pytest Contracts

pytest
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 446 537 591
Rank change year-on-year +91 +54 +105
Contract jobs citing pytest 74 45 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.10% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.11% 0.50% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 26 72
10th Percentile £410 £412 £456
25th Percentile £413 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £506 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -15.63% +9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £713 £775
90th Percentile £739 £862 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £506 £600
% change year-on-year -1.63% -15.63% +16.45%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

pytest
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing pytest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for pytest in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing pytest.

Daily rate trend for pytest in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for pytest in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing pytest.

Hourly rate trend for pytest in the UK

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Top 11 Contract Locations

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 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
England +82 66 £470 -7.16% 43
London +59 52 £450 -30.77% 29
Work from Home +50 19 £500 - 31
UK excluding London +73 17 £498 -1.63% 23
North of England +25 11 £525 +3.70% 9
Yorkshire +12 5 £390 - 1
North West +16 3 £550 +8.64% 8
North East - 3 £525 -
Scotland - 3 £496 - 3
South East - 2 £479 - 7
South West +45 1 - - 2

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (10.81%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (8.11%) Confluence
2 6 (8.11%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.35%) Apache
3 1 (1.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Endur
1 1 (1.35%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 45 (60.81%) AWS
2 23 (31.08%) Azure
3 20 (27.03%) GitHub
4 18 (24.32%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (12.16%) dbt
7 7 (9.46%) GCP
8 5 (6.76%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (5.41%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (5.41%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (5.41%) BrowserStack
9 4 (5.41%) Sauce Labs
10 3 (4.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (4.05%) Serverless
11 2 (2.70%) Cloud Run
11 2 (2.70%) npm
11 2 (2.70%) Snowflake
12 1 (1.35%) Amazon Kinesis
12 1 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.70%) HTTP
1 2 (2.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.16%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.05%) BigQuery
2 3 (4.05%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.05%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.05%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.70%) Delta Lake
3 2 (2.70%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.70%) Impala
3 2 (2.70%) Metadata
3 2 (2.70%) Redis
3 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.35%) Airbyte
4 1 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.35%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.35%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (1.35%) Big Data
4 1 (1.35%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 33 (44.59%) Git
2 25 (33.78%) Selenium
3 18 (24.32%) Jenkins
3 18 (24.32%) JIRA
4 15 (20.27%) Postman
5 10 (13.51%) GitLab
6 9 (12.16%) REST Assured
7 6 (8.11%) TestNG
8 5 (6.76%) Cucumber
8 5 (6.76%) Cypress.io
8 5 (6.76%) JUnit
9 4 (5.41%) Appium
9 4 (5.41%) MLflow
10 3 (4.05%) SonarQube
10 3 (4.05%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (2.70%) Artifactory
11 2 (2.70%) Bitbucket
11 2 (2.70%) webpack
12 1 (1.35%) JMeter
12 1 (1.35%) Robot Framework
General
1 10 (13.51%) Public Sector
2 9 (12.16%) Finance
3 3 (4.05%) Banking
3 3 (4.05%) Electronics
3 3 (4.05%) Manufacturing
3 3 (4.05%) Marketing
3 3 (4.05%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.70%) Financial Institution
4 2 (2.70%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (32.43%) Python Engineer
2 17 (22.97%) Developer
3 15 (20.27%) Test Engineer
4 13 (17.57%) Python Developer
5 12 (16.22%) Data Engineer
5 12 (16.22%) Senior
6 7 (9.46%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) Senior Test Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) Tester
7 5 (6.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Lead
7 5 (6.76%) QA Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Lead Data Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Android Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) QA Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (24.32%) REST
2 17 (22.97%) FastAPI
3 6 (8.11%) Flask
3 6 (8.11%) LangChain
3 6 (8.11%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (8.11%) Pandas
3 6 (8.11%) PySpark
4 5 (6.76%) Lambda Expressions
4 5 (6.76%) NumPy
4 5 (6.76%) React
4 5 (6.76%) RESTful
4 5 (6.76%) SQLAlchemy
5 4 (5.41%) Django
5 4 (5.41%) Hugging Face
5 4 (5.41%) Jinja
5 4 (5.41%) pydantic
5 4 (5.41%) TensorFlow
5 4 (5.41%) Web Services
6 3 (4.05%) Playwright
6 3 (4.05%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.05%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.70%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (1.35%) Blockchain
3 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.35%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.35%) Reinsurance
3 1 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.86%) Linux
2 4 (5.41%) Android
2 4 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.05%) Mac OS
3 3 (4.05%) Windows
4 1 (1.35%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (72.97%) Test Automation
2 44 (59.46%) CI/CD
3 24 (32.43%) DevOps
4 20 (27.03%) Agile
5 19 (25.68%) Data Pipeline
6 17 (22.97%) BDD
7 15 (20.27%) Test Scripting
8 11 (14.86%) API Testing
9 9 (12.16%) Artificial Intelligence
9 9 (12.16%) Containerisation
9 9 (12.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (12.16%) Microservices
10 7 (9.46%) Data Modelling
10 7 (9.46%) ETL
10 7 (9.46%) Machine Learning
10 7 (9.46%) Open Source
10 7 (9.46%) Test Strategy
10 7 (9.46%) Validation
11 6 (8.11%) QA Automation
11 6 (8.11%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 72 (97.30%) Python
2 12 (16.22%) SQL
3 7 (9.46%) Bash
4 4 (5.41%) R
5 3 (4.05%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.70%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.70%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.35%) Bicep
7 1 (1.35%) C#
7 1 (1.35%) C++
7 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (13.51%) SC Cleared
1 10 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.41%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.35%) Degree
3 1 (1.35%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.92%) QA
2 7 (9.46%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.05%) WCAG
4 2 (2.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (27.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (27.03%) Kubernetes
2 19 (25.68%) Terraform
3 4 (5.41%) Ansible
3 4 (5.41%) Grafana
3 4 (5.41%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.70%) Podman
4 2 (2.70%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.70%) Puppet
4 2 (2.70%) RSA Archer
4 2 (2.70%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (6.76%) Databricks
1 5 (6.76%) SAP
2 3 (4.05%) Dataiku
2 3 (4.05%) DataRobot
2 3 (4.05%) Informatica
2 3 (4.05%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.70%) 3PAR
3 2 (2.70%) Brocade
3 2 (2.70%) Cisco
3 2 (2.70%) EMC
3 2 (2.70%) Google
3 2 (2.70%) HP
3 2 (2.70%) Netskope
3 2 (2.70%) Oracle
3 2 (2.70%) Proofpoint
3 2 (2.70%) Splunk
3 2 (2.70%) Symantec
3 2 (2.70%) UiPath
3 2 (2.70%) VMware
4 1 (1.35%) GoldenSource