Play Framework Contracts in England

Play Framework
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Play Framework skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Play Framework over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 537 620
Rank change year-on-year +74 +83 +53
Contract jobs citing Play Framework 22 5 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.090% 0.013% 0.065%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.40% 0.067% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 3 23
10th Percentile £400 £314 £503
25th Percentile £431 £328 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £350 £595
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -41.18% +8.18%
75th Percentile £850 £413 £606
90th Percentile - £450 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +22.22% -25.00% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Play Framework 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Play Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Play Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Play Framework in England

Play Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Play Framework in England.

Daily rate trend for Play Framework in England

Play Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Play Framework in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Play Framework in England

Play Framework
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Play Framework within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +48 14 £620 +87.88% 10
North of England +23 5 £525 +16.67%
Yorkshire - 3 £400 -
Midlands - 3 £475 - 2
North East - 2 £550 -
West Midlands - 2 £475 - 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Play Framework
UK

Play Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) Azure
1 10 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (31.82%) GitHub
3 6 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (13.64%) AWS
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (4.55%) Route 53
5 1 (4.55%) Sentry
5 1 (4.55%) Serverless
5 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Kerberos
1 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.55%) Cloudera CDH
2 1 (4.55%) DocumentDB
2 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 4 (18.18%) Appium
2 4 (18.18%) CircleCI
2 4 (18.18%) Gatling
2 4 (18.18%) GitLab
2 4 (18.18%) JMeter
2 4 (18.18%) NeoLoad
2 4 (18.18%) Selenium
2 4 (18.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 17 (77.27%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Banking
3 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Finance
3 6 (27.27%) Front Office
3 6 (27.27%) Investment Banking
4 5 (22.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (68.18%) Developer
2 11 (50.00%) Scala Developer
3 6 (27.27%) Lead
4 4 (18.18%) Developer in Test
4 4 (18.18%) Software Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Software Test Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Test Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Scala Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Administrator
7 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Cloud Administrator
7 1 (4.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Programmer
7 1 (4.55%) Scala Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Scala Software Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) Akka
2 4 (18.18%) Playwright
3 3 (13.64%) Web Services
4 2 (9.09%) React
4 2 (9.09%) RESTful
5 1 (4.55%) CSS
5 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.55%) HTML
5 1 (4.55%) JSON
5 1 (4.55%) REST
5 1 (4.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Algorithms
1 6 (27.27%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (22.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 15 (68.18%) Agile
4 11 (50.00%) DevOps
5 7 (31.82%) Machine Learning
6 6 (27.27%) Analytics
6 6 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (27.27%) Code Quality
6 6 (27.27%) Data Engineering
6 6 (27.27%) Data Science
6 6 (27.27%) DataOps
6 6 (27.27%) Generative AI
6 6 (27.27%) LLM
6 6 (27.27%) MLOps
6 6 (27.27%) ModelOps
6 6 (27.27%) SDLC
7 5 (22.73%) API Development
7 5 (22.73%) Decision-Making
7 5 (22.73%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 20 (90.91%) Scala
2 11 (50.00%) Python
3 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 6 (27.27%) TypeScript
4 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
5 4 (18.18%) C#
5 4 (18.18%) C++
5 4 (18.18%) Java
5 4 (18.18%) PHP
5 4 (18.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) PERC
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Kibana
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Databricks
2 1 (4.55%) Cloudera