Playwright Contracts in London

Playwright
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 326 358 454
Rank change year-on-year +32 +96 +143
Contract jobs citing Playwright 32 27 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.99% 0.61% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 22 35
10th Percentile £372 £363 £539
25th Percentile £380 £390 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -30.77% +26.83%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £695
90th Percentile £655 £568 £803
England median daily rate £475 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +5.56% -21.74% +27.78%

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 3,222 4,453 7,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.98% 25.50% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,263 3,327 5,269
10th Percentile £385 £377 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £725
90th Percentile £838 £825 £810
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 39
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.60
25th Percentile £34.13 £23.80 £41.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £40.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -40.74% +38.95%
75th Percentile £66.25 £63.13 £75.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £72.60 £82.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +28.71%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Playwright in London

Playwright
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Playwright in London

Playwright
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Playwright in London over the 6 months to 16 May 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 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
Central London -2 4 £500 +11.11% 2
West London +10 1 £395 -16.84%
Playwright
England

Playwright
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (9.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) Azure
2 9 (28.13%) AWS
2 9 (28.13%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (3.13%) BrowserStack
4 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.13%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (37.50%) Selenium
2 11 (34.38%) Cypress.io
3 9 (28.13%) GitLab
3 9 (28.13%) Jenkins
4 8 (25.00%) REST Assured
5 7 (21.88%) JIRA
5 7 (21.88%) Postman
5 7 (21.88%) SpecFlow
6 5 (15.63%) Appium
6 5 (15.63%) HP UFT
6 5 (15.63%) JMeter
6 5 (15.63%) TestComplete
7 4 (12.50%) CircleCI
7 4 (12.50%) Gatling
7 4 (12.50%) NeoLoad
8 3 (9.38%) JUnit
8 3 (9.38%) SoapUI
9 2 (6.25%) Git
9 2 (6.25%) Zephyr
10 1 (3.13%) Ranorex
General
1 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Finance
3 6 (18.75%) Banking
4 4 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Test Engineer
2 10 (31.25%) Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Senior
4 5 (15.63%) Analyst
4 5 (15.63%) Test Analyst
4 5 (15.63%) Tester
5 4 (12.50%) Automation Test Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Automation Tester
5 4 (12.50%) Developer in Test
5 4 (12.50%) Java Automation Tester
5 4 (12.50%) Java Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Senior Test Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Software Developer
5 4 (12.50%) Software Test Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Lead
6 3 (9.38%) QA Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Java Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) QA Leader
7 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) .NET
2 5 (15.63%) React
3 4 (12.50%) Jest
3 4 (12.50%) Play Framework
3 4 (12.50%) REST
4 3 (9.38%) Node.js
4 3 (9.38%) pytest
5 2 (6.25%) .NET Framework
5 2 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.25%) Entity Framework
5 2 (6.25%) NHibernate
5 2 (6.25%) RESTful
6 1 (3.13%) CSS
6 1 (3.13%) HTML
6 1 (3.13%) JSON
6 1 (3.13%) SOAP
6 1 (3.13%) Spring
6 1 (3.13%) WebSockets
6 1 (3.13%) XML
6 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.38%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (84.38%) Test Automation
2 19 (59.38%) Agile
3 15 (46.88%) CI/CD
4 13 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (37.50%) Test Scripting
6 11 (34.38%) Scrum
7 10 (31.25%) DevOps
7 10 (31.25%) Integration Testing
7 10 (31.25%) SDET
7 10 (31.25%) Software Testing
8 9 (28.13%) Performance Testing
9 8 (25.00%) Microservices
10 7 (21.88%) API Testing
11 6 (18.75%) Regression Testing
12 5 (15.63%) Kanban
12 5 (15.63%) Manual Testing
12 5 (15.63%) Security Testing
12 5 (15.63%) System Testing
12 5 (15.63%) Test Strategy
12 5 (15.63%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 18 (56.25%) Java
2 17 (53.13%) JavaScript
3 14 (43.75%) Python
4 12 (37.50%) C#
5 9 (28.13%) TypeScript
6 4 (12.50%) C++
6 4 (12.50%) PHP
6 4 (12.50%) Ruby
6 4 (12.50%) Scala
6 4 (12.50%) SQL
7 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 9 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 5 (15.63%) Degree
4 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (43.75%) QA
2 5 (15.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Bloomberg
1 4 (12.50%) Reuters
2 1 (3.13%) Hitachi
2 1 (3.13%) MuleSoft
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle
2 1 (3.13%) Salesforce