pytest Contract Job Trends in South London

pytest
London > South London

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 37 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing pytest 4 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 1.93% 1.30% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.67% 5.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £454 £458 -
25th Percentile £459 £506 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.58% - -
75th Percentile £636 £681 -
90th Percentile £641 £723 -
London median daily rate £593 £430 £648
% change year-on-year +37.79% -33.59% +7.92%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 60 54 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 28.99% 23.48% 22.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 35 48
10th Percentile £460 £340 £367
25th Percentile £500 £444 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £549 £675 £638
90th Percentile £643 £721 £675
London median daily rate £525 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.08
Median hourly rate - - £38.16
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.16%
75th Percentile - - £39.23
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -17.31%

pytest
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

pytest job vacancy trend in South London

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Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing pytest in South London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for pytest in South London

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Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Croydon - 3 £622 -
pytest
London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) boto
2 1 (25.00%) Great Expectations
2 1 (25.00%) LDAP
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) API Integration
3 1 (25.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (25.00%) Issue Tracking
3 1 (25.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow