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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 458 484
Rank change year-on-year -53 +26 +65
Contract jobs citing pytest 131 61 42
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.22% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.32% 0.86% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 45 30
10th Percentile £300 £409 £361
25th Percentile £400 £463 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £575 £725 £573
90th Percentile £638 £810 £753
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -4.76%
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 9,906 7,059 8,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.28% 25.38% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,513 4,805 5,494
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% -5.73% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £666
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 169 179
10th Percentile £29.72 £31.54 £27.60
25th Percentile £52.97 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -12.00% -1.57%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.83% -11.20% -1.44%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -42 83 £538 -19.78% 56
Yorkshire -24 19 £475 -5.00% 2
North of England -64 19 £475 -2.56% 10
South East -49 11 £358 -4.67% 13
East of England -17 9 £450 +9.09% 3
East Midlands -9 6 £300 -
Midlands -45 6 £300 -53.85% 1
South West - 2 £435 - 4
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 (6.87%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.58%) Confluence
3 5 (3.82%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.29%) Apache
5 2 (1.53%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.53%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (4.58%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 2 (1.53%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.76%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.76%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 45 (34.35%) AWS
2 43 (32.82%) Azure
3 38 (29.01%) GitHub
4 28 (21.37%) GitHub Actions
5 19 (14.50%) GCP
6 17 (12.98%) Serverless
7 16 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (11.45%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (6.87%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (6.87%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (6.11%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (5.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (4.58%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (3.05%) Apigee
13 4 (3.05%) Azure Functions
13 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (3.05%) Snowflake
14 3 (2.29%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.69%) Internet
2 5 (3.82%) 4G
2 5 (3.82%) 5G
2 5 (3.82%) DNS
2 5 (3.82%) HTTP
2 5 (3.82%) SSH
2 5 (3.82%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.53%) DSL
4 1 (0.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (19.85%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (15.27%) MongoDB
3 16 (12.21%) NoSQL
4 15 (11.45%) MySQL
5 11 (8.40%) Redis
6 7 (5.34%) Neo4j
7 6 (4.58%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (4.58%) Data Lake
8 5 (3.82%) SQL Server
9 4 (3.05%) Metadata
9 4 (3.05%) Spark SQL
10 3 (2.29%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.53%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.53%) Snowflake Schema
12 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.76%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.76%) Power BI
12 1 (0.76%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 47 (35.88%) Git
2 23 (17.56%) GitLab
2 23 (17.56%) JIRA
3 18 (13.74%) Jenkins
3 18 (13.74%) Selenium
4 9 (6.87%) Postman
5 7 (5.34%) SonarQube
5 7 (5.34%) Zephyr
6 6 (4.58%) Newman
7 5 (3.82%) JMeter
8 4 (3.05%) JUnit
8 4 (3.05%) Robot Framework
8 4 (3.05%) TestRail
9 3 (2.29%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.53%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.53%) Gatling
10 2 (1.53%) NeoLoad
10 2 (1.53%) NUnit
11 1 (0.76%) Applitools
11 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
General
1 29 (22.14%) Finance
2 23 (17.56%) Social Skills
3 19 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.45%) Banking
5 6 (4.58%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.29%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.53%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.76%) Automotive
8 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Front Office
8 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.76%) Legal
8 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (25.19%) Senior
2 31 (23.66%) Lead
3 25 (19.08%) Developer
4 22 (16.79%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 22 (16.79%) Python Developer
5 14 (10.69%) Test Automation Engineer
6 13 (9.92%) Data Engineer
6 13 (9.92%) Python Engineer
7 12 (9.16%) Test Engineer
8 10 (7.63%) QA Leader
9 7 (5.34%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (5.34%) QA Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 6 (4.58%) Lead Data Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Automation Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Databricks Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) QA Automation Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (24.43%) FastAPI
2 30 (22.90%) Playwright
3 25 (19.08%) Terraform
4 23 (17.56%) RESTful
5 21 (16.03%) Pandas
6 20 (15.27%) Kafka
6 20 (15.27%) REST
7 18 (13.74%) Flask
8 17 (12.98%) React
9 16 (12.21%) Django
9 16 (12.21%) RabbitMQ
10 15 (11.45%) PySpark
11 10 (7.63%) Great Expectations
11 10 (7.63%) NumPy
12 8 (6.11%) CSS
12 8 (6.11%) HTML
12 8 (6.11%) Jinja
12 8 (6.11%) Swagger
13 7 (5.34%) OpenAPI
13 7 (5.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (19.08%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.34%) Algorithms
3 7 (5.34%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.58%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.82%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.05%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.29%) Life Science
8 2 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.53%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.53%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.76%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.76%) Equities
9 1 (0.76%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.76%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.40%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (64.12%) CI/CD
2 71 (54.20%) DevOps
3 64 (48.85%) AI
4 53 (40.46%) Test Automation
5 47 (35.88%) Agile
6 43 (32.82%) Validation
7 38 (29.01%) OOP
8 36 (27.48%) LLM
9 35 (26.72%) Software Engineering
10 34 (25.95%) Machine Learning
11 31 (23.66%) Generative AI
12 30 (22.90%) Unit Testing
13 27 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (19.08%) Containerisation
14 25 (19.08%) Scrum
15 23 (17.56%) Clean Code
15 23 (17.56%) Design Patterns
16 22 (16.79%) Infrastructure as Code
16 22 (16.79%) MLOps
16 22 (16.79%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 128 (97.71%) Python
2 47 (35.88%) SQL
3 15 (11.45%) TypeScript
4 11 (8.40%) JavaScript
5 10 (7.63%) Bash
5 10 (7.63%) Java
6 6 (4.58%) C#
7 4 (3.05%) Cypher
7 4 (3.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (3.05%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.29%) Go
9 2 (1.53%) R
9 2 (1.53%) SHACL
10 1 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (19.08%) Security Cleared
2 22 (16.79%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.34%) Degree
4 4 (3.05%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.29%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.29%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.29%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.53%) CISSP
6 2 (1.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.76%) CISA
7 1 (0.76%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.76%) GSEC
7 1 (0.76%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (34.35%) QA
2 14 (10.69%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.29%) GDPR
4 2 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.53%) NIST
4 2 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 69 (52.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 53 (40.46%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.63%) Grafana
3 7 (5.34%) Argo
4 6 (4.58%) Ansible
4 6 (4.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (16.03%) Databricks
2 16 (12.21%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.63%) Google
4 3 (2.29%) Foundry
5 2 (1.53%) FactSet
5 2 (1.53%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.53%) Palantir
5 2 (1.53%) SAP
6 1 (0.76%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.76%) SimCorp