Playwright Contract Job Trends in Central London

Playwright
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Playwright skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 128 148
Rank change year-on-year +6 +20 -
Contract jobs citing Playwright 6 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.31% 0.30% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.34% 1.24% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 8
10th Percentile £394 - £368
25th Percentile £425 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £481
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.30% -
75th Percentile £622 £488 £525
90th Percentile £751 - £544
London median daily rate £475 £475 £513
% change year-on-year - -7.32% +7.89%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 449 564 742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 23.50% 24.03% 24.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 350 501
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £435 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £723 £713
90th Percentile £773 £838 £825
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £52.83 £27.67 £46.93
25th Percentile £55.99 £31.07 £47.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +62.34% -23.38% -15.90%
75th Percentile £76.25 £41.00 £51.94
90th Percentile £83.75 £41.45 £52.58
London median hourly rate £51.97 £42.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +22.28% -29.17% -7.69%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Playwright job vacancy trend in Central London

Playwright
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Playwright.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Playwright

Playwright
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Playwright in Central London over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Playwright in Central London

Playwright
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 14 October 2025. 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
City of London +4 5 £525 +10.53% 2
Playwright
London

Playwright
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Run
3 1 (16.67%) Figma
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) npm
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (16.67%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) gulp
3 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) JMeter
3 1 (16.67%) JUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Postman
3 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
3 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
3 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
3 1 (16.67%) TestNG
3 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
3 1 (16.67%) webpack
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (16.67%) MiFID Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Principal Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) React Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Front-End Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior React Developer
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
1 3 (50.00%) React
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
2 1 (16.67%) Gherkin
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5
2 1 (16.67%) Jest
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (16.67%) LangGraph
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) Sass
2 1 (16.67%) SPFx
2 1 (16.67%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (16.67%) Vitest
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 1 (16.67%) Genomics
1 1 (16.67%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) SDET
3 2 (33.33%) BDD
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Micro Frontends
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (16.67%) Transcriptomics
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (33.33%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) MiFID
2 1 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft