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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 616 817
Rank change year-on-year +80 +201 -91
Contract jobs citing Playwright 66 79 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.14% 0.044%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.72% 0.62% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 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 £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 9,136 12,739 23,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.09% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,305 9,291 17,328
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 262 152 226
10th Percentile £22.05 £31.18 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.97 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.67% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £67.27
90th Percentile £74.49 £80.25 £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 9 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 9 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 +70 45 £463 -15.91% 37
UK excluding London +31 29 £500 -4.76% 31
London +82 28 £450 -30.77% 12
Work from Home +118 24 £475 -1.30% 21
Wales +26 8 £513 +20.59% 1
North of England +20 8 £475 -9.52% 8
North West +16 5 £450 +5.88% 4
South West -1 5 £590 +12.38% 3
Scotland +43 4 £475 - 4
South East +12 3 £450 -18.18% 5
Yorkshire +5 3 £510 -2.86% 3
Midlands +20 1 £190 -58.70% 3
West Midlands +11 1 £190 -58.70% 1

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 (1.52%) CMS
1 1 (1.52%) Confluence
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 22 (33.33%) Azure
2 17 (25.76%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (16.67%) GitHub
4 9 (13.64%) AWS
5 8 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (7.58%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (7.58%) Azure Pipelines
7 3 (4.55%) GCP
8 1 (1.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.52%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.52%) Contentful
8 1 (1.52%) Serverless
8 1 (1.52%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.61%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 27 (40.91%) Git
2 25 (37.88%) Cypress.io
3 17 (25.76%) Selenium
4 14 (21.21%) Postman
4 14 (21.21%) Visual Studio
5 10 (15.15%) SpecFlow
6 9 (13.64%) JIRA
7 8 (12.12%) JMeter
8 7 (10.61%) NUnit
9 6 (9.09%) Storybook
10 5 (7.58%) Cucumber
10 5 (7.58%) Karma Test Runner
10 5 (7.58%) TestRail
11 4 (6.06%) Bitbucket
11 4 (6.06%) Jenkins
12 3 (4.55%) Jasmine
13 2 (3.03%) FitNesse
13 2 (3.03%) LoadRunner
13 2 (3.03%) WebDriver
14 1 (1.52%) Mercurial
General
1 16 (24.24%) Finance
2 12 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.58%) Back Office
3 5 (7.58%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.06%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.55%) Electronics
5 3 (4.55%) Front Office
5 3 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.55%) Marketing
6 1 (1.52%) Banking
6 1 (1.52%) Games
6 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.52%) Law
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
11 4 (6.06%) Software Engineer
12 3 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
12 3 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (4.55%) UI Developer
13 2 (3.03%) C++ Developer
13 2 (3.03%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (31.82%) REST
2 20 (30.30%) .NET
3 13 (19.70%) AngularJS
4 10 (15.15%) GraphQL
5 6 (9.09%) SOAP
5 6 (9.09%) Vue
6 5 (7.58%) .NET Core
6 5 (7.58%) CSS
6 5 (7.58%) HTML
6 5 (7.58%) RxJS
6 5 (7.58%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 5 (7.58%) WinForms
6 5 (7.58%) WPF
7 4 (6.06%) React
7 4 (6.06%) WebdriverIO
8 3 (4.55%) Angular 2
8 3 (4.55%) Laravel
8 3 (4.55%) NgRx
9 2 (3.03%) Node.js
9 2 (3.03%) Reactive Extensions
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.58%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.03%) Private Cloud
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%) 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 56 (84.85%) Test Automation
2 47 (71.21%) Agile
3 35 (53.03%) CI/CD
4 25 (37.88%) DevOps
5 19 (28.79%) TDD
6 17 (25.76%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (24.24%) BDD
8 15 (22.73%) Scrum
8 15 (22.73%) Test Scripting
8 15 (22.73%) Test Strategy
9 14 (21.21%) Performance Testing
10 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (18.18%) Load Testing
12 11 (16.67%) Software Engineering
12 11 (16.67%) Unit Testing
13 10 (15.15%) API Testing
13 10 (15.15%) Non-Functional Testing
13 10 (15.15%) SDLC
14 9 (13.64%) End-to-End Testing
14 9 (13.64%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 23 (34.85%) JavaScript
3 21 (31.82%) C#
4 16 (24.24%) 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 7 (10.61%) 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 5 (7.58%) WCAG
4 3 (4.55%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 7 (10.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.52%) Grafana
1 1 (1.52%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.12%) Oracle
3 5 (7.58%) Infragistics
4 3 (4.55%) Finsemble
4 3 (4.55%) Google
4 3 (4.55%) SAP
5 1 (1.52%) MuleSoft