pytest Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

pytest
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring pytest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing pytest 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.042% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £349 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
75th Percentile £366 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £366 £438 -
% change year-on-year -16.29% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 410 307 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.07% 18.35% 15.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 217 223
10th Percentile £363 £384 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £648 £659 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £526 £500
% change year-on-year -4.99% +5.25% -8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 16
10th Percentile £56.01 £32.11 £56.50
25th Percentile £73.25 £39.63 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.00 £52.48 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +54.36% -14.81% -21.53%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £64.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £72.31 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +0.81% -4.62%

pytest
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

pytest job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

pytest
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing pytest.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing pytest

pytest
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing pytest within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 21 February 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
Berkshire - 1 £358 - 1
pytest
South East

pytest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes