Play Framework Contracts

Play Framework
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Play Framework skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Play Framework over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 568 658
Rank change year-on-year +76 +90 +12
Contract jobs citing Play Framework 28 14 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.096% 0.032% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.42% 0.16% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 48
10th Percentile £406 £358 £448
25th Percentile £431 £444 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -25.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £736 £456 -
90th Percentile £850 £588 £647
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £595
% change year-on-year +11.11% -24.37% +10.19%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Play Framework
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Play Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Play Framework in the UK

Play Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Play Framework.

Daily rate trend for Play Framework in the UK

Play Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Play Framework over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Play Framework in the UK

Play Framework
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +74 22 £550 +57.14% 11
Work from Home +51 21 £563 +25.00% 8
London +48 14 £620 +87.88% 8
UK excluding London +70 8 £500 +11.11% 5
North of England +23 5 £525 +16.67%
Midlands - 3 £475 - 2
Yorkshire - 3 £400 -
North East - 2 £550 -
West Midlands - 2 £475 - 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 1

Play Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) Azure
2 10 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (25.00%) GitHub
4 6 (21.43%) AWS
4 6 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (10.71%) GCP
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (3.57%) Route 53
6 1 (3.57%) Sentry
6 1 (3.57%) Serverless
6 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) HTTP
1 1 (3.57%) Kerberos
1 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.57%) Cloudera CDH
3 1 (3.57%) DocumentDB
3 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.57%) MySQL
3 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Git
2 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
3 4 (14.29%) Appium
3 4 (14.29%) CircleCI
3 4 (14.29%) Gatling
3 4 (14.29%) GitLab
3 4 (14.29%) JMeter
3 4 (14.29%) NeoLoad
3 4 (14.29%) Selenium
3 4 (14.29%) SpecFlow
4 2 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 17 (60.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Banking
3 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Finance
3 6 (21.43%) Front Office
3 6 (21.43%) Investment Banking
4 5 (17.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (75.00%) Developer
2 17 (60.71%) Scala Developer
3 6 (21.43%) Lead
4 4 (14.29%) Developer in Test
4 4 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Software Test Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Test Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Scala Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Administrator
7 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Cloud Administrator
7 1 (3.57%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Programmer
7 1 (3.57%) Scala Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Scala Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (57.14%) Akka
2 8 (28.57%) RESTful
3 4 (14.29%) Playwright
4 3 (10.71%) Web Services
5 2 (7.14%) React
6 1 (3.57%) CSS
6 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (3.57%) GraphQL
6 1 (3.57%) HTML
6 1 (3.57%) JSON
6 1 (3.57%) Kafka
6 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (3.57%) REST
6 1 (3.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Algorithms
1 6 (21.43%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (17.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (71.43%) Agile
3 19 (67.86%) CI/CD
4 12 (42.86%) DevOps
5 11 (39.29%) Code Quality
6 10 (35.71%) SDLC
7 9 (32.14%) Functional Programming
8 8 (28.57%) Microservices
9 7 (25.00%) API Integration
9 7 (25.00%) Clean Code
9 7 (25.00%) Machine Learning
10 6 (21.43%) Analytics
10 6 (21.43%) API Development
10 6 (21.43%) Data Engineering
10 6 (21.43%) Data Science
10 6 (21.43%) DataOps
10 6 (21.43%) Generative AI
10 6 (21.43%) LLM
10 6 (21.43%) MLOps
10 6 (21.43%) ModelOps
Programming Languages
1 23 (82.14%) Scala
2 11 (39.29%) Python
3 6 (21.43%) SQL
3 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
4 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
5 4 (14.29%) C#
5 4 (14.29%) C++
5 4 (14.29%) Java
5 4 (14.29%) PHP
5 4 (14.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) PERC
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Kibana
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Ranger
2 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Databricks
2 1 (3.57%) Cloudera
2 1 (3.57%) Typelevel