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

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 506 606 808
Rank change year-on-year +100 +202 -133
Contract jobs citing Playwright 70 78 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.14% 0.047%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.79% 0.59% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 69 29
10th Percentile £345 £413 £356
25th Percentile £400 £513 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +27.78% -
75th Percentile £531 £650 £606
90th Percentile £580 £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 8,897 13,217 23,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.91% 23.20% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 9,648 17,304
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 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 149 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £29.15 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.76
90th Percentile £74.70 £81.25 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%

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 16 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 16 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 +85 43 £450 -21.74% 25
UK excluding London +50 32 £500 -4.76% 13
London +94 27 £450 -30.77% 10
Work from Home +131 25 £475 -5.00% 23
Scotland +42 8 £500 +5.26% 1
Wales +25 8 £513 +20.59% 2
North of England +19 7 £450 -10.89% 5
North West +21 5 £450 +5.88% 3
South West +2 5 £590 +7.27% 1
South East +10 3 £450 -18.18% 2
Yorkshire +6 2 £425 -19.05% 2
Midlands +25 1 £190 -58.70% 2
West Midlands +24 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 5 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (1.43%) CMS
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 21 (30.00%) Azure
2 16 (22.86%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (15.71%) GitHub
4 9 (12.86%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (10.00%) AWS
6 4 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (5.71%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (2.86%) GCP
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.43%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.43%) Contentful
8 1 (1.43%) Serverless
8 1 (1.43%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.43%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.57%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 31 (44.29%) Git
2 27 (38.57%) Cypress.io
3 20 (28.57%) Postman
3 20 (28.57%) Selenium
4 13 (18.57%) JIRA
4 13 (18.57%) Visual Studio
5 9 (12.86%) Jenkins
5 9 (12.86%) SpecFlow
6 7 (10.00%) JMeter
6 7 (10.00%) NUnit
7 6 (8.57%) Cucumber
7 6 (8.57%) Storybook
8 5 (7.14%) TestRail
9 4 (5.71%) Bitbucket
9 4 (5.71%) IntelliJ
9 4 (5.71%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (2.86%) Appium
10 2 (2.86%) FitNesse
10 2 (2.86%) Jasmine
10 2 (2.86%) LoadRunner
General
1 16 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 15 (21.43%) Finance
3 6 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.71%) Back Office
5 4 (5.71%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.29%) Electronics
6 3 (4.29%) Front Office
6 3 (4.29%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.29%) Marketing
7 1 (1.43%) Banking
7 1 (1.43%) Games
Job Titles
1 18 (25.71%) Test Engineer
2 17 (24.29%) Test Automation Engineer
3 16 (22.86%) Senior
4 15 (21.43%) Tester
5 13 (18.57%) Developer
6 9 (12.86%) Automation Tester
6 9 (12.86%) Lead
6 9 (12.86%) QA Engineer
7 7 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
8 6 (8.57%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
9 5 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 5 (7.14%) QA Tester
9 5 (7.14%) Test Leader
10 3 (4.29%) Angular Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) Software Engineer
11 2 (2.86%) Analyst
11 2 (2.86%) C++ Developer
11 2 (2.86%) Migration Engineer
11 2 (2.86%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (25.71%) .NET
1 18 (25.71%) REST
2 13 (18.57%) GraphQL
3 12 (17.14%) AngularJS
4 8 (11.43%) CSS
4 8 (11.43%) HTML
5 7 (10.00%) React
6 6 (8.57%) Node.js
6 6 (8.57%) SOAP
6 6 (8.57%) Vue
6 6 (8.57%) WebdriverIO
7 5 (7.14%) WinForms
7 5 (7.14%) WPF
8 4 (5.71%) .NET Core
8 4 (5.71%) Jest
8 4 (5.71%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 3 (4.29%) Laravel
9 3 (4.29%) RxJS
10 2 (2.86%) Angular 2
10 2 (2.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.29%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.86%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.43%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.43%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (81.43%) Test Automation
2 47 (67.14%) Agile
3 34 (48.57%) CI/CD
4 25 (35.71%) DevOps
5 17 (24.29%) BDD
5 17 (24.29%) Continuous Integration
5 17 (24.29%) TDD
6 16 (22.86%) Test Scripting
7 15 (21.43%) Test Strategy
8 14 (20.00%) Performance Testing
8 14 (20.00%) Unit Testing
9 13 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (18.57%) Scrum
10 12 (17.14%) API Testing
11 11 (15.71%) Load Testing
12 10 (14.29%) Manual Testing
12 10 (14.29%) Software Engineering
13 9 (12.86%) Front End Development
13 9 (12.86%) Kanban
13 9 (12.86%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (47.14%) TypeScript
2 30 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 19 (27.14%) C#
4 15 (21.43%) SQL
5 8 (11.43%) Python
6 6 (8.57%) C
7 5 (7.14%) C++
7 5 (7.14%) VB
7 5 (7.14%) VB6
8 4 (5.71%) Java
9 2 (2.86%) Bash
10 1 (1.43%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (8.57%) Degree
2 3 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.29%) ISTQB
2 3 (4.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 3 (4.29%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (42.86%) QA
2 25 (35.71%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.71%) WCAG
4 3 (4.29%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 11 (15.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.71%) Kibana
2 1 (1.43%) Grafana
2 1 (1.43%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.43%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.43%) Oracle
3 5 (7.14%) Infragistics
4 3 (4.29%) SAP
5 2 (2.86%) Finsemble
5 2 (2.86%) Google
6 1 (1.43%) HP
6 1 (1.43%) MuleSoft