pytest Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

pytest
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring pytest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 110 102
Rank change year-on-year -35 -8 +12
Contract jobs citing pytest 15 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.52% 0.32% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.08% 1.20% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 3
10th Percentile £264 £428 £469
25th Percentile £450 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile - £542 £498
90th Percentile £655 £551 £499
England median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -13.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 720 417 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 25.01% 27.03% 25.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 265 276
10th Percentile £379 £359 £381
25th Percentile £440 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £595
90th Percentile £638 £675 £655
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £16.19
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.54%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.70 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.35% -12.48% -3.85%

pytest
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing pytest relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

pytest job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing pytest.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing pytest

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing pytest in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for pytest in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing pytest within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. 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
South Yorkshire - 8 £528 -
West Yorkshire -19 7 £500 -4.76% 2
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) GCP
2 3 (20.00%) Apigee
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) JIRA
2 7 (46.67%) Zephyr
3 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (13.33%) Gatling
4 2 (13.33%) GitLab
4 2 (13.33%) JMeter
4 2 (13.33%) NeoLoad
4 2 (13.33%) Postman
5 1 (6.67%) Robot Framework
5 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Automation Test Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Test Leader
3 2 (13.33%) Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Playwright
2 4 (26.67%) LDAP
2 4 (26.67%) OpenID
2 4 (26.67%) REST
3 3 (20.00%) .NET
3 3 (20.00%) Terraform
4 2 (13.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) CI/CD
2 11 (73.33%) Test Automation
3 7 (46.67%) Cloud Security
3 7 (46.67%) DevOps
3 7 (46.67%) RBAC
4 5 (33.33%) Agile
4 5 (33.33%) API Testing
4 5 (33.33%) Event-Driven
4 5 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (26.67%) AI
5 4 (26.67%) Asynchronous Programming
5 4 (26.67%) Clean Code
5 4 (26.67%) Design Patterns
5 4 (26.67%) Generative AI
5 4 (26.67%) LLM
5 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
5 4 (26.67%) MLOps
5 4 (26.67%) OOP
5 4 (26.67%) Validation
6 3 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) C#
2 3 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) Cypher
3 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat