pytest Contract Job Trends in Manchester

pytest
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring pytest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 80 108
Rank change year-on-year +2 +28 -
Contract jobs citing pytest 6 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.58% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.93% 0.90% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £359 £535 -
25th Percentile £373 £550 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £600 £725
Median % change year-on-year -22.92% -17.24% -
75th Percentile £500 £650 £738
90th Percentile £613 £665 -
North West median daily rate £463 £600 £725
% change year-on-year -22.92% -17.24% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 205 223 398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 19.81% 19.37% 23.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 140 330
10th Percentile £321 £347 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.93% -2.25% -7.19%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £624 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £447 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -0.67% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £63.20 £60.50
25th Percentile - £64.25 £64.06
Median hourly rate £70.00 £69.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% +1.09% -5.50%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £77.81
90th Percentile - £74.20 £79.88
North West median hourly rate £51.00 £56.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year -9.88% +22.54% -38.43%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing pytest relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

pytest job vacancy trend in Manchester

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Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing pytest

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing pytest in Manchester over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for pytest in Manchester

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (33.33%) Big Data
1 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Robot Framework
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Test Leader
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Playwright
1 2 (33.33%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) Pandas
2 1 (16.67%) scikit-learn
2 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (16.67%) XGBoost
2 1 (16.67%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) ETL
2 3 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Coaching
3 2 (33.33%) Complex ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) RBAC
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 2 (33.33%) User Stories
3 2 (33.33%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Postgraduate
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Control-M
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) VMware