Playwright Job Trends in the North East

Playwright
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Playwright skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 88 61
Rank change year-on-year +13 -27 +41
Permanent jobs citing Playwright 2 4 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.19% 0.31% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.57% 1.44% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £65,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -19.64%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 127 278 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 12.08% 21.21% 20.59%
Number of salaries quoted 108 151 89
10th Percentile £28,138 £42,238 £37,500
25th Percentile £32,313 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,322 £67,250
90th Percentile £78,790 £83,750 £73,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Playwright job vacancy trend in the North East

Playwright
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Playwright.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Playwright

Playwright
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Playwright within the North East region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear +16 1 £60,000 - 3
Durham - 1 - -
Playwright
England

Playwright
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Appium
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft