Play Framework Contracts

Play Framework
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Play Framework skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Play Framework over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 659 660
Rank change year-on-year +75 +1 -86
Contract jobs citing Play Framework 14 60 191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.10% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.43% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 48 144
10th Percentile £358 £448 £450
25th Percentile £444 £522 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% +2.09%
75th Percentile £506 - £669
90th Percentile £600 £647 £709
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £595 £540
% change year-on-year -24.37% +10.19% +10.20%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Play Framework is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

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 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Play Framework in the UK

Play Framework
Top 6 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 27 April 2024. 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
Work from Home +102 11 £450 -25.00% 3
England +100 5 £350 -41.18% 3
London +92 4 £330 -50.28% 1
UK excluding London +49 1 £450 -24.37% 1
North of England +32 1 £450 -18.18%
North West - 1 £450 -

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 7 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (28.57%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 4 (28.57%) Redis
3 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Gatling
1 4 (28.57%) Git
1 4 (28.57%) Mockito
1 4 (28.57%) ScalaTest
General
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (92.86%) Developer
1 13 (92.86%) Scala Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Scala Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (85.71%) RESTful
2 11 (78.57%) Akka
3 5 (35.71%) Web Services
4 4 (28.57%) Hibernate
4 4 (28.57%) JPA
4 4 (28.57%) spray
4 4 (28.57%) Spring
4 4 (28.57%) Spring MVC
5 1 (7.14%) Node.js
5 1 (7.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (28.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
1 4 (28.57%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Agile
2 13 (92.86%) Microservices
3 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
3 9 (64.29%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (57.14%) Clean Code
5 7 (50.00%) Functional Programming
5 7 (50.00%) Unit Testing
6 6 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (42.86%) Pair Programming
6 6 (42.86%) TDD
7 5 (35.71%) Design Patterns
7 5 (35.71%) Service Delivery
8 4 (28.57%) Architectural Design
8 4 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
8 4 (28.57%) Extreme Programming
8 4 (28.57%) Kanban
8 4 (28.57%) MVC
8 4 (28.57%) Release Management
8 4 (28.57%) Scrum
8 4 (28.57%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Scala
2 5 (35.71%) Java
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Grafana
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 4 (28.57%) Prometheus