Play Framework Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Play Framework
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 241 - 154
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Play Framework 10 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.13% - 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.62% - 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 5
10th Percentile £411 - £439
25th Percentile £413 - £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £500
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile £551 - £578
England median daily rate £486 £850 £500
% change year-on-year -42.88% +70.00% -20.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,616 965 860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 21.09% 24.34% 21.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,033 692 584
10th Percentile £367 £341 £357
25th Percentile £420 £387 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -8.05% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £544 £600
90th Percentile £675 £625 £725
England median daily rate £530 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 6 14
10th Percentile £48.40 £28.00 £14.28
25th Percentile £62.50 £31.50 £28.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £53.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +32.08% +14.77% -
75th Percentile £73.00 £84.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £93.65 £69.18
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 of England

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

Play Framework job vacancy trend in the North of England

Play Framework
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Play Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Play Framework in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Play Framework in the North of England

Play Framework
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England 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
North East - 9 £425 - 5
Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 2
Play Framework
England

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

Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 8 (80.00%) GitHub
2 8 (80.00%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (70.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) Bitrise
4 1 (10.00%) Firebase
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) ScalaTest
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (90.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 7 (70.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Scala Developer
3 4 (40.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Scala Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Mobile Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Scala Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Scala Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) RESTful
3 2 (20.00%) Akka
4 1 (10.00%) JWT
4 1 (10.00%) OAuth
4 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (10.00%) OpenID
4 1 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Blog
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (90.00%) Agile
3 8 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (80.00%) Observability
3 8 (80.00%) TDD
4 7 (70.00%) Community of Practice
4 7 (70.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 7 (70.00%) Incident Response
4 7 (70.00%) Information Security
4 7 (70.00%) Kanban
4 7 (70.00%) Open Source
4 7 (70.00%) Scrum
4 7 (70.00%) User Research
4 7 (70.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 5 (50.00%) Clean Code
5 5 (50.00%) Microservices
6 3 (30.00%) API Development
6 3 (30.00%) Functional Programming
6 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Scala
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (10.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (20.00%) WCAG
3 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Grafana
1 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Splunk