Play Framework Contract Job Trends in the North East

Play Framework
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Play Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Play Framework 9 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.08% - 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.95% - 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 2
10th Percentile £410 - £475
25th Percentile £413 - £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £545
75th Percentile £438 - £593
90th Percentile £463 - £615
England median daily rate £486 £850 £500
% change year-on-year -42.88% +70.00% -20.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 228 63 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 27.34% 22.91% 21.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 50 22
10th Percentile £360 £338 £326
25th Percentile £400 £416 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +12.94% -29.17%
75th Percentile £538 £544 £547
90th Percentile £649 £575 £630
England median daily rate £530 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 1 5
10th Percentile £61.25 - £34.37
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -22.04% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £54.35 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.20% -13.04% -

Play Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Play Framework job vacancy trend in the North East

Play Framework
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

Play Framework
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 9 September 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear - 9 £425 - 5
Play Framework
England

Play Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
1 8 (88.89%) GitHub
1 8 (88.89%) GitHub Actions
2 7 (77.78%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) Bitrise
3 1 (11.11%) Firebase
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) ScalaTest
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (88.89%) Public Sector
2 7 (77.78%) Finance
2 7 (77.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Scala Developer
3 4 (44.44%) Software Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Scala Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Mobile Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Scala Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Scala Software Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Akka
2 2 (22.22%) RESTful
3 1 (11.11%) JWT
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
3 1 (11.11%) OpenID
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Blog
2 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Android
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 8 (88.89%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (88.89%) Observability
2 8 (88.89%) TDD
3 7 (77.78%) Community of Practice
3 7 (77.78%) Continuous Deployment
3 7 (77.78%) Incident Response
3 7 (77.78%) Information Security
3 7 (77.78%) Kanban
3 7 (77.78%) Open Source
3 7 (77.78%) Scrum
3 7 (77.78%) User Research
3 7 (77.78%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 5 (55.56%) Clean Code
5 4 (44.44%) Microservices
6 3 (33.33%) API Development
6 3 (33.33%) Functional Programming
6 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
7 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Scala
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
2 1 (11.11%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) Accessibility
2 2 (22.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Grafana
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Splunk