Playwright Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Playwright
Wales > South Wales

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 30 52
Rank change year-on-year -5 +22 +18
Contract jobs citing Playwright 1 14 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.38% 3.99% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.82% 17.28% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 1
10th Percentile - £375 -
25th Percentile - £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £509 £425
Median % change year-on-year -26.25% +19.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile - £538 £438
90th Percentile - £550 -
Wales median daily rate £375 £509 £425
% change year-on-year -26.25% +19.65% -15.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 55 81 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 20.83% 23.08% 19.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 48 65
10th Percentile £305 £210 £217
25th Percentile £366 £375 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -22.73%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £565
90th Percentile £641 £551 £633
Wales median daily rate £459 £503 £425
% change year-on-year -8.71% +18.24% -22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £21.12 -
Wales median hourly rate - £21.12 -

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Playwright as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Playwright in South Wales

Playwright
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Playwright.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Playwright

Playwright
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Playwright within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Cardiff -12 1 £375 -26.25% 2
Playwright
Wales

Playwright
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA