pytest Contracts in the UK excluding London

pytest
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring pytest skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited pytest over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 392 444
Rank change year-on-year +73 +52 +52
Contract jobs citing pytest 17 7 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.034% 0.075%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.71% 0.21% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 13
10th Percentile £393 £478 £465
25th Percentile £430 £494 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £506 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -15.63% +16.45%
75th Percentile £547 £531 -
90th Percentile £566 £553 -
UK median daily rate £473 £506 £600
% change year-on-year -6.67% -15.63% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

pytest
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

pytest
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing pytest in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 1 May 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
North of England +25 11 £525 +3.70% 8
Yorkshire +12 5 £390 - 1
North West +16 3 £550 +8.64% 7
North East - 3 £525 -
Scotland - 3 £496 - 3
South East - 2 £479 - 9
South West +45 1 - - 2
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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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) AWS
3 5 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) GCP
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (11.76%) npm
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) HTTP
1 2 (11.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.88%) ObjectStore
3 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Git
2 7 (41.18%) GitLab
3 6 (35.29%) Selenium
4 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 2 (11.76%) JIRA
4 2 (11.76%) TestNG
4 2 (11.76%) webpack
5 1 (5.88%) JUnit
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Electronics
2 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.76%) Marketing
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Developer
2 7 (41.18%) Python Developer
3 6 (35.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (29.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 5 (29.41%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) Senior
6 2 (11.76%) Angular Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (11.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Lead
7 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Python Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) FastAPI
2 5 (29.41%) Flask
2 5 (29.41%) RESTful
3 4 (23.53%) REST
3 4 (23.53%) Web Services
4 3 (17.65%) Django
5 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
5 2 (11.76%) CSS
5 2 (11.76%) HTML
6 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
6 1 (5.88%) Celery
6 1 (5.88%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (5.88%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Linux
2 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (17.65%) Mac OS
3 3 (17.65%) Windows
4 1 (5.88%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) CI/CD
2 11 (64.71%) DevOps
3 10 (58.82%) Test Automation
4 5 (29.41%) Agile
4 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
5 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (17.65%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (17.65%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (17.65%) SDLC
5 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) Validation
6 2 (11.76%) BDD
6 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
6 2 (11.76%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
6 2 (11.76%) Programme Management
6 2 (11.76%) TDD
6 2 (11.76%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) Bash
3 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.88%) Bicep
5 1 (5.88%) C++
5 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Kubernetes
1 10 (58.82%) Terraform
2 4 (23.53%) Grafana
2 4 (23.53%) Prometheus
3 2 (11.76%) Ansible
3 2 (11.76%) Podman
3 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
3 2 (11.76%) Puppet
3 2 (11.76%) RSA Archer
3 2 (11.76%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) 3PAR
1 2 (11.76%) Brocade
1 2 (11.76%) Cisco
1 2 (11.76%) EMC
1 2 (11.76%) HP
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) Netskope
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
1 2 (11.76%) Proofpoint
1 2 (11.76%) SAP
1 2 (11.76%) Splunk
1 2 (11.76%) Symantec
1 2 (11.76%) VMware