pytest Contracts in England

pytest
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring pytest skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited pytest over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 446 512 551
Rank change year-on-year +66 +39 +119
Contract jobs citing pytest 52 40 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.87% 0.50% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 25 45
10th Percentile £408 £363 £430
25th Percentile £417 £456 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £501 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% -12.96% +4.55%
75th Percentile £576 £675 £738
90th Percentile £738 £864 £813
UK median daily rate £496 £500 £519
% change year-on-year -0.85% -3.57% -5.68%
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 5,960 7,946 10,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.44% 21.35% 22.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,103 5,536 8,047
10th Percentile £355 £350 £384
25th Percentile £413 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £780 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 266 143
10th Percentile £30.60 £23.80 £31.60
25th Percentile £45.31 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £57.63 £58.30 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% -10.31% +19.82%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.30 £74.47 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%

pytest
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing pytest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for pytest in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing pytest in England.

Daily rate trend for pytest in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing pytest in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for pytest in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing pytest in England.

Hourly rate trend for pytest in England

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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 6 July 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 +45 39 £475 -5.09% 58
North of England +8 10 £525 +5.00% 17
Yorkshire +12 8 £475 - 4
North West +6 2 £625 +25.00% 13
South East - 2 £479 - 10
Midlands +14 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 - -
pytest
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.69%) Jupyter
3 3 (5.77%) Confluence
4 2 (3.85%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.92%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Endur
2 2 (3.85%) SAP BPC
3 1 (1.92%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 31 (59.62%) AWS
2 18 (34.62%) Azure
2 18 (34.62%) GitHub
2 18 (34.62%) GitHub Actions
3 9 (17.31%) dbt
4 8 (15.38%) GCP
5 6 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (7.69%) Amazon Bedrock
7 4 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (7.69%) npm
8 3 (5.77%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.85%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (3.85%) Serverless
10 1 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.92%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) HTTP
2 2 (3.85%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.31%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 3 (5.77%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.85%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.85%) Big Data
4 2 (3.85%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.85%) Delta Lake
4 2 (3.85%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.92%) Airbyte
5 1 (1.92%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.92%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.92%) Metadata
5 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.92%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (38.46%) Git
2 16 (30.77%) Selenium
3 12 (23.08%) Jenkins
4 10 (19.23%) JIRA
5 8 (15.38%) Postman
6 6 (11.54%) GitLab
7 4 (7.69%) MLflow
7 4 (7.69%) REST Assured
7 4 (7.69%) webpack
8 3 (5.77%) Robot Framework
9 2 (3.85%) Cucumber
9 2 (3.85%) Cypress.io
9 2 (3.85%) SonarQube
9 2 (3.85%) TestNG
10 1 (1.92%) JMeter
10 1 (1.92%) Locust
10 1 (1.92%) Poetry
10 1 (1.92%) SpecFlow
10 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (11.54%) Public Sector
2 5 (9.62%) Finance
3 4 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Banking
4 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Developer
2 10 (19.23%) Data Engineer
2 10 (19.23%) Python Engineer
3 9 (17.31%) Python Developer
3 9 (17.31%) Test Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) Senior
4 7 (13.46%) Tester
5 4 (7.69%) Angular Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Lead
6 3 (5.77%) Backend Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Lead Data Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Automation Specialist
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Data Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) QA Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Senior QA Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (28.85%) REST
2 10 (19.23%) FastAPI
3 8 (15.38%) Flask
4 7 (13.46%) RESTful
5 6 (11.54%) OpenTelemetry
5 6 (11.54%) Pandas
5 6 (11.54%) PySpark
5 6 (11.54%) Web Services
6 5 (9.62%) Hugging Face
6 5 (9.62%) LangChain
6 5 (9.62%) NumPy
6 5 (9.62%) SQLAlchemy
6 5 (9.62%) TensorFlow
7 4 (7.69%) AngularJS
7 4 (7.69%) CSS
7 4 (7.69%) Django
7 4 (7.69%) HTML
7 4 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions
7 4 (7.69%) PyTorch
7 4 (7.69%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.85%) EMC VMAX
1 2 (3.85%) Private Cloud
2 1 (1.92%) Blockchain
2 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (69.23%) Test Automation
2 29 (55.77%) CI/CD
3 16 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
4 12 (23.08%) DevOps
5 11 (21.15%) BDD
6 9 (17.31%) ETL
6 9 (17.31%) Microservices
7 8 (15.38%) Agile
7 8 (15.38%) Analytics
7 8 (15.38%) Data Modelling
7 8 (15.38%) Test Scripting
8 7 (13.46%) API Testing
9 6 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (11.54%) TDD
10 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (9.62%) Machine Learning
10 5 (9.62%) Manual Testing
10 5 (9.62%) SDET
10 5 (9.62%) Test Strategy
10 5 (9.62%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 50 (96.15%) Python
2 12 (23.08%) SQL
3 7 (13.46%) Bash
4 4 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.77%) R
6 2 (3.85%) C#
6 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (19.23%) SC Cleared
1 10 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.92%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (25.00%) QA
2 4 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.77%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (21.15%) Docker
2 2 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (23.08%) Kubernetes
1 12 (23.08%) Terraform
2 4 (7.69%) Ansible
3 2 (3.85%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.85%) Puppet
3 2 (3.85%) vCenter Server
3 2 (3.85%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (13.46%) Databricks
2 4 (7.69%) VMware
3 3 (5.77%) Dataiku
3 3 (5.77%) DataRobot
3 3 (5.77%) Informatica
3 3 (5.77%) SAP
4 2 (3.85%) 3PAR
4 2 (3.85%) Brocade
4 2 (3.85%) Cisco
4 2 (3.85%) EMC
4 2 (3.85%) HP
4 2 (3.85%) UiPath
5 1 (1.92%) GoldenSource
5 1 (1.92%) Google
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft