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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 81 104
Rank change year-on-year -50 +23 +19
Contract jobs citing pytest 6 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.26% 0.42% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.13% 2.19% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £256 £360 -
25th Percentile £264 £364 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £339 £378 £413
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -8.48% -31.25%
75th Percentile £444 £389 £419
90th Percentile £479 £393 -
England median daily rate £447 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -4.89% -6.00% -16.67%

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 533 183 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.97% 19.34% 20.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 112 227
10th Percentile £363 £362 £345
25th Percentile £428 £413 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £588
90th Percentile £621 £736 £650
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 5
10th Percentile - £84.38 £13.12
25th Percentile £55.75 £84.67 £13.87
Median hourly rate £67.50 £96.85 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% +330.42% -67.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 £102.00 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £47.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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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 8 April 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 8 April 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
West Yorkshire -22 4 £273 -
South Yorkshire -52 2 £429 +13.58% 1
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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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Apigee
3 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Robot Framework
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) CSS3
2 1 (16.67%) Django
2 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
2 1 (16.67%) Flask
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5
2 1 (16.67%) Jest
2 1 (16.67%) Next.js
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) API Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (16.67%) API Integration
5 1 (16.67%) API Management
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Validation
5 1 (16.67%) Wealth Management
5 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft