Play Framework Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Play Framework
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 69 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Play Framework 9 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 1.26% - 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.27% - 5.71%
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
North East median daily rate £425 - £545

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 211 57 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 29.43% 26.27% 20.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 49 18
10th Percentile £360 £338 £339
25th Percentile £400 £413 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £480 £460
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +4.35% -23.33%
75th Percentile £520 £525 £575
90th Percentile £605 £575 £644
North East median daily rate £450 £480 £425
% change year-on-year -6.25% +12.94% -29.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 1 0
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £64.38 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +94.44% -22.04% -

Play Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Play Framework job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Play Framework
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Play Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Play Framework

Play Framework
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 9 £425 - 5
Play Framework
North East

Play Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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