Playwright Contracts in the UK excluding London

Playwright
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Playwright skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Playwright over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 413 492
Rank change year-on-year +51 +79 -56
Contract jobs citing Playwright 34 34 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.14% 0.066%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.05% 0.79% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 28 19
10th Percentile £373 £413 £389
25th Percentile £450 £485 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.14% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £551 £575 £606
90th Percentile £590 £588 £608
UK median daily rate £463 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -19.57% +27.78% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Playwright 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 advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3,239 4,303 6,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 18.34% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,122 3,217 4,324
10th Percentile £324 £359 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £689 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 92 136
10th Percentile £21.63 £22.26 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.95 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% +31.63% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £63.95
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.07 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Playwright as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Playwright in the UK excluding London

Playwright
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Playwright in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Playwright in the UK excluding London

Playwright
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Playwright in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Playwright in the UK excluding London

Playwright
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Playwright within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Scotland +50 10 £538 +13.16% 3
North of England +23 8 £450 -10.89% 9
Wales - 7 £519 - 2
North West +18 6 £450 +5.88% 4
South West +8 5 £590 +7.27% 4
South East +22 3 £450 -18.18% 3
Yorkshire +11 2 £425 -19.05% 5
Midlands +34 1 £190 -62.00% 2
West Midlands +21 1 £190 -62.00% 2
Playwright
UK

Playwright
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (14.71%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) Azure
2 9 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (26.47%) GitHub
3 7 (20.59%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (11.76%) AWS
5 2 (5.88%) GCP
6 1 (2.94%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (44.12%) Git
2 14 (41.18%) Postman
3 13 (38.24%) Cypress.io
4 9 (26.47%) Visual Studio
5 8 (23.53%) Jenkins
6 6 (17.65%) JIRA
7 5 (14.71%) IntelliJ
7 5 (14.71%) NUnit
7 5 (14.71%) Selenium
7 5 (14.71%) Storybook
8 3 (8.82%) Cucumber
9 2 (5.88%) SpecFlow
10 1 (2.94%) Appium
10 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
10 1 (2.94%) Gatling
10 1 (2.94%) JMeter
10 1 (2.94%) Mercurial
10 1 (2.94%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (2.94%) SoapUI
10 1 (2.94%) TestRail
General
1 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.88%) Finance
2 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
2 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.94%) Electronics
3 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Test Engineer
2 12 (35.29%) Test Automation Engineer
3 10 (29.41%) Senior
4 7 (20.59%) Developer
5 6 (17.65%) Senior Test Engineer
6 5 (14.71%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (14.71%) Tester
7 4 (11.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (8.82%) Automation Tester
9 2 (5.88%) Lead
9 2 (5.88%) QA Engineer
9 2 (5.88%) React Developer
10 1 (2.94%) Architect
10 1 (2.94%) Automation Architect
10 1 (2.94%) Automation Engineer
10 1 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
10 1 (2.94%) GUI Tester
10 1 (2.94%) Java Automation Tester
10 1 (2.94%) Lead Architect
10 1 (2.94%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (35.29%) GraphQL
2 10 (29.41%) .NET
3 6 (17.65%) CSS
3 6 (17.65%) HTML
3 6 (17.65%) Jest
3 6 (17.65%) Node.js
3 6 (17.65%) React
4 5 (14.71%) AngularJS
4 5 (14.71%) SOAP
4 5 (14.71%) Vue
5 4 (11.76%) REST
5 4 (11.76%) WinForms
5 4 (11.76%) WPF
6 2 (5.88%) Laravel
6 2 (5.88%) RESTful
7 1 (2.94%) OAuth
7 1 (2.94%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.94%) OpenID
7 1 (2.94%) Vitest
7 1 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Product Ownership
2 4 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.94%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (76.47%) Test Automation
2 25 (73.53%) Agile
3 16 (47.06%) CI/CD
4 12 (35.29%) DevOps
5 10 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (29.41%) Unit Testing
6 9 (26.47%) Front End Development
7 8 (23.53%) API Testing
7 8 (23.53%) Scrum
8 7 (20.59%) BDD
8 7 (20.59%) Kanban
8 7 (20.59%) Manual Testing
8 7 (20.59%) Non-Functional Testing
8 7 (20.59%) Project Management
8 7 (20.59%) Test Strategy
9 6 (17.65%) SDLC
9 6 (17.65%) Software Engineering
9 6 (17.65%) TDD
10 5 (14.71%) Performance Testing
10 5 (14.71%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) TypeScript
2 10 (29.41%) SQL
3 9 (26.47%) C#
4 8 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 4 (11.76%) VB
5 4 (11.76%) VB6
6 3 (8.82%) Java
7 2 (5.88%) Bash
7 2 (5.88%) C
8 1 (2.94%) Python
8 1 (2.94%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (44.12%) QA
2 8 (23.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Kibana
2 1 (2.94%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Infragistics
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 4 (11.76%) Oracle
2 2 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.94%) SAP