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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 314 342
Rank change year-on-year +11 +28 +95
Contract jobs citing Playwright 137 50 41
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.68% 0.37% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.00% 1.42% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 40 28
10th Percentile £319 £309 £393
25th Percentile £363 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +6.67% -12.38%
75th Percentile £568 £638 £500
90th Percentile £638 £754 £557
England median daily rate £470 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.05% - -6.17%

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 4,568 3,520 4,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.74% 25.95% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,021 2,446 3,162
10th Percentile £393 £363 £377
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £695 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 27 23
10th Percentile £26.40 £32.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.63 £33.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -44.03%
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.13 £49.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.20 £64.31
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
% change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -5.42%

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 17 August 2026.

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 17 August 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
Central London +5 17 £519 +18.57% 3
West London -12 7 £600 +51.90%
East London -1 1 £775 +115.28% 2
South London - 1 £850 -
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 7 (5.11%) Confluence
2 2 (1.46%) CMS
3 1 (0.73%) Appian
3 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.19%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.73%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.65%) Shopify
2 3 (2.19%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (40.15%) Azure
2 37 (27.01%) GitHub
3 34 (24.82%) AWS
4 27 (19.71%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (18.25%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (9.49%) GitHub Copilot
7 12 (8.76%) Serverless
8 10 (7.30%) GCP
9 9 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (6.57%) Figma
10 5 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (3.65%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.65%) BrowserStack
11 4 (2.92%) Datadog
12 3 (2.19%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.19%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.19%) Entra ID
12 3 (2.19%) Snowflake
13 2 (1.46%) Azure AKS
13 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.73%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.11%) DynamoDB
2 5 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.19%) Metadata
4 2 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.46%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.46%) Spark SQL
4 2 (1.46%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.73%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.73%) Power BI
5 1 (0.73%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (37.96%) Selenium
2 51 (37.23%) Cypress.io
3 28 (20.44%) Jenkins
4 23 (16.79%) Git
5 19 (13.87%) REST Assured
6 16 (11.68%) JIRA
7 14 (10.22%) Cucumber
8 13 (9.49%) Gatling
8 13 (9.49%) Postman
9 9 (6.57%) GitLab
9 9 (6.57%) JMeter
10 8 (5.84%) Appium
10 8 (5.84%) Storybook
10 8 (5.84%) TestRail
11 6 (4.38%) SpecFlow
11 6 (4.38%) TestNG
12 4 (2.92%) LoadRunner
12 4 (2.92%) Zephyr
13 3 (2.19%) NUnit
13 3 (2.19%) Vite
General
1 30 (21.90%) Finance
2 28 (20.44%) Social Skills
3 13 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.03%) Banking
5 4 (2.92%) Legal
5 4 (2.92%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.19%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.46%) Marketing
7 2 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.73%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.73%) Legal Technology
8 1 (0.73%) Military
8 1 (0.73%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (18.25%) Senior
2 22 (16.06%) Tester
3 21 (15.33%) Lead
4 20 (14.60%) Developer
5 18 (13.14%) Automation Engineer
6 15 (10.95%) QA Engineer
6 15 (10.95%) Test Engineer
7 13 (9.49%) Automation Tester
8 12 (8.76%) QA Automation Engineer
9 11 (8.03%) Test Automation Engineer
10 7 (5.11%) Analyst
10 7 (5.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (5.11%) Test Leader
11 6 (4.38%) Architect
11 6 (4.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (4.38%) Senior Automation Engineer
11 6 (4.38%) Test Analyst
11 6 (4.38%) UI Architect
12 5 (3.65%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.65%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (20.44%) React
2 24 (17.52%) REST
3 21 (15.33%) Node.js
3 21 (15.33%) RESTful
4 18 (13.14%) CSS
5 15 (10.95%) GraphQL
5 15 (10.95%) Jest
6 14 (10.22%) HTML
7 11 (8.03%) Next.js
8 10 (7.30%) CSS3
8 10 (7.30%) HTML5
9 9 (6.57%) Kafka
10 8 (5.84%) .NET
10 8 (5.84%) OAuth
10 8 (5.84%) OAuth2
11 6 (4.38%) JWT
11 6 (4.38%) pytest
11 6 (4.38%) Vitest
12 4 (2.92%) Lightning Web Components
12 4 (2.92%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.49%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.38%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.65%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.92%) NHS
6 3 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.19%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.46%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.46%) Genomics
7 2 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.46%) Life Science
7 2 (1.46%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.73%) Equities
8 1 (0.73%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.73%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.92%) Unix
2 2 (1.46%) VMS
3 1 (0.73%) Android
3 1 (0.73%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.73%) Linux
3 1 (0.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (78.83%) Test Automation
2 89 (64.96%) CI/CD
3 62 (45.26%) DevOps
4 61 (44.53%) Agile
5 42 (30.66%) AI
6 36 (26.28%) Test Strategy
7 32 (23.36%) End-to-End Testing
8 27 (19.71%) Microservices
9 24 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (15.33%) API Testing
11 20 (14.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (14.60%) TDD
12 19 (13.87%) Containerisation
12 19 (13.87%) Validation
13 18 (13.14%) QA Automation
13 18 (13.14%) Scrum
13 18 (13.14%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (12.41%) Performance Testing
14 17 (12.41%) Software Engineering
15 16 (11.68%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 60 (43.80%) TypeScript
2 44 (32.12%) JavaScript
3 28 (20.44%) SQL
4 27 (19.71%) Python
5 24 (17.52%) Java
6 20 (14.60%) C#
7 4 (2.92%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.92%) Scala
8 2 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.46%) Ruby
9 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.41%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (2.92%) Degree
3 4 (2.92%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.46%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.46%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.73%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.73%) ISEB
5 1 (0.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (43.80%) QA
2 12 (8.76%) Accessibility
3 9 (6.57%) WCAG
4 4 (2.92%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.46%) GDPR
6 2 (1.46%) NIST
7 1 (0.73%) GRC
7 1 (0.73%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.73%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.73%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.73%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 29 (21.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (16.79%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.30%) Grafana
2 10 (7.30%) Prometheus
3 4 (2.92%) Terraform
4 3 (2.19%) Ansible
4 3 (2.19%) Argo
5 2 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.73%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 18 (13.14%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.03%) Salesforce
3 5 (3.65%) Databricks
4 3 (2.19%) Google
4 3 (2.19%) Micro Focus
4 3 (2.19%) OpenText
4 3 (2.19%) Perfecto Mobile
4 3 (2.19%) Talend
5 2 (1.46%) Brio
5 2 (1.46%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.46%) Foundry
5 2 (1.46%) New Relic
6 1 (0.73%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.73%) Aprimo
6 1 (0.73%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.73%) Charles River
6 1 (0.73%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.73%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.73%) Telerik
6 1 (0.73%) UiPath