Playwright Contracts in the West Midlands

Playwright
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 106 123
Rank change year-on-year -10 +17 +67
Contract jobs citing Playwright 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.18% 0.054% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.14% 0.32% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £437
25th Percentile £406 £185 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £190 £500
Median % change year-on-year +117.11% -62.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £419 £195 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £475 £513
% change year-on-year - -7.32% +7.89%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 264 310 345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.58% 16.64% 15.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 198 232
10th Percentile £355 £327 £363
25th Percentile £410 £439 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +10.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £575 £661 £617
90th Percentile £688 £750 £700
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 1
10th Percentile - £29.65 -
25th Percentile £33.91 £39.96 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +29.41% -26.72%
75th Percentile - £56.25 £43.75
90th Percentile - £63.75 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £61.25
% change year-on-year -3.08% -7.35% +5.35%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Playwright as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Playwright in the West Midlands

Playwright
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Playwright in the West Midlands

Playwright
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 August 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
Shropshire - 2 - - 5
Coventry - 1 £413 - 1
Playwright
England

Playwright
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Appium
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) Serenity BDD
1 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Project Leader
1 1 (33.33%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (33.33%) Jest
1 1 (33.33%) Material-UI
1 1 (33.33%) Next.js
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Sass
1 1 (33.33%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Component Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (33.33%) SDET
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG