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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 418 499
Rank change year-on-year -97 +81 +35
Contract jobs citing pytest 87 58 38
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.24% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.08% 1.07% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 43 23
10th Percentile £308 £406 £380
25th Percentile £363 £413 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £470 £501
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% -6.09% -16.58%
75th Percentile £500 £564 £700
90th Percentile £628 £735 £869
UK median daily rate £450 £473 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -5.55% -16.63%
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 8,085 5,408 7,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.25% 22.51% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,327 3,749 5,408
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.08%
75th Percentile £630 £659 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £789
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 100 239
10th Percentile £31.33 £30.13 £22.70
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.01 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%
75th Percentile £71.75 £68.19 £66.88
90th Percentile £78.95 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%

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 30 May 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

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 30 May 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 53 £500 +7.53% 1
Midlands - 11 £463 - 1
South East -59 7 £390 -18.54% 4
North of England -82 6 £315 -40.00% 3
East Midlands - 6 £393 - 1
Yorkshire -67 5 £275 -42.11% 3
West Midlands - 5 £481 -
East of England - 5 £375 - 1
South West - 3 £435 - 2
North West -46 1 £355 -35.45%
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 (9.20%) Appian
2 5 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.75%) SAS
3 4 (4.60%) Confluence
4 1 (1.15%) Apache
4 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (4.60%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 3 (3.45%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.15%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 36 (41.38%) Azure
2 31 (35.63%) AWS
3 25 (28.74%) GitHub
4 20 (22.99%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (16.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (10.34%) Serverless
8 8 (9.20%) Anthropic Claude
8 8 (9.20%) Azure AI
8 8 (9.20%) Power Automate
9 7 (8.05%) OpenShift
10 5 (5.75%) Apigee
10 5 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.60%) Amazon S3
11 4 (4.60%) Azure Functions
11 4 (4.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (3.45%) Power Platform
13 2 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.64%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (12.64%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.20%) Pinecone
3 6 (6.90%) Aerospike
3 6 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 6 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.90%) Redis
4 5 (5.75%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (5.75%) DynamoDB
5 4 (4.60%) Big Data
6 3 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (3.45%) Power BI
7 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.30%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.30%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 2 (2.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.30%) Tableau
8 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.15%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 31 (35.63%) Git
2 28 (32.18%) Jenkins
3 21 (24.14%) GitLab
4 19 (21.84%) Selenium
5 14 (16.09%) JUnit
6 13 (14.94%) Postman
7 8 (9.20%) Cypress.io
7 8 (9.20%) MLflow
8 7 (8.05%) JIRA
8 7 (8.05%) Robot Framework
9 5 (5.75%) Cucumber
10 4 (4.60%) PyCharm
10 4 (4.60%) PyUnit
11 3 (3.45%) Newman
11 3 (3.45%) REST Assured
11 3 (3.45%) SonarQube
12 2 (2.30%) Android Studio
12 2 (2.30%) Appium
12 2 (2.30%) NUnit
12 2 (2.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 32 (36.78%) Social Skills
2 22 (25.29%) Finance
3 11 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.20%) Banking
5 6 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.15%) Front Office
8 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.15%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (28.74%) Developer
2 16 (18.39%) Python Developer
3 12 (13.79%) Automation Engineer
4 11 (12.64%) Senior
5 9 (10.34%) Data Engineer
6 8 (9.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (6.90%) Python Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) QA Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) Test Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Test Specialist
8 5 (5.75%) Tester
9 4 (4.60%) AWS Data Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Test Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Test Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (22.99%) FastAPI
1 20 (22.99%) Pandas
2 19 (21.84%) Django
2 19 (21.84%) Flask
2 19 (21.84%) REST
3 17 (19.54%) RESTful
4 15 (17.24%) NumPy
5 14 (16.09%) Kafka
6 13 (14.94%) OAuth
6 13 (14.94%) Swagger
7 12 (13.79%) OpenAPI
7 12 (13.79%) Playwright
8 11 (12.64%) Node.js
9 10 (11.49%) CSS
10 9 (10.34%) JWT
11 8 (9.20%) Faiss
11 8 (9.20%) HTML
11 8 (9.20%) Hugging Face
11 8 (9.20%) PyTorch
11 8 (9.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.39%) Cloud Native
2 11 (12.64%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (9.20%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (9.20%) Low-Code
4 5 (5.75%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.60%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.30%) Life Science
7 2 (2.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.15%) NHS
8 1 (1.15%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.90%) Android
2 4 (4.60%) Apple iOS
2 4 (4.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 50 (57.47%) Test Automation
3 39 (44.83%) Agile
4 35 (40.23%) DevOps
5 27 (31.03%) Validation
6 26 (29.89%) Containerisation
7 25 (28.74%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (26.44%) Data Pipeline
9 21 (24.14%) Data Modelling
10 19 (21.84%) AI
10 19 (21.84%) Clean Code
10 19 (21.84%) Software Engineering
10 19 (21.84%) Unit Testing
11 17 (19.54%) ETL
12 16 (18.39%) Data Validation
12 16 (18.39%) Deployment Automation
12 16 (18.39%) Scrum
13 15 (17.24%) Analytics
13 15 (17.24%) Data Engineering
14 14 (16.09%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 71 (81.61%) Python
2 35 (40.23%) SQL
3 22 (25.29%) Java
4 10 (11.49%) C#
5 9 (10.34%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.60%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.30%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.30%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 26 (29.89%) Security Cleared
2 22 (25.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.45%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.45%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (20.69%) QA
2 16 (18.39%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.45%) GDPR
3 3 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
System Software
1 37 (42.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (37.93%) Kubernetes
2 13 (14.94%) Terraform
3 4 (4.60%) Grafana
4 3 (3.45%) Kibana
4 3 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.30%) Rundeck
6 1 (1.15%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (19.54%) Databricks
2 8 (9.20%) Automation Anywhere
2 8 (9.20%) OpenAI
2 8 (9.20%) UiPath
3 4 (4.60%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.60%) Oracle
4 3 (3.45%) SAP
5 2 (2.30%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.30%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.15%) SimCorp
6 1 (1.15%) Splunk