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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 404 506
Rank change year-on-year -61 +102 +53
Contract jobs citing pytest 120 73 44
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.30% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.51% 1.34% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 53 28
10th Percentile £350 £393 £426
25th Percentile £389 £413 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -7.16% -15.63%
75th Percentile £500 £556 £688
90th Percentile £675 £645 £857
UK median daily rate £450 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -6.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - -
75th Percentile £58.75 £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -11.54% - -

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 7,928 5,449 7,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.77% 22.48% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,311 3,760 5,406
10th Percentile £358 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £545
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -2.11% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 88 168
10th Percentile £35.03 £26.85 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.20 £37.02
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £78.63 £83.27 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -59 64 £475 +5.56% 12
Midlands - 31 £477 - 3
West Midlands - 22 £481 - 1
East Midlands - 9 £398 - 2
North of England -73 7 £355 -35.45% 4
Yorkshire -52 6 £339 -10.26% 1
East of England -26 5 £325 -28.41% 5
South East -50 4 £413 -13.84% 6
South West -23 3 £435 - 4
North West -44 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 (18.33%) SAS
2 8 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 8 (6.67%) Appian
3 7 (5.83%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.83%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.67%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 41 (34.17%) AWS
2 37 (30.83%) Azure
3 31 (25.83%) GitHub
4 23 (19.17%) OpenShift
5 20 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (10.83%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (9.17%) GCP
8 10 (8.33%) Serverless
9 8 (6.67%) Amazon S3
9 8 (6.67%) Anthropic Claude
9 8 (6.67%) Azure AI
9 8 (6.67%) Power Automate
10 5 (4.17%) Apigee
10 5 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (3.33%) Azure Functions
11 4 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (3.33%) Cloud Run
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.17%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.50%) Aerospike
2 9 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.67%) Pinecone
4 7 (5.83%) Oracle Database
4 7 (5.83%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 6 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (5.00%) DynamoDB
5 6 (5.00%) Redis
6 5 (4.17%) Big Data
7 4 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (3.33%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.33%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.50%) Power BI
8 3 (2.50%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 2 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.67%) Tableau
10 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 56 (46.67%) Git
2 46 (38.33%) Jenkins
3 39 (32.50%) GitLab
4 34 (28.33%) Selenium
5 31 (25.83%) JUnit
6 12 (10.00%) Postman
7 9 (7.50%) JIRA
8 8 (6.67%) MLflow
9 6 (5.00%) Cypress.io
9 6 (5.00%) Robot Framework
10 5 (4.17%) Cucumber
10 5 (4.17%) PyCharm
10 5 (4.17%) PyUnit
11 4 (3.33%) SonarQube
12 3 (2.50%) REST Assured
13 2 (1.67%) Android Studio
13 2 (1.67%) Appium
13 2 (1.67%) CircleCI
13 2 (1.67%) Sourcetree
13 2 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 53 (44.17%) Social Skills
2 27 (22.50%) Finance
3 9 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.50%) Banking
3 9 (7.50%) Pharmaceutical
3 9 (7.50%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.83%) Front Office
6 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (23.33%) Developer
2 21 (17.50%) Test Specialist
3 20 (16.67%) Python Developer
4 13 (10.83%) Automation Engineer
4 13 (10.83%) Senior
5 12 (10.00%) Test Automation Specialist
6 11 (9.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 11 (9.17%) Data Engineer
6 11 (9.17%) Tester
7 10 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (5.83%) Test Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) AWS Data Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 6 (5.00%) Python Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) QA Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Automation Tester
11 4 (3.33%) React Developer
11 4 (3.33%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (28.33%) REST
2 28 (23.33%) FastAPI
3 19 (15.83%) Django
3 19 (15.83%) Flask
4 18 (15.00%) RESTful
5 17 (14.17%) Playwright
6 16 (13.33%) Kafka
7 14 (11.67%) Node.js
7 14 (11.67%) Pandas
8 13 (10.83%) NumPy
8 13 (10.83%) OAuth
8 13 (10.83%) React
9 12 (10.00%) CSS
10 11 (9.17%) Jest
10 11 (9.17%) PyTorch
10 11 (9.17%) scikit-learn
10 11 (9.17%) TensorFlow
11 10 (8.33%) OpenAPI
11 10 (8.33%) Swagger
12 9 (7.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (6.67%) Low-Code
4 6 (5.00%) Genomics
4 6 (5.00%) Life Science
5 3 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.67%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.83%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.83%) NHS
7 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.83%) Android
2 5 (4.17%) Apple iOS
2 5 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (68.33%) Test Automation
2 79 (65.83%) CI/CD
3 69 (57.50%) Agile
4 50 (41.67%) Containerisation
4 50 (41.67%) DevOps
5 46 (38.33%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
7 34 (28.33%) Analytics
8 28 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 28 (23.33%) Validation
9 27 (22.50%) AI
9 27 (22.50%) Integration Testing
10 26 (21.67%) Scrum
11 24 (20.00%) Data Engineering
11 24 (20.00%) Unit Testing
12 23 (19.17%) Data Modelling
12 23 (19.17%) Test Scripting
12 23 (19.17%) Test Strategy
13 22 (18.33%) Deployment Automation
13 22 (18.33%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 102 (85.00%) Python
2 39 (32.50%) SQL
3 23 (19.17%) Java
4 12 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 10 (8.33%) C#
6 6 (5.00%) Shell Script
6 6 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.50%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 39 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 35 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (5.00%) Degree
4 4 (3.33%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.83%) ISEB
6 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.83%) QA
2 13 (10.83%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.50%) GDPR
3 3 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 55 (45.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 15 (12.50%) Terraform
3 4 (3.33%) Grafana
4 3 (2.50%) Kibana
4 3 (2.50%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.67%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.83%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (15.00%) Databricks
2 9 (7.50%) Oracle
3 8 (6.67%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (6.67%) Google
3 8 (6.67%) OpenAI
3 8 (6.67%) UiPath
4 5 (4.17%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.33%) SAP
6 2 (1.67%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.67%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.83%) Splunk