pytest Contract Job Trends in London

pytest
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring pytest skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 375 425
Rank change year-on-year +52 +50 +60
Contract jobs citing pytest 46 22 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.29% 0.49% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 16 12
10th Percentile £433 £276 £461
25th Percentile £463 £391 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £500 £648
Median % change year-on-year +34.00% -22.78% +12.61%
75th Percentile £750 £519 £794
90th Percentile £850 £763 £824
England median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
England median hourly rate - - £75.00

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 3,557 4,458 5,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.38% 27.35% 25.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,433 3,017 4,202
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £713
90th Percentile £825 £850 £810
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 22 41
10th Percentile £31.77 £23.84 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.17 £36.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £51.97 £42.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.28% -32.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £62.81 £59.51 £73.65
90th Percentile £85.95 £74.00 £86.56
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.36 £58.59
% change year-on-year -13.19% +8.13% -9.86%

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

pytest
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing pytest.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing pytest

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing pytest in London over the 6 months to 26 September 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 26 September 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
South London -3 4 £549 +21.89% 1
Central London +4 1 £675 +28.51% 11
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England

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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 (17.39%) Confluence
2 5 (10.87%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (8.70%) Apache Spark
4 2 (4.35%) Jupyter
5 1 (2.17%) Apache
5 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Endur
2 1 (2.17%) SAP BPC
2 1 (2.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 22 (47.83%) AWS
1 22 (47.83%) GitHub
2 15 (32.61%) GitHub Actions
3 12 (26.09%) Azure
3 12 (26.09%) GCP
4 10 (21.74%) Amazon S3
5 8 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (17.39%) Serverless
6 6 (13.04%) Cloud Run
7 5 (10.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (6.52%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (6.52%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (6.52%) dbt
9 3 (6.52%) IaaS
10 2 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (4.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.52%) Big Data
2 3 (6.52%) BigQuery
2 3 (6.52%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (4.35%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (2.17%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.17%) Looker
4 1 (2.17%) Metadata
4 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.17%) Redis
4 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (45.65%) Git
2 11 (23.91%) JIRA
3 7 (15.22%) GitLab
3 7 (15.22%) Selenium
4 4 (8.70%) Cypress.io
4 4 (8.70%) JMeter
4 4 (8.70%) Locust
5 3 (6.52%) Postman
6 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
6 2 (4.35%) MLflow
6 2 (4.35%) Robot Framework
7 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.17%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (2.17%) MSTest
7 1 (2.17%) PyCharm
7 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.17%) SpecFlow
7 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (2.17%) webpack
7 1 (2.17%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (15.22%) Finance
1 7 (15.22%) Pharmaceutical
1 7 (15.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Banking
4 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Developer
2 10 (21.74%) Software Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) Python Developer
4 7 (15.22%) Python Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Data Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Senior
7 4 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) DevOps Specialist
7 4 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Tester
9 2 (4.35%) Azure Data Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Development Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Python Software Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Software Developer
9 2 (4.35%) Software Development Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Test Development Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (36.96%) FastAPI
2 8 (17.39%) boto
2 8 (17.39%) React
2 8 (17.39%) REST
3 7 (15.22%) LDAP
3 7 (15.22%) mypy
4 6 (13.04%) Flake8
4 6 (13.04%) RESTful
5 5 (10.87%) Jest
5 5 (10.87%) LangChain
5 5 (10.87%) Playwright
5 5 (10.87%) pydantic
6 4 (8.70%) Kafka
6 4 (8.70%) LangGraph
6 4 (8.70%) Node.js
6 4 (8.70%) SQLAlchemy
7 3 (6.52%) Great Expectations
7 3 (6.52%) NestJS
7 3 (6.52%) Pandas
7 3 (6.52%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Genomics
2 5 (10.87%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.87%) Life Science
3 4 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.17%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.17%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.17%) FMCG
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Android
2 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (52.17%) Test Automation
2 23 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 23 (50.00%) DevOps
3 21 (45.65%) Agile
4 18 (39.13%) Artificial Intelligence
5 17 (36.96%) Microservices
6 16 (34.78%) Machine Learning
7 10 (21.74%) Containerisation
7 10 (21.74%) Software Engineering
8 9 (19.57%) Code Quality
8 9 (19.57%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (19.57%) Unit Testing
9 7 (15.22%) Migration
9 7 (15.22%) Natural Language Processing
9 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (13.04%) API Integration
10 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (13.04%) Proteomics
11 5 (10.87%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 43 (93.48%) Python
2 15 (32.61%) SQL
3 7 (15.22%) Go
4 5 (10.87%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.35%) C#
6 2 (4.35%) Java
7 1 (2.17%) Bash
7 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (19.57%) SC Cleared
1 9 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.39%) Degree
3 4 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (28.26%) QA
2 4 (8.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (34.78%) Docker
2 5 (10.87%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (43.48%) Kubernetes
2 15 (32.61%) Terraform
3 1 (2.17%) Ansible
3 1 (2.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) Google
2 5 (10.87%) Atlassian
3 4 (8.70%) Databricks
4 2 (4.35%) Dataiku
4 2 (4.35%) DataRobot
5 1 (2.17%) Informatica
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.17%) Okta
5 1 (2.17%) SAP
5 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.17%) UiPath
5 1 (2.17%) VMware