pytest Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

pytest
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring pytest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing pytest 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 2.25% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.62% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £475 - -
25th Percentile £478 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 - -
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile £492 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £550 -
% change year-on-year -10.91% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 58 20 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 26.13% 20.62% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 15 1
10th Percentile £409 £435 -
25th Percentile £440 £448 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.93% +9.00% -4.94%
75th Percentile £547 £567 £525
90th Percentile £564 £571 -
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -6.82% +15.79% -9.52%

pytest
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing pytest within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Telford - 5 £485 - 4
pytest
West Midlands

pytest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 5 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) GitLab
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (100.00%) JUnit
1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
2 4 (80.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Test Specialist
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 4 (80.00%) Data Management
2 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Integration Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Sprint Planning
2 4 (80.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (60.00%) Data Strategy
3 3 (60.00%) Defect Management
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Regression Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
3 3 (60.00%) Visual Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes