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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 448 515
Rank change year-on-year -83 +67 +36
Contract jobs citing pytest 89 52 42
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.04% 0.86% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 37 27
10th Percentile £303 £408 £358
25th Percentile £363 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £556 £580 £656
90th Percentile £673 £738 £860
UK median daily rate £471 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -5.52% -0.40% -1.23%
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 8,520 6,057 7,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.93% 22.25% 21.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,604 4,167 5,354
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £430 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £743 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £508 £539
% change year-on-year +3.45% -5.84% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 135 251
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.45% -8.66%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%

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 18 July 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

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 18 July 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 -44 51 £538 +7.50% 3
South East -47 11 £358 -25.33% 2
North of England -80 11 £403 -15.26%
Yorkshire -40 10 £426 -5.28%
Midlands -47 8 £471 -
West Midlands - 5 £481 -
East of England - 5 £375 - 1
East Midlands -10 3 £447 -
South West - 2 £435 -
North West -54 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 6 (6.74%) Confluence
2 5 (5.62%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.62%) SAS
3 4 (4.49%) Appian
4 2 (2.25%) Apache
4 2 (2.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (8.99%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.12%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 33 (37.08%) Azure
2 26 (29.21%) AWS
3 19 (21.35%) GitHub
4 16 (17.98%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (16.85%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (11.24%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (7.87%) OpenShift
8 6 (6.74%) Serverless
9 5 (5.62%) Apigee
10 4 (4.49%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (4.49%) Azure AI
10 4 (4.49%) Azure Functions
10 4 (4.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (4.49%) Power Automate
11 3 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (3.37%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (3.37%) GCP
12 2 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (2.25%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.36%) Internet
2 2 (2.25%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.48%) MongoDB
1 12 (13.48%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (11.24%) NoSQL
3 7 (7.87%) Neo4j
4 5 (5.62%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.49%) Pinecone
6 3 (3.37%) Aerospike
6 3 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (3.37%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.37%) Redis
6 3 (3.37%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.25%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.25%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.25%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 2 (2.25%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.12%) Big Data
8 1 (1.12%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 27 (30.34%) Git
2 26 (29.21%) Jenkins
3 19 (21.35%) GitLab
4 18 (20.22%) Selenium
5 13 (14.61%) JIRA
6 11 (12.36%) Postman
7 9 (10.11%) JUnit
8 7 (7.87%) Cypress.io
9 5 (5.62%) Zephyr
10 4 (4.49%) MLflow
10 4 (4.49%) Robot Framework
11 3 (3.37%) Newman
11 3 (3.37%) SonarQube
12 2 (2.25%) Android Studio
12 2 (2.25%) Appium
12 2 (2.25%) Gatling
12 2 (2.25%) NeoLoad
12 2 (2.25%) PyCharm
12 2 (2.25%) REST Assured
12 2 (2.25%) Sourcetree
General
1 21 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.10%) Finance
3 9 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.11%) Banking
4 5 (5.62%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.12%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.12%) Front Office
6 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.12%) Legal
6 1 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.12%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (21.35%) Developer
2 17 (19.10%) Senior
3 16 (17.98%) Python Developer
4 13 (14.61%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 11 (12.36%) Test Engineer
6 9 (10.11%) Data Engineer
6 9 (10.11%) Test Automation Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Lead
8 5 (5.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Python Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Test Specialist
8 5 (5.62%) Tester
9 4 (4.49%) AWS Data Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Test Automation Specialist
10 3 (3.37%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (22.47%) Pandas
2 19 (21.35%) FastAPI
3 17 (19.10%) Django
3 17 (19.10%) Flask
3 17 (19.10%) REST
4 15 (16.85%) RESTful
5 14 (15.73%) NumPy
6 13 (14.61%) Kafka
6 13 (14.61%) Swagger
7 12 (13.48%) OpenAPI
7 12 (13.48%) Playwright
8 10 (11.24%) OAuth
8 10 (11.24%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (10.11%) React
10 8 (8.99%) PySpark
11 7 (7.87%) JWT
11 7 (7.87%) Node.js
12 6 (6.74%) .NET
12 6 (6.74%) Great Expectations
13 5 (5.62%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.35%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.24%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (10.11%) Data Structures
4 8 (8.99%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.49%) Low-Code
6 3 (3.37%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.25%) Life Science
7 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.25%) Taxonomies
7 2 (2.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.12%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.49%) Android
2 2 (2.25%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (65.17%) CI/CD
2 48 (53.93%) DevOps
3 43 (48.31%) Test Automation
4 34 (38.20%) Validation
5 30 (33.71%) Agile
6 27 (30.34%) Software Engineering
7 26 (29.21%) AI
8 24 (26.97%) Containerisation
9 23 (25.84%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (24.72%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (24.72%) Unit Testing
11 21 (23.60%) LLM
11 21 (23.60%) OOP
12 19 (21.35%) Analytics
12 19 (21.35%) Machine Learning
13 18 (20.22%) Generative AI
13 18 (20.22%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
14 17 (19.10%) Clean Code
14 17 (19.10%) MLOps
15 16 (17.98%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 78 (87.64%) Python
2 25 (28.09%) SQL
3 16 (17.98%) Java
4 8 (8.99%) C#
4 8 (8.99%) TypeScript
5 6 (6.74%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.49%) Cypher
7 2 (2.25%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.25%) R
7 2 (2.25%) SHACL
7 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 23 (25.84%) Security Cleared
2 19 (21.35%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.37%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.25%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (19.10%) QA
2 11 (12.36%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.12%) GDPR
3 1 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (42.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (46.07%) Kubernetes
2 12 (13.48%) Terraform
3 8 (8.99%) Grafana
4 3 (3.37%) Argo
4 3 (3.37%) Kibana
4 3 (3.37%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.25%) Rundeck
6 1 (1.12%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (16.85%) Databricks
2 6 (6.74%) OpenAI
3 4 (4.49%) Automation Anywhere
3 4 (4.49%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.49%) UiPath
4 3 (3.37%) Google
4 3 (3.37%) Oracle
4 3 (3.37%) SAP
5 2 (2.25%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.25%) FactSet
5 2 (2.25%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.12%) SimCorp