pytest Contract Job Trends in England

pytest
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England citing pytest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 23 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	494	447	460
Rank change year-on-year	-47	+13	+91
Contract jobs citing pytest	146	84	52
As % of all contract jobs in England	0.31%	0.30%	0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category	1.45%	1.15%	0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted	103	64	38
10^th Percentile	£321	£383	£349
25^th Percentile	£419	£463	£400
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£508	£495
Median % change year-on-year	+3.35%	+2.63%	-4.58%
75^th Percentile	£588	£672	£566
90^th Percentile	£656	£798	£617
UK median daily rate	£500	£500	£498
% change year-on-year	-	+0.50%	-0.50%

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 citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

	6 months to 23 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills	10,098	7,300	7,826
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England	21.61%	25.68%	24.73%
Number of daily rates quoted	6,659	4,931	5,075
10^th Percentile	£381	£356	£363
25^th Percentile	£447	£413	£440
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£537	£519	£550
Median % change year-on-year	+3.47%	-5.64%	-
75^th Percentile	£638	£638	£663
90^th Percentile	£738	£731	£788
UK median daily rate	£525	£513	£550
% change year-on-year	+2.44%	-6.82%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	290	167	136
10^th Percentile	£29.07	£31.05	£27.38
25^th Percentile	£55.00	£41.25	£43.00
Median hourly rate	£67.24	£54.00	£65.00
Median % change year-on-year	+24.51%	-16.92%	+13.04%
75^th Percentile	£77.00	£65.00	£70.00
90^th Percentile	£92.00	£73.20	£72.63
UK median hourly rate	£65.00	£50.72	£64.18
% change year-on-year	+28.15%	-20.97%	+10.18%

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 Daily Rate Trend in England

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 23 October 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.

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 23 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
London	-39	101	£538	-18.19%	39
Yorkshire	-21	20	£500	-2.44%	1
North of England	-58	20	£500	-	3
East of England	-23	9	£450	+12.50%	9
South East	-50	9	£325	-13.33%	4
East Midlands	-8	6	£300	-	2
Midlands	-51	6	£300	-39.02%	3
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pytest Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 23 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing pytest also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region citing pytest.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Python	98.6%	144
2	CI/CD	69.2%	101
3	DevOps	54.8%	80
4	AI	52.1%	76
5	Docker	47.3%	69
6	Kubernetes	41.1%	60
7	Test Automation	39.7%	58
8	SQL	39.0%	57
9	Agile	37.0%	54
9	Git	37.0%	54
11	AWS	34.9%	51
12	GitHub	33.6%	49
12	Validation	33.6%	49
14	OOP	32.2%	47
15	QA	31.5%	46
16	Azure	30.1%	44
17	LLM	28.8%	42
18	Machine Learning	28.1%	41
19	Generative AI	25.3%	37
20	FastAPI	24.0%	35
20	Unit Testing	24.0%	35
22	GitHub Actions	23.3%	34
22	Problem-Solving	23.3%	34
24	JIRA	22.6%	33
24	Software Engineering	22.6%	33
26	Infrastructure as Code	21.2%	31
27	Clean Code	20.5%	30
27	Playwright	20.5%	30
29	Terraform	19.9%	29
30	Analytics	18.5%	27

pytest Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	FastAPI	24.0%	35
2	Playwright	20.5%	30
3	Terraform	19.9%	29
4	Pandas	15.8%	23
4	REST	15.8%	23
6	RESTful	13.7%	20
7	Kafka	13.0%	19
8	RabbitMQ	10.3%	15
8	React	10.3%	15
10	Django	9.6%	14
10	Flask	9.6%	14
10	PySpark	9.6%	14
13	NumPy	8.2%	12
14	Great Expectations	6.2%	9
15	CSS	5.5%	8
15	HTML	5.5%	8
15	Jinja	5.5%	8
18	LDAP	4.8%	7
18	Swagger	4.8%	7
18	XML	4.8%	7