Playwright Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Playwright
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England 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 116 87 -
Rank change year-on-year -29 - -
Contract jobs citing Playwright 5 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.21% 0.31% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.52% 1.61% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £404 £337 -
25th Percentile £409 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £523 £559 -
90th Percentile £543 £644 -
England median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.23% -2.56% -2.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 330 248 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.64% 18.97% 19.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 118 117
10th Percentile £345 £338 £295
25th Percentile £413 £425 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +17.65% -18.74%
75th Percentile £589 £575 £568
90th Percentile £725 £682 £630
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 52 58
10th Percentile £17.12 £40.75 -
25th Percentile £57.50 £43.00 -
Median hourly rate £70.88 £63.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +46.51% -28.33%
75th Percentile £85.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.11 £67.00 -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +21.82% -12.60% +2.74%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Playwright job vacancy trend in the East of England

Playwright
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Playwright
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 24 September 2026. 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
Suffolk - 3 £413 - 1
Cambridgeshire -3 1 £475 +15.15% 3
Bedfordshire - 1 £538 -
Playwright
England

Playwright
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (60.00%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) 4G
1 3 (60.00%) 5G
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) HTTP
1 3 (60.00%) SSH
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (60.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Python Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Test Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (60.00%) FastAPI
1 3 (60.00%) Flask
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) Jinja
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
1 3 (60.00%) Pandas
1 3 (60.00%) pytest
1 3 (60.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (60.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 3 (60.00%) Validation
4 2 (40.00%) API Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Application Packaging
4 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
4 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (40.00%) Process Management
5 1 (20.00%) API Development
5 1 (20.00%) Build Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Grafana
1 3 (60.00%) Prometheus