Playwright Contracts in the UK excluding London

Playwright
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 370 389 479
Rank change year-on-year +19 +90 -33
Contract jobs citing Playwright 31 41 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.18% 0.082%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.91% 0.99% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 35 24
10th Percentile £363 £413 £405
25th Percentile £450 £444 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £477
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.18% -
75th Percentile £550 £563 £606
90th Percentile £590 £588 £622
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £477
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.42% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,405 4,123 6,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.97% 18.17% 19.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,204 3,067 4,324
10th Percentile £325 £350 £362
25th Percentile £410 £418 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £688 £652
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 90 140
10th Percentile £22.75 £22.47 £19.41
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.47 £78.12 £77.03
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

Playwright
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Playwright as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Playwright in the UK excluding London

Playwright
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Playwright in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Playwright in the UK excluding London

Playwright
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Playwright in the UK excluding London

Playwright
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region 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
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
UK

Playwright
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (41.94%) GitHub
2 11 (35.48%) Azure
3 10 (32.26%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (29.03%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (16.13%) AWS
6 3 (9.68%) GCP
7 1 (3.23%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (48.39%) Cypress.io
2 10 (32.26%) Git
2 10 (32.26%) Postman
3 9 (29.03%) Visual Studio
4 7 (22.58%) Storybook
5 6 (19.35%) Selenium
6 5 (16.13%) NUnit
7 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
8 2 (6.45%) Cucumber
8 2 (6.45%) JIRA
8 2 (6.45%) SpecFlow
9 1 (3.23%) Appium
9 1 (3.23%) Artifactory
9 1 (3.23%) JMeter
9 1 (3.23%) Mercurial
9 1 (3.23%) PHPUnit
9 1 (3.23%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (3.23%) SoapUI
9 1 (3.23%) TeamCity
9 1 (3.23%) TestRail
General
1 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.45%) Finance
2 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Electronics
3 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.23%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Test Engineer
2 12 (38.71%) Test Automation Engineer
3 7 (22.58%) Developer
4 6 (19.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 6 (19.35%) Senior
4 6 (19.35%) Senior Test Engineer
5 5 (16.13%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 5 (16.13%) Tester
6 3 (9.68%) Automation Tester
6 3 (9.68%) QA Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Lead
7 2 (6.45%) QA Automation Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Architect
8 1 (3.23%) Automation Architect
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) GUI Tester
8 1 (3.23%) Lead Architect
8 1 (3.23%) QA Tester
8 1 (3.23%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (32.26%) .NET
2 7 (22.58%) Vue
3 6 (19.35%) GraphQL
4 5 (16.13%) AngularJS
4 5 (16.13%) SOAP
5 4 (12.90%) Laravel
5 4 (12.90%) REST
5 4 (12.90%) WinForms
5 4 (12.90%) WPF
6 1 (3.23%) Jest
6 1 (3.23%) Node.js
6 1 (3.23%) RESTful
6 1 (3.23%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Product Ownership
2 4 (12.90%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) e-Learning
4 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Android
2 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (93.55%) Test Automation
2 23 (74.19%) Agile
3 20 (64.52%) CI/CD
4 13 (41.94%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (38.71%) DevOps
6 9 (29.03%) Project Management
6 9 (29.03%) Software Engineering
7 8 (25.81%) API Testing
7 8 (25.81%) Non-Functional Testing
7 8 (25.81%) Test Strategy
8 7 (22.58%) BDD
8 7 (22.58%) Front End Development
8 7 (22.58%) Kanban
8 7 (22.58%) Manual Testing
8 7 (22.58%) Objectives and Key Results
8 7 (22.58%) Scrum
8 7 (22.58%) SDLC
8 7 (22.58%) Unit Testing
9 6 (19.35%) TDD
10 5 (16.13%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (54.84%) TypeScript
2 10 (32.26%) SQL
3 9 (29.03%) C#
4 4 (12.90%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.90%) VB
4 4 (12.90%) VB6
5 3 (9.68%) Bash
5 3 (9.68%) C
5 3 (9.68%) Java
6 2 (6.45%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (58.06%) QA
2 8 (25.81%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Infragistics
2 4 (12.90%) Oracle
3 3 (9.68%) Google
4 1 (3.23%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.23%) SAP