pytest Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

pytest
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 285 335 417
Rank change year-on-year +50 +82 +122
Contract jobs citing pytest 19 10 60
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.19% 0.065% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.74% 0.27% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 37
10th Percentile £428 £473 £450
25th Percentile £452 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £725
90th Percentile £689 £563 £775
UK median daily rate £473 £506 £600
% change year-on-year -6.67% -15.63% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing pytest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

pytest trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing pytest.

pytest daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

pytest daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing pytest.

pytest hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (10.53%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Apache
2 1 (5.26%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Azure
3 5 (26.32%) GitHub
3 5 (26.32%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (21.05%) GCP
5 3 (15.79%) dbt
6 2 (10.53%) npm
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (5.26%) Serverless
7 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.26%) Airbyte
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (5.26%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.26%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) GitLab
2 5 (26.32%) Git
2 5 (26.32%) JIRA
3 3 (15.79%) Selenium
4 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
4 2 (10.53%) Postman
4 2 (10.53%) REST Assured
4 2 (10.53%) webpack
5 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
5 1 (5.26%) MLflow
General
1 1 (5.26%) Banking
1 1 (5.26%) Finance
1 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
1 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Data Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Python Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Angular Developer
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Python Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Tester
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Automation Tester
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Test Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Flask
2 4 (21.05%) FastAPI
2 4 (21.05%) RESTful
2 4 (21.05%) Web Services
3 3 (15.79%) Django
3 3 (15.79%) Playwright
3 3 (15.79%) REST
4 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
4 2 (10.53%) CSS
4 2 (10.53%) HTML
4 2 (10.53%) LangChain
4 2 (10.53%) Pandas
4 2 (10.53%) React
5 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
5 1 (5.26%) Great Expectations
5 1 (5.26%) Hugging Face
5 1 (5.26%) JWT
5 1 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (5.26%) pydantic
5 1 (5.26%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Blockchain
1 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
1 1 (5.26%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Test Automation
2 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
3 6 (31.58%) Agile
3 6 (31.58%) DevOps
4 5 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (21.05%) Test Scripting
6 3 (15.79%) BDD
6 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
6 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (15.79%) Microservices
6 3 (15.79%) Workflow
7 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (10.53%) Data Engineering
7 2 (10.53%) Data Modelling
7 2 (10.53%) DataOps
7 2 (10.53%) Loose Coupling
7 2 (10.53%) Regression Testing
7 2 (10.53%) SDLC
7 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
7 2 (10.53%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) Bash
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.53%) SQL
4 1 (5.26%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) QA
2 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
2 6 (31.58%) Terraform
3 2 (10.53%) Grafana
3 2 (10.53%) Prometheus