Playwright Contracts

Playwright
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 643 807
Rank change year-on-year +107 +164 -126
Contract jobs citing Playwright 62 76 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.13% 0.047%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.70% 0.55% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 67 28
10th Percentile £328 £423 £353
25th Percentile £375 £513 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +27.78% -
75th Percentile £525 £658 £606
90th Percentile £579 £695 £615
UK excluding London median daily rate £504 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -3.95% +16.67% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Playwright in the UK

Playwright
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Playwright in the UK

Playwright
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Playwright over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Playwright in the UK

Playwright
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +95 38 £450 -21.74% 36
Work from Home +141 26 £423 -15.47% 19
UK excluding London +56 26 £504 -3.95% 28
London +90 25 £448 -31.13% 13
North of England +26 7 £450 -10.89% 10
North West +20 7 £450 +5.88% 6
Wales - 7 £519 - 3
Scotland +38 6 £585 +23.16% 4
South West +13 3 £590 +7.27% 2
South East +22 2 £425 -22.73% 5
West Midlands +28 1 £190 -62.00% 2
Midlands +21 1 £190 -62.00% 2

Playwright
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 6 (9.68%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) CMS
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (24.19%) Azure
2 10 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (12.90%) AWS
3 8 (12.90%) GitHub
3 8 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (6.45%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (3.23%) Serverless
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (1.61%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.61%) Contentful
6 1 (1.61%) Figma
6 1 (1.61%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (40.32%) Git
2 24 (38.71%) Cypress.io
3 21 (33.87%) Postman
4 19 (30.65%) Selenium
5 13 (20.97%) JIRA
6 12 (19.35%) Jenkins
7 10 (16.13%) SpecFlow
8 9 (14.52%) Cucumber
9 8 (12.90%) JMeter
10 7 (11.29%) Visual Studio
11 5 (8.06%) IntelliJ
11 5 (8.06%) NUnit
11 5 (8.06%) Storybook
12 4 (6.45%) Bitbucket
12 4 (6.45%) TestRail
13 3 (4.84%) Gatling
13 3 (4.84%) LoadRunner
14 2 (3.23%) FitNesse
14 2 (3.23%) Team Foundation Server
14 2 (3.23%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.97%) Finance
3 5 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.06%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.45%) Back Office
4 4 (6.45%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.84%) Electronics
5 3 (4.84%) Front Office
5 3 (4.84%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.84%) Marketing
6 1 (1.61%) Banking
6 1 (1.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 16 (25.81%) Senior
1 16 (25.81%) Tester
2 12 (19.35%) Developer
3 10 (16.13%) Automation Tester
3 10 (16.13%) Test Engineer
4 9 (14.52%) Test Automation Engineer
5 8 (12.90%) Lead
5 8 (12.90%) QA Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) QA Tester
6 5 (8.06%) Senior Test Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (6.45%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Test Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Test Leader
8 3 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) React Developer
8 3 (4.84%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Angular Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Automation Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.58%) GraphQL
2 11 (17.74%) .NET
2 11 (17.74%) REST
3 10 (16.13%) React
4 9 (14.52%) CSS
5 8 (12.90%) AngularJS
5 8 (12.90%) HTML
6 7 (11.29%) Jest
6 7 (11.29%) Node.js
6 7 (11.29%) WebdriverIO
7 5 (8.06%) Vue
8 4 (6.45%) .NET Core
8 4 (6.45%) RESTful
9 2 (3.23%) OAuth
9 2 (3.23%) OAuth2
9 2 (3.23%) OpenAPI
9 2 (3.23%) OpenID
9 2 (3.23%) Swagger
9 2 (3.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 2 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.52%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.23%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.61%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.61%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.61%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.61%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.61%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (77.42%) Test Automation
2 38 (61.29%) Agile
3 31 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 18 (29.03%) DevOps
5 17 (27.42%) BDD
6 15 (24.19%) TDD
7 14 (22.58%) Scrum
7 14 (22.58%) Test Strategy
8 13 (20.97%) Performance Testing
9 12 (19.35%) Unit Testing
10 11 (17.74%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (17.74%) Test Scripting
11 10 (16.13%) API Testing
11 10 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (14.52%) Front End Development
12 9 (14.52%) Load Testing
12 9 (14.52%) Manual Testing
13 7 (11.29%) Kanban
13 7 (11.29%) Security Testing
13 7 (11.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (45.16%) JavaScript
2 25 (40.32%) TypeScript
3 13 (20.97%) C#
4 8 (12.90%) SQL
5 6 (9.68%) Java
5 6 (9.68%) Python
6 3 (4.84%) C++
7 2 (3.23%) C
7 2 (3.23%) Scala
8 1 (1.61%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (9.68%) Degree
2 3 (4.84%) ISTQB
2 3 (4.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.84%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (35.48%) Accessibility
1 22 (35.48%) QA
2 4 (6.45%) WCAG
3 3 (4.84%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 10 (16.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.06%) Kibana
2 2 (3.23%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.61%) Grafana
3 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.84%) HP
2 3 (4.84%) Oracle
2 3 (4.84%) SAP
3 2 (3.23%) Finsemble
4 1 (1.61%) IBM
4 1 (1.61%) MuleSoft