Playwright: market
Playwright is a modern end-to-end testing framework for web applications: Chromium, Firefox and WebKit from one API, auto-waiting, tracing and parallel runs. We track 1 559 open positions listing Playwright, 1 497 of them fresh. It is quickly displacing Selenium in new projects and is also used for scraping and browser automation. Most of the demand comes from QA, Fullstack and Frontend roles. It most often appears next to TypeScript, Java and JavaScript. 44% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of Playwright demand.
The Playwright market currently has 1,559 open roles, 1,497 of them freshly observed. Median salary $5,744/mo. Observed candidate pool — 456.
44% of Playwright postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the work format.
⚠ salary known for 112 of 1559 jobs; remote share from 1255 with a stated format; 1497 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Playwright postings appeared each week since 10 Aug, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 143
New sources connected: 17 Aug +23 · 24 Aug +13 · 31 Aug +13 · 7 Sept +10 · 14 Sept +6 · 21 Sept +20 · 28 Sept +11 · 5 Oct +10 · 12 Oct +7
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses. A posting belongs to the technology by its stack tag; the series starts on 10 Aug 2026 — earlier tags were assigned differently and are not comparable. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Salaries over time
Median Playwright salary per week, USD per month.
Median salary, USD per month
Only postings with a USD salary and a known period (month or year), $500–$50,000 per month. Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank — that means no data, not zero.
Remote work over time
Share of Playwright postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of Playwright postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 1,559 |
| Observed supply | 456 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution
One in ten earns under $3,250, one in ten over $14,304. Half the market falls between $4,055 and $10,208. Sample: 112.
The range histogram for Playwright postings uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| PL | 336 |
| US | 207 |
| IN | 166 |
| RU | 91 |
| GB | 45 |
| DE | 41 |
| CA | 36 |
| UA | 29 |
| BR | 20 |
| TH | 17 |
The top country for Playwright demand is Poland (336 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
Playwright most often appears next to TypeScript, Java and JavaScript. Selenium and Cypress among the neighbours — postings often list several frameworks at once.
Roles that use it
| role | jobs |
|---|---|
| QA | 934 |
| Fullstack | 205 |
| Frontend | 144 |
| DevOps | 66 |
| Backend | 34 |
| PM | 18 |
| Data | 17 |
| Platform Engineer | 13 |
| AI Engineer | 8 |
| Architect | 8 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 594 |
| middle | 176 |
| lead | 84 |
| principal | 47 |
| junior | 39 |
Senior-and-above is about 77% of 940 graded Playwright postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 923 employers. The largest accounts for 3.2%, the top ten for 11.3%; the remaining 88.6% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 3.2% |
| top-3 | 5.7% |
| top-10 | 11.3% |
| long tail | 88.6% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 104 sources; the largest accounts for 15.9% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Playwright postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings
- IT Analyst I (QA) · BR
- Software QA Engineer/Intern (AI-Powered) · UZ
- Lead Engineer
- Senior Front-end Developer (React / Vue / TypeScript) · BG
- Software Engineer (React.js, Python) · PL
- Frontend Engineer (m/f/d) · ES
- QA Automation Engineer (86/23) · PL · $5,025
- Senior QA Engineer · PL
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 7.
Data as of 2026-10-23
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Playwright market — short answers from the same data slice.
Playwright or Selenium — which should I learn?
For new projects — Playwright: the slice tracks 1 559 open positions with it, and the share is growing. Selenium remains in existing test suites, so experience with both widens the choice.
Which language should Playwright tests be written in?
Most often TypeScript, but Playwright also supports Python, Java and C# — the language usually matches the team's main codebase.
What else is asked of a Playwright automation engineer?
Page Object or another test architecture, stabilizing flaky tests, CI runs, API tests, visual comparisons and reporting.