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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 648 885 896
Rank change year-on-year +237 +11 +149
Permanent jobs citing pytest 61 27 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.026% 0.068%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.64% 0.13% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 47 17 52
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 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -1.89% +10.42%
75th Percentile £110,625 £77,500 £81,563
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 9,499 21,396 29,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.14% 20.72% 29.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5,834 15,919 18,040
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,810
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £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 30 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 30 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 +195 60 £77,500 +16.98% 196
London +142 41 £92,500 +29.82% 39
Work from Home +133 20 £65,000 -3.70% 103
UK excluding London +201 19 £60,000 -4.00% 188
South West +106 10 £65,000 +8.33% 21
South East +93 6 £58,750 -6.00% 63
North of England +54 3 £60,000 -11.11% 36
Midlands - 3 £65,000 - 33
Wales - 3 £65,000 - 4
West Midlands - 3 £65,000 - 16
North West - 2 £71,250 - 18
Yorkshire +60 1 £55,000 -18.52% 14

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 (13.11%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (37.70%) Azure
2 17 (27.87%) AWS
3 14 (22.95%) GitHub
4 10 (16.39%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (9.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (8.20%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (8.20%) Serverless
8 4 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (6.56%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (6.56%) BrowserStack
8 4 (6.56%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.56%) Sauce Labs
9 3 (4.92%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (4.92%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (4.92%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (3.28%) GCP
10 2 (3.28%) SaaS
11 1 (1.64%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.39%) Multicast
2 4 (6.56%) 5G
2 4 (6.56%) SD-WAN
2 4 (6.56%) WAN
3 2 (3.28%) Broadband
4 1 (1.64%) Bluetooth
4 1 (1.64%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.95%) Relational Database
2 9 (14.75%) NoSQL
2 9 (14.75%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (11.48%) Big Data
3 7 (11.48%) Delta Lake
4 4 (6.56%) Data Lake
4 4 (6.56%) MongoDB
4 4 (6.56%) MySQL
5 3 (4.92%) Redis
5 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.28%) Couchbase
6 2 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.28%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.64%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 22 (36.07%) Git
2 18 (29.51%) Selenium
3 14 (22.95%) JIRA
4 13 (21.31%) Postman
5 9 (14.75%) Jenkins
6 8 (13.11%) Cucumber
6 8 (13.11%) Locust
6 8 (13.11%) SoapUI
7 5 (8.20%) Appium
7 5 (8.20%) JMeter
7 5 (8.20%) Robot Framework
8 4 (6.56%) JUnit
8 4 (6.56%) LabVIEW
8 4 (6.56%) TestNG
9 3 (4.92%) MLflow
9 3 (4.92%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (4.92%) SonarQube
10 2 (3.28%) Spock
10 2 (3.28%) TeamCity
11 1 (1.64%) GitLab
General
1 16 (26.23%) Finance
2 12 (19.67%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (18.03%) Banking
4 9 (14.75%) Social Skills
5 4 (6.56%) Electronics
5 4 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (6.56%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.92%) Health Technology
6 3 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.92%) Law
6 3 (4.92%) Marketing
7 2 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 20 (32.79%) Python Engineer
2 18 (29.51%) Senior
2 18 (29.51%) Software Engineer
3 16 (26.23%) Test Engineer
4 11 (18.03%) C++ Software Engineer
4 11 (18.03%) Developer
5 10 (16.39%) Data Engineer
5 10 (16.39%) Python Software Engineer
5 10 (16.39%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 10 (16.39%) Senior Software Engineer
6 8 (13.11%) Test Automation Engineer
7 7 (11.48%) Senior Developer
8 6 (9.84%) Lead
8 6 (9.84%) QA Engineer
9 5 (8.20%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (8.20%) Python Developer
10 4 (6.56%) Electronics Engineer
10 4 (6.56%) QA Automation Engineer
10 4 (6.56%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (6.56%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.39%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 10 (16.39%) FIX Protocol
1 10 (16.39%) RESTful
2 9 (14.75%) Kafka
3 8 (13.11%) SOAP
4 7 (11.48%) Django
4 7 (11.48%) Flask
5 6 (9.84%) FastAPI
5 6 (9.84%) React
6 5 (8.20%) YAML
7 4 (6.56%) AngularJS
7 4 (6.56%) Great Expectations
7 4 (6.56%) Pandas
7 4 (6.56%) REST
8 3 (4.92%) GraphQL
8 3 (4.92%) pydantic
8 3 (4.92%) PySpark
8 3 (4.92%) SQLAlchemy
8 3 (4.92%) Vue
8 3 (4.92%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Algorithms
1 10 (16.39%) Derivative
1 10 (16.39%) Fixed Income
2 7 (11.48%) Equities
3 6 (9.84%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.84%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.56%) Product Ownership
4 4 (6.56%) Self-Driving Car
5 3 (4.92%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.28%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.64%) IoT
7 1 (1.64%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.39%) Linux
2 4 (6.56%) Android
2 4 (6.56%) Unix
2 4 (6.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.82%) CI/CD
1 31 (50.82%) Test Automation
2 24 (39.34%) Agile
3 23 (37.70%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (32.79%) Software Engineering
5 18 (29.51%) DevOps
6 17 (27.87%) SDLC
7 14 (22.95%) Data Pipeline
7 14 (22.95%) Fintech
8 13 (21.31%) Computer Science
8 13 (21.31%) Containerisation
9 12 (19.67%) Artificial Intelligence
9 12 (19.67%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (19.67%) Scrum
10 11 (18.03%) Analytics
11 10 (16.39%) Low Latency
11 10 (16.39%) Mathematics
11 10 (16.39%) OOP
11 10 (16.39%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (16.39%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 58 (95.08%) Python
2 37 (60.66%) SQL
3 11 (18.03%) C++
4 10 (16.39%) Java
5 8 (13.11%) Go
5 8 (13.11%) PHP
6 4 (6.56%) MATLAB
7 2 (3.28%) C#
7 2 (3.28%) Groovy
7 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.48%) Degree
3 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.56%) HND
4 4 (6.56%) ISTQB
5 3 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (49.18%) QA
2 4 (6.56%) GDPR
3 1 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 20 (32.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (29.51%) Kubernetes
2 12 (19.67%) Terraform
3 5 (8.20%) Grafana
3 5 (8.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (34.43%) Databricks
2 3 (4.92%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.28%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.28%) Oracle