Playwright Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Playwright
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Playwright skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Playwright 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.52% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £300 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 - -
75th Percentile £568 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £545 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 69 55 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 20.97% 27.64% 26.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 36 34
10th Percentile £354 £340 £365
25th Percentile £405 £383 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £570
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -15.57% +3.64%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £644
90th Percentile £600 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £46.53 - -
25th Percentile £49.56 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 - -
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £53.75 - -

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Playwright job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Playwright
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Playwright.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Playwright

Playwright
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Playwright in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Playwright in Newcastle upon Tyne

Playwright
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 (80.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Postman
2 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (40.00%) JIRA
4 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (20.00%) JMeter
4 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Tester
2 2 (40.00%) Manual Tester
2 2 (40.00%) Quality Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Tester
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Tester
3 1 (20.00%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Regression Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Kanban
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) Case Management
4 2 (40.00%) Functional Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
5 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (20.00%) TDD
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft