Playwright Contracts in the UK excluding London

Playwright
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 370 427
Rank change year-on-year +68 +57 +66
Contract jobs citing Playwright 34 29 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.43% 0.88% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 25 29
10th Percentile £374 £368 £413
25th Percentile £411 £450 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.13% -3.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £506 £551 £575
90th Percentile £538 £590 £588
UK median daily rate £438 £450 £575
% change year-on-year -2.78% -21.74% +27.78%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
North of England +20 10 £475 +5.56% 67
South East +52 8 £500 +17.65% 64
North West +18 8 £445 -1.11% 35
Scotland +15 8 £463 -20.94% 14
South West +45 3 £525 -11.02% 37
Midlands +24 3 £307 +61.71% 53
Yorkshire +8 2 £475 +11.76% 25
East Midlands - 2 £202 - 22
West Midlands +14 1 £413 +117.11% 28
Wales -5 1 - - 9
East of England - 1 £575 - 49
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 2 (5.88%) CMS
1 2 (5.88%) Headless CMS
2 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) Azure
2 9 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (17.65%) AWS
4 4 (11.76%) GCP
5 2 (5.88%) Apigee
5 2 (5.88%) BrowserStack
5 2 (5.88%) Serverless
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.94%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (2.94%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.94%) GitHub
6 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.94%) npm
6 1 (2.94%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.94%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
1 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (35.29%) Git
2 11 (32.35%) Selenium
3 9 (26.47%) Cucumber
3 9 (26.47%) Cypress.io
4 7 (20.59%) Postman
5 6 (17.65%) Jenkins
6 5 (14.71%) JIRA
7 4 (11.76%) NUnit
7 4 (11.76%) REST Assured
7 4 (11.76%) SpecFlow
8 3 (8.82%) GitLab
9 2 (5.88%) Appium
9 2 (5.88%) CircleCI
9 2 (5.88%) JMeter
9 2 (5.88%) JUnit
9 2 (5.88%) SoapUI
9 2 (5.88%) Storybook
9 2 (5.88%) Visual Studio
10 1 (2.94%) MSTest
10 1 (2.94%) Ranorex
General
1 9 (26.47%) Public Sector
2 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Finance
4 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Banking
6 2 (5.88%) Electronics
6 2 (5.88%) Health Technology
6 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.88%) Marketing
6 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.94%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Test Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Tester
3 5 (14.71%) Automation Tester
3 5 (14.71%) Senior
3 5 (14.71%) Test Automation Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Developer
4 4 (11.76%) QA Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) Test Consultant
7 1 (2.94%) Angular Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) .NET
1 5 (14.71%) AngularJS
1 5 (14.71%) CSS
1 5 (14.71%) Node.js
2 4 (11.76%) REST
3 3 (8.82%) GraphQL
3 3 (8.82%) React
3 3 (8.82%) RESTful
3 3 (8.82%) Vitest
4 2 (5.88%) Gherkin
4 2 (5.88%) HTML
4 2 (5.88%) Jest
4 2 (5.88%) Middleware
4 2 (5.88%) Next.js
4 2 (5.88%) Puppeteer
4 2 (5.88%) YAML
5 1 (2.94%) Express.js
5 1 (2.94%) JSON
5 1 (2.94%) SOAP
5 1 (2.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.88%) NHS
2 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.94%) e-Learning
3 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (88.24%) Test Automation
2 17 (50.00%) Agile
2 17 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 14 (41.18%) BDD
4 11 (32.35%) DevOps
5 10 (29.41%) API Testing
5 10 (29.41%) Manual Testing
6 8 (23.53%) Test Scripting
7 7 (20.59%) User Experience
8 6 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (14.71%) End-to-End Testing
9 5 (14.71%) Performance Testing
9 5 (14.71%) Scrum
9 5 (14.71%) Test Strategy
10 4 (11.76%) Acceptance Criteria
10 4 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (11.76%) Load Testing
10 4 (11.76%) Scenario Testing
11 3 (8.82%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 17 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 12 (35.29%) SQL
3 10 (29.41%) JavaScript
4 8 (23.53%) Java
5 6 (17.65%) C#
6 4 (11.76%) Python
7 2 (5.88%) Bash
7 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) QA
2 4 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Ansible
1 2 (5.88%) Grafana
1 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
1 2 (5.88%) Terraform
2 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) Google
2 2 (5.88%) Brio
2 2 (5.88%) PagerDuty
2 2 (5.88%) SAP
2 2 (5.88%) Virgin Media
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle