Playwright Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Playwright
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Playwright skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 20 34
Rank change year-on-year -12 +14 +13
Contract jobs citing Playwright 1 14 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.50% 6.11% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.92% 21.88% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 1
10th Percentile - £375 -
25th Percentile - £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £509 £425
Median % change year-on-year -26.25% +19.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile - £538 £438
90th Percentile - £550 -
South Wales median daily rate £375 £509 £425
% change year-on-year -26.25% +19.65% -15.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 52 64 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 26.13% 27.95% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 47 54
10th Percentile £305 £210 £217
25th Percentile £363 £388 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -17.48%
75th Percentile £491 £550 £538
90th Percentile £644 £551 £634
South Wales median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £25.60 -
South Wales median hourly rate - £21.12 -

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Playwright in Cardiff

Playwright
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Playwright.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Playwright

Playwright
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA