Playwright Contracts in the North West

Playwright
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 112 130 154
Rank change year-on-year +18 +24 +14
Contract jobs citing Playwright 8 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% 0.25% 0.094%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.83% 1.39% 0.51%
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 -
England median daily rate £475 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +5.56% -21.74% +27.78%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 437 503 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 22.21% 18.26% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 369 464
10th Percentile £363 £363 £337
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £577
90th Percentile £638 £750 £647
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 3
10th Percentile - £37.63 £39.24
25th Percentile £65.25 £45.88 £41.40
Median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%
75th Percentile £74.69 £71.87 -
90th Percentile £83.13 £75.05 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Playwright in the North West

Playwright
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Playwright in the North West

Playwright
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Playwright in the North West

Playwright
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Manchester +18 8 £445 -1.11% 9
Playwright
England

Playwright
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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