Playwright Job Trends

Playwright
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Playwright skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 537 621 626
Rank change year-on-year +84 +5 +334
Permanent jobs citing Playwright 117 121 84
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.68% 0.91% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 84 61 80
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £44,800
25th Percentile £49,688 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £70,313 £70,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £81,529 £85,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £46,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +28.34% -15.00% -21.43%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,983 13,270 13,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.38% 21.36% 26.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,172 8,094 10,992
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £108,750 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Playwright job vacancy trend in the UK

Playwright
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Playwright.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Playwright

Playwright
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Playwright over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Playwright in the UK

Playwright
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Playwright within the UK over the 6 months to 13 December 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
England +102 106 £60,000 - 93
UK excluding London +89 54 £60,000 +28.34% 90
London +61 50 £67,500 -5.26% 24
Work from Home +76 48 £55,000 -8.33% 33
South West +36 14 £45,000 -30.77% 9
South East +42 10 £57,500 +15.00% 30
Midlands +39 10 £52,500 +26.51% 13
North of England +27 10 £67,241 +58.21% 20
West Midlands +37 8 £40,000 -3.61% 9
East of England +28 7 £65,000 - 8
North West +42 5 £70,000 +64.71% 16
North East +9 4 £60,000 -
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 - 3
Wales - 2 £65,000 - 2
Yorkshire -8 1 £57,500 - 4
Scotland -8 1 £70,000 +75.00% 9

Playwright
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (6.84%) Headless CMS
2 2 (1.71%) Confluence
3 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.85%) nginx
3 1 (0.85%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 8 (6.84%) Shopify
2 2 (1.71%) Elite 3E
2 2 (1.71%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (34.19%) Azure
2 33 (28.21%) AWS
3 24 (20.51%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (11.97%) GitHub
5 12 (10.26%) Serverless
6 11 (9.40%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (9.40%) Amazon S3
7 10 (8.55%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (6.84%) Figma
9 8 (6.84%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (6.84%) Google Analytics
9 8 (6.84%) Vercel
10 7 (5.98%) SaaS
11 6 (5.13%) GCP
12 5 (4.27%) BrowserStack
13 4 (3.42%) Power Platform
14 3 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
15 2 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
15 2 (1.71%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.71%) HTTP
2 1 (0.85%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.84%) NoSQL
2 6 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.42%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.42%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.71%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.71%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.85%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.85%) PostHog
6 1 (0.85%) Power BI
6 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (49.57%) Selenium
2 54 (46.15%) Cypress.io
3 24 (20.51%) Jenkins
4 19 (16.24%) Postman
5 15 (12.82%) JMeter
6 14 (11.97%) JIRA
7 13 (11.11%) Cucumber
7 13 (11.11%) SpecFlow
8 12 (10.26%) WebDriver
9 11 (9.40%) Git
9 11 (9.40%) GitLab
9 11 (9.40%) REST Assured
10 10 (8.55%) Appium
11 7 (5.98%) Gatling
11 7 (5.98%) TestRail
12 5 (4.27%) Bitbucket
13 3 (2.56%) JUnit
13 3 (2.56%) MSTest
13 3 (2.56%) NUnit
13 3 (2.56%) TestNG
General
1 36 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.22%) Finance
3 21 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (10.26%) Law
5 12 (10.26%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.69%) Banking
7 5 (4.27%) Back Office
8 4 (3.42%) Legal
9 3 (2.56%) Health Technology
9 3 (2.56%) Marketing
9 3 (2.56%) Retail
10 2 (1.71%) Advertising
11 1 (0.85%) Electronics
11 1 (0.85%) Games
11 1 (0.85%) iGaming
11 1 (0.85%) International Banking
11 1 (0.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 31 (26.50%) Test Engineer
2 25 (21.37%) Senior
3 21 (17.95%) Developer
3 21 (17.95%) Lead
4 18 (15.38%) Test Automation Engineer
5 17 (14.53%) Tester
6 11 (9.40%) Automation Tester
6 11 (9.40%) QA Engineer
7 10 (8.55%) Analyst
7 10 (8.55%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (8.55%) Senior Developer
7 10 (8.55%) Software Engineer
7 10 (8.55%) Test Analyst
8 9 (7.69%) QA Leader
8 9 (7.69%) Software Developer
9 8 (6.84%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (5.98%) Developer in Test
10 7 (5.98%) QA Automation Engineer
11 6 (5.13%) Test Leader
12 5 (4.27%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (19.66%) React
2 19 (16.24%) CSS
3 18 (15.38%) .NET
3 18 (15.38%) HTML
4 16 (13.68%) REST
5 15 (12.82%) Jest
6 10 (8.55%) GraphQL
7 9 (7.69%) RESTful
7 9 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
7 9 (7.69%) Vitest
8 8 (6.84%) Express.js
8 8 (6.84%) Next.js
8 8 (6.84%) Node.js
9 6 (5.13%) pytest
10 4 (3.42%) .NET Framework
10 4 (3.42%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.42%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (2.56%) CSS3
11 3 (2.56%) HTML5
11 3 (2.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.84%) Mobile App
2 7 (5.98%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.98%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (5.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 4 (3.42%) Derivative
3 4 (3.42%) Equities
3 4 (3.42%) Fixed Income
3 4 (3.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.71%) Online Banking
5 2 (1.71%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.85%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.85%) IoT
6 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.85%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.84%) Linux
2 5 (4.27%) Windows
3 3 (2.56%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.71%) Android
5 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (84.62%) Test Automation
2 59 (50.43%) Agile
3 58 (49.57%) CI/CD
4 38 (32.48%) DevOps
5 34 (29.06%) Test Strategy
6 32 (27.35%) Test Scripting
7 30 (25.64%) API Testing
7 30 (25.64%) Software Testing
8 29 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (17.09%) Computer Science
10 19 (16.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (16.24%) Manual Testing
10 19 (16.24%) Software Engineering
11 18 (15.38%) SDLC
12 17 (14.53%) Mentoring
12 17 (14.53%) Performance Testing
13 16 (13.68%) BDD
14 15 (12.82%) Sprint Planning
14 15 (12.82%) Sprint Retrospective
14 15 (12.82%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 55 (47.01%) TypeScript
2 54 (46.15%) JavaScript
3 45 (38.46%) C#
4 27 (23.08%) SQL
5 25 (21.37%) Java
6 23 (19.66%) Python
7 2 (1.71%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.71%) PHP
8 1 (0.85%) Rust
8 1 (0.85%) Swift
Qualifications
1 22 (18.80%) Degree
1 22 (18.80%) ISTQB
2 16 (13.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (8.55%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.55%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.27%) ISEB
4 5 (4.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (2.56%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (2.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (49.57%) QA
2 20 (17.09%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.56%) SEPA
4 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.27%) Grafana
3 4 (3.42%) Terraform
4 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.85%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (6.84%) Apple
2 6 (5.13%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.42%) Oracle
4 3 (2.56%) Samsung
5 2 (1.71%) Aderant
5 2 (1.71%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (1.71%) Databricks
5 2 (1.71%) IBM
5 2 (1.71%) iManage
5 2 (1.71%) Intapp
5 2 (1.71%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.85%) OneLogin
6 1 (0.85%) Splunk
6 1 (0.85%) Sybase