22 (19.13%) Python Developer
3 17 (14.78%) Test Specialist
4 15 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
5 12 (10.43%) Automation Engineer
6 11 (9.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 10 (8.70%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 9 (7.83%) Data Engineer
8 9 (7.83%) Test Automation Specialist
8 9 (7.83%) Test Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) Software Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) Tester
10 7 (6.09%) Python Engineer
10 7 (6.09%) Senior
11 6 (5.22%) QA Engineer
12 5 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (4.35%) Lead
12 5 (4.35%) React Developer
13 4 (3.48%) Automation Tester
13 4 (3.48%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (28.70%) FastAPI
2 29 (25.22%) REST
3 24 (20.87%) RESTful
4 19 (16.52%) Playwright
5 18 (15.65%) Django
6 14 (12.17%) Flask
6 14 (12.17%) Jest
6 14 (12.17%) React
7 12 (10.43%) Kafka
7 12 (10.43%) Swagger
8 11 (9.57%) Next.js
8 11 (9.57%) NumPy
8 11 (9.57%) OAuth
8 11 (9.57%) OpenAPI
8 11 (9.57%) Pandas
8 11 (9.57%) PyTorch
8 11 (9.57%) scikit-learn
8 11 (9.57%) TensorFlow
9 9 (7.83%) CSS
9 9 (7.83%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.78%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.70%) Genomics
3 9 (7.83%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.83%) Life Science
4 8 (6.96%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (6.96%) Low-Code
5 4 (3.48%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.74%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.87%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.87%) FMCG
8 1 (0.87%) NHS
8 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.96%) Android
2 6 (5.22%) Apple iOS
2 6 (5.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (67.83%) Test Automation
2 73 (63.48%) CI/CD
3 66 (57.39%) Agile
4 49 (42.61%) Containerisation
5 47 (40.87%) DevOps
5 47 (40.87%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (33.91%) Data Pipeline
7 36 (31.30%) AI
8 27 (23.48%) Machine Learning
9 25 (21.74%) Code Quality
9 25 (21.74%) Data Engineering
9 25 (21.74%) Deployment Automation
9 25 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
9 25 (21.74%) Unit Testing
10 24 (20.87%) Analytics
10 24 (20.87%) Validation
11 21 (18.26%) Clean Code
11 21 (18.26%) Scrum
11 21 (18.26%) Test Strategy
12 20 (17.39%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 103 (89.57%) Python
2 41 (35.65%) SQL
3 18 (15.65%) Java
4 14 (12.17%) JavaScript
5 11 (9.57%) TypeScript
6 7 (6.09%) Shell Script
7 6 (5.22%) C#
8 2 (1.74%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.87%) Bicep
9 1 (0.87%) Go
9 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (25.22%) Security Cleared
2 28 (24.35%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.70%) Degree
4 6 (5.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.74%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.74%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.87%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.78%) QA
2 10 (8.70%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.61%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.61%) GDPR
3 3 (2.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (49.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (37.39%) Kubernetes
2 13 (11.30%) Terraform
3 4 (3.48%) Grafana
4 3 (2.61%) Kibana
4 3 (2.61%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.74%) Control-M
5 2 (1.74%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 14 (12.17%) Google
2 11 (9.57%) Databricks
3 10 (8.70%) Oracle
4 8 (6.96%) Automation Anywhere
4 8 (6.96%) OpenAI
4 8 (6.96%) UiPath
5 6 (5.22%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.74%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.74%) SAP
7 1 (0.87%) Okta
7 1 (0.87%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.87%) Splunk