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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 429 508
Rank change year-on-year -78 +79 +27
Contract jobs citing pytest 90 49 41
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.10% 0.88% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 35 26
10th Percentile £325 £407 £363
25th Percentile £385 £413 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £508 £566 £622
90th Percentile £655 £775 £862
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -16.67%
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 8,179 5,565 7,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.05% 22.49% 20.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,392 3,859 5,456
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £740 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £535
% change year-on-year +1.94% -3.74% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 110 257
10th Percentile £30.55 £32.10 £22.75
25th Percentile £51.56 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.05 £74.70
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £51.75
% change year-on-year +15.56% +8.70% -20.38%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -48 53 £505 +7.45% 6
Midlands - 11 £463 - 1
South East -49 10 £374 -21.93% 2
North of England -68 8 £379 -24.25% 9
Yorkshire -57 7 £403 -15.26% 5
East Midlands - 6 £393 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £481 -
East of England - 5 £375 - 2
South West - 2 £435 - 1
North West -38 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 8 (8.89%) Appian
2 5 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.56%) Confluence
2 5 (5.56%) SAS
3 2 (2.22%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.11%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (7.78%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 3 (3.33%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.11%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 38 (42.22%) Azure
2 29 (32.22%) AWS
3 23 (25.56%) GitHub
4 20 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (18.89%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (15.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (10.00%) Serverless
8 8 (8.89%) Anthropic Claude
8 8 (8.89%) Azure AI
8 8 (8.89%) Power Automate
9 7 (7.78%) OpenShift
10 5 (5.56%) Apigee
10 5 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
11 4 (4.44%) Azure Functions
11 4 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (2.22%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.78%) Internet
2 1 (1.11%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.56%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 10 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 9 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 8 (8.89%) Pinecone
5 6 (6.67%) Aerospike
5 6 (6.67%) Redis
6 5 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (5.56%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.33%) Big Data
7 3 (3.33%) Neo4j
8 2 (2.22%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.22%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.22%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 1 (1.11%) Power BI
9 1 (1.11%) SAS EBI
9 1 (1.11%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 30 (33.33%) Git
2 28 (31.11%) Jenkins
3 21 (23.33%) GitLab
4 18 (20.00%) Selenium
5 13 (14.44%) JUnit
6 11 (12.22%) Postman
7 9 (10.00%) JIRA
8 8 (8.89%) Cypress.io
8 8 (8.89%) MLflow
9 6 (6.67%) Robot Framework
10 4 (4.44%) Cucumber
11 3 (3.33%) Newman
11 3 (3.33%) PyCharm
11 3 (3.33%) PyUnit
11 3 (3.33%) SonarQube
12 2 (2.22%) Appium
12 2 (2.22%) REST Assured
12 2 (2.22%) Snyk
12 2 (2.22%) Sourcetree
12 2 (2.22%) Storybook
General
1 31 (34.44%) Social Skills
2 23 (25.56%) Finance
3 11 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.89%) Banking
5 5 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.11%) Front Office
8 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (25.56%) Developer
2 15 (16.67%) Python Developer
3 13 (14.44%) Senior
4 11 (12.22%) Automation Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) Test Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Python Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Lead
8 5 (5.56%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Test Specialist
8 5 (5.56%) Tester
9 4 (4.44%) AWS Data Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) QA Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Test Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (24.44%) FastAPI
1 22 (24.44%) Pandas
2 21 (23.33%) Django
3 20 (22.22%) Flask
4 18 (20.00%) REST
4 18 (20.00%) RESTful
5 17 (18.89%) NumPy
6 16 (17.78%) Kafka
6 16 (17.78%) Swagger
7 15 (16.67%) OpenAPI
8 13 (14.44%) OAuth
9 10 (11.11%) JWT
9 10 (11.11%) Node.js
9 10 (11.11%) Playwright
10 9 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (8.89%) CSS
11 8 (8.89%) PyTorch
11 8 (8.89%) scikit-learn
11 8 (8.89%) TensorFlow
11 8 (8.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 12 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (8.89%) Data Structures
3 8 (8.89%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (8.89%) Low-Code
4 7 (7.78%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.22%) Life Science
5 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.11%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.11%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.11%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.56%) Android
2 3 (3.33%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (68.89%) CI/CD
2 49 (54.44%) Test Automation
3 43 (47.78%) DevOps
4 36 (40.00%) Agile
5 32 (35.56%) Validation
6 29 (32.22%) Containerisation
7 27 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (28.89%) Data Pipeline
9 24 (26.67%) Software Engineering
10 23 (25.56%) AI
10 23 (25.56%) Unit Testing
11 22 (24.44%) Data Modelling
12 20 (22.22%) Clean Code
13 19 (21.11%) Machine Learning
14 18 (20.00%) Analytics
14 18 (20.00%) LLM
15 17 (18.89%) Generative AI
15 17 (18.89%) MLOps
15 17 (18.89%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
16 16 (17.78%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 76 (84.44%) Python
2 29 (32.22%) SQL
3 21 (23.33%) Java
4 8 (8.89%) C#
5 7 (7.78%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.33%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.33%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.11%) Cypher
8 1 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.11%) R
8 1 (1.11%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 25 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 21 (23.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.33%) DV Cleared
3 3 (3.33%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.89%) QA
2 16 (17.78%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.22%) GDPR
3 2 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 41 (45.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 13 (14.44%) Terraform
3 5 (5.56%) Grafana
4 3 (3.33%) Kibana
4 3 (3.33%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.22%) Rundeck
6 1 (1.11%) Ansible
6 1 (1.11%) Argo
Vendors
1 17 (18.89%) Databricks
2 9 (10.00%) OpenAI
3 8 (8.89%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (8.89%) UiPath
4 5 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.33%) Oracle
5 3 (3.33%) SAP
6 2 (2.22%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.22%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.11%) FactSet
7 1 (1.11%) Google
7 1 (1.11%) SimCorp