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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 453 477
Rank change year-on-year -29 +24 +85
Contract jobs citing pytest 137 68 49
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.24% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.39% 0.95% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 51 36
10th Percentile £318 £363 £349
25th Percentile £413 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £485
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +13.40% -24.81%
75th Percentile £575 £725 £552
90th Percentile £656 £850 £629
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% -20.48%

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 9,826 7,136 8,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.50% 24.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,461 4,810 5,235
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £449 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £794
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 172 171
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £36.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.51 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.85 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.15% -15.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.20 £70.00 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +8.33%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing pytest in England over the 6 months to 8 October 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

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 8 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -43 91 £538 -19.78% 51
Yorkshire -20 19 £500 -
North of England -51 19 £500 +2.56% 2
South East -52 11 £341 -9.00% 6
East of England -27 9 £450 +18.03% 8
East Midlands -7 6 £300 - 1
Midlands -45 6 £300 -53.85% 5
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 8 (5.84%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (5.11%) Confluence
3 5 (3.65%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.46%) Apache
4 2 (1.46%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.46%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (4.38%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.73%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.73%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 46 (33.58%) AWS
2 43 (31.39%) Azure
2 43 (31.39%) GitHub
3 31 (22.63%) GitHub Actions
4 24 (17.52%) GCP
5 20 (14.60%) Serverless
6 17 (12.41%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (12.41%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (6.57%) Microsoft Copilot
8 8 (5.84%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (5.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (5.84%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (4.38%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (4.38%) Snowflake
10 5 (3.65%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (2.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.92%) Azure Functions
11 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.95%) Internet
2 6 (4.38%) DNS
2 6 (4.38%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.65%) 4G
3 5 (3.65%) 5G
3 5 (3.65%) HTTP
3 5 (3.65%) SSH
4 2 (1.46%) DSL
4 2 (1.46%) Network Security
5 1 (0.73%) BGP
5 1 (0.73%) Firewall
5 1 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.73%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.73%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.73%) VPN
5 1 (0.73%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (18.98%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (15.33%) MongoDB
3 15 (10.95%) MySQL
3 15 (10.95%) NoSQL
4 11 (8.03%) Redis
5 7 (5.11%) Neo4j
6 6 (4.38%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.65%) Metadata
8 4 (2.92%) Spark SQL
8 4 (2.92%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.19%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.46%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.46%) Power BI
10 2 (1.46%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.46%) ZAP BI
11 1 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.73%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.73%) Parquet
11 1 (0.73%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 52 (37.96%) Git
2 29 (21.17%) JIRA
3 22 (16.06%) GitLab
4 17 (12.41%) Jenkins
5 16 (11.68%) Selenium
6 10 (7.30%) Postman
7 7 (5.11%) Newman
7 7 (5.11%) Zephyr
8 6 (4.38%) JMeter
8 6 (4.38%) SonarQube
9 5 (3.65%) TestRail
10 4 (2.92%) REST Assured
10 4 (2.92%) Robot Framework
11 3 (2.19%) Cucumber
11 3 (2.19%) JUnit
12 2 (1.46%) Applitools
12 2 (1.46%) Cypress.io
12 2 (1.46%) Gatling
12 2 (1.46%) NeoLoad
13 1 (0.73%) Locust
General
1 34 (24.82%) Finance
2 24 (17.52%) Social Skills
3 23 (16.79%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.22%) Banking
5 6 (4.38%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.19%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.73%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.73%) Automotive
7 1 (0.73%) Back Office
7 1 (0.73%) Front Office
7 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.73%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.73%) Legal
7 1 (0.73%) Military
Job Titles
1 34 (24.82%) Lead
2 32 (23.36%) Senior
3 27 (19.71%) Developer
4 24 (17.52%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 24 (17.52%) Python Developer
5 17 (12.41%) Python Engineer
6 15 (10.95%) Test Automation Engineer
7 14 (10.22%) Data Engineer
8 13 (9.49%) Test Engineer
9 10 (7.30%) QA Leader
10 7 (5.11%) QA Engineer
11 6 (4.38%) Architect
11 6 (4.38%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (4.38%) Lead Data Engineer
11 6 (4.38%) Senior Data Engineer
12 5 (3.65%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 5 (3.65%) Databricks Engineer
12 5 (3.65%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 5 (3.65%) QA Automation Engineer
13 4 (2.92%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (24.09%) FastAPI
2 29 (21.17%) Playwright
3 25 (18.25%) Terraform
4 23 (16.79%) REST
5 22 (16.06%) Pandas
5 22 (16.06%) RESTful
6 20 (14.60%) Kafka
7 16 (11.68%) Django
7 16 (11.68%) RabbitMQ
8 15 (10.95%) Flask
8 15 (10.95%) React
9 14 (10.22%) PySpark
10 11 (8.03%) NumPy
11 9 (6.57%) Great Expectations
12 8 (5.84%) CSS
12 8 (5.84%) HTML
12 8 (5.84%) Jinja
12 8 (5.84%) Swagger
13 7 (5.11%) LDAP
13 7 (5.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (18.98%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.84%) AI Agents
3 7 (5.11%) Algorithms
3 7 (5.11%) Data Structures
3 7 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.65%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.92%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.92%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.19%) Life Science
6 3 (2.19%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.46%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.73%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.73%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.73%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.49%) Linux
2 1 (0.73%) Android
2 1 (0.73%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (67.15%) CI/CD
2 76 (55.47%) DevOps
3 71 (51.82%) AI
4 54 (39.42%) Test Automation
5 49 (35.77%) Agile
6 47 (34.31%) Validation
7 44 (32.12%) OOP
8 39 (28.47%) LLM
9 37 (27.01%) Machine Learning
10 34 (24.82%) Generative AI
11 33 (24.09%) Software Engineering
12 32 (23.36%) Unit Testing
13 31 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (19.71%) Clean Code
15 26 (18.98%) Infrastructure as Code
15 26 (18.98%) TDD
16 25 (18.25%) Analytics
16 25 (18.25%) Design Patterns
17 24 (17.52%) MLOps
17 24 (17.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 135 (98.54%) Python
2 53 (38.69%) SQL
3 17 (12.41%) TypeScript
4 13 (9.49%) Bash
4 13 (9.49%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.11%) Go
5 7 (5.11%) Java
6 5 (3.65%) C#
7 4 (2.92%) Cypher
7 4 (2.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (2.92%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.46%) R
8 2 (1.46%) SHACL
9 1 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 23 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.60%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.11%) Degree
4 4 (2.92%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.92%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.46%) CISSP
5 2 (1.46%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.73%) CISA
6 1 (0.73%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (0.73%) GSEC
6 1 (0.73%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.73%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (32.85%) QA
2 15 (10.95%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.92%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.19%) GDPR
4 3 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.19%) NIST
5 2 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 66 (48.18%) Docker
2 3 (2.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 56 (40.88%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.57%) Grafana
3 8 (5.84%) Argo
4 7 (5.11%) Ansible
5 5 (3.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (14.60%) Databricks
2 18 (13.14%) Microsoft
3 12 (8.76%) Google
4 4 (2.92%) Foundry
5 3 (2.19%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.19%) OutSystems
6 2 (1.46%) FactSet
6 2 (1.46%) Palantir
7 1 (0.73%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.73%) Oracle
7 1 (0.73%) SAP
7 1 (0.73%) SimCorp