Playwright Contracts

Playwright
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Playwright skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Playwright over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 618 810
Rank change year-on-year +101 +192 -81
Contract jobs citing Playwright 67 79 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.14% 0.044%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.73% 0.62% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 67 32
10th Percentile £350 £423 £367
25th Percentile £406 £480 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £477
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.42% -
75th Percentile £525 £650 £606
90th Percentile £577 £695 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £477
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.18% -

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 contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Playwright as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Playwright in the UK

Playwright
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Playwright.

Daily rate trend for Playwright in the UK

Playwright
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Playwright over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Playwright in the UK

Playwright
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Playwright within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +62 46 £450 -18.18% 40
UK excluding London +19 31 £500 -4.76% 34
London +80 28 £450 -30.77% 12
Work from Home +121 23 £475 -1.30% 25
Wales +29 9 £519 +22.12% 1
North of England +12 8 £475 -9.52% 10
North West +18 5 £450 +5.88% 6
South West -11 5 £590 +12.38% 3
Scotland +52 4 £475 - 4
South East +13 4 £413 -25.00% 5
Yorkshire +7 3 £510 -2.86% 3
West Midlands +16 1 £190 -58.70% 1
Midlands +15 1 £190 -58.70% 4

Playwright
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.49%) CMS
1 1 (1.49%) Confluence
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 23 (34.33%) Azure
2 17 (25.37%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (19.40%) GitHub
4 10 (14.93%) AWS
4 10 (14.93%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (7.46%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (7.46%) Azure Pipelines
6 3 (4.48%) GCP
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (1.49%) Contentful
7 1 (1.49%) Serverless
7 1 (1.49%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.43%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.45%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 27 (40.30%) Git
2 25 (37.31%) Cypress.io
3 17 (25.37%) Selenium
4 15 (22.39%) Postman
5 14 (20.90%) Visual Studio
6 10 (14.93%) JIRA
6 10 (14.93%) SpecFlow
7 7 (10.45%) JMeter
7 7 (10.45%) NUnit
7 7 (10.45%) Storybook
8 5 (7.46%) Cucumber
8 5 (7.46%) Jenkins
8 5 (7.46%) Karma Test Runner
8 5 (7.46%) TestRail
9 4 (5.97%) Bitbucket
10 3 (4.48%) Jasmine
11 2 (2.99%) FitNesse
11 2 (2.99%) LoadRunner
11 2 (2.99%) WebDriver
12 1 (1.49%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (23.88%) Finance
2 13 (19.40%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.46%) Back Office
4 5 (7.46%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.97%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.48%) Electronics
6 3 (4.48%) Front Office
6 3 (4.48%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.48%) Marketing
7 1 (1.49%) Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Games
7 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (26.87%) Test Engineer
2 17 (25.37%) Test Automation Engineer
3 14 (20.90%) Developer
3 14 (20.90%) Senior
3 14 (20.90%) Tester
4 9 (13.43%) QA Engineer
5 8 (11.94%) Automation Tester
5 8 (11.94%) Lead
6 7 (10.45%) Senior Test Engineer
7 6 (8.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (8.96%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (7.46%) QA Tester
8 5 (7.46%) Test Leader
9 4 (5.97%) Angular Developer
9 4 (5.97%) Software Engineer
10 3 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (4.48%) QA Automation Engineer
10 3 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (4.48%) UI Developer
11 2 (2.99%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (31.34%) REST
2 20 (29.85%) .NET
3 13 (19.40%) AngularJS
4 10 (14.93%) GraphQL
5 7 (10.45%) Vue
6 6 (8.96%) SOAP
7 5 (7.46%) .NET Core
7 5 (7.46%) CSS
7 5 (7.46%) HTML
7 5 (7.46%) RxJS
7 5 (7.46%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 5 (7.46%) WinForms
7 5 (7.46%) WPF
8 4 (5.97%) Laravel
8 4 (5.97%) React
8 4 (5.97%) WebdriverIO
9 3 (4.48%) Angular 2
9 3 (4.48%) NgRx
10 2 (2.99%) OpenAPI
10 2 (2.99%) OpenFin
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.42%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.46%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.99%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.99%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.49%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.49%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.49%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.49%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.96%) Windows
2 1 (1.49%) Android
2 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (85.07%) Test Automation
2 48 (71.64%) Agile
3 37 (55.22%) CI/CD
4 25 (37.31%) DevOps
5 19 (28.36%) Continuous Integration
5 19 (28.36%) TDD
6 16 (23.88%) BDD
6 16 (23.88%) Test Strategy
7 15 (22.39%) Scrum
7 15 (22.39%) Test Scripting
8 13 (19.40%) Performance Testing
8 13 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (17.91%) Load Testing
9 12 (17.91%) Software Engineering
9 12 (17.91%) Unit Testing
10 11 (16.42%) API Testing
11 10 (14.93%) Non-Functional Testing
11 10 (14.93%) SDLC
12 9 (13.43%) Kanban
12 9 (13.43%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (50.75%) TypeScript
2 24 (35.82%) JavaScript
3 21 (31.34%) C#
4 16 (23.88%) SQL
5 10 (14.93%) Python
6 8 (11.94%) C
7 6 (8.96%) C++
8 5 (7.46%) Java
8 5 (7.46%) VB
8 5 (7.46%) VB6
9 3 (4.48%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (10.45%) Degree
2 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.48%) ISTQB
2 3 (4.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (2.99%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.99%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (43.28%) QA
2 25 (37.31%) Accessibility
3 5 (7.46%) WCAG
4 3 (4.48%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 7 (10.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.49%) Grafana
1 1 (1.49%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (1.49%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (19.40%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.94%) Oracle
3 5 (7.46%) Infragistics
4 3 (4.48%) Finsemble
4 3 (4.48%) Google
4 3 (4.48%) SAP
5 1 (1.49%) MuleSoft