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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 448 498
Rank change year-on-year -87 +50 +42
Contract jobs citing pytest 96 56 36
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.13% 0.91% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 41 25
10th Percentile £300 £410 £355
25th Percentile £363 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% +4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £556 £680 £638
90th Percentile £675 £750 £820
UK median daily rate £472 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.70% - -2.44%
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 8,472 6,144 7,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.65% 22.25% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,559 4,235 5,084
10th Percentile £364 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £648 £675
90th Percentile £750 £772 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 147 231
10th Percentile £28.93 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £46.80 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -8.16%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £79.22 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £53.75
% change year-on-year +18.45% +2.09% -10.42%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -39 56 £538 -5.70% 10
South East -56 14 £358 -25.33% 4
North of England -59 11 £403 -10.56% 1
Yorkshire -44 10 £426 -5.28% 1
East of England - 7 £450 - 6
Midlands -51 6 £471 - 2
West Midlands - 4 £477 - 1
East Midlands -8 2 £459 - 1
South West - 2 £435 - 3
North West -52 1 £355 -36.89%
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 (9.38%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.17%) Confluence
2 4 (4.17%) SAS
3 3 (3.13%) Apache
4 2 (2.08%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.08%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.04%) Appian
Applications
1 8 (8.33%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.04%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 37 (38.54%) Azure
2 24 (25.00%) AWS
3 20 (20.83%) GitHub
4 19 (19.79%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (19.79%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (11.46%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (7.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (6.25%) OpenShift
7 6 (6.25%) Serverless
8 5 (5.21%) Apigee
8 5 (5.21%) GCP
9 4 (4.17%) Azure Functions
10 3 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.13%) Azure Stack
11 2 (2.08%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (2.08%) Kong
11 2 (2.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.58%) Internet
2 2 (2.08%) 4G
2 2 (2.08%) 5G
2 2 (2.08%) DNS
2 2 (2.08%) DSL
2 2 (2.08%) HTTP
2 2 (2.08%) SSH
2 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.63%) MongoDB
2 13 (13.54%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 7 (7.29%) Neo4j
5 6 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (4.17%) Redis
7 3 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.13%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.13%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.08%) Aerospike
8 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.08%) MySQL
8 2 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (2.08%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.04%) Big Data
9 1 (1.04%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.04%) InfluxDB
9 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.04%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 30 (31.25%) Git
2 24 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 20 (20.83%) GitLab
4 17 (17.71%) Selenium
5 12 (12.50%) JIRA
6 9 (9.38%) Postman
7 7 (7.29%) JUnit
8 6 (6.25%) SonarQube
9 5 (5.21%) Cypress.io
9 5 (5.21%) Zephyr
10 4 (4.17%) Newman
10 4 (4.17%) REST Assured
10 4 (4.17%) Robot Framework
11 2 (2.08%) Cucumber
11 2 (2.08%) Gatling
11 2 (2.08%) JMeter
11 2 (2.08%) NeoLoad
11 2 (2.08%) NUnit
12 1 (1.04%) PyUnit
12 1 (1.04%) Subversion
General
1 19 (19.79%) Finance
2 18 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.33%) Banking
5 5 (5.21%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.04%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.04%) Front Office
7 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.04%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.04%) Legal
7 1 (1.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (21.88%) Developer
2 20 (20.83%) Senior
3 18 (18.75%) Python Developer
4 16 (16.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 12 (12.50%) Test Engineer
6 11 (11.46%) Lead
7 10 (10.42%) Data Engineer
7 10 (10.42%) Test Automation Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Python Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Tester
10 4 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) QA Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Test Specialist
11 3 (3.13%) Automation Tester
11 3 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
11 3 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (3.13%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (20.83%) Pandas
2 19 (19.79%) FastAPI
3 17 (17.71%) REST
3 17 (17.71%) RESTful
4 16 (16.67%) Flask
5 15 (15.63%) Kafka
5 15 (15.63%) Playwright
6 13 (13.54%) Django
6 13 (13.54%) PySpark
6 13 (13.54%) RabbitMQ
7 11 (11.46%) NumPy
8 10 (10.42%) React
8 10 (10.42%) Swagger
9 9 (9.38%) OpenAPI
10 8 (8.33%) Node.js
11 7 (7.29%) CSS
11 7 (7.29%) Great Expectations
11 7 (7.29%) HTML
11 7 (7.29%) OAuth
12 6 (6.25%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (9.38%) Data Structures
4 8 (8.33%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.13%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.08%) Life Science
6 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.08%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.04%) IoT
7 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.04%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.04%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.17%) Linux
2 1 (1.04%) Android
2 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (63.54%) CI/CD
2 56 (58.33%) DevOps
3 43 (44.79%) Test Automation
4 38 (39.58%) Validation
5 31 (32.29%) Agile
5 31 (32.29%) AI
6 30 (31.25%) Software Engineering
7 26 (27.08%) Unit Testing
8 25 (26.04%) OOP
9 24 (25.00%) LLM
10 23 (23.96%) Analytics
10 23 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (22.92%) Data Pipeline
11 22 (22.92%) Machine Learning
12 21 (21.88%) Containerisation
12 21 (21.88%) Design Patterns
12 21 (21.88%) Generative AI
13 18 (18.75%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
14 17 (17.71%) Clean Code
14 17 (17.71%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 86 (89.58%) Python
2 31 (32.29%) SQL
3 14 (14.58%) Java
4 11 (11.46%) TypeScript
5 8 (8.33%) C#
6 6 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.17%) Cypher
8 3 (3.13%) Bash
8 3 (3.13%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.08%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.08%) R
9 2 (2.08%) SHACL
10 1 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 24 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (19.79%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.13%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.08%) Degree
4 2 (2.08%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (22.92%) QA
2 9 (9.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.04%) GDPR
3 1 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (42.71%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.50%) Terraform
3 8 (8.33%) Grafana
4 4 (4.17%) Argo
4 4 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.04%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (19.79%) Databricks
2 8 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.13%) Google
3 3 (3.13%) OpenAI
3 3 (3.13%) SAP
4 2 (2.08%) FactSet
4 2 (2.08%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.04%) Automation Anywhere
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle
5 1 (1.04%) SimCorp
5 1 (1.04%) UiPath