pytest Job Trends in the UK excluding London

pytest
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring pytest skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 536 531
Rank change year-on-year +44 -5 +226
Permanent jobs citing pytest 23 31 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.083% 0.033%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.60% 0.43% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 12 22 7
10th Percentile £42,858 £45,125 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,113 £46,250 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.08% +23.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £58,750 - £60,000
90th Percentile - - £65,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -13.33% +15.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,850 7,219 7,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.18% 19.29% 23.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,948 4,080 5,701
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

pytest
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

pytest job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

pytest
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing pytest.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing pytest

pytest
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing pytest in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for pytest in the UK excluding London

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Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing pytest within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
South West +10 12 £42,750 -34.23% 2
South East +28 5 £57,500 +21.05% 8
Midlands +16 3 £55,200 -15.08%
West Midlands +19 2 £48,975 -24.65%
North of England +14 2 £53,850 -34.73% 5
North West +26 1 £52,500 -36.36% 1
Wales -3 1 £55,200 -15.08%
East Midlands - 1 £55,200 -
North East - 1 £55,200 - 1
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UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (65.22%) GitHub
2 6 (26.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (26.09%) AWS
2 6 (26.09%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.35%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) 5G
1 5 (21.74%) SD-WAN
1 5 (21.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) Relational Database
2 6 (26.09%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.70%) CockroachDB
3 2 (8.70%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 17 (73.91%) Git
2 14 (60.87%) Cucumber
3 12 (52.17%) Selenium
4 9 (39.13%) LabVIEW
5 8 (34.78%) GitLab
5 8 (34.78%) Jenkins
5 8 (34.78%) JUnit
5 8 (34.78%) Postman
5 8 (34.78%) SoapUI
6 2 (8.70%) REST Assured
6 2 (8.70%) TestNG
7 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Electronics
2 5 (21.74%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Product Engineer
1 9 (39.13%) Product Test Engineer
1 9 (39.13%) Test Engineer
1 9 (39.13%) Verification Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Senior
3 7 (30.43%) Automation Engineer
3 7 (30.43%) QA Automation Engineer
3 7 (30.43%) QA Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Software Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Test Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Verification Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Software Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Automation Tester
6 1 (4.35%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (26.09%) Django
2 6 (26.09%) Flask
2 6 (26.09%) SOAP
2 6 (26.09%) Spring
2 6 (26.09%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (21.74%) Self-Driving Car
2 5 (21.74%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (17.39%) GNSS
3 4 (17.39%) Satnav
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
4 2 (8.70%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Unix
1 9 (39.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) Test Automation
2 13 (56.52%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (39.13%) B2B
3 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
3 9 (39.13%) Kalman Filter
4 8 (34.78%) DevOps
5 7 (30.43%) QA Automation
6 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
6 6 (26.09%) Fintech
6 6 (26.09%) Secure Coding
6 6 (26.09%) Software Engineering
6 6 (26.09%) TDD
7 5 (21.74%) Event-Driven
7 5 (21.74%) Physics
7 5 (21.74%) System Testing
7 5 (21.74%) Test Assurance
7 5 (21.74%) Test Scripting
7 5 (21.74%) Validation
7 5 (21.74%) Verification and Validation
8 4 (17.39%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) Python
2 14 (60.87%) Java
3 9 (39.13%) MATLAB
4 8 (34.78%) SQL
5 6 (26.09%) Delphi
5 6 (26.09%) Go
5 6 (26.09%) PHP
6 2 (8.70%) C#
6 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Degree
1 9 (39.13%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) QA
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Grafana
1 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) Splunk