pytest Contracts in the North of England

pytest
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 155 180 213
Rank change year-on-year +25 +33 +17
Contract jobs citing pytest 11 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.33% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.61% 0.56% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 4
10th Percentile £380 - £526
25th Percentile £463 £494 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -15.63% +26.32%
75th Percentile £550 £531 -
90th Percentile £573 - -
England median daily rate £470 £506 £600
% change year-on-year -7.16% -15.63% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 685 900 1,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.79% 18.88% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 615 875
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £558 £596 £597
90th Percentile £650 £691 £675
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 10
10th Percentile £65.25 £13.87 £44.28
25th Percentile £68.81 £21.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £86.46 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.22% -26.11% +48.81%
75th Percentile £99.42 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £72.50 £71.00
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 the North of England

Job postings citing pytest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for pytest in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing pytest in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for pytest in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for pytest in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England 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
Yorkshire +12 5 £390 - 1
North West +16 3 £550 +8.64% 7
North East - 3 £525 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) AWS
4 3 (27.27%) GCP
5 2 (18.18%) npm
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) HTTP
1 2 (18.18%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) GitLab
2 6 (54.55%) Selenium
3 4 (36.36%) Git
4 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
4 2 (18.18%) JIRA
4 2 (18.18%) TestNG
4 2 (18.18%) webpack
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Electronics
2 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
2 2 (18.18%) Marketing
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Developer
4 3 (27.27%) Senior
5 2 (18.18%) Angular Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Python Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Lead
6 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 1 (9.09%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) REST
2 3 (27.27%) Flask
2 3 (27.27%) RESTful
3 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
3 2 (18.18%) CSS
3 2 (18.18%) HTML
3 2 (18.18%) Web Services
4 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
4 1 (9.09%) Django
4 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
4 1 (9.09%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (9.09%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
1 8 (72.73%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) BDD
4 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
4 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 2 (18.18%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Loose Coupling
4 2 (18.18%) Microservices
4 2 (18.18%) Programme Management
4 2 (18.18%) SDLC
4 2 (18.18%) TDD
4 2 (18.18%) Validation
4 2 (18.18%) Workflow
5 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) Bicep
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Terraform
2 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
3 4 (36.36%) Grafana
3 4 (36.36%) Prometheus
4 2 (18.18%) Ansible
4 2 (18.18%) Progress Chef
4 2 (18.18%) Puppet
4 2 (18.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) 3PAR
1 2 (18.18%) Brocade
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco
1 2 (18.18%) EMC
1 2 (18.18%) HP
1 2 (18.18%) SAP
1 2 (18.18%) VMware