diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 84833c642..cc4aaa6ad 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ Matt Bachmann
 Matt Duck
 Matt Williams
 Matthias Hafner
+Maxim Filipenko
 mbyt
 Michael Aquilina
 Michael Birtwell
diff --git a/_pytest/skipping.py b/_pytest/skipping.py
index 5f927a6b4..2b5d0dded 100644
--- a/_pytest/skipping.py
+++ b/_pytest/skipping.py
@@ -345,6 +345,12 @@ def folded_skips(skipped):
     for event in skipped:
         key = event.longrepr
         assert len(key) == 3, (event, key)
+        keywords = getattr(event, 'keywords', {})
+        # folding reports with global pytestmark variable
+        # this is workaround, because for now we cannot identify the scope of a skip marker
+        # TODO: revisit after marks scope would be fixed
+        if event.when == 'setup' and 'skip' in keywords and 'pytestmark' not in keywords:
+            key = (key[0], None, key[2], )
         d.setdefault(key, []).append(event)
     l = []
     for key, events in d.items():
@@ -367,6 +373,11 @@ def show_skipped(terminalreporter, lines):
             for num, fspath, lineno, reason in fskips:
                 if reason.startswith("Skipped: "):
                     reason = reason[9:]
-                lines.append(
-                    "SKIP [%d] %s:%d: %s" %
-                    (num, fspath, lineno + 1, reason))
+                if lineno is not None:
+                    lines.append(
+                        "SKIP [%d] %s:%d: %s" %
+                        (num, fspath, lineno + 1, reason))
+                else:
+                    lines.append(
+                        "SKIP [%d] %s: %s" %
+                        (num, fspath, reason))
diff --git a/changelog/2549.feature b/changelog/2549.feature
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4866d990d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/2549.feature
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Report only once tests with global ``pytestmark`` variable.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/testing/test_skipping.py b/testing/test_skipping.py
index 6608ccadf..1fbb9ed0f 100644
--- a/testing/test_skipping.py
+++ b/testing/test_skipping.py
@@ -676,6 +676,7 @@ def test_skip_reasons_folding():
     ev1.longrepr = longrepr
 
     ev2 = X()
+    ev2.when = "execute"
     ev2.longrepr = longrepr
     ev2.skipped = True
 
@@ -713,6 +714,27 @@ def test_skipped_reasons_functional(testdir):
     assert result.ret == 0
 
 
+def test_skipped_folding(testdir):
+    testdir.makepyfile(
+        test_one="""
+            import pytest
+            pytestmark = pytest.mark.skip("Folding")
+            def setup_function(func):
+                pass
+            def test_func():
+                pass
+            class TestClass(object):
+                def test_method(self):
+                    pass
+       """,
+    )
+    result = testdir.runpytest('-rs')
+    result.stdout.fnmatch_lines([
+        "*SKIP*2*test_one.py: Folding"
+    ])
+    assert result.ret == 0
+
+
 def test_reportchars(testdir):
     testdir.makepyfile("""
         import pytest