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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 402 502
Rank change year-on-year -46 +100 +65
Contract jobs citing pytest 119 71 44
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.29% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.53% 1.26% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 52 27
10th Percentile £352 £400 £406
25th Percentile £393 £413 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -8.10% -16.67%
75th Percentile £500 £560 £700
90th Percentile £728 £651 £835
UK median daily rate £466 £465 £500
% change year-on-year +0.27% -7.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 -

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 7,793 5,618 7,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.47% 22.76% 20.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,231 3,773 5,433
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £419 £428 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £669
90th Percentile £738 £788 £769
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 85 206
10th Percentile £35.18 £27.26 £21.04
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.06 £40.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +31.36% -25.05%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.75 £65.94
90th Percentile £79.60 £81.80 £75.77
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -23 68 £439 -0.34% 10
Midlands - 31 £477 - 6
West Midlands - 22 £481 - 2
East Midlands - 9 £398 - 4
East of England -25 5 £325 -23.89% 3
North of England -73 4 £451 -17.95% 3
North West -38 2 £428 -22.27% 1
South East -43 2 £429 -10.44% 10
Yorkshire -68 2 £451 +23.63% 2
South West -17 1 - - 2
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 22 (18.49%) SAS
2 10 (8.40%) Apache Spark
3 8 (6.72%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (6.72%) Appian
4 4 (3.36%) Confluence
5 1 (0.84%) CMS
5 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 3 (2.52%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 36 (30.25%) GitHub
2 33 (27.73%) AWS
3 30 (25.21%) Azure
4 22 (18.49%) GitHub Actions
4 22 (18.49%) OpenShift
5 16 (13.45%) GCP
6 13 (10.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (7.56%) Serverless
9 8 (6.72%) Amazon S3
9 8 (6.72%) Anthropic Claude
9 8 (6.72%) Azure AI
9 8 (6.72%) Cloud Run
9 8 (6.72%) Power Automate
10 5 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.36%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (3.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (3.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (3.36%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.40%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.56%) Aerospike
2 9 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.72%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.72%) Pinecone
4 7 (5.88%) Oracle Database
4 7 (5.88%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 6 (5.04%) Big Data
5 6 (5.04%) DynamoDB
5 6 (5.04%) Redis
6 5 (4.20%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.52%) Power BI
8 3 (2.52%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 2 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.68%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.68%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (48.74%) Git
2 43 (36.13%) Jenkins
3 36 (30.25%) GitLab
4 33 (27.73%) Selenium
5 29 (24.37%) JUnit
6 13 (10.92%) Postman
7 9 (7.56%) JIRA
8 8 (6.72%) MLflow
9 7 (5.88%) Cypress.io
10 6 (5.04%) PyCharm
10 6 (5.04%) PyUnit
11 5 (4.20%) Robot Framework
12 4 (3.36%) Cucumber
12 4 (3.36%) SonarQube
13 3 (2.52%) REST Assured
14 2 (1.68%) CircleCI
14 2 (1.68%) Snyk
14 2 (1.68%) Sourcetree
14 2 (1.68%) Storybook
14 2 (1.68%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 54 (45.38%) Social Skills
2 26 (21.85%) Finance
3 16 (13.45%) Pharmaceutical
4 9 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.72%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.04%) Banking
7 2 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 29 (24.37%) Developer
2 21 (17.65%) Test Specialist
3 20 (16.81%) Python Developer
4 12 (10.08%) Automation Engineer
4 12 (10.08%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (10.08%) Test Automation Specialist
5 11 (9.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 11 (9.24%) Data Engineer
6 10 (8.40%) Tester
7 9 (7.56%) Senior
7 9 (7.56%) Test Engineer
8 8 (6.72%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 7 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (5.88%) Python Engineer
9 7 (5.88%) Software Engineer
10 6 (5.04%) Automation Tester
10 6 (5.04%) AWS Data Engineer
10 6 (5.04%) QA Engineer
11 4 (3.36%) React Developer
11 4 (3.36%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (26.89%) FastAPI
1 32 (26.89%) REST
2 20 (16.81%) RESTful
3 18 (15.13%) Django
3 18 (15.13%) Playwright
4 14 (11.76%) Flask
4 14 (11.76%) Jest
4 14 (11.76%) Kafka
4 14 (11.76%) React
5 12 (10.08%) Node.js
5 12 (10.08%) Pandas
6 11 (9.24%) CSS
6 11 (9.24%) NumPy
6 11 (9.24%) OAuth
6 11 (9.24%) PyTorch
6 11 (9.24%) scikit-learn
6 11 (9.24%) TensorFlow
7 10 (8.40%) Next.js
8 9 (7.56%) JWT
8 9 (7.56%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.08%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.40%) Genomics
4 9 (7.56%) Life Science
5 8 (6.72%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (6.72%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.52%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.68%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.68%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.84%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.84%) FMCG
8 1 (0.84%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.72%) Android
2 6 (5.04%) Apple iOS
2 6 (5.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (70.59%) Test Automation
2 78 (65.55%) CI/CD
3 71 (59.66%) Agile
4 53 (44.54%) DevOps
5 51 (42.86%) Containerisation
6 48 (40.34%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (36.97%) Data Pipeline
8 35 (29.41%) AI
9 32 (26.89%) Analytics
10 28 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 28 (23.53%) Validation
11 26 (21.85%) Integration Testing
11 26 (21.85%) Machine Learning
11 26 (21.85%) Scrum
11 26 (21.85%) Unit Testing
12 25 (21.01%) Data Engineering
12 25 (21.01%) Deployment Automation
12 25 (21.01%) Test Strategy
13 23 (19.33%) Code Quality
13 23 (19.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 100 (84.03%) Python
2 39 (32.77%) SQL
3 20 (16.81%) Java
4 14 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.56%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.88%) Shell Script
7 6 (5.04%) C#
8 2 (1.68%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 32 (26.89%) Security Cleared
2 29 (24.37%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.56%) Degree
4 6 (5.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.68%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.84%) ISEB
6 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.29%) QA
2 11 (9.24%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.52%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.52%) GDPR
3 3 (2.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (43.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (36.97%) Kubernetes
2 12 (10.08%) Terraform
3 3 (2.52%) Grafana
3 3 (2.52%) Kibana
4 2 (1.68%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.68%) Rundeck
5 1 (0.84%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (12.61%) Databricks
2 13 (10.92%) Google
3 9 (7.56%) Oracle
4 8 (6.72%) Automation Anywhere
4 8 (6.72%) OpenAI
4 8 (6.72%) UiPath
5 6 (5.04%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.36%) SAP
7 2 (1.68%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.84%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.84%) Splunk