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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 504 609 825
Rank change year-on-year +105 +216 -115
Contract jobs citing Playwright 66 81 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.14% 0.043%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.74% 0.62% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 72 28
10th Percentile £350 £430 £353
25th Percentile £400 £496 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £525 £650 £606
90th Percentile £577 £695 £615
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -

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 8,927 13,057 23,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.99% 23.09% 26.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,211 9,517 17,333
10th Percentile £344 £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 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 145 235
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.05 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.02 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.45 £81.00 £76.86
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.97 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.21% +23.81% +16.67%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 43 £450 -18.18% 30
UK excluding London +46 29 £500 -4.76% 22
London +85 27 £450 -30.77% 10
Work from Home +133 24 £475 -5.00% 23
Wales +29 8 £513 +20.59% 1
North of England +22 7 £450 -14.29% 7
Scotland +47 5 £475 - 2
North West +26 5 £450 +5.88% 3
South West +1 5 £590 +12.38% 2
South East +14 3 £450 -18.18% 6
Yorkshire +10 2 £425 -19.05% 3
Midlands +32 1 £190 -58.70% 3
West Midlands +15 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 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 9 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (10.61%) AWS
6 4 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (6.06%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (3.03%) 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 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 27 (40.91%) Cypress.io
3 19 (28.79%) 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%) Cucumber
9 6 (9.09%) Jenkins
9 6 (9.09%) Storybook
10 5 (7.58%) TestRail
11 4 (6.06%) Bitbucket
11 4 (6.06%) Karma Test Runner
12 2 (3.03%) Appium
12 2 (3.03%) FitNesse
12 2 (3.03%) Jasmine
12 2 (3.03%) LoadRunner
12 2 (3.03%) WebDriver
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 12 (18.18%) Developer
6 9 (13.64%) Automation Tester
6 9 (13.64%) Lead
6 9 (13.64%) QA Engineer
7 7 (10.61%) Senior Test Engineer
8 6 (9.09%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
9 5 (7.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 5 (7.58%) QA Tester
9 5 (7.58%) Test Leader
10 3 (4.55%) Angular Developer
10 3 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) Software Engineer
11 2 (3.03%) Automation Architect
11 2 (3.03%) Automation Test Lead
11 2 (3.03%) Backend Developer
11 2 (3.03%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (27.27%) .NET
1 18 (27.27%) REST
2 12 (18.18%) AngularJS
3 10 (15.15%) GraphQL
4 6 (9.09%) SOAP
4 6 (9.09%) Vue
5 5 (7.58%) CSS
5 5 (7.58%) HTML
5 5 (7.58%) WebdriverIO
5 5 (7.58%) WinForms
5 5 (7.58%) WPF
6 4 (6.06%) .NET Core
6 4 (6.06%) React
6 4 (6.06%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 3 (4.55%) Laravel
7 3 (4.55%) Node.js
7 3 (4.55%) RxJS
8 2 (3.03%) Angular 2
8 2 (3.03%) NgRx
8 2 (3.03%) Swagger
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%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.52%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.52%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
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 56 (84.85%) Test Automation
2 44 (66.67%) Agile
3 34 (51.52%) CI/CD
4 25 (37.88%) DevOps
5 17 (25.76%) Continuous Integration
5 17 (25.76%) TDD
6 16 (24.24%) BDD
7 15 (22.73%) Test Scripting
7 15 (22.73%) Test Strategy
8 14 (21.21%) Performance Testing
9 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (19.70%) Scrum
10 12 (18.18%) API Testing
11 11 (16.67%) Load Testing
11 11 (16.67%) Unit Testing
12 10 (15.15%) Manual Testing
12 10 (15.15%) Software Engineering
13 9 (13.64%) Kanban
13 9 (13.64%) Non-Functional Testing
13 9 (13.64%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 26 (39.39%) JavaScript
3 19 (28.79%) C#
4 15 (22.73%) SQL
5 8 (12.12%) Python
6 6 (9.09%) C
7 5 (7.58%) C++
7 5 (7.58%) VB
7 5 (7.58%) VB6
8 4 (6.06%) Java
9 2 (3.03%) Bash
10 1 (1.52%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.52%) Swift
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 30 (45.45%) QA
2 24 (36.36%) 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%) SAP
5 2 (3.03%) Finsemble
5 2 (3.03%) Google
6 1 (1.52%) MuleSoft