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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 322 398
Rank change year-on-year +34 +76 +140
Contract jobs citing pytest 22 13 40
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.099% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.80% 0.39% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 22
10th Percentile £450 £456 £411
25th Percentile £472 £478 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £506 £463
Median % change year-on-year +14.96% +9.46% -15.91%
75th Percentile £738 £573 £530
90th Percentile £750 £595 £786
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £506
% change year-on-year - -1.23% -7.95%

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 2,750 3,347 5,513
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.95% 25.42% 24.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,930 2,357 4,094
10th Percentile £350 £325 £373
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +3.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £649 £675 £660
90th Percentile £825 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 84 63
10th Percentile £31.25 £24.68 £26.10
25th Percentile £42.56 - £48.13
Median hourly rate £63.75 £43.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.26% -32.81% +6.67%
75th Percentile £67.00 £60.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £54.94 £53.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.21% -10.42% +6.50%

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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 3 August 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 4 (18.18%) Confluence
2 2 (9.09%) Jupyter
3 1 (4.55%) Apache
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) GitHub
3 6 (27.27%) Azure
3 6 (27.27%) GCP
4 5 (22.73%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (22.73%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (22.73%) Serverless
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
5 3 (13.64%) npm
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (4.55%) dbt
7 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
7 1 (4.55%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) HTTP
2 2 (9.09%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.55%) Airbyte
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.55%) Big Data
3 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.55%) ObjectStore
3 1 (4.55%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) JIRA
2 7 (31.82%) Git
3 6 (27.27%) GitLab
4 3 (13.64%) Cypress.io
4 3 (13.64%) webpack
5 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
5 2 (9.09%) Postman
5 2 (9.09%) REST Assured
5 2 (9.09%) Selenium
6 1 (4.55%) MLflow
6 1 (4.55%) Robot Framework
General
1 2 (9.09%) Finance
1 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Banking
2 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Senior
3 5 (22.73%) Python Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Angular Developer
4 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Python Developer
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Developer
5 2 (9.09%) DevOps Specialist
5 2 (9.09%) Test Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Python Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Test Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Test Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) FastAPI
1 8 (36.36%) REST
2 6 (27.27%) Flask
3 5 (22.73%) LangChain
3 5 (22.73%) React
3 5 (22.73%) RESTful
3 5 (22.73%) Web Services
4 4 (18.18%) Kafka
4 4 (18.18%) Node.js
4 4 (18.18%) Playwright
5 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
5 3 (13.64%) boto
5 3 (13.64%) CSS
5 3 (13.64%) Django
5 3 (13.64%) HTML
5 3 (13.64%) Jest
5 3 (13.64%) LDAP
5 3 (13.64%) NestJS
5 3 (13.64%) Pandas
5 3 (13.64%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Blockchain
2 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Test Automation
2 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
3 11 (50.00%) Microservices
4 9 (40.91%) Agile
5 8 (36.36%) DevOps
6 6 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (27.27%) Software Engineering
7 5 (22.73%) Machine Learning
8 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
8 4 (18.18%) Fintech
8 4 (18.18%) SDLC
8 4 (18.18%) Test Scripting
8 4 (18.18%) User Experience
9 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
9 3 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (13.64%) Data Security
9 3 (13.64%) Migration
9 3 (13.64%) Regtech
9 3 (13.64%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (13.64%) Bash
2 3 (13.64%) Go
2 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.09%) SQL
4 1 (4.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
1 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) QA
2 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes
2 6 (27.27%) Terraform
3 1 (4.55%) Ansible
3 1 (4.55%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.55%) Progress
2 1 (4.55%) VMware