Playwright Job Trends in the North West

Playwright
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Playwright skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 201 184
Rank change year-on-year +26 -17 +132
Permanent jobs citing Playwright 4 4 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.065% 0.077% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.79% 0.45% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 7
10th Percentile £56,864 £39,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £59,660 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,241 £42,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +58.21% -7.61% -
75th Percentile £81,875 £45,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £94,250 £45,750 £65,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 504 896 983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.18% 17.23% 25.30%
Number of salaries quoted 430 564 782
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% -4.58% +4.35%
75th Percentile £74,815 £72,500 £74,000
90th Percentile £82,625 £83,675 £86,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Playwright job vacancy trend in the North West

Playwright
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Playwright

Playwright
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Playwright in the North West over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Playwright in the North West

Playwright
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Playwright within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cheshire - 2 £82,500 - 1
Manchester +18 1 £55,000 +29.41% 9
Lancashire +13 1 £64,482 +51.72% 1
Playwright
England

Playwright
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) CSS3
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) HTML5
1 2 (50.00%) Jest
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Online Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) People Management
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Samsung