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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Playwright 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.85% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.94% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £442 - -
25th Percentile £453 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - -
75th Percentile £560 - -
90th Percentile £565 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £450 £510
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.76% -2.86%

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 340 73 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 28.99% 16.70% 30.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 52 91
10th Percentile £363 £358 £400
25th Percentile £447 £389 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £505
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -3.47% -15.83%
75th Percentile £555 £600 £588
90th Percentile £625 £709 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.63
Median hourly rate - - £12.75
75th Percentile - - £12.88
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £67.50 £91.69 £38.19
% change year-on-year -26.38% +140.12% -38.90%

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
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Playwright
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Playwright in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Playwright 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 10 June 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 - 10 £540 - 1
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) GCP
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Postman
2 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (50.00%) Gatling
3 5 (50.00%) GitLab
3 5 (50.00%) JMeter
4 4 (40.00%) JIRA
4 4 (40.00%) LoadRunner
4 4 (40.00%) NeoLoad
5 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
5 1 (10.00%) Git
5 1 (10.00%) Gradle
5 1 (10.00%) JUnit
5 1 (10.00%) Maven
5 1 (10.00%) Newman
5 1 (10.00%) REST Assured
5 1 (10.00%) Selenium
5 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
5 1 (10.00%) TestNG
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Automation Test Lead
1 6 (60.00%) Lead
2 4 (40.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Test Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Lead Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Test Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Test Automation Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) REST
2 4 (40.00%) LDAP
2 4 (40.00%) OpenID
2 4 (40.00%) SailPoint
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (10.00%) Synthetic Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (90.00%) Identity Access Management
3 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (70.00%) Event-Driven
3 7 (70.00%) Validation
4 6 (60.00%) Data Ingestion
4 6 (60.00%) DevOps
4 6 (60.00%) Test Strategy
5 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (50.00%) Test Scripting
6 4 (40.00%) API Testing
6 4 (40.00%) Data Validation
6 4 (40.00%) ETL
6 4 (40.00%) GitOps
6 4 (40.00%) Performance Analysis
6 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (40.00%) RBAC
6 4 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
6 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (40.00%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (90.00%) Python
2 9 (90.00%) Scala
2 9 (90.00%) TypeScript
3 4 (40.00%) Cypher
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (30.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk