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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 459 488
Rank change year-on-year -48 +29 +65
Contract jobs citing pytest 132 62 41
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.22% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.34% 0.87% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 47 29
10th Percentile £316 £370 £360
25th Percentile £406 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £725 £550
90th Percentile £649 £850 £616
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -3.61%

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 9,885 7,166 8,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.60% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,507 4,847 5,303
10th Percentile £381 £356 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -0.68%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 172 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.29 £35.50
25th Percentile £54.53 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.83 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.69% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £70.00 £74.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%

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

pytest
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing pytest in England over the 6 months to 2 October 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

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 2 October 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 -42 86 £538 -19.78% 56
Yorkshire -19 19 £500 - 1
North of England -64 19 £500 +2.56% 3
South East -53 11 £341 -9.00% 15
East of England -17 9 £450 +9.09% 5
East Midlands -9 6 £300 - 2
Midlands -49 6 £300 -53.85% 7
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 (6.82%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (5.30%) Confluence
3 5 (3.79%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.27%) Apache
5 2 (1.52%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.52%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (4.55%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 2 (1.52%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.76%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.76%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 44 (33.33%) AWS
2 43 (32.58%) GitHub
3 42 (31.82%) Azure
4 32 (24.24%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (17.42%) GCP
6 18 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (13.64%) Serverless
7 16 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (6.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (6.82%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (5.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (3.79%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.79%) Snowflake
13 4 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (3.03%) Azure Functions
13 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (2.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.61%) Internet
2 5 (3.79%) 4G
2 5 (3.79%) 5G
2 5 (3.79%) DNS
2 5 (3.79%) HTTP
2 5 (3.79%) SSH
2 5 (3.79%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.52%) DSL
4 1 (0.76%) Network Security
4 1 (0.76%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (19.70%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (15.15%) MongoDB
3 15 (11.36%) MySQL
3 15 (11.36%) NoSQL
4 11 (8.33%) Redis
5 7 (5.30%) Neo4j
6 6 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (4.55%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.03%) Metadata
7 4 (3.03%) Spark SQL
7 4 (3.03%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.27%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.52%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.52%) Power BI
9 2 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.52%) ZAP BI
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.76%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 49 (37.12%) Git
2 27 (20.45%) JIRA
3 22 (16.67%) GitLab
4 16 (12.12%) Jenkins
4 16 (12.12%) Selenium
5 10 (7.58%) Postman
6 7 (5.30%) Newman
6 7 (5.30%) SonarQube
6 7 (5.30%) Zephyr
7 6 (4.55%) JMeter
8 5 (3.79%) TestRail
9 4 (3.03%) REST Assured
9 4 (3.03%) Robot Framework
10 3 (2.27%) JUnit
11 2 (1.52%) Applitools
11 2 (1.52%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.52%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.52%) Gatling
11 2 (1.52%) NeoLoad
12 1 (0.76%) Locust
General
1 31 (23.48%) Finance
2 21 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (15.91%) Social Skills
3 13 (9.85%) Banking
4 6 (4.55%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.27%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.76%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.76%) Automotive
6 1 (0.76%) Back Office
6 1 (0.76%) Front Office
6 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.76%) Legal
6 1 (0.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 33 (25.00%) Lead
2 32 (24.24%) Senior
3 27 (20.45%) Developer
4 24 (18.18%) Python Developer
5 23 (17.42%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 15 (11.36%) Test Automation Engineer
7 14 (10.61%) Data Engineer
7 14 (10.61%) Python Engineer
8 13 (9.85%) Test Engineer
9 10 (7.58%) QA Leader
10 7 (5.30%) QA Engineer
11 6 (4.55%) Architect
11 6 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (4.55%) Lead Data Engineer
11 6 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
12 5 (3.79%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 5 (3.79%) Databricks Engineer
12 5 (3.79%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 5 (3.79%) QA Automation Engineer
13 4 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (24.24%) FastAPI
2 29 (21.97%) Playwright
3 23 (17.42%) REST
3 23 (17.42%) Terraform
4 22 (16.67%) Pandas
4 22 (16.67%) RESTful
5 20 (15.15%) Kafka
6 16 (12.12%) Django
6 16 (12.12%) RabbitMQ
7 15 (11.36%) Flask
7 15 (11.36%) React
8 14 (10.61%) PySpark
9 11 (8.33%) NumPy
10 9 (6.82%) Great Expectations
11 8 (6.06%) CSS
11 8 (6.06%) HTML
11 8 (6.06%) Jinja
11 8 (6.06%) Swagger
12 7 (5.30%) OpenAPI
12 7 (5.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (19.70%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.06%) AI Agents
3 7 (5.30%) Algorithms
3 7 (5.30%) Data Structures
3 7 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.79%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.03%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.27%) Life Science
6 3 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.52%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.52%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.76%) Equities
8 1 (0.76%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.76%) IoT
8 1 (0.76%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.76%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (0.76%) Android
2 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 74 (56.06%) DevOps
3 68 (51.52%) AI
4 52 (39.39%) Test Automation
5 47 (35.61%) Agile
6 45 (34.09%) Validation
7 42 (31.82%) OOP
8 37 (28.03%) LLM
9 36 (27.27%) Machine Learning
10 33 (25.00%) Software Engineering
11 32 (24.24%) Generative AI
12 30 (22.73%) Unit Testing
13 29 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (18.94%) Analytics
14 25 (18.94%) Clean Code
14 25 (18.94%) Scrum
14 25 (18.94%) TDD
15 24 (18.18%) Design Patterns
15 24 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
16 23 (17.42%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 129 (97.73%) Python
2 53 (40.15%) SQL
3 17 (12.88%) TypeScript
4 13 (9.85%) JavaScript
5 11 (8.33%) Bash
6 7 (5.30%) Java
7 5 (3.79%) C#
7 5 (3.79%) Go
8 4 (3.03%) Cypher
8 4 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (3.03%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.52%) R
9 2 (1.52%) SHACL
10 1 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 22 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.39%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.30%) Degree
4 4 (3.03%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.27%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.52%) CISSP
6 2 (1.52%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.76%) CISA
7 1 (0.76%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.76%) GSEC
7 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.76%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (34.09%) QA
2 15 (11.36%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.27%) GDPR
4 3 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.27%) NIST
5 2 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 63 (47.73%) Docker
2 2 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (39.39%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.82%) Grafana
3 8 (6.06%) Argo
4 7 (5.30%) Ansible
5 5 (3.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (15.15%) Databricks
2 17 (12.88%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.33%) Google
4 3 (2.27%) Foundry
4 3 (2.27%) OutSystems
5 2 (1.52%) FactSet
5 2 (1.52%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.52%) Palantir
5 2 (1.52%) SAP
6 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle
6 1 (0.76%) SimCorp