Playwright Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Playwright
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Playwright skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Playwright 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.65% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £464 £520 -
% change year-on-year -10.76% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Birmingham

Playwright falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 168 115 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 18.28% 19.13% 24.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 76 113
10th Percentile £350 £355 £375
25th Percentile £406 £424 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £575 £601 £656
90th Percentile £688 £688 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -34.55% -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -9.09% +214.29%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Playwright relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Playwright job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Playwright
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) GitLab
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 4 (66.67%) REST Assured
1 4 (66.67%) Selenium
1 4 (66.67%) Serenity BDD
2 3 (50.00%) Gatling
3 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 3 (50.00%) Lead Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Test Strategy
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 4 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
3 4 (66.67%) SDET
3 4 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (50.00%) API Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (33.33%) BDD
5 2 (33.33%) Coaching
5 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
5 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Migration
5 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
5 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
1 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk