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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 585 635
Rank change year-on-year +36 +50 +278
Permanent jobs citing Playwright 104 114 86
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.47% 0.99% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 82 58 82
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,025 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,813 £44,063 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £70,938 £78,438 £82,500
90th Percentile £83,625 £87,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +26.32% -13.64% -

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 7,080 11,547 13,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.80% 21.58% 24.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,272 6,787 11,241
10th Percentile £35,760 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £109,875 £109,250 £105,000
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 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Playwright in the UK

Playwright
Top 15 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 14 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
England +61 100 £60,000 - 246
UK excluding London +59 55 £60,000 +26.32% 236
London +38 42 £63,750 -18.53% 39
Work from Home +54 40 £55,198 -11.68% 158
South West +24 17 £47,500 -26.92% 27
South East +34 11 £60,000 +20.00% 80
Midlands +25 11 £45,000 +5.88% 25
North of England +6 10 £60,000 +41.18% 45
West Midlands +22 9 £35,000 -17.65% 10
North East +12 5 £60,000 - 7
East of England +25 4 £65,000 - 39
North West +19 4 £67,241 +58.21% 17
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 - 15
Wales - 2 £65,000 - 14
Yorkshire -14 1 £57,500 - 21

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 1 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.96%) Confluence
1 1 (0.96%) nginx
1 1 (0.96%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (39.42%) Azure
2 26 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (19.23%) AWS
4 14 (13.46%) GitHub
5 8 (7.69%) GCP
5 8 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (6.73%) SaaS
7 6 (5.77%) BrowserStack
8 3 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.88%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.92%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (1.92%) BlazeMeter
9 2 (1.92%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 2 (1.92%) Serverless
9 2 (1.92%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (0.96%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.96%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.96%) IaaS
10 1 (0.96%) PaaS
10 1 (0.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.92%) HTTP
2 1 (0.96%) Broadband
2 1 (0.96%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.85%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.88%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.92%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.96%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.96%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.96%) PostHog
5 1 (0.96%) Power BI
5 1 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (54.81%) Selenium
2 44 (42.31%) Cypress.io
3 18 (17.31%) Jenkins
4 16 (15.38%) Postman
5 13 (12.50%) JIRA
5 13 (12.50%) JMeter
5 13 (12.50%) REST Assured
5 13 (12.50%) WebDriver
6 11 (10.58%) SpecFlow
7 10 (9.62%) Cucumber
7 10 (9.62%) GitLab
8 9 (8.65%) Appium
9 8 (7.69%) Git
9 8 (7.69%) TestRail
10 5 (4.81%) Bitbucket
10 5 (4.81%) Gatling
11 4 (3.85%) JUnit
11 4 (3.85%) TestNG
12 3 (2.88%) MSTest
12 3 (2.88%) NUnit
General
1 27 (25.96%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.19%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (16.35%) Finance
4 13 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 10 (9.62%) Law
6 8 (7.69%) Banking
7 4 (3.85%) Back Office
8 3 (2.88%) Retail
9 2 (1.92%) Advertising
9 2 (1.92%) Legal
10 1 (0.96%) Electronics
10 1 (0.96%) Games
10 1 (0.96%) iGaming
10 1 (0.96%) International Banking
10 1 (0.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (26.92%) Test Engineer
2 26 (25.00%) Lead
3 17 (16.35%) Senior
4 15 (14.42%) Test Automation Engineer
5 14 (13.46%) Tester
6 12 (11.54%) QA Engineer
7 11 (10.58%) Developer
7 11 (10.58%) Test Leader
8 9 (8.65%) Automation Test Lead
8 9 (8.65%) Automation Tester
9 8 (7.69%) Developer in Test
9 8 (7.69%) QA Leader
9 8 (7.69%) Software Developer
10 7 (6.73%) Analyst
10 7 (6.73%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (6.73%) QA Automation Engineer
10 7 (6.73%) Software Engineer
10 7 (6.73%) Test Analyst
11 6 (5.77%) Lead Test Engineer
12 5 (4.81%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.35%) .NET
2 14 (13.46%) React
3 13 (12.50%) REST
4 8 (7.69%) CSS
5 7 (6.73%) HTML
6 5 (4.81%) Jest
7 4 (3.85%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (3.85%) pytest
8 3 (2.88%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.88%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.88%) Kafka
8 3 (2.88%) RESTful
8 3 (2.88%) Spring
8 3 (2.88%) Swagger
9 2 (1.92%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.92%) CSS3
9 2 (1.92%) HTML5
9 2 (1.92%) Redux
9 2 (1.92%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
1 8 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 5 (4.81%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.85%) Derivative
3 4 (3.85%) Equities
3 4 (3.85%) Fixed Income
3 4 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.92%) Online Banking
5 2 (1.92%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.96%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.65%) Linux
2 5 (4.81%) Windows
3 3 (2.88%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.92%) Android
4 2 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (82.69%) Test Automation
2 55 (52.88%) CI/CD
3 39 (37.50%) DevOps
4 38 (36.54%) Agile
5 31 (29.81%) Software Testing
5 31 (29.81%) Test Strategy
6 28 (26.92%) API Testing
7 23 (22.12%) Manual Testing
7 23 (22.12%) Test Scripting
8 22 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (19.23%) Computer Science
9 20 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (19.23%) Software Engineering
10 16 (15.38%) Mentoring
11 15 (14.42%) Non-Functional Testing
12 14 (13.46%) BDD
12 14 (13.46%) Containerisation
12 14 (13.46%) Regression Testing
12 14 (13.46%) SDLC
12 14 (13.46%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (43.27%) JavaScript
2 44 (42.31%) TypeScript
3 43 (41.35%) C#
4 32 (30.77%) Java
5 22 (21.15%) SQL
6 19 (18.27%) Python
7 2 (1.92%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.92%) PHP
8 1 (0.96%) Rust
8 1 (0.96%) Swift
Qualifications
1 22 (21.15%) Degree
2 17 (16.35%) ISTQB
3 16 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (10.58%) SC Cleared
4 11 (10.58%) Security Cleared
5 7 (6.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (3.85%) ISEB
7 3 (2.88%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 3 (2.88%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (59.62%) QA
2 20 (19.23%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.88%) SEPA
4 1 (0.96%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (18.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.73%) Terraform
3 5 (4.81%) Grafana
4 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.88%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.96%) Ansible
5 1 (0.96%) Argo
5 1 (0.96%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (3.85%) Microsoft
1 4 (3.85%) Oracle
2 3 (2.88%) Samsung
3 2 (1.92%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (1.92%) Guidewire
4 1 (0.96%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.96%) OneLogin
4 1 (0.96%) Splunk