Playwright Job Trends in Dorset

Playwright
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Playwright skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 49 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Permanent jobs citing Playwright 2 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 0.44% 0.26% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.65% 0.79% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £50,000 -
South West median annual salary £47,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -26.92% +18.18% +83.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Dorset

Playwright falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 43 126 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 9.41% 32.81% 36.31%
Number of salaries quoted 22 72 128
10th Percentile £40,125 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,625 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,625 £56,563 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,875 £61,125 £67,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,750
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.73% +3.96%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Playwright relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Playwright job vacancy trend in Dorset

Playwright
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Playwright within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bournemouth - 2 - - 6
Playwright
South West

Playwright
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Principal Test Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python