Playwright Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Playwright
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 120 124 137
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 -
Contract jobs citing Playwright 5 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.29% 0.33% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.18% 1.36% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile £433 - £368
25th Percentile £463 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £481
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -1.30% -
75th Percentile £650 £488 £525
90th Percentile £772 - £544
Central London median daily rate £500 £475 £481
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.30% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 424 515 701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.54% 24.32% 24.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 313 470
10th Percentile £400 £401 £406
25th Percentile £463 £500 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £711 £725
90th Percentile £773 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -8.33% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £63.75 - £46.93
25th Percentile £67.50 £36.75 £47.94
Median hourly rate £75.00 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +94.81% -23.38% -15.90%
75th Percentile £82.50 £40.25 £51.94
90th Percentile £86.25 - £52.58
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year +62.34% -23.38% -15.90%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Playwright job vacancy trend in the City of London

Playwright
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Playwright.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Playwright

Playwright
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Playwright in the City of London

Playwright
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Run
2 1 (20.00%) Figma
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) npm
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) gulp
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (20.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (20.00%) MiFID Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) React Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior React Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (20.00%) HTML5
2 1 (20.00%) Jest
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (20.00%) LangGraph
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Sass
2 1 (20.00%) SPFx
2 1 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (20.00%) Vitest
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Genomics
1 1 (20.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (40.00%) SDET
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Mapping
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (40.00%) Python
4 1 (20.00%) C#
4 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) MiFID
2 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft