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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 446 482 562
Rank change year-on-year +36 +80 +52
Contract jobs citing pytest 66 51 38
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.16% 0.093%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.03% 0.72% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 38 22
10th Percentile £375 £349 £406
25th Percentile £456 £400 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £495 £563
Median % change year-on-year +8.59% -12.00% -2.17%
75th Percentile £713 £566 £738
90th Percentile £850 £617 £799
UK median daily rate £525 £498 £519
% change year-on-year +5.53% -4.10% -9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00

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 6,426 7,115 9,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.78% 22.19% 22.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,303 4,561 6,647
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -6.96% -1.32% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 151 194
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.75 £41.25
25th Percentile £41.51 £43.00 £46.20
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.80 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £50.72 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -21.97% +13.04% -11.54%

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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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 2025. 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 +39 45 £670 +34.00% 28
North of England -17 12 £500 - 2
North West -13 6 £463 -22.92% 1
Yorkshire -24 6 £500 +1.01%
East of England -3 3 £400 -6.32% 2
Midlands -20 2 £650 +28.40% 10
West Midlands -16 1 £650 +18.18% 7
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
South East - 1 £375 - 17
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UK

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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 (13.64%) Confluence
2 8 (12.12%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (7.58%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.52%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Endur
2 1 (1.52%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.52%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 29 (43.94%) GitHub
2 27 (40.91%) AWS
3 19 (28.79%) GCP
3 19 (28.79%) GitHub Actions
4 15 (22.73%) Azure
5 14 (21.21%) Serverless
6 11 (16.67%) Amazon S3
6 11 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (13.64%) Cloud Run
8 6 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (6.06%) IaaS
10 3 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (4.55%) BlazeMeter
11 2 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (4.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (6.06%) Big Data
2 4 (6.06%) BigQuery
2 4 (6.06%) Data Lake
2 4 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.06%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.03%) Metadata
4 2 (3.03%) Redis
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.52%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (1.52%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.52%) Looker
5 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (42.42%) Git
2 15 (22.73%) JIRA
3 7 (10.61%) GitLab
4 5 (7.58%) Selenium
5 4 (6.06%) Cypress.io
6 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
6 3 (4.55%) JMeter
6 3 (4.55%) Locust
6 3 (4.55%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (3.03%) Postman
7 2 (3.03%) Robot Framework
7 2 (3.03%) webpack
8 1 (1.52%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.52%) MLflow
8 1 (1.52%) MSTest
8 1 (1.52%) Pylint
8 1 (1.52%) PyUnit
8 1 (1.52%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.52%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.70%) Pharmaceutical
3 10 (15.15%) Finance
4 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (24.24%) Developer
2 12 (18.18%) Python Developer
2 12 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 9 (13.64%) Python Engineer
4 7 (10.61%) Data Engineer
5 6 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (9.09%) Senior
5 6 (9.09%) Tester
6 5 (7.58%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 5 (7.58%) Lead
7 4 (6.06%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) DevOps Specialist
7 4 (6.06%) Python Software Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Automation Tester
8 3 (4.55%) Test Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Test Leader
9 2 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (33.33%) FastAPI
2 12 (18.18%) React
3 10 (15.15%) RESTful
4 9 (13.64%) Playwright
4 9 (13.64%) REST
5 8 (12.12%) boto
5 8 (12.12%) Jest
6 7 (10.61%) LDAP
6 7 (10.61%) mypy
7 6 (9.09%) Flake8
8 5 (7.58%) Flask
8 5 (7.58%) Kafka
8 5 (7.58%) LangChain
8 5 (7.58%) LangGraph
8 5 (7.58%) Next.js
8 5 (7.58%) scikit-learn
8 5 (7.58%) TensorFlow
9 4 (6.06%) pydantic
9 4 (6.06%) PySpark
9 4 (6.06%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.64%) Genomics
2 8 (12.12%) Life Science
3 7 (10.61%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.03%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.52%) FMCG
6 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.06%) Linux
2 1 (1.52%) Android
2 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (54.55%) CI/CD
1 36 (54.55%) Test Automation
2 31 (46.97%) Agile
3 30 (45.45%) DevOps
4 24 (36.36%) AI
5 23 (34.85%) Machine Learning
6 17 (25.76%) Containerisation
6 17 (25.76%) Microservices
6 17 (25.76%) Software Engineering
7 14 (21.21%) Code Quality
7 14 (21.21%) Unit Testing
8 12 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
8 12 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (15.15%) Natural Language Processing
11 9 (13.64%) Data Engineering
11 9 (13.64%) Proteomics
11 9 (13.64%) TDD
12 8 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (12.12%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 63 (95.45%) Python
2 20 (30.30%) SQL
3 8 (12.12%) TypeScript
4 7 (10.61%) Go
4 7 (10.61%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.55%) Bash
6 2 (3.03%) C#
6 2 (3.03%) Java
6 2 (3.03%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.52%) Bicep
7 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (21.21%) Degree
1 14 (21.21%) SC Cleared
1 14 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.58%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.03%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (24.24%) QA
2 4 (6.06%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (34.85%) Docker
2 5 (7.58%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 18 (27.27%) Terraform
3 2 (3.03%) Ansible
3 2 (3.03%) Control-M
3 2 (3.03%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.52%) Grafana
4 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (19.70%) Google
2 5 (7.58%) Atlassian
2 5 (7.58%) Databricks
3 3 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.03%) Oracle
4 2 (3.03%) VMware
5 1 (1.52%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.52%) DataRobot
5 1 (1.52%) Okta
5 1 (1.52%) SAP
5 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow