Play Framework Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Play Framework
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 283 334 437
Rank change year-on-year +51 +103 +68
Contract jobs citing Play Framework 21 11 40
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.072% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.82% 0.30% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 35
10th Percentile £422 £425 £441
25th Percentile £431 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -25.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £850 £463 -
90th Percentile - £600 £602
UK median daily rate £550 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +22.22% -25.00% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Play Framework
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Play Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Play Framework trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Play Framework
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Play Framework.

Play Framework daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Play Framework
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Play Framework daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Play Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 13 (61.90%) Azure
2 10 (47.62%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (28.57%) GitHub
3 6 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (14.29%) AWS
4 3 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) MySQL
3 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Git
2 4 (19.05%) Appium
2 4 (19.05%) CircleCI
2 4 (19.05%) Gatling
2 4 (19.05%) GitLab
2 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 4 (19.05%) JMeter
2 4 (19.05%) NeoLoad
2 4 (19.05%) Selenium
2 4 (19.05%) SpecFlow
3 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 15 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Banking
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Front Office
2 6 (28.57%) Investment Banking
3 4 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (71.43%) Developer
2 11 (52.38%) Scala Developer
3 6 (28.57%) Lead
4 4 (19.05%) Developer in Test
4 4 (19.05%) Software Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Software Test Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Programmer
5 1 (4.76%) Scala Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Scala Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Software Programmer
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (52.38%) Akka
2 7 (33.33%) RESTful
3 4 (19.05%) Playwright
4 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.76%) Kafka
4 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Algorithms
1 6 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (19.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) Agile
2 18 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (80.95%) CI/CD
4 11 (52.38%) DevOps
5 10 (47.62%) SDLC
6 9 (42.86%) Code Quality
7 8 (38.10%) Functional Programming
8 7 (33.33%) Microservices
9 6 (28.57%) Analytics
9 6 (28.57%) API Integration
9 6 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (28.57%) Data Engineering
9 6 (28.57%) Data Science
9 6 (28.57%) DataOps
9 6 (28.57%) Kanban
9 6 (28.57%) Machine Learning
9 6 (28.57%) MLOps
9 6 (28.57%) ModelOps
9 6 (28.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) Scala
2 10 (47.62%) Python
3 6 (28.57%) SQL
4 4 (19.05%) C#
4 4 (19.05%) C++
4 4 (19.05%) Java
4 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
4 4 (19.05%) PHP
4 4 (19.05%) Ruby
4 4 (19.05%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Kibana
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Databricks
2 1 (4.76%) Typelevel