Playwright Contracts

Playwright
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 630 805
Rank change year-on-year +112 +175 -112
Contract jobs citing Playwright 73 75 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.13% 0.048%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.82% 0.56% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 66 29
10th Percentile £328 £421 £356
25th Percentile £389 £513 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% +27.78% -
75th Percentile £538 £661 £606
90th Percentile £580 £695 £615
UK excluding London median daily rate £509 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -3.14% +16.67% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,929 13,500 23,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.74% 23.27% 27.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,198 9,843 17,307
10th Percentile £343 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 154 232
10th Percentile £21.25 £30.23 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.01 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.36% +31.63% +8.89%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Playwright as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Playwright in the UK

Playwright
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Playwright.

Daily rate trend for Playwright in the UK

Playwright
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Playwright over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Playwright in the UK

Playwright
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 May 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
England +89 44 £450 -21.74% 34
UK excluding London +51 34 £509 -3.14% 24
Work from Home +139 27 £450 -10.00% 21
London +79 27 £450 -30.77% 16
Scotland +50 10 £538 +13.16% 4
North of England +23 8 £450 -10.89% 9
Wales - 7 £519 - 2
North West +18 6 £450 +5.88% 4
South West +8 5 £590 +7.27% 4
South East +22 3 £450 -18.18% 3
Yorkshire +11 2 £425 -19.05% 5
Midlands +34 1 £190 -62.00% 2
West Midlands +21 1 £190 -62.00% 2

Playwright
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (8.22%) Confluence
2 1 (1.37%) CMS
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 23 (31.51%) Azure
2 17 (23.29%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (13.70%) GitHub
4 9 (12.33%) AWS
5 8 (10.96%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (5.48%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (5.48%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (2.74%) GCP
7 2 (2.74%) Serverless
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.37%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.37%) Contentful
8 1 (1.37%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.96%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 32 (43.84%) Git
2 25 (34.25%) Cypress.io
3 23 (31.51%) Postman
4 21 (28.77%) Selenium
5 14 (19.18%) JIRA
5 14 (19.18%) Visual Studio
6 11 (15.07%) Jenkins
7 10 (13.70%) SpecFlow
8 8 (10.96%) Cucumber
8 8 (10.96%) JMeter
9 7 (9.59%) NUnit
10 5 (6.85%) IntelliJ
10 5 (6.85%) Storybook
10 5 (6.85%) TestRail
11 4 (5.48%) Bitbucket
11 4 (5.48%) Karma Test Runner
12 3 (4.11%) Appium
12 3 (4.11%) LoadRunner
13 2 (2.74%) FitNesse
13 2 (2.74%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 18 (24.66%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.55%) Finance
3 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.85%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.48%) Back Office
4 4 (5.48%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.11%) Electronics
5 3 (4.11%) Front Office
5 3 (4.11%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.11%) Marketing
6 1 (1.37%) Banking
6 1 (1.37%) Games
Job Titles
1 18 (24.66%) Senior
2 17 (23.29%) Test Engineer
3 16 (21.92%) Test Automation Engineer
3 16 (21.92%) Tester
4 13 (17.81%) Developer
5 10 (13.70%) Automation Tester
6 9 (12.33%) Lead
7 8 (10.96%) QA Engineer
8 7 (9.59%) Senior Test Engineer
9 6 (8.22%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (6.85%) QA Tester
10 5 (6.85%) Test Leader
11 4 (5.48%) Analyst
11 4 (5.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 4 (5.48%) Test Analyst
12 3 (4.11%) Angular Developer
12 3 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
12 3 (4.11%) Software Engineer
13 2 (2.74%) Automation Architect
13 2 (2.74%) Automation Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (24.66%) .NET
1 18 (24.66%) REST
2 15 (20.55%) GraphQL
3 12 (16.44%) AngularJS
4 10 (13.70%) CSS
4 10 (13.70%) HTML
5 9 (12.33%) React
6 7 (9.59%) Node.js
6 7 (9.59%) WebdriverIO
7 6 (8.22%) Jest
7 6 (8.22%) SOAP
8 5 (6.85%) Vue
8 5 (6.85%) WinForms
8 5 (6.85%) WPF
9 4 (5.48%) .NET Core
9 4 (5.48%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 3 (4.11%) RESTful
10 3 (4.11%) RxJS
11 2 (2.74%) Laravel
11 2 (2.74%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.85%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.74%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.37%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.37%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.37%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (79.45%) Test Automation
2 49 (67.12%) Agile
3 34 (46.58%) CI/CD
4 26 (35.62%) DevOps
5 19 (26.03%) BDD
6 17 (23.29%) TDD
7 16 (21.92%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (21.92%) Test Scripting
7 16 (21.92%) Test Strategy
8 15 (20.55%) Performance Testing
8 15 (20.55%) Scrum
9 14 (19.18%) API Testing
9 14 (19.18%) Unit Testing
10 12 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (15.07%) Load Testing
11 11 (15.07%) Manual Testing
12 10 (13.70%) Non-Functional Testing
13 9 (12.33%) Front End Development
13 9 (12.33%) SDLC
13 9 (12.33%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (42.47%) JavaScript
1 31 (42.47%) TypeScript
2 19 (26.03%) C#
3 15 (20.55%) SQL
4 8 (10.96%) Python
5 6 (8.22%) C
6 5 (6.85%) C++
6 5 (6.85%) Java
6 5 (6.85%) VB
6 5 (6.85%) VB6
7 2 (2.74%) Bash
8 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.37%) Scala
8 1 (1.37%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (8.22%) Degree
2 3 (4.11%) ISTQB
2 3 (4.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (38.36%) QA
2 26 (35.62%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.48%) WCAG
4 3 (4.11%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 12 (16.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.85%) Kibana
2 2 (2.74%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.37%) Grafana
3 1 (1.37%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (13.70%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.96%) Oracle
3 5 (6.85%) Infragistics
4 3 (4.11%) HP
4 3 (4.11%) SAP
5 2 (2.74%) Finsemble
5 2 (2.74%) Google
6 1 (1.37%) IBM
6 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft