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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 450 498
Rank change year-on-year -68 +48 +27
Contract jobs citing pytest 100 56 35
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.20% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.17% 0.91% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 41 25
10th Percentile £300 £410 £355
25th Percentile £359 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% +4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £556 £680 £638
90th Percentile £675 £750 £820
UK median daily rate £465 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% - -1.23%
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 8,532 6,172 7,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.74% 22.23% 21.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,586 4,257 5,081
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 146 231
10th Percentile £29.00 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £47.60 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £73.94 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.36 £79.35 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year +18.18% +2.33% -10.42%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -45 57 £538 -5.70% 10
South East -57 14 £358 -25.33% 3
North of England -68 11 £403 -10.56%
Yorkshire -41 10 £426 -5.28%
Midlands -44 8 £471 - 1
East of England - 7 £450 - 2
West Midlands - 5 £481 -
East Midlands -11 3 £447 - 1
South West - 2 £435 - 3
North West -55 1 £355 -36.89%
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 (9.00%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.00%) Confluence
3 5 (5.00%) SAS
4 3 (3.00%) Apache
5 2 (2.00%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.00%) Appian
Applications
1 8 (8.00%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 3 (3.00%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.00%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 38 (38.00%) Azure
2 28 (28.00%) AWS
3 24 (24.00%) GitHub
4 20 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 19 (19.00%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (7.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (7.00%) OpenShift
8 6 (6.00%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (6.00%) Serverless
9 5 (5.00%) Apigee
9 5 (5.00%) GCP
10 4 (4.00%) Azure Functions
11 3 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (3.00%) Azure Stack
12 2 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (2.00%) Kong
12 2 (2.00%) Power Automate
12 2 (2.00%) Snowflake
12 2 (2.00%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.00%) Internet
2 2 (2.00%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.00%) MongoDB
2 12 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 7 (7.00%) Neo4j
5 6 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (3.00%) Aerospike
6 3 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.00%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.00%) Redis
6 3 (3.00%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.00%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.00%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.00%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.00%) Pinecone
7 2 (2.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 2 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.00%) Big Data
8 1 (1.00%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 30 (30.00%) Git
2 26 (26.00%) Jenkins
3 19 (19.00%) GitLab
4 18 (18.00%) Selenium
5 14 (14.00%) JIRA
6 12 (12.00%) Postman
7 9 (9.00%) JUnit
8 7 (7.00%) Cypress.io
9 6 (6.00%) SonarQube
10 5 (5.00%) Zephyr
11 4 (4.00%) Newman
11 4 (4.00%) REST Assured
11 4 (4.00%) Robot Framework
12 2 (2.00%) Android Studio
12 2 (2.00%) Appium
12 2 (2.00%) Cucumber
12 2 (2.00%) Gatling
12 2 (2.00%) MLflow
12 2 (2.00%) NeoLoad
12 2 (2.00%) Sourcetree
General
1 21 (21.00%) Finance
2 20 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.00%) Banking
5 5 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.00%) Front Office
7 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.00%) Legal
7 1 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.00%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (20.00%) Senior
2 19 (19.00%) Developer
3 16 (16.00%) Python Developer
4 15 (15.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 12 (12.00%) Test Engineer
6 11 (11.00%) Data Engineer
7 10 (10.00%) Lead
7 10 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
8 7 (7.00%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (7.00%) Python Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) Tester
10 5 (5.00%) QA Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Software Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Test Specialist
11 4 (4.00%) Automation Tester
11 4 (4.00%) AWS Data Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Test Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (19.00%) Pandas
2 18 (18.00%) FastAPI
3 17 (17.00%) REST
4 16 (16.00%) RESTful
5 15 (15.00%) Flask
5 15 (15.00%) Playwright
6 14 (14.00%) Django
6 14 (14.00%) Kafka
7 13 (13.00%) PySpark
8 12 (12.00%) NumPy
9 11 (11.00%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (11.00%) Swagger
10 10 (10.00%) OpenAPI
10 10 (10.00%) React
11 9 (9.00%) Node.js
12 8 (8.00%) OAuth
13 7 (7.00%) Great Expectations
14 6 (6.00%) .NET
14 6 (6.00%) XML
15 5 (5.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.00%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (9.00%) Data Structures
4 8 (8.00%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.00%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.00%) Life Science
6 2 (2.00%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.00%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.00%) IoT
7 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.00%) Android
2 2 (2.00%) Linux
3 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (62.00%) CI/CD
2 55 (55.00%) DevOps
3 47 (47.00%) Test Automation
4 38 (38.00%) Validation
5 34 (34.00%) Agile
6 32 (32.00%) AI
7 29 (29.00%) Software Engineering
8 26 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (25.00%) Unit Testing
10 24 (24.00%) Analytics
10 24 (24.00%) Data Pipeline
10 24 (24.00%) LLM
10 24 (24.00%) OOP
11 23 (23.00%) Containerisation
12 22 (22.00%) Machine Learning
13 21 (21.00%) Generative AI
14 20 (20.00%) Design Patterns
15 18 (18.00%) Clean Code
15 18 (18.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
16 17 (17.00%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 89 (89.00%) Python
2 31 (31.00%) SQL
3 17 (17.00%) Java
4 11 (11.00%) TypeScript
5 8 (8.00%) C#
5 8 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.00%) Cypher
7 2 (2.00%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.00%) R
7 2 (2.00%) SHACL
8 1 (1.00%) Bash
8 1 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.00%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (22.00%) QA
2 10 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.00%) GDPR
3 1 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (39.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (43.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.00%) Terraform
3 8 (8.00%) Grafana
4 4 (4.00%) Argo
5 3 (3.00%) Kibana
5 3 (3.00%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.00%) Rundeck
7 1 (1.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (20.00%) Databricks
2 8 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.00%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.00%) Google
4 3 (3.00%) Oracle
4 3 (3.00%) SAP
5 2 (2.00%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.00%) Automation Anywhere
5 2 (2.00%) FactSet
5 2 (2.00%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.00%) UiPath
6 1 (1.00%) SimCorp