Playwright Contracts in the UK excluding London

Playwright
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Playwright skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Playwright over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 424 490
Rank change year-on-year +59 +66 -67
Contract jobs citing Playwright 28 35 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.15% 0.061%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.85% 0.79% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 29 18
10th Percentile £366 £413 £381
25th Percentile £439 £485 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £606
90th Percentile £589 £588 £609
UK median daily rate £450 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -21.74% +27.78% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Playwright is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,305 4,409 6,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.89% 18.31% 20.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,158 3,303 4,395
10th Percentile £323 £357 £360
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.27%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 91 147
10th Percentile £21.54 £22.50 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.13 £63.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Playwright as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Playwright in the UK excluding London

Playwright
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Playwright in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Playwright in the UK excluding London

Playwright
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Playwright in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Playwright in the UK excluding London

Playwright
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Playwright within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
North of England +24 9 £450 -10.89% 11
North West +28 7 £450 +5.88% 7
Wales - 7 £519 - 3
Scotland +40 6 £585 +23.16% 1
South West +3 3 £590 +7.27% 2
Yorkshire +15 2 £425 -19.05% 4
South East +14 2 £425 -22.73% 5
Midlands +26 1 £190 -62.00% 3
West Midlands +26 1 £190 -62.00% 3
Playwright
UK

Playwright
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (17.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) GitHub
2 7 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (17.86%) AWS
4 4 (14.29%) Azure
5 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) GCP
7 1 (3.57%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) 5G
Development Applications
1 12 (42.86%) Cypress.io
1 12 (42.86%) Postman
2 9 (32.14%) Git
2 9 (32.14%) Jenkins
3 5 (17.86%) IntelliJ
3 5 (17.86%) JIRA
3 5 (17.86%) Storybook
4 4 (14.29%) Cucumber
5 3 (10.71%) NUnit
5 3 (10.71%) Selenium
5 3 (10.71%) Visual Studio
6 2 (7.14%) Gatling
6 2 (7.14%) SpecFlow
7 1 (3.57%) Artifactory
7 1 (3.57%) JMeter
7 1 (3.57%) Mercurial
7 1 (3.57%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (3.57%) SoapUI
7 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.57%) Electronics
3 1 (3.57%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Senior
2 7 (25.00%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Test Automation Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Tester
4 4 (14.29%) Automation Tester
4 4 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Java Automation Tester
6 2 (7.14%) QA Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) React Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Automation Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) GUI Tester
7 1 (3.57%) Lead
7 1 (3.57%) Lead Architect
7 1 (3.57%) QA Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) GraphQL
2 6 (21.43%) CSS
2 6 (21.43%) HTML
2 6 (21.43%) Jest
2 6 (21.43%) Node.js
2 6 (21.43%) React
3 5 (17.86%) Vue
4 4 (14.29%) .NET
5 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
5 3 (10.71%) RESTful
6 2 (7.14%) Laravel
6 2 (7.14%) OAuth
6 2 (7.14%) OAuth2
6 2 (7.14%) OpenID
6 2 (7.14%) Web Services
7 1 (3.57%) SOAP
7 1 (3.57%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) e-Learning
3 1 (3.57%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 19 (67.86%) Agile
3 14 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 10 (35.71%) Unit Testing
5 9 (32.14%) Front End Development
6 7 (25.00%) Project Management
6 7 (25.00%) Scrum
7 6 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (21.43%) Software Engineering
8 5 (17.86%) API Testing
8 5 (17.86%) BDD
8 5 (17.86%) DevOps
8 5 (17.86%) Kanban
8 5 (17.86%) Manual Testing
8 5 (17.86%) Non-Functional Testing
8 5 (17.86%) Objectives and Key Results
8 5 (17.86%) Test Strategy
9 4 (14.29%) Code Quality
9 4 (14.29%) Community of Practice
9 4 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) TypeScript
2 8 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 5 (17.86%) C#
4 4 (14.29%) Java
4 4 (14.29%) SQL
5 2 (7.14%) Bash
5 2 (7.14%) C
5 2 (7.14%) Scala
6 1 (3.57%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (35.71%) QA
2 6 (21.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.57%) SAP