pytest Contracts in London

pytest
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring pytest skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited pytest over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 360 402
Rank change year-on-year +59 +42 +97
Contract jobs citing pytest 52 31 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.41% 0.17% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.59% 0.69% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 15 46
10th Percentile £410 £402 £456
25th Percentile £413 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% -3.70% +22.73%
75th Percentile £565 £838 £809
90th Percentile £780 £874 £825
England median daily rate £470 £506 £600
% change year-on-year -7.16% -15.63% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

pytest
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing pytest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for pytest in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing pytest in London.

Daily rate trend for pytest in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing pytest in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for pytest in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing pytest within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Central London +8 11 £425 - 3
South London - 2 £750 -
pytest
England

pytest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (11.54%) Confluence
3 5 (9.62%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.92%) Apache
4 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Endur
1 1 (1.92%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 35 (67.31%) AWS
2 17 (32.69%) GitHub
3 15 (28.85%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (23.08%) Azure
5 9 (17.31%) dbt
6 6 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (9.62%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (7.69%) GCP
9 3 (5.77%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (5.77%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (5.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (5.77%) BrowserStack
9 3 (5.77%) Sauce Labs
10 2 (3.85%) Cloud Run
10 2 (3.85%) Serverless
10 2 (3.85%) Snowflake
11 1 (1.92%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.77%) BigQuery
2 3 (5.77%) Data Lake
2 3 (5.77%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.85%) Delta Lake
3 2 (3.85%) Impala
3 2 (3.85%) Metadata
3 2 (3.85%) Redis
4 1 (1.92%) Airbyte
4 1 (1.92%) Big Data
4 1 (1.92%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.92%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.92%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (44.23%) Git
2 18 (34.62%) Selenium
3 16 (30.77%) Jenkins
4 15 (28.85%) JIRA
4 15 (28.85%) Postman
5 8 (15.38%) REST Assured
6 5 (9.62%) Cucumber
6 5 (9.62%) Cypress.io
7 3 (5.77%) Appium
7 3 (5.77%) JUnit
7 3 (5.77%) MLflow
7 3 (5.77%) SonarQube
7 3 (5.77%) TestNG
7 3 (5.77%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (3.85%) Artifactory
8 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket
8 2 (3.85%) GitLab
9 1 (1.92%) JMeter
9 1 (1.92%) Locust
9 1 (1.92%) Robot Framework
General
1 8 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 5 (9.62%) Finance
3 3 (5.77%) Banking
4 2 (3.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.92%) Electronics
5 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.92%) Marketing
5 1 (1.92%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (42.31%) Python Engineer
2 15 (28.85%) Test Engineer
3 12 (23.08%) Data Engineer
4 9 (17.31%) Senior
5 7 (13.46%) Developer
5 7 (13.46%) Senior Test Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Tester
7 5 (9.62%) Python Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Lead
8 4 (7.69%) Lead Data Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) QA Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Android Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Automation Specialist
9 2 (3.85%) AWS Developer
9 2 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) GCP Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (26.92%) REST
2 10 (19.23%) FastAPI
3 6 (11.54%) PySpark
4 5 (9.62%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (9.62%) Pandas
5 4 (7.69%) Hugging Face
5 4 (7.69%) Jinja
5 4 (7.69%) LangChain
5 4 (7.69%) React
5 4 (7.69%) SQLAlchemy
5 4 (7.69%) TensorFlow
6 3 (5.77%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (5.77%) NumPy
6 3 (5.77%) Playwright
6 3 (5.77%) pydantic
6 3 (5.77%) PyTorch
6 3 (5.77%) scikit-learn
7 1 (1.92%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.92%) Great Expectations
7 1 (1.92%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.85%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.92%) Blockchain
2 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.92%) Reinsurance
2 1 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.77%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (78.85%) Test Automation
2 29 (55.77%) CI/CD
3 19 (36.54%) Data Pipeline
4 14 (26.92%) Agile
4 14 (26.92%) BDD
5 13 (25.00%) Test Scripting
6 12 (23.08%) DevOps
7 11 (21.15%) API Testing
8 7 (13.46%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (13.46%) Data Modelling
8 7 (13.46%) ETL
8 7 (13.46%) Open Source
8 7 (13.46%) Test Strategy
9 6 (11.54%) Containerisation
9 6 (11.54%) Data Engineering
9 6 (11.54%) Machine Learning
9 6 (11.54%) Microservices
9 6 (11.54%) SDET
10 5 (9.62%) Data Science
10 5 (9.62%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (96.15%) Python
2 12 (23.08%) SQL
3 4 (7.69%) R
4 1 (1.92%) Bash
4 1 (1.92%) C#
4 1 (1.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (13.46%) SC Cleared
1 7 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.77%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.92%) Degree
3 1 (1.92%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.15%) QA
2 7 (13.46%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.77%) WCAG
4 2 (3.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (19.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (17.31%) Kubernetes
1 9 (17.31%) Terraform
2 2 (3.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (9.62%) Databricks
2 3 (5.77%) Informatica
2 3 (5.77%) SAP
3 2 (3.85%) Dataiku
3 2 (3.85%) DataRobot
3 2 (3.85%) Google
3 2 (3.85%) UiPath
4 1 (1.92%) GoldenSource
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft