pytest Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

pytest
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring pytest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 51 -
Rank change year-on-year -57 - -
Contract jobs citing pytest 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.17% 0.51% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.60% 2.63% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £406 £360 -
25th Percentile £414 £364 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £378 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.58% - -
75th Percentile £444 £389 -
90th Percentile £452 £393 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £275 £475 -
% change year-on-year -42.11% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 335 76 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 29.00% 19.49% 29.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 54 83
10th Percentile £363 £358 £400
25th Percentile £442 £389 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% -20.83%
75th Percentile £555 £600 £581
90th Percentile £624 £707 £635
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £480 £525
% change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £13.49
25th Percentile - - £14.78
Median hourly rate - - £17.63
75th Percentile - - £21.03
90th Percentile - - £22.66
Yorkshire median hourly rate £62.75 £91.69 £22.50
% change year-on-year -31.56% +307.51% -67.86%

pytest
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

pytest job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

pytest
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

pytest
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 27 May 2026. 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
Sheffield -57 2 £429 +13.58% 3
pytest
Yorkshire

pytest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Wealth Management
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft