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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 520 649
Rank change year-on-year -40 +129 +22
Permanent jobs citing Playwright 254 134 138
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.27% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.15% 1.60% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 157 88 69
10th Percentile £39,221 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,456 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,875 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +19.57% -18.58%

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 11,800 8,375 15,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.02% 16.87% 21.74%
Number of salaries quoted 8,371 5,333 9,884
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 8 October 2026.

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 8 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
England -27 212 £60,000 - 288
UK excluding London -19 158 £50,000 -9.09% 165
Work from Home -13 87 £55,198 +0.36% 159
London -44 74 £75,000 +15.38% 156
North of England -39 37 £65,000 -7.14% 51
South West -52 35 £42,500 +41.67% 16
Midlands -27 27 £45,000 +12.50% 24
West Midlands -23 26 £45,000 - 20
South East -37 22 £57,500 -7.26% 23
Wales -57 20 £40,861 -37.14% 6
North West -12 17 £65,000 -7.14% 17
Yorkshire -20 16 £65,000 +23.81% 18
East of England -26 13 £55,000 -12.00% 11
Scotland 0 4 £48,500 -13.78% 23
North East -57 4 £45,636 - 16
East Midlands -34 1 - - 4

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 15 (5.91%) Confluence
2 7 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.18%) nginx
3 3 (1.18%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.18%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Magento
1 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 102 (40.16%) Azure
2 84 (33.07%) AWS
3 58 (22.83%) GitHub
4 52 (20.47%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (14.17%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (7.87%) Serverless
7 19 (7.48%) GCP
8 16 (6.30%) Power Platform
9 15 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (5.91%) SaaS
10 12 (4.72%) BrowserStack
11 9 (3.54%) Tricentis Tosca
12 7 (2.76%) Cloud Functions
12 7 (2.76%) Cloud Run
13 6 (2.36%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.36%) Anthropic Claude
13 6 (2.36%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.76%) HTTP
2 6 (2.36%) Broadband
3 4 (1.57%) DNS
3 4 (1.57%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.18%) 4G
4 3 (1.18%) 5G
4 3 (1.18%) SSH
5 1 (0.39%) DSL
5 1 (0.39%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.69%) MongoDB
2 15 (5.91%) Redis
3 14 (5.51%) NoSQL
4 13 (5.12%) Power BI
5 12 (4.72%) SQL Server
6 11 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (2.36%) MySQL
7 6 (2.36%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.97%) InfluxDB
9 4 (1.57%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.79%) DTS
11 2 (0.79%) Metadata
11 2 (0.79%) Tableau
12 1 (0.39%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.39%) Looker
12 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 105 (41.34%) Selenium
2 103 (40.55%) Cypress.io
3 60 (23.62%) Git
3 60 (23.62%) Jenkins
4 52 (20.47%) Postman
5 44 (17.32%) JIRA
6 42 (16.54%) GitLab
7 38 (14.96%) REST Assured
8 29 (11.42%) Cucumber
9 27 (10.63%) Gatling
9 27 (10.63%) JMeter
10 16 (6.30%) JUnit
11 14 (5.51%) Zephyr
12 12 (4.72%) TestRail
13 8 (3.15%) Newman
14 7 (2.76%) Appium
14 7 (2.76%) Vite
15 6 (2.36%) CircleCI
16 5 (1.97%) SoapUI
16 5 (1.97%) Storybook
General
1 68 (26.77%) Social Skills
2 55 (21.65%) Finance
3 32 (12.60%) Public Sector
4 23 (9.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.72%) Banking
7 11 (4.33%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (3.94%) Retail
9 8 (3.15%) Law
10 5 (1.97%) Marketing
11 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.18%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.18%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.79%) Advertising
12 2 (0.79%) Back Office
12 2 (0.79%) Digital Healthcare
12 2 (0.79%) Front Office
12 2 (0.79%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 58 (22.83%) Test Engineer
2 57 (22.44%) QA Engineer
3 53 (20.87%) Senior
4 49 (19.29%) Developer
5 34 (13.39%) Lead
6 29 (11.42%) Automation Engineer
7 26 (10.24%) Test Automation Engineer
8 25 (9.84%) QA Automation Engineer
9 18 (7.09%) Senior Developer
10 17 (6.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 14 (5.51%) Quality Engineer
11 14 (5.51%) Software Engineer
12 13 (5.12%) React Developer
12 13 (5.12%) Tester
13 11 (4.33%) Applications Engineer
13 11 (4.33%) Applications Support
13 11 (4.33%) Applications Support Engineer
13 11 (4.33%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (4.33%) Senior QA Engineer
13 11 (4.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (29.13%) REST
2 72 (28.35%) React
3 30 (11.81%) Node.js
4 28 (11.02%) .NET
5 27 (10.63%) RESTful
6 25 (9.84%) Jest
7 23 (9.06%) CSS
7 23 (9.06%) HTML
8 17 (6.69%) Spring
9 15 (5.91%) Next.js
9 15 (5.91%) Spring Boot
9 15 (5.91%) Vitest
10 14 (5.51%) Terraform
11 13 (5.12%) GraphQL
11 13 (5.12%) JSON
11 13 (5.12%) pytest
12 12 (4.72%) Kafka
12 12 (4.72%) Ruby on Rails
13 10 (3.94%) AngularJS
13 10 (3.94%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 41 (16.14%) Product Ownership
2 23 (9.06%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.33%) Mobile App
4 10 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.36%) Mainframe
6 6 (2.36%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.57%) Mobile Banking
8 4 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.18%) Digital Wallet
9 3 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.18%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.18%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.79%) Blog
10 2 (0.79%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.79%) NHS
11 1 (0.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.39%) Kindle
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.87%) Linux
2 8 (3.15%) Android
3 7 (2.76%) Windows
4 5 (1.97%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.97%) CentOS
5 3 (1.18%) AIX
5 3 (1.18%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.39%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (79.92%) Test Automation
2 181 (71.26%) CI/CD
3 147 (57.87%) Agile
4 85 (33.46%) DevOps
5 75 (29.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 75 (29.53%) Problem-Solving
6 74 (29.13%) Software Testing
7 73 (28.74%) End-to-End Testing
8 68 (26.77%) AI
9 62 (24.41%) Mentoring
10 55 (21.65%) Scrum
10 55 (21.65%) Test Strategy
11 54 (21.26%) SDLC
12 49 (19.29%) API Testing
13 47 (18.50%) Software Engineering
14 43 (16.93%) Validation
15 42 (16.54%) Regression Testing
16 38 (14.96%) Manual Testing
17 34 (13.39%) User Acceptance Testing
18 32 (12.60%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 105 (41.34%) JavaScript
2 90 (35.43%) TypeScript
3 57 (22.44%) SQL
4 56 (22.05%) Java
5 36 (14.17%) C#
5 36 (14.17%) Python
6 13 (5.12%) Ruby
7 8 (3.15%) Bash
8 5 (1.97%) C
8 5 (1.97%) Go
8 5 (1.97%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.97%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.57%) Scala
9 4 (1.57%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.57%) Swift
10 2 (0.79%) C++
11 1 (0.39%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.39%) Bicep
11 1 (0.39%) PHP
11 1 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 60 (23.62%) Security Cleared
2 32 (12.60%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.63%) ISTQB
4 19 (7.48%) Degree
5 13 (5.12%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.15%) ISEB
7 7 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 5 (1.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.57%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (60.24%) QA
2 65 (25.59%) Accessibility
3 38 (14.96%) WCAG
4 6 (2.36%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.57%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 43 (16.93%) Docker
2 5 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.39%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 27 (10.63%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.30%) Grafana
3 8 (3.15%) Ansible
4 6 (2.36%) Podman
5 5 (1.97%) HP Fortify
5 5 (1.97%) Kibana
5 5 (1.97%) logstash
5 5 (1.97%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.57%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.18%) Packer
8 2 (0.79%) Bugsnag
8 2 (0.79%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (11.02%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.72%) Google
3 8 (3.15%) OneLogin
4 7 (2.76%) Pega
5 6 (2.36%) SAP
6 5 (1.97%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.97%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.97%) Splunk
6 5 (1.97%) VMware
7 4 (1.57%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.18%) IBM
8 3 (1.18%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.18%) Oracle
8 3 (1.18%) Veracode
9 2 (0.79%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.79%) New Relic
9 2 (0.79%) SGI
9 2 (0.79%) Solace
9 2 (0.79%) Sony
9 2 (0.79%) YouTube