Playwright Contract Job Trends in West End of London

Playwright
Central London > West End of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West End of London requiring Playwright skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Playwright 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West End of London 1.59% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Central London median daily rate £525 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +5.00% +8.11% -22.92%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West End of 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 West End of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 20 7 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 31.75% 13.73% 23.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 4
10th Percentile £529 £350 £474
25th Percentile £590 £488 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £518
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +20.77% +4.55%
75th Percentile £659 £750 £583
90th Percentile £733 £788 £638
Central London median daily rate £574 £550 £570
% change year-on-year +4.27% -3.51% -8.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £50.72 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £51.44 -
Median % change year-on-year +45.80% - -
75th Percentile £82.50 £52.16 -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -36.40% - -

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

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

Playwright job vacancy trend in West End of London

Playwright
Contract Job Locations in West End of 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 West End of London region over the 6 months to 9 July 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
Westminster - 1 - -
Playwright
Central London

Playwright
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West End of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA