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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 401 490
Rank change year-on-year -74 +89 +59
Contract jobs citing pytest 113 64 44
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.26% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.42% 1.17% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 44 27
10th Percentile £349 £410 £457
25th Percentile £385 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £470 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% -8.29% -14.58%
75th Percentile £493 £556 £700
90th Percentile £673 £746 £860
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 7,961 5,490 7,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.31% 22.51% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,322 3,805 5,301
10th Percentile £358 £367 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 89 171
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.42 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £36.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.90 £83.17 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 15 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

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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 15 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 -46 60 £440 -3.83% 7
Midlands - 31 £477 - 1
West Midlands - 22 £481 -
East Midlands - 9 £398 - 1
North of England -73 6 £315 -41.40%
South East -47 5 £390 -18.54% 7
Yorkshire -52 5 £275 -27.15%
South West -25 3 £435 - 6
East of England - 3 £300 - 2
North West -44 1 £355 -35.45%
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 (19.47%) SAS
2 8 (7.08%) Appian
3 7 (6.19%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (5.31%) Apache Spark
5 4 (3.54%) Confluence
6 1 (0.88%) Apache
6 1 (0.88%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.65%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 4 (3.54%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 38 (33.63%) AWS
2 37 (32.74%) Azure
3 28 (24.78%) GitHub
4 23 (20.35%) OpenShift
5 20 (17.70%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (12.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (7.08%) Anthropic Claude
8 8 (7.08%) Azure AI
8 8 (7.08%) Power Automate
8 8 (7.08%) Serverless
9 7 (6.19%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.42%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (4.42%) Apigee
10 5 (4.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (4.42%) GCP
11 4 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.54%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (2.65%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.73%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (7.96%) Aerospike
3 9 (7.96%) NoSQL
4 8 (7.08%) Pinecone
5 7 (6.19%) Oracle Database
5 7 (6.19%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 6 (5.31%) DynamoDB
6 6 (5.31%) Redis
7 5 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (4.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (4.42%) Big Data
7 5 (4.42%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.65%) Power BI
8 3 (2.65%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 2 (1.77%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.77%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 53 (46.90%) Git
2 46 (40.71%) Jenkins
3 39 (34.51%) GitLab
4 34 (30.09%) Selenium
5 31 (27.43%) JUnit
6 12 (10.62%) Postman
7 8 (7.08%) JIRA
7 8 (7.08%) MLflow
8 6 (5.31%) Cypress.io
8 6 (5.31%) Robot Framework
9 5 (4.42%) Cucumber
9 5 (4.42%) PyCharm
9 5 (4.42%) PyUnit
9 5 (4.42%) SonarQube
10 3 (2.65%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.77%) Appium
11 2 (1.77%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.77%) Snyk
11 2 (1.77%) Sourcetree
11 2 (1.77%) Storybook
General
1 52 (46.02%) Social Skills
2 26 (23.01%) Finance
3 10 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.96%) Banking
4 9 (7.96%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.31%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.88%) Front Office
8 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (25.66%) Developer
2 21 (18.58%) Python Developer
2 21 (18.58%) Test Specialist
3 13 (11.50%) Automation Engineer
3 13 (11.50%) Senior
4 12 (10.62%) Test Automation Specialist
5 10 (8.85%) Data Engineer
5 10 (8.85%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (7.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 9 (7.96%) Tester
7 7 (6.19%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) AWS Data Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 6 (5.31%) QA Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Test Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Python Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.54%) Senior Python Developer
10 4 (3.54%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (30.09%) REST
2 25 (22.12%) FastAPI
3 19 (16.81%) Django
3 19 (16.81%) RESTful
4 18 (15.93%) Flask
5 17 (15.04%) Kafka
6 15 (13.27%) Pandas
6 15 (13.27%) Playwright
7 14 (12.39%) Node.js
7 14 (12.39%) NumPy
8 13 (11.50%) OAuth
9 11 (9.73%) CSS
9 11 (9.73%) OpenAPI
9 11 (9.73%) React
9 11 (9.73%) Swagger
10 10 (8.85%) Jest
11 9 (7.96%) JWT
11 9 (7.96%) PySpark
11 9 (7.96%) PyTorch
11 9 (7.96%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.81%) Cloud Native
2 15 (13.27%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.08%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (7.08%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.54%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.65%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.65%) Genomics
5 3 (2.65%) Life Science
5 3 (2.65%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.88%) NHS
7 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.19%) Android
2 5 (4.42%) Apple iOS
2 5 (4.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (67.26%) CI/CD
2 75 (66.37%) Test Automation
3 65 (57.52%) Agile
4 48 (42.48%) DevOps
5 47 (41.59%) Containerisation
6 45 (39.82%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (36.28%) Data Pipeline
8 36 (31.86%) Analytics
9 28 (24.78%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (24.78%) Validation
10 27 (23.89%) Integration Testing
10 27 (23.89%) Scrum
11 24 (21.24%) Data Modelling
12 23 (20.35%) Test Scripting
13 22 (19.47%) Data Engineering
13 22 (19.47%) Deployment Automation
13 22 (19.47%) Sprint Planning
13 22 (19.47%) Sprint Retrospective
13 22 (19.47%) Test Strategy
14 21 (18.58%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 94 (83.19%) Python
2 39 (34.51%) SQL
3 23 (20.35%) Java
4 10 (8.85%) C#
4 10 (8.85%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.31%) Shell Script
5 6 (5.31%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.65%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 39 (34.51%) Security Cleared
2 35 (30.97%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.54%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.65%) Degree
6 2 (1.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.88%) ISEB
7 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.04%) QA
2 13 (11.50%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.65%) GDPR
3 3 (2.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (45.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (39.82%) Kubernetes
2 13 (11.50%) Terraform
3 4 (3.54%) Grafana
4 3 (2.65%) Kibana
4 3 (2.65%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.77%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (16.81%) Databricks
2 9 (7.96%) Oracle
3 8 (7.08%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (7.08%) OpenAI
3 8 (7.08%) UiPath
4 5 (4.42%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.42%) SAP
5 4 (3.54%) Google
6 2 (1.77%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.77%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.88%) Splunk