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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 414 510 640
Rank change year-on-year +96 +130 +185
Contract jobs citing Playwright 94 68 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.42% 0.76% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 58 67
10th Percentile £317 £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 £535 £658
90th Percentile £588 £580 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £509 £525
% change year-on-year -2.65% -3.14% +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 6,641 8,957 13,736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.66% 20.64% 23.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,225 10,015
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 241 153
10th Percentile £27.30 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.53 £74.44 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +29.29%

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 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Playwright in the UK

Playwright
Top 16 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 7 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
England +93 68 £475 +5.56% 130
Work from Home +64 52 £438 -1.75% 111
UK excluding London +63 40 £495 -2.65% 90
London +62 35 £438 -2.78% 58
North of England +23 15 £475 +5.56% 26
North West +21 12 £468 +3.89% 20
South East +40 9 £500 +17.65% 20
Scotland +19 8 £463 -20.94% 6
South West +33 3 £525 -11.02% 14
Midlands +24 3 £307 +61.71% 7
Yorkshire +15 2 £475 +11.76% 5
East Midlands - 2 £202 - 5
West Midlands +18 1 £413 +117.11% 2
Wales +2 1 - - 2
North East - 1 £200 - 2
East of England - 1 £575 - 15

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 (4.26%) Confluence
2 2 (2.13%) CMS
2 2 (2.13%) WordPress
3 1 (1.06%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) MadCap Flare
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 32 (34.04%) Azure
2 26 (27.66%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (23.40%) AWS
4 16 (17.02%) GitHub
5 10 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (8.51%) GCP
7 5 (5.32%) BrowserStack
8 3 (3.19%) Apigee
8 3 (3.19%) Sauce Labs
8 3 (3.19%) Serverless
9 2 (2.13%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (2.13%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.13%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (2.13%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.13%) CloudFront
9 2 (2.13%) SaaS
10 1 (1.06%) npm
10 1 (1.06%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.32%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.19%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.19%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (37.23%) Cypress.io
2 27 (28.72%) Selenium
3 24 (25.53%) Postman
4 21 (22.34%) Git
4 21 (22.34%) GitLab
4 21 (22.34%) Jenkins
4 21 (22.34%) REST Assured
5 17 (18.09%) JIRA
6 13 (13.83%) Cucumber
7 12 (12.77%) JMeter
8 9 (9.57%) SpecFlow
9 8 (8.51%) Appium
10 7 (7.45%) CircleCI
10 7 (7.45%) Gatling
11 6 (6.38%) NUnit
12 5 (5.32%) HP UFT
12 5 (5.32%) JUnit
12 5 (5.32%) TestComplete
13 4 (4.26%) NeoLoad
13 4 (4.26%) SoapUI
General
1 30 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.96%) Public Sector
3 14 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.83%) Finance
5 8 (8.51%) Banking
6 4 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.13%) Electronics
7 2 (2.13%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.13%) Marketing
7 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.06%) Back Office
8 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (26.60%) Test Engineer
2 23 (24.47%) Tester
3 19 (20.21%) Automation Tester
4 17 (18.09%) Developer
5 16 (17.02%) Senior
6 10 (10.64%) QA Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) Lead
7 8 (8.51%) Senior Test Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) Test Automation Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Analyst
8 6 (6.38%) React Developer
8 6 (6.38%) Test Analyst
9 4 (4.26%) Developer in Test
9 4 (4.26%) Java Automation Tester
9 4 (4.26%) Java Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
9 4 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Software Developer
9 4 (4.26%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.02%) React
2 14 (14.89%) REST
3 12 (12.77%) .NET
3 12 (12.77%) Node.js
4 10 (10.64%) Jest
5 9 (9.57%) RESTful
6 8 (8.51%) GraphQL
7 7 (7.45%) CSS
8 6 (6.38%) AngularJS
9 5 (5.32%) HTML
10 4 (4.26%) JSON
10 4 (4.26%) Next.js
10 4 (4.26%) Play Framework
10 4 (4.26%) XML
11 3 (3.19%) Gherkin
11 3 (3.19%) Puppeteer
11 3 (3.19%) pytest
11 3 (3.19%) SOAP
11 3 (3.19%) WebSockets
11 3 (3.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.57%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.32%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.19%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.19%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.13%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.13%) NHS
4 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (85.11%) Test Automation
2 48 (51.06%) Agile
3 44 (46.81%) CI/CD
4 32 (34.04%) DevOps
5 28 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (29.79%) Test Scripting
6 25 (26.60%) API Testing
7 23 (24.47%) Performance Testing
8 21 (22.34%) Manual Testing
9 20 (21.28%) Test Strategy
10 19 (20.21%) BDD
11 18 (19.15%) Scrum
11 18 (19.15%) Software Testing
12 17 (18.09%) User Experience
13 15 (15.96%) End-to-End Testing
14 14 (14.89%) Microservices
15 12 (12.77%) Kanban
15 12 (12.77%) Regression Testing
16 11 (11.70%) Integration Testing
16 11 (11.70%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (44.68%) JavaScript
2 35 (37.23%) TypeScript
3 33 (35.11%) Java
4 21 (22.34%) Python
5 16 (17.02%) C#
5 16 (17.02%) SQL
6 5 (5.32%) PHP
7 4 (4.26%) C++
7 4 (4.26%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.26%) Ruby
7 4 (4.26%) Scala
8 3 (3.19%) Bash
9 1 (1.06%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.06%) Swift
9 1 (1.06%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.96%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.26%) Degree
4 3 (3.19%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (36.17%) QA
2 17 (18.09%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.32%) WCAG
4 1 (1.06%) GDPR
4 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (11.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (9.57%) Grafana
2 8 (8.51%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.32%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.19%) Terraform
5 2 (2.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (7.45%) Google
2 4 (4.26%) Bloomberg
2 4 (4.26%) Reuters
3 3 (3.19%) PagerDuty
4 2 (2.13%) Brio
4 2 (2.13%) Oracle
4 2 (2.13%) SAP
4 2 (2.13%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.06%) Hitachi
5 1 (1.06%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.06%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.06%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.06%) Salesforce