Play Framework Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Play Framework
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Play Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Play Framework 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.29% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £430 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 - -
75th Percentile £604 - -
90th Percentile £605 - -
England median daily rate £605 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +9.91% -12.00% +25.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 588 477 473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 21.11% 17.83% 16.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 291 355
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £673 £725 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 2 5
10th Percentile £25.56 £19.33 £17.28
25th Percentile £30.56 £26.94 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £42.25 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.34% -0.59% +116.12%
75th Percentile - £59.94 £56.00
90th Percentile - £68.98 £61.40
England median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £56.06
% change year-on-year -16.92% +15.95% -13.75%

Play Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Play Framework job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Play Framework
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Play Framework

Play Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Play Framework in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Play Framework in the Midlands

Play Framework
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
West Midlands - 8 £517 - 2
Play Framework
England

Play Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 4 (50.00%) JBoss
1 4 (50.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) IntelliJ
1 4 (50.00%) JUnit
1 4 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Scala Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Open Source Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Open Source Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) EJB
1 4 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (50.00%) HTML
1 4 (50.00%) HTML5
1 4 (50.00%) J2EE
1 4 (50.00%) J2SE
1 4 (50.00%) JSON
1 4 (50.00%) REST
1 4 (50.00%) SOAP
1 4 (50.00%) Spring
1 4 (50.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 8 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
3 6 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 6 (75.00%) Microservices
3 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) Application Security
4 4 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (50.00%) Integration Testing
4 4 (50.00%) Lean Software Development
4 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (50.00%) Open Source
4 4 (50.00%) Scrum
4 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Scala
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) webMethods