pytest Job Trends in the North of England

pytest
England > North of England

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 282 270
Rank change year-on-year +21 -12 +141
Permanent jobs citing pytest 2 1 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.019% 0.011% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.19% 0.063% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £51,365 - £45,625
25th Percentile £51,538 £81,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,850 £82,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.73% +57.14% +23.53%
75th Percentile £56,938 £83,750 £60,625
90th Percentile £57,575 - £66,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,066 1,579 1,947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.06% 17.11% 24.68%
Number of salaries quoted 869 941 1,561
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -7.60% +2.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

pytest
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

pytest job vacancy trend in the North of England

pytest
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing pytest.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing pytest

pytest
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing pytest within the North of England region over the 6 months to 6 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
North West +23 1 £52,500 -36.36% 1
North East - 1 £55,200 - 2
pytest
England

pytest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Django
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) SEO
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Delphi
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle