Play Framework Contract Job Trends in England

Play Framework
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Play Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 518 582
Rank change year-on-year +11 +64 +116
Contract jobs citing Play Framework 10 11 12
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.035% 0.034% 0.029%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.16% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 8
10th Percentile £430 £496 £498
25th Percentile £474 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% -12.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £654 £627 £716
90th Percentile £760 £744 £729
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% +12.15%

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 6,429 7,064 9,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.76% 22.13% 22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,307 4,510 6,736
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 148 196
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.53 £38.80
25th Percentile £42.50 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +14.14% -12.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.40 £73.83 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £51.97 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -20.05% +13.04% -11.54%

Play Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Play Framework relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Play Framework job vacancy trend in England

Play Framework
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Play Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Play Framework

Play Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Play Framework in England over the 6 months to 18 October 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 18 October 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
Midlands - 8 £517 - 4
West Midlands - 8 £517 - 2
London +20 2 £760 +4.83% 2
South East - 2 £605 -
Play Framework
UK

Play Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Apache
1 4 (40.00%) JBoss
1 4 (40.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) JUnit
2 4 (40.00%) Eclipse
2 4 (40.00%) Git
2 4 (40.00%) IntelliJ
2 4 (40.00%) Selenium
3 1 (10.00%) Mockito
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Front Office
4 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Scala Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Open Source Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Open Source Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Spring
2 4 (40.00%) EJB
2 4 (40.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (40.00%) HTML
2 4 (40.00%) HTML5
2 4 (40.00%) J2EE
2 4 (40.00%) J2SE
2 4 (40.00%) JSON
2 4 (40.00%) REST
2 4 (40.00%) SOAP
2 4 (40.00%) XML
3 1 (10.00%) Akka
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (90.00%) Agile
3 8 (80.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 8 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (80.00%) DevOps
4 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (60.00%) Microservices
6 4 (40.00%) Application Security
6 4 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (40.00%) Integration Testing
6 4 (40.00%) Lean Software Development
6 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (40.00%) Open Source
6 4 (40.00%) Scrum
6 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
6 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
7 3 (30.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Scala
2 5 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) webMethods
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks