pytest Job Trends in England

pytest
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring pytest skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 615 648
Rank change year-on-year +68 +33 +240
Permanent jobs citing pytest 70 64 32
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.13% 0.065%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.12% 0.62% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 40 40 20
10th Percentile £52,285 £46,250 £46,125
25th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -11.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £111,250 £81,438 £80,938
90th Percentile £122,500 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -13.33% +16.73%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

pytest falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,259 10,404 12,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.84% 21.61% 24.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,819 6,107 10,094
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £40,663
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

pytest
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

pytest job vacancy trend in England

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Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing pytest.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing pytest

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Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing pytest in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for pytest in England

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Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing pytest within the England region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +63 45 £102,500 +28.13% 18
South West +8 14 £42,750 -34.23% 3
South East +32 4 £57,500 +21.05% 24
Midlands +11 3 £55,200 -15.08% 2
West Midlands +9 2 £48,975 -24.65% 1
North of England +9 2 £53,850 -34.73% 4
North West +19 1 £52,500 -36.36% 1
North East - 1 £55,200 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £55,200 - 1
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UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 9 (12.86%) Appian
2 4 (5.71%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.29%) Apache
3 3 (4.29%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 31 (44.29%) GitHub
2 18 (25.71%) Azure
3 14 (20.00%) AWS
4 11 (15.71%) Anthropic Claude
5 9 (12.86%) Azure AI
5 9 (12.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (12.86%) Power Automate
6 7 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (10.00%) OpenShift
7 4 (5.71%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.29%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.29%) GCP
8 3 (4.29%) Serverless
9 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.86%) Cloud Run
9 2 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.86%) IaaS
10 1 (1.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (20.00%) Multicast
2 7 (10.00%) 5G
2 7 (10.00%) SD-WAN
2 7 (10.00%) WAN
3 1 (1.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (24.29%) SQL Server
2 11 (15.71%) Relational Database
3 9 (12.86%) Pinecone
4 7 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.29%) Apache Iceberg
5 3 (4.29%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.86%) CockroachDB
6 2 (2.86%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (2.86%) Redis
7 1 (1.43%) Apache Hudi
7 1 (1.43%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.43%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.43%) Power BI
7 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (44.29%) Git
2 18 (25.71%) Selenium
3 15 (21.43%) Cucumber
3 15 (21.43%) JIRA
4 13 (18.57%) Jenkins
5 11 (15.71%) GitLab
5 11 (15.71%) JUnit
5 11 (15.71%) LabVIEW
5 11 (15.71%) Postman
6 9 (12.86%) MLflow
7 8 (11.43%) SoapUI
8 5 (7.14%) REST Assured
9 3 (4.29%) Appium
10 2 (2.86%) Artifactory
10 2 (2.86%) Jaeger
10 2 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (2.86%) TeamCity
10 2 (2.86%) TestNG
11 1 (1.43%) Deequ
11 1 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 38 (54.29%) Finance
2 17 (24.29%) Social Skills
3 15 (21.43%) Banking
4 7 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.00%) Electronics
4 7 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.29%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 26 (37.14%) Senior
2 20 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 17 (24.29%) Automation Engineer
4 16 (22.86%) Test Engineer
5 14 (20.00%) C++ Software Engineer
5 14 (20.00%) Python Engineer
5 14 (20.00%) Python Software Engineer
5 14 (20.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 14 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (15.71%) Product Engineer
6 11 (15.71%) Product Test Engineer
6 11 (15.71%) Verification Engineer
7 10 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 9 (12.86%) Developer
9 8 (11.43%) Senior Developer
10 7 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
10 7 (10.00%) QA Engineer
11 5 (7.14%) Senior Software Developer
11 5 (7.14%) Software Developer
12 4 (5.71%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (27.14%) Flask
2 16 (22.86%) Django
3 15 (21.43%) REST
4 14 (20.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 14 (20.00%) FastAPI
4 14 (20.00%) FIX Protocol
5 13 (18.57%) Pandas
6 12 (17.14%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (17.14%) NumPy
6 12 (17.14%) scikit-learn
7 11 (15.71%) OAuth
8 9 (12.86%) Faiss
8 9 (12.86%) Hugging Face
8 9 (12.86%) JWT
8 9 (12.86%) OpenAPI
8 9 (12.86%) PyTorch
8 9 (12.86%) RESTful
8 9 (12.86%) Swagger
8 9 (12.86%) TensorFlow
8 9 (12.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.86%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (21.43%) Derivative
2 15 (21.43%) Equities
2 15 (21.43%) Fixed Income
3 14 (20.00%) Algorithms
4 12 (17.14%) Low-Code
5 7 (10.00%) Cloud Native
5 7 (10.00%) Self-Driving Car
5 7 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (5.71%) GNSS
6 4 (5.71%) Satnav
7 3 (4.29%) AI Agents
7 3 (4.29%) Genomics
8 2 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.43%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 17 (24.29%) Linux
2 13 (18.57%) Windows
3 11 (15.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (68.57%) Test Automation
2 34 (48.57%) CI/CD
3 28 (40.00%) Agile
3 28 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 25 (35.71%) Workflow
5 21 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 21 (30.00%) DevOps
5 21 (30.00%) Validation
6 19 (27.14%) Technical Leadership
7 18 (25.71%) AI
7 18 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (24.29%) API Development
8 17 (24.29%) Continuous Integration
8 17 (24.29%) Data Engineering
8 17 (24.29%) SDLC
9 16 (22.86%) ETL
10 15 (21.43%) LLM
10 15 (21.43%) Machine Learning
10 15 (21.43%) OOP
10 15 (21.43%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 70 (100.00%) Python
2 25 (35.71%) SQL
3 16 (22.86%) Java
4 14 (20.00%) C++
5 11 (15.71%) MATLAB
6 7 (10.00%) Delphi
7 6 (8.57%) Go
7 6 (8.57%) PHP
8 4 (5.71%) C#
9 3 (4.29%) Bicep
10 2 (2.86%) Groovy
10 2 (2.86%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (17.14%) Degree
2 11 (15.71%) HND
3 2 (2.86%) MCP
4 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (34.29%) QA
2 11 (15.71%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (31.43%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.43%) Grafana
3 5 (7.14%) Terraform
4 3 (4.29%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.86%) Ansible
6 1 (1.43%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (15.71%) OpenAI
2 9 (12.86%) Automation Anywhere
2 9 (12.86%) Oracle
2 9 (12.86%) UiPath
3 3 (4.29%) Google
4 2 (2.86%) Splunk
4 2 (2.86%) VMware
5 1 (1.43%) Charles River
5 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.43%) Murex