Playwright Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Playwright
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Playwright skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Playwright 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.23% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £305 - -
25th Percentile £306 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 - -
75th Percentile £313 - -
90th Percentile £314 - -
England median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 175 91 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 19.80% 15.40% 15.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 73 90
10th Percentile £353 £314 £313
25th Percentile £392 £356 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% - -
75th Percentile £545 £538 £530
90th Percentile £638 £581 £650
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £21.21 - £22.90
25th Percentile £22.64 - £26.02
Median hourly rate £25.08 - £43.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +119.93%
75th Percentile £25.13 - £58.25
90th Percentile £25.14 - £62.30
England median hourly rate £58.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -7.20% +20.45% -20.17%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Playwright job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Playwright
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Playwright.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Playwright

Playwright
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Playwright within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 December 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
Northamptonshire - 2 £310 - 4
Playwright
England

Playwright
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft