Playwright Job Trends in the North of England

Playwright
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Playwright skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 269 277
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 +146
Permanent jobs citing Playwright 10 12 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.093% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.91% 0.77% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 14
10th Percentile £55,000 £39,250 £37,250
25th Percentile £55,938 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £69,562 £45,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,250 £45,750 £68,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,097 1,566 2,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.18% 17.22% 24.26%
Number of salaries quoted 900 929 1,684
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Playwright job vacancy trend in the North of England

Playwright
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Playwright.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Playwright

Playwright
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Playwright in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Playwright in the North of England

Playwright
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Playwright within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
North East +12 5 £60,000 - 7
North West +19 4 £67,241 +58.21% 17
Yorkshire -14 1 £57,500 - 21
Playwright
England

Playwright
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 3 (30.00%) Selenium
3 2 (20.00%) Appium
3 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (20.00%) JMeter
3 2 (20.00%) SpecFlow
4 1 (10.00%) Postman
4 1 (10.00%) TestRail
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) QA Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
1 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) CSS
1 2 (20.00%) CSS3
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
1 2 (20.00%) HTML5
1 2 (20.00%) Jest
1 2 (20.00%) React
1 2 (20.00%) Redux
2 1 (10.00%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Online Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (30.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (30.00%) QA Automation
2 3 (30.00%) Scrum
2 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Test Management
2 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) BDD
3 2 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (10.00%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (30.00%) C#
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Samsung