Playwright Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Playwright
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 319 461
Rank change year-on-year +66 +142 +153
Contract jobs citing Playwright 51 26 16
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 0.17% 0.062%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.99% 0.71% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 24 13
10th Percentile £280 £333 £403
25th Percentile £370 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £423 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% -15.47% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £520 £538
90th Percentile £550 £566 £635
UK median daily rate £438 £450 £575
% change year-on-year -2.78% -21.74% +27.78%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Playwright
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Playwright as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Playwright trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Playwright
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Playwright.

Playwright daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Playwright
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Playwright over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Playwright daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Playwright
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (3.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (41.18%) Azure
2 18 (35.29%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (23.53%) AWS
4 11 (21.57%) GitHub
5 6 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (7.84%) BrowserStack
6 4 (7.84%) GCP
7 3 (5.88%) Sauce Labs
8 2 (3.92%) SaaS
9 1 (1.96%) Apigee
9 1 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.96%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.96%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (43.14%) Cypress.io
2 18 (35.29%) Selenium
3 15 (29.41%) Postman
4 13 (25.49%) GitLab
4 13 (25.49%) Jenkins
4 13 (25.49%) REST Assured
5 10 (19.61%) JIRA
5 10 (19.61%) JMeter
6 7 (13.73%) Gatling
6 7 (13.73%) Git
6 7 (13.73%) SpecFlow
7 6 (11.76%) Appium
8 5 (9.80%) CircleCI
8 5 (9.80%) HP UFT
8 5 (9.80%) TestComplete
9 4 (7.84%) NeoLoad
9 4 (7.84%) NUnit
10 3 (5.88%) Cucumber
10 3 (5.88%) JUnit
11 2 (3.92%) SoapUI
General
1 17 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (21.57%) Public Sector
3 7 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (13.73%) Finance
4 4 (7.84%) Banking
4 4 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.92%) Electronics
5 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.92%) Marketing
5 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.96%) Back Office
6 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (31.37%) Test Engineer
1 16 (31.37%) Tester
2 12 (23.53%) Automation Tester
3 9 (17.65%) Developer
3 9 (17.65%) Senior
4 7 (13.73%) Senior Test Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Lead
6 5 (9.80%) Analyst
6 5 (9.80%) QA Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Test Analyst
7 4 (7.84%) Automation Test Analyst
7 4 (7.84%) Developer in Test
7 4 (7.84%) Java Automation Tester
7 4 (7.84%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
7 4 (7.84%) Software Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Software Test Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Java Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Lead Tester
8 3 (5.88%) Senior Java Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.61%) .NET
2 8 (15.69%) REST
3 7 (13.73%) React
4 6 (11.76%) Node.js
5 5 (9.80%) AngularJS
6 4 (7.84%) Play Framework
7 3 (5.88%) Gherkin
7 3 (5.88%) Jest
7 3 (5.88%) pytest
7 3 (5.88%) RESTful
8 2 (3.92%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.92%) WebAssembly
9 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 1 (1.96%) Kafka
9 1 (1.96%) OAuth
9 1 (1.96%) Pandas
9 1 (1.96%) Puppeteer
9 1 (1.96%) React Native
9 1 (1.96%) WebdriverIO
9 1 (1.96%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.96%) Educational Technology
3 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (88.24%) Test Automation
2 26 (50.98%) Agile
3 23 (45.10%) CI/CD
4 19 (37.25%) DevOps
5 17 (33.33%) Performance Testing
5 17 (33.33%) Test Scripting
6 15 (29.41%) API Testing
6 15 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (29.41%) Test Strategy
7 14 (27.45%) Manual Testing
8 12 (23.53%) Scrum
8 12 (23.53%) Software Testing
9 11 (21.57%) BDD
10 10 (19.61%) Integration Testing
10 10 (19.61%) SDET
11 9 (17.65%) Kanban
11 9 (17.65%) Microservices
12 8 (15.69%) Regression Testing
13 7 (13.73%) Security Testing
13 7 (13.73%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 27 (52.94%) JavaScript
2 20 (39.22%) TypeScript
3 17 (33.33%) Java
4 15 (29.41%) Python
5 12 (23.53%) C#
6 7 (13.73%) SQL
7 4 (7.84%) C++
7 4 (7.84%) PHP
7 4 (7.84%) Ruby
7 4 (7.84%) Scala
8 1 (1.96%) Bash
8 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.96%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 13 (25.49%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.88%) Degree
4 2 (3.92%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (43.14%) QA
2 12 (23.53%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.92%) WCAG
4 1 (1.96%) GDPR
4 1 (1.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (19.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (13.73%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.84%) Grafana
3 3 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (7.84%) Bloomberg
1 4 (7.84%) Reuters
2 3 (5.88%) Google
3 2 (3.92%) SAP
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle
4 1 (1.96%) PagerDuty