Playwright Contract Job Trends in London

Playwright
England > London

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 342 367
Rank change year-on-year +103 +25 +180
Contract jobs citing Playwright 143 39 36
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.00% 0.26% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.84% 1.00% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 20 28
10th Percentile £311 £366 £375
25th Percentile £361 £402 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £568 £541 £543
90th Percentile £719 £575 £550
England median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - +5.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,728 3,915 4,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.14% 25.63% 25.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,516 2,552 3,743
10th Percentile £359 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £661 £704 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 29
10th Percentile £33.79 £34.83 £31.54
25th Percentile £43.13 £37.88 £36.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -19.68%
75th Percentile £63.38 £63.13 £72.00
90th Percentile £70.80 £71.90 £80.00
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Playwright job vacancy trend in London

Playwright
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Playwright

Playwright
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Playwright in London

Playwright
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 14 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
West London - 26 - - 1
Central London +6 10 £450 +5.88% 2
East London - 4 £445 - 5
South London - 2 £503 -
Playwright
England

Playwright
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 11 (7.69%) Confluence
2 2 (1.40%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.70%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (6.29%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.70%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 31 (21.68%) GitHub
2 27 (18.88%) Azure
3 25 (17.48%) SaaS
4 18 (12.59%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (11.89%) AWS
6 13 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (7.69%) Snowflake
8 10 (6.99%) Datadog
8 10 (6.99%) GCP
9 7 (4.90%) Figma
10 4 (2.80%) Cloud Run
11 3 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.10%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.10%) Serverless
12 2 (1.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (1.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (1.40%) BlazeMeter
13 1 (0.70%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.40%) HTTP
2 1 (0.70%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.19%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.40%) Big Data
2 2 (1.40%) BigQuery
2 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.40%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.40%) Power BI
2 2 (1.40%) Tableau
3 1 (0.70%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.70%) MySQL
3 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (35.66%) Jenkins
2 30 (20.98%) Selenium
3 29 (20.28%) Cypress.io
4 28 (19.58%) SpecFlow
5 22 (15.38%) JIRA
6 18 (12.59%) GitLab
7 17 (11.89%) Git
8 12 (8.39%) Postman
9 11 (7.69%) JMeter
10 10 (6.99%) Cucumber
10 10 (6.99%) JUnit
10 10 (6.99%) REST Assured
11 6 (4.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (4.20%) Gatling
12 5 (3.50%) Zephyr
13 3 (2.10%) Lerna
13 3 (2.10%) Locust
13 3 (2.10%) TestRail
14 2 (1.40%) TestNG
14 2 (1.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (20.28%) Finance
2 22 (15.38%) Banking
3 20 (13.99%) Social Skills
4 8 (5.59%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (2.10%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.40%) Marketing
7 2 (1.40%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 44 (30.77%) Senior
2 35 (24.48%) Developer
3 31 (21.68%) Tester
4 25 (17.48%) Automation Tester
5 15 (10.49%) Senior Developer
6 14 (9.79%) Angular Developer
7 12 (8.39%) Consultant
7 12 (8.39%) Senior Consultant
7 12 (8.39%) Test Engineer
8 11 (7.69%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 11 (7.69%) Senior Technical Consultant
8 11 (7.69%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 11 (7.69%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 11 (7.69%) Technical Consultant
8 11 (7.69%) Technical Specialist
9 10 (6.99%) C# Developer
9 10 (6.99%) QA Engineer
9 10 (6.99%) Test Automation Engineer
10 9 (6.29%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (5.59%) Cloud Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (26.57%) Node.js
2 33 (23.08%) Vitest
3 29 (20.28%) GraphQL
4 21 (14.69%) REST
5 20 (13.99%) .NET
6 18 (12.59%) React
6 18 (12.59%) YAML
7 17 (11.89%) .NET Framework
8 14 (9.79%) Entity Framework
8 14 (9.79%) NHibernate
9 10 (6.99%) HTML
9 10 (6.99%) Kafka
10 9 (6.29%) AngularJS
10 9 (6.29%) CSS
10 9 (6.29%) Jest
10 9 (6.29%) RESTful
11 8 (5.59%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (4.90%) pytest
13 6 (4.20%) Next.js
14 5 (3.50%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 38 (26.57%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.29%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.20%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.50%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.80%) Genomics
5 4 (2.80%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.10%) Life Science
7 2 (1.40%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.40%) Equities
7 2 (1.40%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.70%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.70%) Linux
1 1 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (65.73%) Test Automation
2 93 (65.03%) Agile
3 84 (58.74%) CI/CD
4 63 (44.06%) DevOps
5 37 (25.87%) Mentoring
6 33 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (22.38%) Full-Stack Development
8 30 (20.98%) Coaching
9 29 (20.28%) Software Engineering
10 28 (19.58%) Containerisation
11 26 (18.18%) E-Commerce
12 24 (16.78%) Microservices
13 23 (16.08%) End-to-End Testing
13 23 (16.08%) Test Scripting
14 22 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (15.38%) Observability
14 22 (15.38%) Test Strategy
15 21 (14.69%) API Design
16 19 (13.29%) Clean Code
17 18 (12.59%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 68 (47.55%) TypeScript
2 47 (32.87%) JavaScript
3 37 (25.87%) C#
3 37 (25.87%) Python
4 26 (18.18%) SQL
5 22 (15.38%) Java
6 3 (2.10%) XPath
7 1 (0.70%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.70%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 17 (11.89%) Degree
2 15 (10.49%) Security Cleared
3 14 (9.79%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.50%) ISTQB
5 4 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.70%) ISEB
7 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (23.08%) QA
2 18 (12.59%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.20%) WCAG
4 2 (1.40%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.40%) MiFID
5 1 (0.70%) GDPR
5 1 (0.70%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (34.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (28.67%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.39%) Grafana
3 7 (4.90%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (6.99%) Databricks
2 8 (5.59%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.50%) Google
4 3 (2.10%) Charles River
4 3 (2.10%) Oracle
5 2 (1.40%) SAP
5 2 (1.40%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.40%) Siebel
6 1 (0.70%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.70%) Workday