Playwright Contracts

Playwright
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Playwright skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Playwright over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 603 797
Rank change year-on-year +94 +194 -73
Contract jobs citing Playwright 66 79 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.14% 0.047%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.73% 0.61% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 69 32
10th Percentile £350 £427 £367
25th Percentile £405 £485 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £477
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +15.42% -
75th Percentile £528 £650 £606
90th Percentile £578 £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 is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

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 1 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 1 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 +57 43 £450 -18.18% 29
UK excluding London +27 30 £500 -4.76% 21
London +88 26 £450 -30.77% 9
Work from Home +120 24 £475 -5.00% 19
Wales +25 8 £513 +20.59% 1
North of England +18 8 £475 -9.52% 5
Scotland +41 5 £475 - 2
North West +24 5 £450 +5.88% 3
South West -7 5 £590 +12.38% 1
Yorkshire +11 3 £510 -2.86% 1
South East +8 3 £450 -18.18% 5
Midlands +21 1 £190 -58.70% 2
West Midlands +12 1 £190 -58.70%

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 2 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) CMS
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 20 (30.30%) Azure
2 16 (24.24%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (16.67%) GitHub
4 8 (12.12%) AWS
4 8 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (6.06%) Azure Pipelines
6 3 (4.55%) GCP
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (1.52%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.52%) Contentful
7 1 (1.52%) Serverless
7 1 (1.52%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.12%) SQL Server
2 6 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 28 (42.42%) Git
2 25 (37.88%) Cypress.io
3 17 (25.76%) Selenium
4 16 (24.24%) Postman
5 13 (19.70%) Visual Studio
6 10 (15.15%) JIRA
7 9 (13.64%) SpecFlow
8 7 (10.61%) JMeter
8 7 (10.61%) NUnit
9 6 (9.09%) Storybook
10 5 (7.58%) Cucumber
10 5 (7.58%) Jenkins
10 5 (7.58%) Karma Test Runner
10 5 (7.58%) TestRail
11 4 (6.06%) Bitbucket
12 3 (4.55%) Jasmine
13 2 (3.03%) FitNesse
13 2 (3.03%) LoadRunner
13 2 (3.03%) WebDriver
14 1 (1.52%) IntelliJ
General
1 15 (22.73%) Finance
2 13 (19.70%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.06%) Back Office
5 4 (6.06%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.55%) Electronics
6 3 (4.55%) Front Office
6 3 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.55%) Marketing
7 1 (1.52%) Banking
7 1 (1.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 18 (27.27%) Test Engineer
2 17 (25.76%) Test Automation Engineer
3 15 (22.73%) Tester
4 14 (21.21%) Senior
5 13 (19.70%) Developer
6 9 (13.64%) Automation Tester
7 8 (12.12%) Lead
7 8 (12.12%) QA Engineer
8 7 (10.61%) Senior Test Engineer
9 6 (9.09%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (7.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 5 (7.58%) QA Tester
10 5 (7.58%) Test Leader
11 4 (6.06%) Angular Developer
12 3 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
12 3 (4.55%) Software Engineer
12 3 (4.55%) UI Developer
13 2 (3.03%) JavaScript Developer
13 2 (3.03%) Python Developer
13 2 (3.03%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (28.79%) REST
2 18 (27.27%) .NET
3 13 (19.70%) AngularJS
4 10 (15.15%) GraphQL
5 6 (9.09%) CSS
5 6 (9.09%) HTML
5 6 (9.09%) SOAP
5 6 (9.09%) Vue
6 5 (7.58%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 5 (7.58%) WebdriverIO
6 5 (7.58%) WinForms
6 5 (7.58%) WPF
7 4 (6.06%) .NET Core
7 4 (6.06%) React
7 4 (6.06%) RxJS
8 3 (4.55%) Angular 2
8 3 (4.55%) Laravel
8 3 (4.55%) NgRx
8 3 (4.55%) Node.js
9 2 (3.03%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.58%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.03%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.52%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.52%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.52%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 46 (69.70%) Agile
3 34 (51.52%) CI/CD
4 24 (36.36%) DevOps
5 17 (25.76%) Continuous Integration
5 17 (25.76%) TDD
6 15 (22.73%) BDD
6 15 (22.73%) Test Scripting
7 14 (21.21%) Test Strategy
8 13 (19.70%) Performance Testing
8 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (19.70%) Scrum
9 12 (18.18%) Unit Testing
10 11 (16.67%) Load Testing
11 10 (15.15%) API Testing
11 10 (15.15%) Non-Functional Testing
11 10 (15.15%) Software Engineering
12 9 (13.64%) End-to-End Testing
12 9 (13.64%) SDLC
12 9 (13.64%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 25 (37.88%) JavaScript
3 19 (28.79%) C#
4 15 (22.73%) SQL
5 9 (13.64%) Python
6 8 (12.12%) C
7 6 (9.09%) C++
8 5 (7.58%) VB
8 5 (7.58%) VB6
9 4 (6.06%) Java
10 3 (4.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (9.09%) Degree
2 3 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.55%) ISTQB
2 3 (4.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (3.03%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (40.91%) QA
2 25 (37.88%) Accessibility
3 4 (6.06%) WCAG
4 3 (4.55%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 8 (12.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.52%) Grafana
1 1 (1.52%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (1.52%) Kibana
1 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.12%) Oracle
3 5 (7.58%) Infragistics
4 3 (4.55%) Google
4 3 (4.55%) SAP
5 2 (3.03%) Finsemble
6 1 (1.52%) MuleSoft