Playwright Contracts in the North of England

Playwright
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 183 200
Rank change year-on-year +42 +17 +33
Contract jobs citing Playwright 23 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.66% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.25% 0.87% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 7
10th Percentile £296 £364 £456
25th Percentile £357 £428 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% -10.64%
75th Percentile £488 £520 £538
90th Percentile £511 £535 £543
England median daily rate £438 £450 £536
% change year-on-year -2.78% -16.08% +10.80%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 708 919 1,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.25% 18.90% 19.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 602 822
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £391 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.59% -4.14% +2.44%
75th Percentile £545 £600 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 32 5
10th Percentile - £14.56 £37.77
25th Percentile £70.00 £37.22 £37.80
Median hourly rate £76.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +65.11% - -31.59%
75th Percentile £91.20 £69.44 £63.75
90th Percentile £95.61 £72.50 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £55.63 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.87% -14.42% +23.81%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Playwright as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Playwright in the North of England

Playwright
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Playwright in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Playwright in the North of England

Playwright
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Playwright in the North of England over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Playwright in the North of England

Playwright
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
North West +17 13 £400 -11.11% 44
Yorkshire +8 9 £450 -11.76% 18
North East - 1 £200 - 3
Playwright
England

Playwright
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (4.35%) CMS
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) AWS
2 3 (13.04%) Apigee
2 3 (13.04%) Azure
2 3 (13.04%) GCP
3 2 (8.70%) GitHub
3 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Datadog
4 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
1 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (52.17%) GitLab
2 10 (43.48%) Cypress.io
2 10 (43.48%) Selenium
3 9 (39.13%) Jenkins
4 8 (34.78%) REST Assured
5 7 (30.43%) JMeter
5 7 (30.43%) Postman
6 6 (26.09%) Cucumber
6 6 (26.09%) TestNG
7 5 (21.74%) JIRA
7 5 (21.74%) Maven
8 3 (13.04%) CircleCI
8 3 (13.04%) Git
8 3 (13.04%) JUnit
9 1 (4.35%) Appium
9 1 (4.35%) Artifactory
9 1 (4.35%) SpecFlow
9 1 (4.35%) TestRail
9 1 (4.35%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Health Technology
3 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Test Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Senior
3 4 (17.39%) Software Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) QA Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Test Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Automation Tester
6 1 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) Node.js
2 4 (17.39%) React
3 3 (13.04%) GraphQL
3 3 (13.04%) Puppeteer
3 3 (13.04%) RESTful
4 2 (8.70%) .NET
4 2 (8.70%) Gherkin
4 2 (8.70%) OAuth
5 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.35%) GatsbyJS
5 1 (4.35%) HTML
5 1 (4.35%) JSON
5 1 (4.35%) Next.js
5 1 (4.35%) OpenAPI
5 1 (4.35%) REST
5 1 (4.35%) Swagger
5 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) NHS
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) PKI
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 17 (73.91%) CI/CD
3 13 (56.52%) Agile
4 9 (39.13%) API Testing
5 7 (30.43%) TDD
6 5 (21.74%) BDD
6 5 (21.74%) Test Scripting
6 5 (21.74%) User Experience
7 4 (17.39%) API Development
7 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (17.39%) Non-Functional Testing
7 4 (17.39%) Performance Testing
7 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
7 4 (17.39%) Task Automation
7 4 (17.39%) Test Strategy
8 3 (13.04%) Front End Development
8 3 (13.04%) Incident Management
8 3 (13.04%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) Java
2 11 (47.83%) JavaScript
3 5 (21.74%) Python
3 5 (21.74%) TypeScript
4 3 (13.04%) Bash
4 3 (13.04%) C#
4 3 (13.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
1 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) Accessibility
2 6 (26.09%) QA
2 6 (26.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Grafana
2 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Prometheus
2 3 (13.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Google
1 3 (13.04%) PagerDuty
2 2 (8.70%) Brio
3 1 (4.35%) Atlassian