Playwright Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Playwright
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 86 - 54
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Playwright 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.48% - 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.56% - 3.39%
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
Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £488 £400
% change year-on-year -5.13% +21.88% -23.81%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 257 41 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 31.11% 14.91% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 30 79
10th Percentile £358 £455 £390
25th Percentile £438 £500 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £585 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +23.16% -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £588
90th Percentile £675 £678 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £14.35
25th Percentile - - £16.94
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £96.21 £22.50
% change year-on-year -41.27% +327.59% -67.86%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Playwright job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Playwright
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Sheffield - 4 £540 - 10
Playwright
Yorkshire

Playwright
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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