pytest Contracts in the UK excluding London

pytest
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for pytest skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited pytest over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 426 493
Rank change year-on-year +43 +67 -76
Contract jobs citing pytest 7 17 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.073% 0.046%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.22% 0.40% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 9
10th Percentile £459 £465 £463
25th Percentile £470 £494 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £524
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.50% +7.21%
75th Percentile £523 - £695
90th Percentile £531 - £711
UK median daily rate £513 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

pytest is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,243 4,275 6,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.83% 18.30% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,121 3,186 4,326
10th Percentile £325 £357 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £689 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 93 150
10th Percentile £21.73 £22.28 £20.70
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.05 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.78% +24.27% +14.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £65.48
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.95 £75.39
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing pytest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for pytest in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing pytest in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for pytest in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing pytest in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for pytest in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
North of England +32 5 £506 -15.63%
North West +20 4 £506 -
Midlands +29 1 £463 -7.50% 1
Yorkshire +12 1 - -
South West +8 1 £475 -20.83% 1
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Storage
2 2 (28.57%) BrowserStack
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) Sauce Labs
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Redis
2 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Selenium
2 4 (57.14%) GitLab
3 2 (28.57%) Appium
3 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
3 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
3 2 (28.57%) Git
3 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
4 1 (14.29%) JUnit
4 1 (14.29%) TestNG
General
1 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) QA Automation Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) WebdriverIO
1 2 (28.57%) YAML
2 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
2 1 (14.29%) Flask
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Alpine Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) API Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) BDD
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Conversational AI
3 2 (28.57%) Conversational UI
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) QA Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
3 2 (28.57%) Time Management
4 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
4 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (14.29%) Inmon Methodology
4 1 (14.29%) Kimball Methodology
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Informatica
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft