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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 455 490
Rank change year-on-year -46 +35 +54
Contract jobs citing pytest 122 55 41
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.20% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.25% 0.81% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 43 29
10th Percentile £300 £413 £360
25th Percentile £393 £455 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £570 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £575 £713 £575
90th Percentile £669 £750 £755
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.44%
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 9,748 6,796 8,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.36% 24.97% 24.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,417 4,663 5,509
10th Percentile £380 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
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 265 163 178
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £32.83
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.05 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% -14.19% +0.28%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £71.60 £74.61
UK median hourly rate £66.83 £52.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +27.30% -15.32% -0.80%

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

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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 4 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for pytest in England

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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 4 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 -54 77 £538 -16.54% 37
Yorkshire -34 14 £478 +6.11%
North of England -71 14 £478 +0.53% 3
South East -61 12 £358 -20.11% 4
East of England - 9 £450 - 3
East Midlands -15 7 £350 -
Midlands -43 7 £350 -46.15%
South West - 2 £435 - 4
pytest
UK

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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 (7.38%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.92%) Confluence
3 4 (3.28%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.46%) Apache
5 1 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.82%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (5.74%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 2 (1.64%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.82%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.82%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 42 (34.43%) Azure
2 36 (29.51%) AWS
3 31 (25.41%) GitHub
4 26 (21.31%) GitHub Actions
5 19 (15.57%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (12.30%) Serverless
7 14 (11.48%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (9.02%) GCP
9 9 (7.38%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (6.56%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (5.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (5.74%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (4.92%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (4.10%) Azure Functions
14 4 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (3.28%) Apigee
14 4 (3.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Purview
15 3 (2.46%) Amazon S3
15 3 (2.46%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.48%) Internet
2 4 (3.28%) 4G
2 4 (3.28%) 5G
2 4 (3.28%) DNS
2 4 (3.28%) HTTP
2 4 (3.28%) SSH
2 4 (3.28%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.64%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (18.03%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (13.93%) MongoDB
3 16 (13.11%) NoSQL
4 11 (9.02%) MySQL
4 11 (9.02%) Redis
5 7 (5.74%) Neo4j
6 6 (4.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (4.92%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.28%) Metadata
7 4 (3.28%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.28%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.64%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.64%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.82%) Aerospike
9 1 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.82%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.82%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 41 (33.61%) Git
2 21 (17.21%) GitLab
3 20 (16.39%) JIRA
4 18 (14.75%) Jenkins
5 17 (13.93%) Selenium
6 9 (7.38%) Postman
7 7 (5.74%) SonarQube
7 7 (5.74%) Zephyr
8 5 (4.10%) Newman
9 4 (3.28%) JMeter
9 4 (3.28%) Robot Framework
9 4 (3.28%) TestRail
10 3 (2.46%) JUnit
11 2 (1.64%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.64%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.64%) Gatling
11 2 (1.64%) NeoLoad
11 2 (1.64%) NUnit
11 2 (1.64%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.82%) Locust
General
1 24 (19.67%) Finance
2 18 (14.75%) Social Skills
3 16 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.84%) Banking
5 5 (4.10%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.28%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.64%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.64%) Front Office
8 1 (0.82%) Automotive
8 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.82%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.82%) Legal
8 1 (0.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (22.95%) Lead
2 27 (22.13%) Senior
3 24 (19.67%) Developer
4 22 (18.03%) Python Developer
5 21 (17.21%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 14 (11.48%) Test Automation Engineer
7 13 (10.66%) Data Engineer
8 12 (9.84%) Python Engineer
8 12 (9.84%) Test Engineer
9 8 (6.56%) QA Leader
10 7 (5.74%) QA Engineer
11 6 (4.92%) Lead Data Engineer
12 5 (4.10%) Automation Engineer
12 5 (4.10%) QA Automation Engineer
12 5 (4.10%) Software Engineer
12 5 (4.10%) Tester
13 4 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
13 4 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
13 4 (3.28%) Platform Engineer
13 4 (3.28%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (22.95%) FastAPI
1 28 (22.95%) Playwright
2 21 (17.21%) RESTful
3 20 (16.39%) Pandas
4 19 (15.57%) Kafka
4 19 (15.57%) Terraform
5 18 (14.75%) REST
6 17 (13.93%) Flask
6 17 (13.93%) React
7 16 (13.11%) Django
8 15 (12.30%) PySpark
8 15 (12.30%) RabbitMQ
9 12 (9.84%) Great Expectations
10 10 (8.20%) NumPy
11 9 (7.38%) Swagger
12 8 (6.56%) Jinja
12 8 (6.56%) OpenAPI
13 7 (5.74%) Node.js
13 7 (5.74%) XML
14 6 (4.92%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.39%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.02%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.56%) Algorithms
3 8 (6.56%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.10%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.28%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.46%) Life Science
7 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.64%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.64%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.64%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.82%) IoT
8 1 (0.82%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (60.66%) CI/CD
2 65 (53.28%) DevOps
3 56 (45.90%) AI
4 50 (40.98%) Test Automation
5 40 (32.79%) Agile
6 39 (31.97%) Validation
7 35 (28.69%) OOP
7 35 (28.69%) Software Engineering
8 34 (27.87%) LLM
9 30 (24.59%) Machine Learning
10 28 (22.95%) Generative AI
10 28 (22.95%) Unit Testing
11 26 (21.31%) Containerisation
12 25 (20.49%) Clean Code
12 25 (20.49%) Design Patterns
13 24 (19.67%) Analytics
13 24 (19.67%) TDD
14 23 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (18.03%) Scrum
16 21 (17.21%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 118 (96.72%) Python
2 41 (33.61%) SQL
3 12 (9.84%) TypeScript
4 11 (9.02%) Java
5 9 (7.38%) Bash
6 7 (5.74%) C#
6 7 (5.74%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.28%) Cypher
7 4 (3.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (2.46%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.64%) R
9 2 (1.64%) SHACL
10 1 (0.82%) Go
10 1 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (20.49%) Security Cleared
2 21 (17.21%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.28%) Degree
4 3 (2.46%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.46%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.46%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (30.33%) QA
2 15 (12.30%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.46%) GDPR
4 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.64%) NIST
4 2 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
System Software
1 60 (49.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (36.89%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.38%) Grafana
3 7 (5.74%) Argo
4 6 (4.92%) Ansible
5 5 (4.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (15.57%) Databricks
2 15 (12.30%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.56%) Google
4 2 (1.64%) FactSet
4 2 (1.64%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.64%) SAP
5 1 (0.82%) Foundry
5 1 (0.82%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.82%) SimCorp