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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 433 498
Rank change year-on-year -70 +65 +37
Contract jobs citing pytest 88 51 41
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.21% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.09% 0.94% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 36 26
10th Percentile £315 £408 £406
25th Percentile £363 £413 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -5.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £500 £561 £666
90th Percentile £620 £769 £862
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -16.67%
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 8,051 5,428 7,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.19% 22.54% 20.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,310 3,752 5,401
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £418 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £635 £659 £675
90th Percentile £738 £790 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £536
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.94% -2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 106 239
10th Percentile £31.18 £31.28 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.13 £43.70 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -55 52 £500 +6.38% 12
Midlands - 11 £463 - 2
South East -59 8 £374 -21.93% 5
North of England -79 8 £379 -24.25% 8
Yorkshire -52 7 £403 -15.26% 6
East Midlands - 6 £393 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £481 - 1
East of England - 5 £375 - 1
South West - 2 £435 - 4
North West -36 1 £355 -35.45% 1
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 (9.09%) Appian
2 5 (5.68%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.68%) SAS
3 4 (4.55%) Confluence
4 2 (2.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.14%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (5.68%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.14%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 37 (42.05%) Azure
2 29 (32.95%) AWS
3 25 (28.41%) GitHub
4 20 (22.73%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (15.91%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (10.23%) Serverless
8 8 (9.09%) Anthropic Claude
8 8 (9.09%) Azure AI
8 8 (9.09%) Power Automate
9 7 (7.95%) OpenShift
10 5 (5.68%) Apigee
10 5 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.55%) Amazon S3
11 4 (4.55%) Azure Functions
11 4 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (3.41%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (3.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (3.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 8 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 8 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 8 (9.09%) Pinecone
4 6 (6.82%) Aerospike
4 6 (6.82%) Redis
5 5 (5.68%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (5.68%) DynamoDB
6 4 (4.55%) Big Data
7 3 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.41%) Power BI
8 2 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.27%) Neo4j
8 2 (2.27%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.27%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 2 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (2.27%) Tableau
9 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (35.23%) Git
2 29 (32.95%) Jenkins
3 21 (23.86%) GitLab
4 19 (21.59%) Selenium
5 13 (14.77%) JUnit
6 12 (13.64%) Postman
7 8 (9.09%) Cypress.io
7 8 (9.09%) JIRA
7 8 (9.09%) MLflow
8 7 (7.95%) Robot Framework
9 4 (4.55%) Cucumber
10 3 (3.41%) Newman
10 3 (3.41%) PyCharm
10 3 (3.41%) PyUnit
10 3 (3.41%) SonarQube
11 2 (2.27%) Appium
11 2 (2.27%) REST Assured
11 2 (2.27%) Snyk
11 2 (2.27%) Sourcetree
11 2 (2.27%) Storybook
General
1 32 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 23 (26.14%) Finance
3 12 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.09%) Banking
5 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.14%) Front Office
8 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (27.27%) Developer
2 14 (15.91%) Python Developer
3 11 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 11 (12.50%) Senior
4 9 (10.23%) Data Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) Test Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Python Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (5.68%) QA Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) Software Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) Test Specialist
7 5 (5.68%) Tester
8 4 (4.55%) Lead
8 4 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Test Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (22.73%) FastAPI
1 20 (22.73%) Pandas
2 19 (21.59%) Django
2 19 (21.59%) Flask
3 18 (20.45%) REST
4 17 (19.32%) RESTful
5 15 (17.05%) NumPy
6 14 (15.91%) Kafka
6 14 (15.91%) Swagger
7 13 (14.77%) OAuth
7 13 (14.77%) OpenAPI
8 12 (13.64%) Playwright
9 11 (12.50%) Node.js
10 9 (10.23%) CSS
10 9 (10.23%) JWT
11 8 (9.09%) Faiss
11 8 (9.09%) Hugging Face
11 8 (9.09%) PySpark
11 8 (9.09%) PyTorch
11 8 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.59%) Cloud Native
2 11 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (9.09%) Low-Code
4 6 (6.82%) Data Structures
5 5 (5.68%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.27%) Life Science
7 2 (2.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.14%) NHS
8 1 (1.14%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.68%) Android
2 3 (3.41%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (70.45%) CI/CD
2 52 (59.09%) Test Automation
3 40 (45.45%) DevOps
4 39 (44.32%) Agile
5 30 (34.09%) Validation
6 27 (30.68%) Containerisation
6 27 (30.68%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
8 22 (25.00%) Data Modelling
9 21 (23.86%) AI
9 21 (23.86%) Software Engineering
10 20 (22.73%) Clean Code
10 20 (22.73%) Unit Testing
11 17 (19.32%) ETL
12 16 (18.18%) Analytics
12 16 (18.18%) Data Engineering
12 16 (18.18%) Data Validation
12 16 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
12 16 (18.18%) Machine Learning
12 16 (18.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 72 (81.82%) Python
2 33 (37.50%) SQL
3 21 (23.86%) Java
4 10 (11.36%) C#
5 8 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.41%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.27%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 26 (29.55%) Security Cleared
2 22 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.41%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.41%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (19.32%) QA
2 16 (18.18%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.41%) GDPR
3 3 (3.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 38 (43.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 13 (14.77%) Terraform
3 4 (4.55%) Grafana
4 3 (3.41%) Kibana
4 3 (3.41%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.27%) Rundeck
6 1 (1.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (19.32%) Databricks
2 8 (9.09%) Automation Anywhere
2 8 (9.09%) OpenAI
2 8 (9.09%) UiPath
3 5 (5.68%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.41%) Oracle
4 3 (3.41%) SAP
5 2 (2.27%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.27%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.14%) Google
6 1 (1.14%) SimCorp