pytest Job Trends in the South West

pytest
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring pytest skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 154 263
Rank change year-on-year -56 +109 -16
Permanent jobs citing pytest 14 8 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.17% 0.24% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.93% 1.65% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £58,875 -
25th Percentile - £62,813 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile - - £62,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £78,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% +4.00% -19.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 724 485 1,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.72% 14.64% 17.42%
Number of salaries quoted 573 371 1,341
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £93,778 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%

pytest
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

pytest job vacancy trend in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing pytest.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing pytest

pytest
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing pytest within the South West region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
Gloucestershire -29 8 - - 1
Devon - 6 - -
pytest
England

pytest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (7.14%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 6 (42.86%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) 5G
1 6 (42.86%) SD-WAN
1 6 (42.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) InfluxDB
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 13 (92.86%) Git
2 8 (57.14%) GitLab
2 8 (57.14%) Jenkins
3 7 (50.00%) Cypress.io
3 7 (50.00%) Robot Framework
3 7 (50.00%) Selenium
3 7 (50.00%) TestRail
4 6 (42.86%) LabVIEW
5 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
5 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (42.86%) Electronics
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (92.86%) Test Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 6 (42.86%) Product Engineer
3 6 (42.86%) Product Test Engineer
3 6 (42.86%) Verification Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) Electronics Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) Electronics Test Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (50.00%) Playwright
3 1 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (7.14%) Django
3 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
3 1 (7.14%) Flask
3 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (42.86%) Self-Driving Car
3 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) Windows
2 7 (50.00%) CentOS
2 7 (50.00%) Linux
3 6 (42.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 8 (57.14%) Collaborative Culture
2 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 7 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
3 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 7 (50.00%) Test Management
4 6 (42.86%) B2B
4 6 (42.86%) Kalman Filter
4 6 (42.86%) Test Assurance
5 4 (28.57%) Manual Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (14.29%) Physics
7 2 (14.29%) System Testing
7 2 (14.29%) Test Scripting
7 2 (14.29%) Validation
7 2 (14.29%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (57.14%) Bash
3 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 6 (42.86%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 7 (50.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 6 (42.86%) Degree
3 6 (42.86%) HND
4 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Docker
1 7 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 7 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Ansible
1 8 (57.14%) Grafana
1 8 (57.14%) Kibana
1 8 (57.14%) logstash
1 8 (57.14%) Terraform
2 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 7 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 7 (50.00%) Splunk
1 7 (50.00%) VMware