pytest Contracts

pytest
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for pytest skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited pytest over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 570 704
Rank change year-on-year +39 +134 -53
Contract jobs citing pytest 48 114 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.53% 0.88% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 65 101
10th Percentile £433 £453 £413
25th Percentile £470 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £775 £600
90th Percentile £855 £813 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +37.93%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

pytest is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,060 12,931 23,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.02% 22.94% 26.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,282 9,442 17,368
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 148 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.53 £22.75
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.48 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -25.49% +18.18% +22.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for pytest in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing pytest.

Daily rate trend for pytest in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing pytest over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for pytest in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing pytest.

Hourly rate trend for pytest in the UK

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Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing pytest within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +36 41 £500 -16.67% 12
London +49 30 £525 -27.55% 9
Work from Home +68 12 £500 -14.89% 4
UK excluding London +41 8 £500 -16.67% 4
North of England +29 6 £513 -14.58% 1
North West - 5 £513 -
Midlands +25 1 £463 -7.50%
Yorkshire +16 1 - - 1
South West +6 1 £475 -20.83%

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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 3 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (4.17%) Apache
2 2 (4.17%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (10.42%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 34 (70.83%) Azure
2 16 (33.33%) AWS
3 12 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (20.83%) GitHub
5 5 (10.42%) GCP
6 4 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (8.33%) Azure Storage
6 4 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (6.25%) BrowserStack
7 3 (6.25%) Sauce Labs
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (4.17%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.08%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.42%) NoSQL
3 4 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (8.33%) DynamoDB
3 4 (8.33%) Redis
4 3 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.17%) Delta Lake
5 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (4.17%) Star Schema
6 1 (2.08%) Big Data
6 1 (2.08%) Couchbase
6 1 (2.08%) Data Hub
6 1 (2.08%) Data Mart
6 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.08%) Power BI
6 1 (2.08%) Spark SQL
6 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (41.67%) Git
2 15 (31.25%) Selenium
3 13 (27.08%) GitLab
4 7 (14.58%) JIRA
5 6 (12.50%) Cucumber
5 6 (12.50%) Jenkins
6 5 (10.42%) Pylint
6 5 (10.42%) Robot Framework
7 4 (8.33%) CircleCI
7 4 (8.33%) Mercurial
8 3 (6.25%) Appium
8 3 (6.25%) Bitbucket
8 3 (6.25%) PyUnit
9 2 (4.17%) SonarQube
10 1 (2.08%) JUnit
10 1 (2.08%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (2.08%) Spock
10 1 (2.08%) TeamCity
10 1 (2.08%) TestNG
General
1 17 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 14 (29.17%) Finance
3 8 (16.67%) Banking
4 6 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.25%) Back Office
6 3 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.25%) Wholesale Banking
7 2 (4.17%) Marketing
8 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (39.58%) Developer
2 15 (31.25%) Python Developer
3 12 (25.00%) Senior
4 11 (22.92%) Data Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Senior Developer
7 4 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Automation Tester
8 3 (6.25%) Python Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Tester
9 2 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Azure Data Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Data Scientist
9 2 (4.17%) QA Automation Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) QA Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Senior Data Scientist
9 2 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (4.17%) Senior Python Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.83%) Pandas
2 9 (18.75%) Django
3 8 (16.67%) Kafka
3 8 (16.67%) PySpark
4 7 (14.58%) HTML
4 7 (14.58%) React
4 7 (14.58%) WebSockets
5 6 (12.50%) Flask
6 5 (10.42%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (10.42%) REST
6 5 (10.42%) RESTful
7 4 (8.33%) Web Services
7 4 (8.33%) YAML
8 3 (6.25%) ADO
8 3 (6.25%) WebdriverIO
9 2 (4.17%) Beautiful Soup
9 2 (4.17%) Matplotlib
9 2 (4.17%) Plotly
9 2 (4.17%) PyTorch
9 2 (4.17%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.92%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (6.25%) Solar Panel
4 2 (4.17%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.92%) Linux
2 4 (8.33%) Alpine Linux
2 4 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (47.92%) CI/CD
2 22 (45.83%) DevOps
3 19 (39.58%) Agile
4 17 (35.42%) Test Automation
5 16 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 13 (27.08%) Unit Testing
7 12 (25.00%) Open Source
8 10 (20.83%) Analytics
9 8 (16.67%) Data Science
9 8 (16.67%) TDD
10 7 (14.58%) Computer Science
10 7 (14.58%) CQRS
10 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (14.58%) SDLC
11 6 (12.50%) API Testing
11 6 (12.50%) BDD
11 6 (12.50%) Containerisation
11 6 (12.50%) Data Analytics
11 6 (12.50%) Design Patterns
11 6 (12.50%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 47 (97.92%) Python
2 24 (50.00%) SQL
3 10 (20.83%) Java
4 9 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.17%) Bash
5 2 (4.17%) C#
5 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.08%) Groovy
6 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (10.42%) Degree
1 5 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (35.42%) Docker
2 4 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.50%) Terraform
3 5 (10.42%) Grafana
3 5 (10.42%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.08%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (25.00%) Databricks
2 5 (10.42%) Google
3 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.25%) Perfecto Mobile
5 2 (4.17%) Oracle
5 2 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.08%) Informatica
6 1 (2.08%) SAP