Playwright Contracts in the South West

Playwright
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 136 135
Rank change year-on-year +30 -1 +31
Contract jobs citing Playwright 2 5 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.11% 0.18% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.73% 1.10% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 12
10th Percentile - £584 -
25th Percentile £575 - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £590 £463
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +27.57% +9.73%
75th Percentile £625 - £538
90th Percentile - - £602
England median daily rate £475 £475 £513
% change year-on-year - -7.32% +7.89%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 274 455 534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.43% 16.28% 16.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 259 409
10th Percentile £323 £360 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £522
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +5.36% -0.57%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £638
90th Percentile £669 £700 £707
England median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 76 28
10th Percentile £61.25 £43.75 £48.32
25th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £59.38
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £68.56 - £76.13
90th Percentile £80.30 £85.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £61.25
% change year-on-year -3.08% -7.35% +2.08%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Playwright in the South West

Playwright
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Playwright in the South West

Playwright
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Wiltshire - 2 £600 -
Playwright
England

Playwright
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (50.00%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Snyk
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) UI Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus