Playwright Contracts in England

Playwright
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Playwright skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Playwright over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 503 572
Rank change year-on-year +95 +69 +160
Contract jobs citing Playwright 71 43 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.31% 0.58% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 38 64
10th Percentile £370 £359 £418
25th Percentile £400 £406 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -21.74% +27.78%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £666
90th Percentile £614 £583 £695
UK median daily rate £438 £463 £575
% change year-on-year -5.41% -19.57% +27.78%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,401 7,473 11,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.25% 20.55% 23.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,745 5,302 8,243
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -0.88%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £798 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 229 133
10th Percentile £32.35 £22.35 £26.60
25th Percentile £50.27 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +28.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.58 £75.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Playwright in England

Playwright
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Playwright in England.

Daily rate trend for Playwright in England

Playwright
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Playwright in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Playwright in England

Playwright
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
London +32 32 £438 -2.78% 72
North of England +32 21 £445 -1.11% 34
North West +16 13 £445 -1.11% 20
South East +57 9 £500 +11.11% 29
Yorkshire +19 7 £475 +11.76% 9
South West +40 4 £563 -4.66% 15
Midlands +16 3 £307 +61.71% 10
East Midlands - 2 £202 - 6
West Midlands +11 1 £413 +117.11% 3
East of England - 1 £575 - 18
North East - 1 £200 - 5
Playwright
UK

Playwright
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) MadCap Flare
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.58%) Azure
2 16 (22.54%) AWS
3 14 (19.72%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.04%) GitHub
5 4 (5.63%) GCP
6 3 (4.23%) Apigee
7 2 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.82%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (1.41%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.41%) npm
8 1 (1.41%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.23%) MongoDB
1 3 (4.23%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (39.44%) Selenium
2 26 (36.62%) Cypress.io
3 21 (29.58%) GitLab
4 18 (25.35%) Jenkins
4 18 (25.35%) Postman
5 17 (23.94%) REST Assured
6 14 (19.72%) Cucumber
7 12 (16.90%) Git
8 11 (15.49%) JIRA
8 11 (15.49%) JMeter
9 10 (14.08%) SpecFlow
10 7 (9.86%) Appium
10 7 (9.86%) CircleCI
11 6 (8.45%) JUnit
11 6 (8.45%) TestNG
12 5 (7.04%) HP UFT
12 5 (7.04%) SoapUI
12 5 (7.04%) TestComplete
13 4 (5.63%) Gatling
13 4 (5.63%) NeoLoad
General
1 27 (38.03%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.72%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (16.90%) Public Sector
4 10 (14.08%) Finance
5 8 (11.27%) Banking
6 4 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.82%) Electronics
7 2 (2.82%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.82%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.82%) Marketing
7 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (39.44%) Test Engineer
2 15 (21.13%) Senior
3 13 (18.31%) Developer
4 10 (14.08%) Senior Test Engineer
5 8 (11.27%) Tester
6 7 (9.86%) Analyst
6 7 (9.86%) Automation Tester
6 7 (9.86%) Test Analyst
6 7 (9.86%) Test Automation Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) QA Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Automation Test Analyst
8 4 (5.63%) Developer in Test
8 4 (5.63%) Java Automation Tester
8 4 (5.63%) Java Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
8 4 (5.63%) Software Developer
8 4 (5.63%) Software Test Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Angular Developer
9 3 (4.23%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.49%) .NET
1 11 (15.49%) React
2 9 (12.68%) Node.js
3 8 (11.27%) REST
3 8 (11.27%) RESTful
4 6 (8.45%) AngularJS
4 6 (8.45%) GraphQL
5 4 (5.63%) HTML
5 4 (5.63%) Jest
5 4 (5.63%) Play Framework
6 3 (4.23%) .NET Framework
6 3 (4.23%) CSS
6 3 (4.23%) Puppeteer
6 3 (4.23%) pytest
7 2 (2.82%) Apollo GraphQL
7 2 (2.82%) Entity Framework
7 2 (2.82%) Gherkin
7 2 (2.82%) JSON
7 2 (2.82%) Next.js
7 2 (2.82%) NHibernate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.63%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.23%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.82%) NHS
3 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (88.73%) Test Automation
2 40 (56.34%) Agile
3 35 (49.30%) CI/CD
4 22 (30.99%) API Testing
4 22 (30.99%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (29.58%) Test Scripting
6 18 (25.35%) BDD
7 17 (23.94%) DevOps
8 16 (22.54%) Manual Testing
9 15 (21.13%) Scrum
10 14 (19.72%) Performance Testing
11 13 (18.31%) User Experience
12 12 (16.90%) Microservices
13 11 (15.49%) Integration Testing
13 11 (15.49%) SDET
14 10 (14.08%) Software Testing
14 10 (14.08%) TDD
14 10 (14.08%) Test Strategy
15 8 (11.27%) Security Testing
15 8 (11.27%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (46.48%) Java
2 28 (39.44%) JavaScript
3 22 (30.99%) TypeScript
4 21 (29.58%) Python
5 17 (23.94%) C#
6 13 (18.31%) SQL
7 4 (5.63%) Bash
7 4 (5.63%) C++
7 4 (5.63%) PHP
7 4 (5.63%) Ruby
7 4 (5.63%) Scala
8 1 (1.41%) Groovy
8 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (29.58%) Security Cleared
2 20 (28.17%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.04%) Degree
4 4 (5.63%) ISTQB
5 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (29.58%) QA
2 15 (21.13%) Accessibility
3 7 (9.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (16.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (11.27%) Grafana
2 5 (7.04%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.63%) Prometheus
3 4 (5.63%) Terraform
4 1 (1.41%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (5.63%) Bloomberg
1 4 (5.63%) Reuters
2 3 (4.23%) Google
2 3 (4.23%) PagerDuty
3 2 (2.82%) Brio
3 2 (2.82%) SAP
3 2 (2.82%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.41%) Hitachi
4 1 (1.41%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle
4 1 (1.41%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.41%) Salesforce