Playwright Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Playwright
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Playwright skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 479 557
Rank change year-on-year -32 +78 -36
Permanent jobs citing Playwright 157 61 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.18% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.17% 1.32% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 98 40 40
10th Percentile £35,250 £32,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +19.57% -17.49%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £55,625
90th Percentile £78,000 £70,500 £70,375
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -11.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,220 4,608 9,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.34% 13.33% 19.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,517 2,768 5,692
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.88% +6.92% -3.70%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Playwright job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Playwright
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Playwright.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Playwright

Playwright
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Playwright in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Playwright in the UK excluding London

Playwright
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Playwright within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 October 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 of England -30 37 £65,000 -7.14% 44
South West -55 35 £42,500 +41.67% 14
Midlands -26 27 £45,000 +12.50% 20
West Midlands -28 26 £45,000 +12.50% 17
South East -44 21 £57,500 -7.26% 23
Wales -59 20 £40,861 -37.14% 7
North West -12 17 £65,000 -7.14% 14
Yorkshire -15 16 £65,000 +13.04% 15
East of England -31 13 £55,000 -12.00% 9
Scotland +10 4 £48,500 -13.78% 21
North East -68 4 £45,636 - 15
East Midlands -38 1 - - 3
Playwright
UK

Playwright
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (5.10%) Confluence
2 7 (4.46%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.91%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.91%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Magento
1 1 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (45.22%) Azure
2 55 (35.03%) AWS
3 38 (24.20%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (22.29%) GitHub
5 22 (14.01%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (10.19%) Serverless
7 15 (9.55%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (7.64%) Power Platform
9 7 (4.46%) GCP
10 6 (3.82%) OpenShift
11 5 (3.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (3.18%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (3.18%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.18%) SaaS
11 5 (3.18%) Tricentis Tosca
12 4 (2.55%) BrowserStack
12 4 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.91%) GitHub Copilot
14 2 (1.27%) Supabase
14 2 (1.27%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.55%) HTTP
2 2 (1.27%) 4G
2 2 (1.27%) 5G
2 2 (1.27%) DNS
2 2 (1.27%) SSH
2 2 (1.27%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.64%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.01%) Power BI
2 6 (3.82%) InfluxDB
3 5 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.18%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.91%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.27%) MySQL
5 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.27%) Redis
6 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 72 (45.86%) Cypress.io
2 69 (43.95%) Selenium
3 46 (29.30%) Git
4 41 (26.11%) Jenkins
5 38 (24.20%) Postman
6 36 (22.93%) GitLab
7 28 (17.83%) JIRA
8 25 (15.92%) Cucumber
9 23 (14.65%) JMeter
10 21 (13.38%) REST Assured
11 14 (8.92%) Zephyr
12 13 (8.28%) JUnit
13 11 (7.01%) Gatling
13 11 (7.01%) TestRail
14 6 (3.82%) Robot Framework
15 5 (3.18%) SoapUI
16 4 (2.55%) Burp Suite
16 4 (2.55%) LoadRunner
16 4 (2.55%) Newman
16 4 (2.55%) SonarQube
General
1 45 (28.66%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.92%) Finance
3 24 (15.29%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.01%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.64%) Back Office
7 1 (0.64%) Banking
7 1 (0.64%) Retail
7 1 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 43 (27.39%) Test Engineer
2 41 (26.11%) QA Engineer
3 40 (25.48%) Senior
4 29 (18.47%) Developer
5 20 (12.74%) Automation Engineer
6 17 (10.83%) Senior Developer
7 16 (10.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 16 (10.19%) Lead
7 16 (10.19%) QA Automation Engineer
7 16 (10.19%) Test Automation Engineer
8 12 (7.64%) Quality Engineer
8 12 (7.64%) React Developer
9 11 (7.01%) Applications Engineer
9 11 (7.01%) Applications Support
9 11 (7.01%) Applications Support Engineer
9 11 (7.01%) Support Engineer
10 10 (6.37%) Senior QA Engineer
10 10 (6.37%) Senior React Developer
10 10 (6.37%) Tester
11 9 (5.73%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (23.57%) REST
2 31 (19.75%) React
3 23 (14.65%) RESTful
4 19 (12.10%) Jest
5 15 (9.55%) .NET
6 13 (8.28%) Spring
7 12 (7.64%) CSS
7 12 (7.64%) HTML
8 11 (7.01%) Spring Boot
9 10 (6.37%) Gherkin
9 10 (6.37%) Node.js
9 10 (6.37%) Ruby on Rails
10 9 (5.73%) Next.js
11 8 (5.10%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (5.10%) pytest
12 7 (4.46%) HTML5
13 6 (3.82%) CSS3
13 6 (3.82%) JSON
13 6 (3.82%) Terraform
13 6 (3.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (24.20%) Product Ownership
2 13 (8.28%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.82%) Mainframe
5 5 (3.18%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.91%) Digital Wallet
7 3 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.64%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.55%) Linux
2 6 (3.82%) CentOS
2 6 (3.82%) Windows
3 3 (1.91%) AIX
3 3 (1.91%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.27%) Android
5 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (85.35%) Test Automation
2 114 (72.61%) CI/CD
3 103 (65.61%) Agile
4 59 (37.58%) Software Testing
5 54 (34.39%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (33.76%) DevOps
7 51 (32.48%) End-to-End Testing
8 45 (28.66%) Scrum
9 43 (27.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (26.75%) Mentoring
11 40 (25.48%) SDLC
12 36 (22.93%) API Testing
13 35 (22.29%) Test Strategy
14 33 (21.02%) AI
15 29 (18.47%) Sprint Planning
16 27 (17.20%) Software Engineering
17 26 (16.56%) Manual Testing
17 26 (16.56%) Regression Testing
17 26 (16.56%) TDD
18 25 (15.92%) Exploratory Testing
Programming Languages
1 64 (40.76%) JavaScript
2 49 (31.21%) TypeScript
3 39 (24.84%) SQL
4 28 (17.83%) Java
5 22 (14.01%) C#
6 19 (12.10%) Python
7 10 (6.37%) Ruby
8 8 (5.10%) Bash
9 6 (3.82%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.55%) C
11 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.64%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 50 (31.85%) Security Cleared
2 29 (18.47%) SC Cleared
3 18 (11.46%) ISTQB
4 15 (9.55%) Degree
5 10 (6.37%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.82%) ISEB
7 5 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.55%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 3 (1.91%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (69.43%) QA
2 43 (27.39%) Accessibility
3 29 (18.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (13.38%) Docker
2 6 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (10.19%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.01%) Grafana
3 6 (3.82%) Ansible
3 6 (3.82%) Kibana
3 6 (3.82%) logstash
3 6 (3.82%) vCenter Server
4 3 (1.91%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.64%) Podman
Vendors
1 15 (9.55%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.10%) OneLogin
3 7 (4.46%) Pega
4 6 (3.82%) Atlassian
4 6 (3.82%) Red Hat
4 6 (3.82%) SAP
4 6 (3.82%) Splunk
4 6 (3.82%) VMware
5 3 (1.91%) IBM
5 3 (1.91%) Oracle
5 3 (1.91%) Veracode
6 1 (0.64%) Adobe
6 1 (0.64%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.64%) Databricks
6 1 (0.64%) Google
6 1 (0.64%) OpenAI