Playwright Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Playwright
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Playwright skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
11 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 83 98
Rank change year-on-year +7 +15 +30
Contract jobs citing Playwright 13 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.20% 0.17% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.31% 0.90% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 4
10th Percentile £373 £390 £413
25th Percentile £413 £413 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -17.53%
75th Percentile - £538 -
90th Percentile £560 £560 -
North West median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -14.89%

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 206 221 380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 19.00% 18.73% 23.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 138 323
10th Percentile £325 £342 £353
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -5.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £561 £594
90th Percentile £643 £658 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £453 £520
% change year-on-year -0.55% -12.98% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £60.50
25th Percentile - - £64.06
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £68.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +52.78%
75th Percentile - - £77.81
90th Percentile - - £79.88
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +60.81% - +2.62%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Playwright job vacancy trend in Manchester

Playwright
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Playwright

Playwright
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Playwright in Manchester over the 6 months to 11 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Playwright in Manchester

Playwright
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Big Data
1 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Cypress.io
1 6 (46.15%) Selenium
2 3 (23.08%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.69%) Gatling
3 1 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) Postman
General
1 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Health Technology
2 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.69%) Military
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Lead
1 5 (38.46%) Test Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Test Leader
3 2 (15.38%) Automation Test Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Automation Tester
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Principal Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Automation Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior JavaScript Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Gherkin
1 3 (23.08%) Next.js
1 3 (23.08%) Node.js
2 2 (15.38%) Express.js
2 2 (15.38%) GraphQL
2 2 (15.38%) Jest
2 2 (15.38%) pytest
2 2 (15.38%) React
2 2 (15.38%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) HTML5
3 1 (7.69%) JWT
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
3 1 (7.69%) Puppeteer
3 1 (7.69%) RESTful
3 1 (7.69%) Sass
3 1 (7.69%) Spring
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (7.69%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (7.69%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) Educational Technology
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Test Automation
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) Coaching
3 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Load Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
4 3 (23.08%) Test Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) API Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Complex ETL
5 2 (15.38%) ETL
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (15.38%) User Experience
5 2 (15.38%) User Stories
5 2 (15.38%) Workload Management
6 1 (7.69%) Manual Testing
6 1 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
3 2 (15.38%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
1 2 (15.38%) QA
1 2 (15.38%) WCAG
2 1 (7.69%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Veracode
1 1 (7.69%) Virgin Media
26 Playwright jobs in Manchester