Playwright Contract Job Trends in the North East

Playwright
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Playwright skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 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 the North East 1.27% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £300 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 - -
75th Percentile £568 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - -4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 82 82 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 20.81% 27.15% 22.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 45 40
10th Percentile £376 £335 £357
25th Percentile £406 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £545
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -13.76% -0.91%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £625
90th Percentile £600 £650 £720
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £46.53 £32.40 -
25th Percentile £49.56 £41.26 -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.39% - -5.76%
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Playwright job vacancy trend in the North East

Playwright
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Playwright.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Playwright

Playwright
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Playwright in the North East over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Playwright in the North East

Playwright
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Playwright within the North East region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Tyne and Wear - 5 £545 - 3
Playwright
England

Playwright
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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%) Coaching
5 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
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