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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 453 513
Rank change year-on-year +5 +60 +77
Contract jobs citing pytest 105 61 36
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.21% 0.098%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.49% 0.97% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 41 25
10th Percentile £363 £390 £406
25th Percentile £409 £413 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £488 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -4.88% -12.39%
75th Percentile £650 £569 £650
90th Percentile £819 £600 £755
UK median daily rate £480 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -1.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -13.33% +15.38%
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +15.38%

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 7,042 6,283 7,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.21% 21.86% 21.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,690 4,010 5,762
10th Percentile £350 £358 £363
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £632 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £505 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% -1.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 77 166
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.50
25th Percentile £44.50 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £58.00 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.18 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £59.86 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -4.22% +19.05% -19.23%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 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 +23 63 £593 +38.60% 19
Midlands -19 21 £485 -11.82%
West Midlands -14 18 £491 -10.73%
North of England -54 8 £463 -11.90% 2
North West -28 6 £463 -15.91%
East of England -23 4 £400 -6.32% 5
East Midlands - 3 £402 -
Yorkshire -41 2 £463 -6.57% 1
South West -18 1 - - 2
South East - 1 £375 - 8
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 17 (16.19%) SAS
2 10 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (9.52%) Apache Spark
3 9 (8.57%) Confluence
4 1 (0.95%) Appian
4 1 (0.95%) CMS
4 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 37 (35.24%) GitHub
2 34 (32.38%) AWS
3 22 (20.95%) GitHub Actions
4 21 (20.00%) GCP
5 16 (15.24%) Azure
5 16 (15.24%) OpenShift
6 14 (13.33%) Amazon S3
6 14 (13.33%) Serverless
7 12 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (9.52%) Cloud Run
9 9 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (3.81%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (3.81%) IaaS
13 3 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.76%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (0.95%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.62%) NoSQL
1 8 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.71%) Big Data
3 5 (4.76%) BigQuery
3 5 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.76%) Oracle Database
3 5 (4.76%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 4 (3.81%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.81%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.86%) Aerospike
5 3 (2.86%) Redis
6 2 (1.90%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.90%) Metadata
6 2 (1.90%) Power BI
6 2 (1.90%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.90%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 2 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.90%) Tableau
7 1 (0.95%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 54 (51.43%) Git
2 27 (25.71%) GitLab
3 26 (24.76%) Jenkins
4 22 (20.95%) Selenium
5 18 (17.14%) JUnit
6 15 (14.29%) JIRA
7 7 (6.67%) Postman
8 4 (3.81%) Cypress.io
8 4 (3.81%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.86%) JMeter
9 3 (2.86%) Locust
9 3 (2.86%) PyCharm
9 3 (2.86%) PyUnit
9 3 (2.86%) Robot Framework
9 3 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.90%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.95%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.95%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.95%) MSTest
11 1 (0.95%) SoapUI
General
1 37 (35.24%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.14%) Pharmaceutical
3 16 (15.24%) Finance
4 9 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.95%) Banking
6 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (22.86%) Developer
2 20 (19.05%) Python Developer
3 16 (15.24%) Test Specialist
4 13 (12.38%) Full-Stack Developer
5 12 (11.43%) Software Engineer
6 10 (9.52%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 10 (9.52%) Python Engineer
7 9 (8.57%) Data Engineer
7 9 (8.57%) Senior
7 9 (8.57%) Tester
8 8 (7.62%) Test Automation Specialist
9 6 (5.71%) Lead
9 6 (5.71%) Test Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) React Developer
11 4 (3.81%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 4 (3.81%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.81%) DevOps Specialist
11 4 (3.81%) Python Software Engineer
11 4 (3.81%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (27.62%) FastAPI
2 25 (23.81%) REST
3 17 (16.19%) React
4 15 (14.29%) RESTful
5 14 (13.33%) Playwright
6 13 (12.38%) Jest
7 9 (8.57%) Kafka
7 9 (8.57%) Next.js
8 8 (7.62%) boto
8 8 (7.62%) Node.js
9 7 (6.67%) Django
9 7 (6.67%) LangGraph
9 7 (6.67%) LDAP
9 7 (6.67%) mypy
9 7 (6.67%) PySpark
10 6 (5.71%) Flake8
10 6 (5.71%) Flask
10 6 (5.71%) scikit-learn
10 6 (5.71%) TensorFlow
11 5 (4.76%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.38%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.43%) Genomics
3 11 (10.48%) Life Science
4 8 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.90%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.95%) FMCG
7 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.95%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.95%) NHS
7 1 (0.95%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.86%) Android
1 3 (2.86%) Apple iOS
1 3 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (62.86%) Test Automation
2 64 (60.95%) CI/CD
3 63 (60.00%) Agile
4 51 (48.57%) DevOps
5 39 (37.14%) Containerisation
6 35 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (31.43%) AI
8 32 (30.48%) Data Pipeline
9 29 (27.62%) Machine Learning
10 24 (22.86%) Analytics
11 23 (21.90%) Code Quality
12 22 (20.95%) Software Engineering
13 21 (20.00%) Test Strategy
13 21 (20.00%) Unit Testing
14 16 (15.24%) Data Engineering
14 16 (15.24%) Full-Stack Development
14 16 (15.24%) Microservices
14 16 (15.24%) Regression Testing
14 16 (15.24%) Scrum
14 16 (15.24%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 98 (93.33%) Python
2 36 (34.29%) SQL
3 11 (10.48%) TypeScript
4 8 (7.62%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.67%) Go
6 6 (5.71%) Java
7 5 (4.76%) C#
8 4 (3.81%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.90%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.95%) Bicep
10 1 (0.95%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (27.62%) Security Cleared
2 28 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 17 (16.19%) Degree
4 7 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.90%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.90%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.95%) ISEB
7 1 (0.95%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (16.19%) QA
2 4 (3.81%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.90%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.90%) WCAG
4 1 (0.95%) GDPR
4 1 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (43.81%) Docker
2 5 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (38.10%) Kubernetes
2 18 (17.14%) Terraform
3 2 (1.90%) Ansible
3 2 (1.90%) Control-M
3 2 (1.90%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.95%) Grafana
4 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (15.24%) Google
2 8 (7.62%) Databricks
2 8 (7.62%) Oracle
3 5 (4.76%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.81%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.90%) SAP
5 2 (1.90%) VMware
6 1 (0.95%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (0.95%) Okta
6 1 (0.95%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.95%) Splunk
6 1 (0.95%) UiPath