Playwright Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 452 600
Rank change year-on-year +132 +148 -118
Contract jobs citing Playwright 27 15 19
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.060% 0.043%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.74% 0.24% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 12 18
10th Percentile £335 £401 £409
25th Percentile £363 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £525 £547 £600
90th Percentile £574 £643 £609
UK median daily rate £475 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -17.39% +27.78% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,628 6,337 13,079
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.03% 25.22% 29.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,546 4,711 9,657
10th Percentile £331 £395 £400
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +13.40%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £731
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 80 116
10th Percentile £24.68 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.65
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%

Playwright
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Playwright as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Playwright trend for jobs with a WFH option

Playwright
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Playwright.

Playwright daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Playwright
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Playwright over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Playwright daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Playwright
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (14.81%) AWS
4 2 (7.41%) GitHub
4 2 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (7.41%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) BrowserStack
5 1 (3.70%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (37.04%) Cypress.io
1 10 (37.04%) Git
2 9 (33.33%) Postman
3 8 (29.63%) Selenium
4 6 (22.22%) Visual Studio
5 5 (18.52%) Cucumber
5 5 (18.52%) JMeter
6 4 (14.81%) SpecFlow
7 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
7 3 (11.11%) JIRA
7 3 (11.11%) LoadRunner
7 3 (11.11%) NUnit
7 3 (11.11%) TestRail
8 2 (7.41%) FitNesse
8 2 (7.41%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (3.70%) Artifactory
9 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
9 1 (3.70%) Mercurial
9 1 (3.70%) SoapUI
9 1 (3.70%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (29.63%) Finance
2 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.11%) Electronics
3 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 3 (11.11%) Marketing
3 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Back Office
4 2 (7.41%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Test Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Test Automation Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Tester
3 5 (18.52%) QA Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Senior
4 4 (14.81%) Automation Tester
4 4 (14.81%) Lead
5 3 (11.11%) Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) QA Tester
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Test Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Test Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Automation Test Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Automation Test Lead
6 2 (7.41%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Automation Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Java Automation Tester
7 1 (3.70%) QA Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) .NET
1 5 (18.52%) GraphQL
2 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
2 4 (14.81%) REST
3 3 (11.11%) RESTful
3 3 (11.11%) SOAP
3 3 (11.11%) WebdriverIO
4 2 (7.41%) WinForms
4 2 (7.41%) WPF
5 1 (3.70%) Gherkin
5 1 (3.70%) JSON
5 1 (3.70%) Next.js
5 1 (3.70%) Node.js
5 1 (3.70%) OAuth
5 1 (3.70%) OAuth2
5 1 (3.70%) OpenID
5 1 (3.70%) React
5 1 (3.70%) Vue
5 1 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.70%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.70%) Reference Data
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (92.59%) Test Automation
2 16 (59.26%) Agile
3 10 (37.04%) BDD
3 10 (37.04%) CI/CD
4 9 (33.33%) API Testing
4 9 (33.33%) DevOps
4 9 (33.33%) Test Strategy
5 7 (25.93%) Performance Testing
5 7 (25.93%) TDD
6 6 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (22.22%) Scrum
7 5 (18.52%) Load Testing
7 5 (18.52%) Manual Testing
7 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (18.52%) Security Testing
7 5 (18.52%) Test Management
7 5 (18.52%) Test Scripting
8 4 (14.81%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (14.81%) Non-Functional Testing
8 4 (14.81%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) C#
1 9 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 9 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 6 (22.22%) SQL
3 4 (14.81%) Java
4 3 (11.11%) Python
5 2 (7.41%) VB
5 2 (7.41%) VB6
6 1 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) ISTQB
2 2 (7.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (44.44%) QA
2 11 (40.74%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) HP
2 3 (11.11%) SAP
3 2 (7.41%) Infragistics
4 1 (3.70%) IBM
4 1 (3.70%) MuleSoft