Playwright Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Playwright
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Playwright skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 80 46
Rank change year-on-year +12 -34 +34
Permanent jobs citing Playwright 1 4 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.13% 0.41% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.96% 1.93% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £65,000
North East median annual salary £60,000 - £65,000

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 104 207 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 13.47% 21.21% 18.91%
Number of salaries quoted 89 102 54
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,238 £37,500
25th Percentile £31,750 £50,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £58,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% +6.82% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,188 £67,438
90th Percentile £70,750 £95,000 £77,500
North East median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £53,461
% change year-on-year -20.83% +12.23% +1.83%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Playwright job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Playwright
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Playwright.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Playwright

Playwright
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Playwright within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +7 1 £60,000 - 2
Playwright
North East

Playwright
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA