Playwright Contracts in Manchester

Playwright
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 89 115
Rank change year-on-year +18 +26 +21
Contract jobs citing Playwright 8 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.86% 0.46% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.35% 1.94% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 3
10th Percentile £373 £375 £303
25th Percentile £400 £391 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% +5.88% -27.66%
75th Percentile £500 £475 £438
90th Percentile £510 £510 -
North West median daily rate £445 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -1.11% +5.88% -27.66%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 239 361 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 25.81% 23.80% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 283 310
10th Percentile £400 £375 £336
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £581
90th Percentile £638 £825 £639
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £67.00 -
25th Percentile £76.25 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £71.87 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% +59.71% +143.24%
75th Percentile £88.75 £76.75 -
90th Percentile - £81.60 -
North West median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Playwright in Manchester

Playwright
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Playwright in Manchester

Playwright
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Playwright in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Playwright in Manchester

Playwright
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Apigee
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (37.50%) GitLab
2 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) CircleCI
3 2 (25.00%) JIRA
3 2 (25.00%) Postman
3 2 (25.00%) REST Assured
3 2 (25.00%) Selenium
4 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
4 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Automation Tester
1 3 (37.50%) Tester
2 2 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (25.00%) Puppeteer
2 2 (25.00%) React
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) User Experience
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) API Testing
5 2 (25.00%) API Development
5 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
5 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (25.00%) Observability
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 1 (12.50%) Microservices
6 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) TypeScript
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) Bash
3 2 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Grafana
1 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Google
1 2 (25.00%) PagerDuty
1 2 (25.00%) Virgin Media