Playwright Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Playwright
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Playwright skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Playwright 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.52% - 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.61% - 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £520 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - £400
75th Percentile £560 - £475
90th Percentile - - £505
South Yorkshire median daily rate £540 - £400

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 249 40 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 32.17% 16.19% 27.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 29 70
10th Percentile £358 £455 £387
25th Percentile £437 £500 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £479
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +22.72% -12.95%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £588
90th Percentile £675 £680 £653
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £585 £475
% change year-on-year -14.53% +23.16% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £22.50

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Playwright job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Playwright
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Postman
2 2 (50.00%) Gatling
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) JMeter
2 2 (50.00%) LoadRunner
2 2 (50.00%) NeoLoad
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Automation Test Lead
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
2 2 (50.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Test Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LDAP
1 2 (50.00%) OpenID
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) GitOps
2 2 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Scala
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (50.00%) Cypher
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Google