Playwright Contracts

Playwright
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 432 536 637
Rank change year-on-year +104 +101 +177
Contract jobs citing Playwright 87 64 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.31% 0.71% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 54 67
10th Percentile £306 £325 £423
25th Percentile £380 £375 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -21.74% +27.78%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £658
90th Percentile £563 £578 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £504 £525
% change year-on-year -3.32% -3.95% +16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

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 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Playwright in the UK

Playwright
Top 15 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 30 April 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
England +86 63 £475 +5.56% 99
Work from Home +74 50 £434 +2.63% 82
London +45 35 £438 -2.27% 43
UK excluding London +59 33 £488 -3.32% 63
North of England +29 10 £475 +5.56% 17
South East +49 8 £500 +17.65% 8
North West +12 8 £445 -1.11% 13
Scotland +10 7 £463 -20.94% 6
South West +45 3 £525 -11.02% 8
Midlands +26 3 £307 +61.71% 9
Yorkshire +15 2 £475 +11.76% 4
East Midlands - 2 £202 - 4
West Midlands +16 1 £413 +117.11% 5
Wales -1 1 - - 4
East of England - 1 £575 - 10

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 4 (4.60%) Confluence
2 2 (2.30%) CMS
2 2 (2.30%) Headless CMS
2 2 (2.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 30 (34.48%) Azure
2 27 (31.03%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (20.69%) AWS
4 13 (14.94%) GitHub
5 8 (9.20%) GCP
6 7 (8.05%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.75%) BrowserStack
8 3 (3.45%) Sauce Labs
9 2 (2.30%) Apigee
9 2 (2.30%) SaaS
10 1 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.15%) npm
10 1 (1.15%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.15%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.15%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.45%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.30%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.30%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 32 (36.78%) Cypress.io
2 28 (32.18%) Selenium
3 24 (27.59%) Postman
4 21 (24.14%) REST Assured
5 20 (22.99%) Git
6 19 (21.84%) Jenkins
7 17 (19.54%) JIRA
8 16 (18.39%) GitLab
9 14 (16.09%) Cucumber
10 13 (14.94%) JMeter
11 10 (11.49%) SpecFlow
12 8 (9.20%) Appium
13 7 (8.05%) Gatling
14 6 (6.90%) CircleCI
14 6 (6.90%) NUnit
15 5 (5.75%) HP UFT
15 5 (5.75%) JUnit
15 5 (5.75%) TestComplete
16 4 (4.60%) NeoLoad
16 4 (4.60%) SoapUI
General
1 26 (29.89%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.24%) Public Sector
3 14 (16.09%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (14.94%) Finance
5 8 (9.20%) Banking
6 4 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.30%) Electronics
7 2 (2.30%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.30%) Marketing
7 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.15%) Back Office
8 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (26.44%) Tester
2 22 (25.29%) Test Engineer
3 19 (21.84%) Automation Tester
4 14 (16.09%) Developer
5 13 (14.94%) Senior
6 12 (13.79%) QA Engineer
7 8 (9.20%) Lead
7 8 (9.20%) Test Automation Engineer
8 7 (8.05%) Senior Test Engineer
9 6 (6.90%) Analyst
9 6 (6.90%) Test Analyst
10 4 (4.60%) Automation Test Analyst
10 4 (4.60%) Developer in Test
10 4 (4.60%) Java Automation Tester
10 4 (4.60%) Java Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
10 4 (4.60%) Software Developer
10 4 (4.60%) Software Test Engineer
11 3 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
11 3 (3.45%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.94%) REST
2 12 (13.79%) .NET
3 11 (12.64%) Node.js
4 10 (11.49%) React
5 8 (9.20%) Jest
6 6 (6.90%) AngularJS
6 6 (6.90%) CSS
7 5 (5.75%) RESTful
8 4 (4.60%) GraphQL
8 4 (4.60%) HTML
8 4 (4.60%) Next.js
8 4 (4.60%) Play Framework
8 4 (4.60%) Vitest
9 3 (3.45%) Gherkin
9 3 (3.45%) JSON
9 3 (3.45%) pytest
9 3 (3.45%) SOAP
9 3 (3.45%) WebSockets
9 3 (3.45%) XML
9 3 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.49%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.30%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.30%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.30%) NHS
3 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.15%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.15%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (88.51%) Test Automation
2 47 (54.02%) Agile
3 41 (47.13%) CI/CD
4 29 (33.33%) DevOps
5 28 (32.18%) Test Scripting
6 26 (29.89%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (28.74%) API Testing
8 23 (26.44%) Performance Testing
9 21 (24.14%) Manual Testing
9 21 (24.14%) Test Strategy
10 20 (22.99%) BDD
11 19 (21.84%) Software Testing
12 18 (20.69%) Scrum
13 12 (13.79%) End-to-End Testing
13 12 (13.79%) Integration Testing
13 12 (13.79%) Kanban
13 12 (13.79%) Regression Testing
14 11 (12.64%) SDET
14 11 (12.64%) User Experience
15 10 (11.49%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 41 (47.13%) JavaScript
2 33 (37.93%) TypeScript
3 29 (33.33%) Java
4 20 (22.99%) Python
5 17 (19.54%) C#
6 16 (18.39%) SQL
7 5 (5.75%) PHP
8 4 (4.60%) C++
8 4 (4.60%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.60%) Ruby
8 4 (4.60%) Scala
9 2 (2.30%) Bash
10 1 (1.15%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.15%) Swift
10 1 (1.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (18.39%) Security Cleared
2 15 (17.24%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.75%) Degree
4 4 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.45%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (40.23%) QA
2 15 (17.24%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.45%) WCAG
4 1 (1.15%) GDPR
4 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.60%) Grafana
3 3 (3.45%) Ansible
3 3 (3.45%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (5.75%) Google
2 4 (4.60%) Bloomberg
2 4 (4.60%) Reuters
3 2 (2.30%) Brio
3 2 (2.30%) Oracle
3 2 (2.30%) PagerDuty
3 2 (2.30%) SAP
3 2 (2.30%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.15%) Hitachi
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.15%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.15%) Salesforce