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 1 389 open positions listing Playwright, 1 304 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. 45% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of Playwright demand.
The Playwright market currently has 1,389 open roles, 1,304 of them freshly observed. Median salary $5,525/mo. Observed candidate pool — 450.
45% of Playwright postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the work format.
⚠ salary known for 86 of 1389 jobs; remote share from 1099 with a stated format; 1304 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 1,389 |
| Observed supply | 450 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution
One in ten earns under $2,649, one in ten over $15,416. Half the market falls between $3,953 and $10,208. Sample: 86.
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 | 300 |
| US | 180 |
| IN | 143 |
| RU | 75 |
| GB | 41 |
| DE | 39 |
| CA | 37 |
| UA | 27 |
| BR | 19 |
| TH | 15 |
The top country for Playwright demand is Poland (300 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 | 845 |
| Fullstack | 177 |
| Frontend | 123 |
| DevOps | 59 |
| Backend | 30 |
| Data | 17 |
| Platform Engineer | 13 |
| PM | 13 |
| Architect | 8 |
| Analyst | 6 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 524 |
| middle | 144 |
| lead | 74 |
| principal | 41 |
| junior | 30 |
Senior-and-above is about 79% of 813 graded Playwright postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 807 employers. The largest accounts for 3.7%, the top ten for 12.9%; the remaining 87.1% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 3.7% |
| top-3 | 6.5% |
| top-10 | 12.9% |
| long tail | 87.1% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 98 sources; the largest accounts for 16.7% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Playwright postings arrive mostly from job boards & aggregators and ATS & career sites.
Recent openings
- Associate Director, Solutions Delivery (Test Management) · HK
- QA Engineer (m/w/d) Embedded Systems & Test Automation · DE
- QA Automation Engineer (Consulting services) · PL
- Platform Engineer III · US · $16,042
- Test Engineer in Payment Channels Team | SEB, Vilnius · LT · $5,054
- Senior Frontend Engineer · RO
- Senior QA Automation Engineer · KE
- Software Developer · CA · $8,315
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 2026-10-20
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 1 389 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.