pytest Contract Job Trends in Scotland

pytest
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring pytest skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing pytest 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.25% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.04% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile £443 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 - -
75th Percentile £511 - -
90th Percentile £519 - -
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.00% -2.44% -10.87%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 384 377 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 24.11% 20.16% 23.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 253 409
10th Percentile £361 £375 £388
25th Percentile £424 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -1.04% -2.04%
75th Percentile £538 £569 £541
90th Percentile £600 £700 £617
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £26.07
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £49.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £57.02
Median % change year-on-year - -3.53% -4.47%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £59.03
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £62.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.11% +3.33% -

pytest
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for pytest in Scotland

pytest
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing pytest

pytest
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing pytest within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 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
Glasgow - 3 £496 - 1
Edinburgh - 1 - - 1
pytest
UK

pytest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (25.00%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (25.00%) Next.js
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Mac OS
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Content Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Content Management
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Podman
2 2 (50.00%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Netskope
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Proofpoint
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
1 2 (50.00%) Symantec