Play Framework Contract Job Trends

Play Framework
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs 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 545 544 618
Rank change year-on-year -1 +74 +67
Contract jobs citing Play Framework 15 18 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.045% 0.048% 0.048%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% 0.22% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 17
10th Percentile £429 £450 £498
25th Percentile £440 £458 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% +12.15%
75th Percentile £605 £605 -
90th Percentile £670 £684 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £517 £500 £588
% change year-on-year +3.40% -14.89% +17.50%

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 7,605 8,247 10,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.94% 22.08% 22.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,001 5,229 7,787
10th Percentile £350 £350 £374
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £670
90th Percentile £725 £788 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 158 203
10th Percentile £30.08 £25.30 £36.74
25th Percentile £41.25 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £51.97 £65.00 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year -20.05% +15.25% -13.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.10 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +17.12% -14.62%

Play Framework
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Play Framework job vacancy trend in the UK

Play Framework
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Play Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Play Framework in the UK

Play Framework
Top 7 Contract Job 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 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
England +11 10 £605 +9.91% 11
Work from Home +9 8 £575 +15.00% 11
UK excluding London -17 8 £517 +3.40% 9
Midlands - 8 £517 - 4
West Midlands - 8 £517 - 2
London +21 2 £760 +4.83% 3
South East - 2 £605 - 1

Play Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (33.33%) Apache
1 5 (33.33%) JBoss
1 5 (33.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Git
1 6 (40.00%) JUnit
2 5 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 5 (33.33%) IntelliJ
2 5 (33.33%) Selenium
3 1 (6.67%) Mockito
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Front Office
4 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Scala Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (13.33%) Scala Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Open Source Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Open Source Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) REST
2 6 (40.00%) JSON
2 6 (40.00%) Spring
3 5 (33.33%) EJB
3 5 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 5 (33.33%) HTML
3 5 (33.33%) HTML5
3 5 (33.33%) J2EE
3 5 (33.33%) J2SE
3 5 (33.33%) SOAP
3 5 (33.33%) XML
4 1 (6.67%) Akka
4 1 (6.67%) RESTful
4 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Agile
2 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
3 10 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (66.67%) DevOps
4 9 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 8 (53.33%) Microservices
5 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (46.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (46.67%) Scrum
7 6 (40.00%) Unit Testing
8 5 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (33.33%) Lean Software Development
8 5 (33.33%) Mentoring
8 5 (33.33%) Open Source
9 4 (26.67%) Application Security
9 4 (26.67%) Integration Testing
9 4 (26.67%) Sprint Planning
9 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Scala
2 6 (40.00%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) webMethods
2 1 (6.67%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) Typelevel