Playwright Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Playwright
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Playwright skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 129 -
Rank change year-on-year +22 - -
Contract jobs citing Playwright 7 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.41% 0.092% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.11% 0.51% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £396 £416 -
25th Percentile £458 £422 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £438 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% - -
75th Percentile £588 £447 -
90th Percentile - £449 -
South East median daily rate £525 £425 £575
% change year-on-year +23.53% -26.09% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 332 392 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.55% 17.97% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 259 280
10th Percentile £313 £373 £312
25th Percentile £395 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £625
90th Percentile £625 £651 £689
South East median daily rate £465 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -11.43% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 7
10th Percentile - £50.87 £36.74
25th Percentile £13.25 - -
Median hourly rate £13.50 £61.60 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.08% +23.20% -22.40%
75th Percentile £23.03 - £52.28
90th Percentile £28.60 £64.25 £55.16
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% -5.14%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Playwright as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Playwright in the Thames Valley

Playwright
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Playwright.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Playwright

Playwright
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Playwright in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Playwright in the Thames Valley

Playwright
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Playwright within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Berkshire +19 7 £575 +35.29% 4
Playwright
South East

Playwright
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Cypress.io
2 3 (42.86%) Selenium
3 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
3 2 (28.57%) Git
3 2 (28.57%) NUnit
3 2 (28.57%) SpecFlow
4 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Automation Tester
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) React Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) Apollo GraphQL
1 2 (28.57%) CSS
1 2 (28.57%) GraphQL
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
1 2 (28.57%) React
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
3 4 (57.14%) API Testing
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) End-to-End Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
4 2 (28.57%) BDD
4 2 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (28.57%) Design Thinking
4 2 (28.57%) Front End Development
4 2 (28.57%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
4 2 (28.57%) User Experience
4 2 (28.57%) UX Design
4 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
4 2 (28.57%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
1 2 (28.57%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat