pytest
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring pytest skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited pytest over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 651 881 898
Rank change year-on-year +230 +17 +146
Permanent jobs citing pytest 60 29 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.028% 0.067%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% 0.14% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 47 19 53
10th Percentile £47,100 £51,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,140 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £110,625 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £124,000 £97,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,208 21,249 29,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.84% 20.80% 30.01%
Number of salaries quoted 5,664 15,856 18,240
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,254 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,350 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

pytest
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing pytest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for pytest in the UK

pytest
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing pytest.

Salary trend for pytest in the UK

pytest
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing pytest over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for pytest in the UK

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Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing pytest within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 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
England +193 59 £77,500 +8.77% 304
London +146 41 £92,500 +23.33% 68
Work from Home +134 20 £65,000 -8.77% 207
UK excluding London +200 18 £60,000 -4.00% 271
South West +118 9 £65,000 +8.33% 33
South East +95 6 £58,750 -6.00% 78
North of England +43 3 £60,000 -11.11% 63
Midlands - 3 £65,000 - 49
Wales - 3 £65,000 - 6
West Midlands - 3 £65,000 - 24
North West - 2 £71,250 - 33
Yorkshire +62 1 £55,000 -18.52% 24

pytest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (13.33%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (38.33%) Azure
2 16 (26.67%) AWS
3 14 (23.33%) GitHub
4 10 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (6.67%) BrowserStack
8 4 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.67%) Sauce Labs
8 4 (6.67%) Serverless
9 3 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (5.00%) Amazon S3
9 3 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon Bedrock
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (3.33%) GCP
10 2 (3.33%) SaaS
11 1 (1.67%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.67%) Multicast
2 4 (6.67%) 5G
2 4 (6.67%) SD-WAN
2 4 (6.67%) WAN
3 2 (3.33%) Broadband
4 1 (1.67%) Bluetooth
4 1 (1.67%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (23.33%) Relational Database
2 9 (15.00%) NoSQL
2 9 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (11.67%) Big Data
3 7 (11.67%) Delta Lake
4 4 (6.67%) Data Lake
4 4 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 4 (6.67%) MySQL
5 3 (5.00%) Redis
5 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.33%) Couchbase
6 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.33%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.67%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 22 (36.67%) Git
2 17 (28.33%) Selenium
3 14 (23.33%) JIRA
4 13 (21.67%) Postman
5 8 (13.33%) Cucumber
5 8 (13.33%) Jenkins
5 8 (13.33%) SoapUI
6 7 (11.67%) Locust
7 5 (8.33%) Appium
7 5 (8.33%) JMeter
7 5 (8.33%) Robot Framework
8 4 (6.67%) JUnit
8 4 (6.67%) LabVIEW
8 4 (6.67%) TestNG
9 3 (5.00%) MLflow
9 3 (5.00%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (5.00%) SonarQube
10 2 (3.33%) Spock
10 2 (3.33%) TeamCity
11 1 (1.67%) kappa
General
1 15 (25.00%) Finance
2 11 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (18.33%) Banking
3 9 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Electronics
4 4 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.00%) Health Technology
6 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.33%) Law
6 2 (3.33%) Marketing
7 1 (1.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 19 (31.67%) Python Engineer
2 18 (30.00%) Senior
3 17 (28.33%) Software Engineer
4 15 (25.00%) Test Engineer
5 11 (18.33%) C++ Software Engineer
5 11 (18.33%) Developer
6 10 (16.67%) Data Engineer
6 10 (16.67%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 10 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (15.00%) Python Software Engineer
8 7 (11.67%) Senior Developer
8 7 (11.67%) Test Automation Engineer
9 6 (10.00%) Lead
9 6 (10.00%) QA Engineer
10 5 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (8.33%) Python Developer
11 4 (6.67%) Electronics Test Engineer
11 4 (6.67%) Product Engineer
11 4 (6.67%) QA Automation Engineer
11 4 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 10 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
1 10 (16.67%) RESTful
2 9 (15.00%) Kafka
3 8 (13.33%) SOAP
4 7 (11.67%) Django
4 7 (11.67%) Flask
5 6 (10.00%) FastAPI
5 6 (10.00%) React
6 5 (8.33%) YAML
7 4 (6.67%) AngularJS
7 4 (6.67%) Great Expectations
7 4 (6.67%) Pandas
7 4 (6.67%) REST
8 3 (5.00%) GraphQL
8 3 (5.00%) pydantic
8 3 (5.00%) PySpark
8 3 (5.00%) SQLAlchemy
8 3 (5.00%) Vue
8 3 (5.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 10 (16.67%) Derivative
1 10 (16.67%) Fixed Income
2 7 (11.67%) Equities
3 6 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 6 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 4 (6.67%) Self-Driving Car
5 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.67%) IoT
7 1 (1.67%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.67%) Linux
2 4 (6.67%) Android
2 4 (6.67%) Unix
2 4 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 30 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 24 (40.00%) Agile
3 22 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (31.67%) Software Engineering
5 18 (30.00%) DevOps
6 17 (28.33%) SDLC
7 14 (23.33%) Data Pipeline
7 14 (23.33%) Fintech
8 13 (21.67%) Computer Science
8 13 (21.67%) Containerisation
9 12 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (20.00%) Scrum
10 11 (18.33%) Analytics
10 11 (18.33%) Artificial Intelligence
11 10 (16.67%) Low Latency
11 10 (16.67%) Mathematics
11 10 (16.67%) OOP
11 10 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 57 (95.00%) Python
2 37 (61.67%) SQL
3 11 (18.33%) C++
4 10 (16.67%) Java
5 8 (13.33%) Go
5 8 (13.33%) PHP
6 4 (6.67%) MATLAB
7 2 (3.33%) C#
7 2 (3.33%) Groovy
7 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.67%) Degree
3 5 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.67%) HND
4 4 (6.67%) ISTQB
5 3 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (50.00%) QA
2 4 (6.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 19 (31.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (28.33%) Kubernetes
2 12 (20.00%) Terraform
3 5 (8.33%) Grafana
3 5 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (33.33%) Databricks
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.33%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle