Playwright Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Playwright skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Playwright over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 455 605
Rank change year-on-year +137 +150 -125
Contract jobs citing Playwright 26 16 18
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.062% 0.040%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.71% 0.25% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 13 17
10th Percentile £333 £403 £408
25th Percentile £363 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.47% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £520 £538 £600
90th Percentile £566 £635 £610
UK median daily rate £450 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -21.74% +27.78% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Playwright is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,647 6,485 13,225
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.91% 25.27% 29.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,547 4,823 9,761
10th Percentile £331 £394 £398
25th Percentile £428 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +13.54%
75th Percentile £650 £657 £638
90th Percentile £775 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 81 120
10th Percentile £28.00 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -28.95% +31.31% +10.00%

Playwright
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Playwright as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Playwright trend for jobs with a WFH option

Playwright
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Playwright over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

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 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.69%) GitHub
4 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (7.69%) Serverless
5 1 (3.85%) BrowserStack
5 1 (3.85%) Figma
5 1 (3.85%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Cypress.io
2 9 (34.62%) Postman
3 8 (30.77%) Git
3 8 (30.77%) Selenium
4 6 (23.08%) Cucumber
5 5 (19.23%) JMeter
6 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
6 4 (15.38%) SpecFlow
6 4 (15.38%) Visual Studio
7 3 (11.54%) JIRA
7 3 (11.54%) LoadRunner
7 3 (11.54%) NUnit
7 3 (11.54%) TestRail
8 2 (7.69%) FitNesse
8 2 (7.69%) Gatling
8 2 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (3.85%) Mercurial
9 1 (3.85%) Rational Performance Tester
9 1 (3.85%) SoapUI
9 1 (3.85%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (26.92%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Electronics
3 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
3 3 (11.54%) Marketing
3 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Back Office
4 2 (7.69%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Tester
2 6 (23.08%) Test Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Automation Tester
3 5 (19.23%) QA Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Senior
3 5 (19.23%) Test Automation Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Lead
5 3 (11.54%) Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) QA Tester
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Test Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Test Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Automation Test Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Automation Test Lead
6 2 (7.69%) Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Java Automation Tester
6 2 (7.69%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) QA Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) GraphQL
2 4 (15.38%) AngularJS
2 4 (15.38%) RESTful
3 3 (11.54%) .NET
3 3 (11.54%) WebdriverIO
4 2 (7.69%) OAuth
4 2 (7.69%) OAuth2
4 2 (7.69%) OpenID
4 2 (7.69%) React
4 2 (7.69%) REST
4 2 (7.69%) Web Services
5 1 (3.85%) CSS
5 1 (3.85%) Gherkin
5 1 (3.85%) Jest
5 1 (3.85%) JSON
5 1 (3.85%) Next.js
5 1 (3.85%) Node.js
5 1 (3.85%) SOAP
5 1 (3.85%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.85%) Hedge funds
2 1 (3.85%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) Reference Data
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (88.46%) Test Automation
2 15 (57.69%) Agile
3 11 (42.31%) CI/CD
4 10 (38.46%) BDD
5 9 (34.62%) Test Strategy
6 8 (30.77%) API Testing
7 7 (26.92%) DevOps
7 7 (26.92%) Performance Testing
7 7 (26.92%) Scrum
7 7 (26.92%) TDD
8 5 (19.23%) Load Testing
8 5 (19.23%) Manual Testing
8 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (19.23%) Security Testing
8 5 (19.23%) Test Management
9 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
9 4 (15.38%) Kanban
9 4 (15.38%) Non-Functional Testing
9 4 (15.38%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) TypeScript
2 9 (34.62%) JavaScript
3 6 (23.08%) C#
4 5 (19.23%) Java
5 4 (15.38%) SQL
6 3 (11.54%) Python
7 2 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) ISTQB
2 2 (7.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (42.31%) Accessibility
2 10 (38.46%) QA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) HP
1 3 (11.54%) SAP
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) IBM
3 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft