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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 387 429
Rank change year-on-year +67 +42 +57
Contract jobs citing pytest 19 7 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.035% 0.069%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.80% 0.22% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 13
10th Percentile £395 £459 £465
25th Percentile £441 £470 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +11.73%
75th Percentile £544 £523 -
90th Percentile £566 £531 -
UK median daily rate £475 £506 £600
% change year-on-year -6.17% -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 2,374 3,244 4,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.37% 16.01% 18.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,127 3,158
10th Percentile £325 £323 £356
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 213 87
10th Percentile £35.08 £21.88 £22.20
25th Percentile £56.03 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £69.06 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.35 £74.49 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

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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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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 21 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 21 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 +29 13 £525 +3.70% 8
Yorkshire +21 8 £475 - 1
North East - 3 £525 -
Scotland - 3 £496 -
North West +7 2 £550 +8.64% 7
South East - 2 £479 - 13
South West +38 1 - - 6
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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 (52.63%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) GCP
4 3 (15.79%) npm
5 2 (10.53%) GitHub
5 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) HTTP
2 2 (10.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.26%) ObjectStore
3 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Git
2 7 (36.84%) GitLab
3 6 (31.58%) Selenium
4 3 (15.79%) JIRA
4 3 (15.79%) webpack
5 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
5 2 (10.53%) TestNG
6 1 (5.26%) JUnit
General
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Electronics
2 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
2 2 (10.53%) Marketing
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.26%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Developer
2 7 (36.84%) Python Developer
3 5 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Angular Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior
6 2 (10.53%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Lead
6 2 (10.53%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (10.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Automation Tester
7 1 (5.26%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (5.26%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Lead Tester
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Python Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) FastAPI
1 6 (31.58%) Flask
1 6 (31.58%) RESTful
2 5 (26.32%) REST
2 5 (26.32%) Web Services
3 3 (15.79%) AngularJS
3 3 (15.79%) CSS
3 3 (15.79%) Django
3 3 (15.79%) HTML
4 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
4 1 (5.26%) Celery
4 1 (5.26%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (5.26%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (57.89%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Mac OS
2 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Windows
3 1 (5.26%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) CI/CD
2 13 (68.42%) Test Automation
3 10 (52.63%) DevOps
4 5 (26.32%) Agile
4 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (21.05%) BDD
5 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
5 4 (21.05%) SDLC
5 4 (21.05%) TDD
6 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (15.79%) Data Loss Prevention
6 3 (15.79%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (15.79%) Loose Coupling
6 3 (15.79%) Microservices
6 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
6 3 (15.79%) Validation
6 3 (15.79%) Workflow
7 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
7 2 (10.53%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (36.84%) Bash
3 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.26%) Bicep
5 1 (5.26%) C++
5 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (52.63%) Kubernetes
2 9 (47.37%) Terraform
3 3 (15.79%) Grafana
3 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
4 2 (10.53%) Ansible
4 2 (10.53%) Podman
4 2 (10.53%) Progress Chef
4 2 (10.53%) Puppet
4 2 (10.53%) RSA Archer
4 2 (10.53%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) 3PAR
1 2 (10.53%) Brocade
1 2 (10.53%) Cisco
1 2 (10.53%) EMC
1 2 (10.53%) HP
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.53%) Netskope
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle
1 2 (10.53%) Proofpoint
1 2 (10.53%) SAP
1 2 (10.53%) Splunk
1 2 (10.53%) Symantec
1 2 (10.53%) VMware