Playwright Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Playwright
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Playwright skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 314 380
Rank change year-on-year 0 +66 +86
Contract jobs citing Playwright 84 34 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.23% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.52% 1.30% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 25 20
10th Percentile £350 £413 £375
25th Percentile £412 £480 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £541
90th Percentile £563 £565 £555
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £443
% change year-on-year -10.00% +12.87% -15.62%

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 3,328 2,608 3,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.17% 17.92% 17.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,191 1,628 2,319
10th Percentile £345 £340 £325
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £680
UK median daily rate £508 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.93% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 58 135
10th Percentile £33.00 £21.44 £38.53
25th Percentile £46.25 £26.81 £46.18
Median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.57 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Playwright relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Playwright job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Playwright
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Playwright.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Playwright

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 January 2026.

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 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
North of England -24 37 £500 - 19
Midlands - 25 £500 - 8
West Midlands - 23 £519 - 6
North West -10 21 £500 - 10
Yorkshire -43 11 £419 -17.28% 9
Wales +2 7 £440 -20.00% 2
South East -10 7 £513 +2.50% 24
North East - 5 £545 -
South West -14 3 £425 -19.05% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
Scotland +5 2 - - 7
East Midlands - 2 £310 - 2
East of England - 1 - - 8
Playwright
UK

Playwright
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (3.57%) Confluence
2 1 (1.19%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 25 (29.76%) AWS
2 23 (27.38%) GitHub
3 18 (21.43%) Azure
3 18 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (7.14%) Serverless
6 4 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.38%) BrowserStack
8 2 (2.38%) Datadog
9 1 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.19%) Figma
9 1 (1.19%) GCP
9 1 (1.19%) npm
9 1 (1.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) HTTP
1 1 (1.19%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.52%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.57%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.38%) Big Data
3 2 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.38%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.19%) Redis
4 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (40.48%) Selenium
2 32 (38.10%) Cucumber
3 21 (25.00%) Cypress.io
4 20 (23.81%) GitLab
5 18 (21.43%) Postman
6 17 (20.24%) Git
7 12 (14.29%) Jenkins
7 12 (14.29%) JIRA
8 9 (10.71%) JUnit
9 5 (5.95%) Maven
9 5 (5.95%) Mockito
9 5 (5.95%) SpecFlow
10 4 (4.76%) CircleCI
10 4 (4.76%) Gatling
10 4 (4.76%) Zephyr
11 3 (3.57%) HP UFT
11 3 (3.57%) Jasmine
11 3 (3.57%) Mocha
11 3 (3.57%) TestRail
11 3 (3.57%) WebDriver
General
1 20 (23.81%) Public Sector
1 20 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.67%) Finance
3 6 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.57%) Military
5 2 (2.38%) Banking
5 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.19%) Billing
6 1 (1.19%) Law
6 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (28.57%) Developer
2 21 (25.00%) Senior
3 19 (22.62%) Test Engineer
4 16 (19.05%) Lead
5 11 (13.10%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 11 (13.10%) Tester
6 10 (11.90%) Test Leader
7 9 (10.71%) Automation Tester
8 8 (9.52%) Test Automation Engineer
9 7 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (8.33%) Senior Test Engineer
10 6 (7.14%) Java Developer
10 6 (7.14%) Quality Engineer
11 5 (5.95%) Automation Test Lead
11 5 (5.95%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 5 (5.95%) QA Leader
12 4 (4.76%) QA Engineer
12 4 (4.76%) Senior Automation Tester
12 4 (4.76%) Senior Tester
13 3 (3.57%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (28.57%) React
2 19 (22.62%) Node.js
3 15 (17.86%) REST
3 15 (17.86%) Spring
4 14 (16.67%) Spring Boot
5 12 (14.29%) AngularJS
6 10 (11.90%) HTML
6 10 (11.90%) Jest
7 8 (9.52%) Gherkin
7 8 (9.52%) JSON
8 7 (8.33%) .NET
8 7 (8.33%) GraphQL
8 7 (8.33%) Material-UI
8 7 (8.33%) OAuth
8 7 (8.33%) OAuth2
9 6 (7.14%) CSS
9 6 (7.14%) RESTful
10 5 (5.95%) JDBC
10 5 (5.95%) JPA
10 5 (5.95%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.90%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.95%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.19%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.19%) PKI
5 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (69.05%) Test Automation
2 45 (53.57%) CI/CD
3 44 (52.38%) Agile
4 24 (28.57%) Test Strategy
5 21 (25.00%) DevOps
5 21 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 20 (23.81%) BDD
7 19 (22.62%) Microservices
7 19 (22.62%) Scrum
8 18 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (17.86%) Coaching
9 15 (17.86%) Manual Testing
10 14 (16.67%) User Experience
11 13 (15.48%) API Testing
12 12 (14.29%) Software Testing
13 11 (13.10%) Front End Development
13 11 (13.10%) Mentoring
13 11 (13.10%) Performance Testing
13 11 (13.10%) TDD
14 10 (11.90%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 32 (38.10%) Java
2 31 (36.90%) TypeScript
3 26 (30.95%) JavaScript
4 14 (16.67%) C#
5 7 (8.33%) Ruby
6 5 (5.95%) Python
7 4 (4.76%) SQL
8 2 (2.38%) XPath
9 1 (1.19%) Bicep
9 1 (1.19%) Go
9 1 (1.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.38%) Degree
4 2 (2.38%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (33.33%) QA
2 21 (25.00%) Accessibility
3 14 (16.67%) WCAG
4 1 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 6 (7.14%) Docker
2 3 (3.57%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 11 (13.10%) Grafana
1 11 (13.10%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.33%) Kibana
3 3 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.71%) Splunk
3 5 (5.95%) Oracle
4 4 (4.76%) Adobe
5 2 (2.38%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.38%) PagerDuty
5 2 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.19%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.19%) Veracode
6 1 (1.19%) Virgin Media