Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

playwright

159 live US technical postings name playwright in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 159 postings naming playwright that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer73.6%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer11.3%
  3. 3Frontend Engineer7.5%
  4. 4Backend Engineer3.1%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer2.5%
  6. 6AI Engineer1.3%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where playwright is named
n = 96
10th
$133k
25th
$155k
Median
$180k
75th
$205k
90th
$229k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1New York, NY20.1%
  2. 2Remote13.8%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA9.4%
  4. 4San Francisco, CA8.8%
  5. 5Boston, MA4.4%
  6. 6Dallas, TX2.5%
  7. 7Washington, DC2.5%
  8. 8Chicago, IL1.9%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.