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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 397 507
Rank change year-on-year -74 +110 +38
Contract jobs citing pytest 113 75 42
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.31% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.44% 1.37% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 55 26
10th Percentile £351 £394 £421
25th Percentile £393 £413 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £454 £506
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -10.32% -15.63%
75th Percentile £500 £553 £713
90th Percentile £675 £634 £838
UK median daily rate £463 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +0.65% -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 7,832 5,477 7,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.88% 22.56% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,258 3,762 5,367
10th Percentile £359 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -0.56% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £790 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 86 178
10th Percentile £35.25 £27.30 £20.81
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.56 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.55 £82.53 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing pytest in England over the 6 months to 25 March 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 25 March 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 -58 63 £440 -2.22% 12
Midlands - 31 £477 - 3
West Midlands - 22 £481 - 1
East Midlands - 9 £398 - 2
East of England -34 5 £325 -23.89% 5
South East -46 3 £390 -18.54% 6
North of England -76 3 £403 -26.82% 4
Yorkshire -61 2 £451 +19.54% 1
South West -20 1 - - 4
North West -39 1 £355 -35.45% 2
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 22 (19.47%) SAS
2 8 (7.08%) Apache Spark
2 8 (7.08%) Appian
3 7 (6.19%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.65%) Confluence
5 1 (0.88%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.77%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 34 (30.09%) AWS
1 34 (30.09%) Azure
2 31 (27.43%) GitHub
3 22 (19.47%) OpenShift
4 20 (17.70%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (11.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (11.50%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (9.73%) GCP
7 10 (8.85%) Serverless
8 8 (7.08%) Amazon S3
8 8 (7.08%) Anthropic Claude
8 8 (7.08%) Azure AI
8 8 (7.08%) Power Automate
9 5 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.54%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (3.54%) Azure Functions
10 4 (3.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (3.54%) Cloud Run
11 3 (2.65%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.73%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (7.96%) Aerospike
4 8 (7.08%) NoSQL
4 8 (7.08%) Pinecone
5 7 (6.19%) Oracle Database
5 7 (6.19%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 6 (5.31%) DynamoDB
6 6 (5.31%) Redis
7 5 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (4.42%) Big Data
8 4 (3.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (3.54%) BigQuery
8 4 (3.54%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.65%) Power BI
9 3 (2.65%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.65%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.77%) Tableau
11 1 (0.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 53 (46.90%) Git
2 43 (38.05%) Jenkins
3 36 (31.86%) GitLab
4 32 (28.32%) Selenium
5 29 (25.66%) JUnit
6 13 (11.50%) Postman
7 8 (7.08%) JIRA
7 8 (7.08%) MLflow
8 7 (6.19%) Cypress.io
9 5 (4.42%) Cucumber
9 5 (4.42%) PyCharm
9 5 (4.42%) PyUnit
9 5 (4.42%) Robot Framework
10 4 (3.54%) SonarQube
11 3 (2.65%) REST Assured
12 2 (1.77%) Appium
12 2 (1.77%) CircleCI
12 2 (1.77%) Snyk
12 2 (1.77%) Sourcetree
12 2 (1.77%) Storybook
General
1 50 (44.25%) Social Skills
2 26 (23.01%) Finance
3 10 (8.85%) Pharmaceutical
4 9 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.19%) Banking
5 7 (6.19%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Front Office
7 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 28 (24.78%) Developer
2 21 (18.58%) Test Specialist
3 20 (17.70%) Python Developer
4 12 (10.62%) Automation Engineer
4 12 (10.62%) Test Automation Specialist
5 11 (9.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 11 (9.73%) Data Engineer
6 10 (8.85%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (8.85%) Tester
7 9 (7.96%) Senior
8 8 (7.08%) Test Engineer
9 7 (6.19%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (6.19%) Python Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) Automation Tester
10 6 (5.31%) AWS Data Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 6 (5.31%) QA Engineer
11 4 (3.54%) React Developer
11 4 (3.54%) Senior Developer
11 4 (3.54%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (30.09%) REST
2 28 (24.78%) FastAPI
3 19 (16.81%) Django
3 19 (16.81%) RESTful
4 16 (14.16%) Flask
4 16 (14.16%) Kafka
5 15 (13.27%) Playwright
6 14 (12.39%) Pandas
7 13 (11.50%) Node.js
7 13 (11.50%) NumPy
7 13 (11.50%) React
8 12 (10.62%) CSS
8 12 (10.62%) OAuth
9 11 (9.73%) Jest
9 11 (9.73%) PyTorch
9 11 (9.73%) scikit-learn
9 11 (9.73%) TensorFlow
10 10 (8.85%) OpenAPI
10 10 (8.85%) Swagger
11 9 (7.96%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.81%) Cloud Native
2 14 (12.39%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.08%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (7.08%) Low-Code
4 6 (5.31%) Genomics
4 6 (5.31%) Life Science
5 3 (2.65%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.65%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.77%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.88%) NHS
7 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.19%) Android
2 5 (4.42%) Apple iOS
2 5 (4.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (68.14%) Test Automation
2 75 (66.37%) CI/CD
3 63 (55.75%) Agile
4 48 (42.48%) DevOps
5 47 (41.59%) Containerisation
6 45 (39.82%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (38.94%) Data Pipeline
8 34 (30.09%) Analytics
9 28 (24.78%) AI
9 28 (24.78%) Stakeholder Management
10 27 (23.89%) Validation
11 26 (23.01%) Integration Testing
11 26 (23.01%) Scrum
12 24 (21.24%) Data Engineering
13 23 (20.35%) Test Scripting
13 23 (20.35%) Test Strategy
13 23 (20.35%) Unit Testing
14 22 (19.47%) Clean Code
14 22 (19.47%) Data Modelling
14 22 (19.47%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 94 (83.19%) Python
2 39 (34.51%) SQL
3 20 (17.70%) Java
4 13 (11.50%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.19%) C#
6 6 (5.31%) Shell Script
6 6 (5.31%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.77%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 33 (29.20%) Security Cleared
2 29 (25.66%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.31%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (5.31%) Degree
4 2 (1.77%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.88%) ISEB
5 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.93%) QA
2 12 (10.62%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.65%) GDPR
3 3 (2.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (41.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (36.28%) Kubernetes
2 11 (9.73%) Terraform
3 3 (2.65%) Grafana
3 3 (2.65%) Kibana
4 2 (1.77%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.77%) Rundeck
5 1 (0.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (15.04%) Databricks
2 9 (7.96%) Oracle
3 8 (7.08%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (7.08%) Google
3 8 (7.08%) OpenAI
3 8 (7.08%) UiPath
4 4 (3.54%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.54%) SAP
5 2 (1.77%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.88%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.88%) Splunk