Play Framework Contract Job Trends in the South West

Play Framework
England > South West

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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Play Framework 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.034% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 - -
England median daily rate £440 £525 £350
% change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% -41.18%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 429 347 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.80% 20.02% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 217 329
10th Percentile £350 £363 £313
25th Percentile £409 £461 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £586 £650 £675
90th Percentile £706 £735 £707
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 26 56
10th Percentile £61.25 - £43.75
25th Percentile £62.75 £61.25 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile - £66.88 £55.66
90th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

Play Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Play Framework job vacancy trend in the South West

Play Framework
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Play Framework
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 6 March 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
Bristol - 1 £582 -
Play Framework
England

Play Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Scala Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform