Play Framework Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Play Framework
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 375 358 420
Rank change year-on-year -17 +62 +37
Contract jobs citing Play Framework 8 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.050% 0.047% 0.009%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.26% 0.27% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 2
10th Percentile £429 £484 £514
25th Percentile £430 - £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -14.89% +17.50%
75th Percentile £604 £550 £659
90th Percentile £605 £582 £691
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% +12.15%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,090 2,974 3,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.29% 17.35% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,025 1,801 2,741
10th Percentile £318 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 127 153
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.50 £45.88
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +17.12% -14.62%
75th Percentile £66.50 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £70.60 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £51.97 £65.00 £56.40
% change year-on-year -20.05% +15.25% -13.23%

Play Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Play Framework job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Play Framework
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Play Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Play Framework

Play Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Play Framework in the UK excluding London

Play Framework
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
Midlands - 8 £517 - 4
West Midlands - 8 £517 - 2
South East - 2 £605 - 1
Play Framework
UK

Play Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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