Playwright Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Playwright
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Playwright skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 100 114
Rank change year-on-year -7 +14 -
Contract jobs citing Playwright 11 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.70% 0.40% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.17% 2.03% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 2
10th Percentile £294 £373 -
25th Percentile £338 £481 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £510 £400
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% +27.50% -
75th Percentile £429 £538 £425
90th Percentile £453 £545 -
England median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 347 296 430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.17% 19.81% 20.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 208 315
10th Percentile £358 £415 £396
25th Percentile £400 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% -3.18% +7.06%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £16.19 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year - -39.54% -36.12%
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.36 £58.59
% change year-on-year -13.19% +8.13% -9.86%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Playwright as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Playwright in Yorkshire

Playwright
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Playwright.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Playwright

Playwright
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Playwright in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Playwright in Yorkshire

Playwright
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Playwright within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
West Yorkshire 0 11 £375 -26.47% 9
Playwright
England

Playwright
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (9.09%) PaaS
1 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Selenium
2 6 (54.55%) Cucumber
2 6 (54.55%) Cypress.io
2 6 (54.55%) GitLab
2 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 6 (54.55%) JMeter
2 6 (54.55%) Postman
2 6 (54.55%) REST Assured
2 6 (54.55%) TestNG
3 5 (45.45%) Maven
4 3 (27.27%) JUnit
5 1 (9.09%) Git
5 1 (9.09%) JIRA
5 1 (9.09%) TestRail
5 1 (9.09%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Test Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Automation Tester
3 3 (27.27%) Tester
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Automation Tester
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Tester
5 1 (9.09%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
1 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
1 1 (9.09%) Blazor
1 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Test Automation
2 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 7 (63.64%) API Testing
4 6 (54.55%) TDD
5 4 (36.36%) Performance Testing
6 3 (27.27%) BDD
6 3 (27.27%) Load Testing
6 3 (27.27%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (27.27%) Test Planning
6 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
7 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (18.18%) Defect Management
7 2 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (18.18%) Manual Testing
7 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
7 2 (18.18%) Open Source
7 2 (18.18%) Test Management
7 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
3 4 (36.36%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) Bicep
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) Accessibility
1 6 (54.55%) WCAG
2 3 (27.27%) QA
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft