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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 448 500
Rank change year-on-year -77 +52 +40
Contract jobs citing pytest 95 58 35
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.21% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.12% 0.95% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 42 25
10th Percentile £300 £410 £355
25th Percentile £361 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £556 £674 £638
90th Percentile £655 £738 £820
UK median daily rate £468 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.50% - -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 8,468 6,108 7,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.74% 22.21% 21.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,549 4,214 5,117
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
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 £810
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 142 232
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.25 £24.02
25th Percentile £50.19 £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 £74.26 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.81 £79.87 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -61 52 £538 +2.38% 10
South East -56 14 £358 -25.33% 3
North of England -69 11 £403 -10.56% 1
Yorkshire -45 10 £426 -5.28%
Midlands -51 8 £471 - 1
East of England - 7 £450 - 2
West Midlands - 5 £481 -
East Midlands -9 3 £447 - 1
South West - 2 £435 - 2
North West -52 1 £355 -36.89% 1
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 6 (6.32%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (6.32%) Confluence
2 5 (5.26%) SAS
3 3 (3.16%) Apache
4 2 (2.11%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.11%) Appian
Applications
1 8 (8.42%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 3 (3.16%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.05%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 35 (36.84%) Azure
2 28 (29.47%) AWS
3 21 (22.11%) GitHub
4 17 (17.89%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (16.84%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (9.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (7.37%) OpenShift
8 6 (6.32%) Serverless
9 5 (5.26%) Apigee
9 5 (5.26%) GCP
10 4 (4.21%) Azure Functions
10 4 (4.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (3.16%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (2.11%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (2.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (2.11%) Kong
12 2 (2.11%) Power Automate
12 2 (2.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.68%) Internet
2 2 (2.11%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.68%) MongoDB
2 12 (12.63%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (10.53%) NoSQL
4 7 (7.37%) Neo4j
5 3 (3.16%) Aerospike
5 3 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.16%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.16%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.16%) Redis
5 3 (3.16%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.16%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.11%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.11%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.11%) Pinecone
6 2 (2.11%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 2 (2.11%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.05%) Big Data
7 1 (1.05%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 29 (30.53%) Git
2 26 (27.37%) Jenkins
3 19 (20.00%) GitLab
4 18 (18.95%) Selenium
5 13 (13.68%) JIRA
6 12 (12.63%) Postman
7 9 (9.47%) JUnit
8 7 (7.37%) Cypress.io
9 5 (5.26%) Zephyr
10 4 (4.21%) Newman
10 4 (4.21%) REST Assured
10 4 (4.21%) Robot Framework
11 3 (3.16%) SonarQube
12 2 (2.11%) Android Studio
12 2 (2.11%) Appium
12 2 (2.11%) Cucumber
12 2 (2.11%) JMeter
12 2 (2.11%) NeoLoad
12 2 (2.11%) NUnit
12 2 (2.11%) Xcode
General
1 19 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.89%) Finance
3 12 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.47%) Banking
5 5 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.05%) Front Office
7 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.05%) Legal
7 1 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.05%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (20.00%) Developer
1 19 (20.00%) Senior
2 16 (16.84%) Python Developer
3 15 (15.79%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 11 (11.58%) Test Engineer
5 9 (9.47%) Data Engineer
5 9 (9.47%) Lead
5 9 (9.47%) Test Automation Engineer
6 7 (7.37%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) Python Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) Tester
8 5 (5.26%) QA Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Test Specialist
9 4 (4.21%) Automation Tester
9 4 (4.21%) AWS Data Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Test Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.00%) Pandas
2 18 (18.95%) FastAPI
3 16 (16.84%) REST
3 16 (16.84%) RESTful
4 15 (15.79%) Flask
4 15 (15.79%) Playwright
5 14 (14.74%) Django
5 14 (14.74%) Kafka
6 12 (12.63%) NumPy
7 11 (11.58%) RabbitMQ
7 11 (11.58%) Swagger
8 10 (10.53%) OpenAPI
8 10 (10.53%) React
9 9 (9.47%) Node.js
9 9 (9.47%) PySpark
10 8 (8.42%) OAuth
11 7 (7.37%) Great Expectations
12 6 (6.32%) .NET
12 6 (6.32%) XML
13 5 (5.26%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.58%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (9.47%) Data Structures
4 8 (8.42%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.16%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.11%) Life Science
6 2 (2.11%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.11%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.05%) IoT
7 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.05%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.16%) Android
2 1 (1.05%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (65.26%) CI/CD
2 52 (54.74%) DevOps
3 46 (48.42%) Test Automation
4 37 (38.95%) Validation
5 33 (34.74%) Agile
6 30 (31.58%) AI
7 29 (30.53%) Software Engineering
8 25 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (25.26%) LLM
9 24 (25.26%) Unit Testing
10 23 (24.21%) Containerisation
10 23 (24.21%) OOP
11 22 (23.16%) Data Pipeline
11 22 (23.16%) Machine Learning
12 21 (22.11%) Generative AI
13 20 (21.05%) Design Patterns
14 19 (20.00%) Analytics
15 18 (18.95%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
16 17 (17.89%) Clean Code
16 17 (17.89%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 84 (88.42%) Python
2 26 (27.37%) SQL
3 17 (17.89%) Java
4 11 (11.58%) TypeScript
5 8 (8.42%) C#
5 8 (8.42%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.21%) Cypher
7 2 (2.11%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.11%) R
7 2 (2.11%) SHACL
8 1 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (24.21%) Security Cleared
2 19 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.16%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.11%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.11%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (23.16%) QA
2 10 (10.53%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.05%) GDPR
3 1 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (41.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (45.26%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.63%) Terraform
3 8 (8.42%) Grafana
4 4 (4.21%) Argo
5 3 (3.16%) Kibana
5 3 (3.16%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.11%) Rundeck
7 1 (1.05%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (17.89%) Databricks
2 7 (7.37%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.21%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.16%) Google
4 3 (3.16%) Oracle
4 3 (3.16%) SAP
5 2 (2.11%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.11%) Automation Anywhere
5 2 (2.11%) FactSet
5 2 (2.11%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.11%) UiPath
6 1 (1.05%) SimCorp