Play Framework Contracts with Work from Home Options

Play Framework
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 429 499
Rank change year-on-year +96 +70 -82
Contract jobs citing Play Framework 10 37 130
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.068% 0.15% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.28% 0.60% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 32 87
10th Percentile £413 £500 £458
25th Percentile - £585 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% -0.63%
75th Percentile - - £675
90th Percentile £488 £603 £813
UK median daily rate £450 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% +2.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,634 6,192 13,030
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.57% 25.16% 29.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,549 4,620 9,615
10th Percentile £342 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.24%
75th Percentile £650 £657 £648
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 75 122
10th Percentile £24.23 £22.35 £21.10
25th Percentile - £41.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £60.00 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% +20.30% +10.83%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.15 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

Play Framework
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Play Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Play Framework trend for jobs with a WFH option

Play Framework
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Play Framework over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

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 1 (10.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) MongoDB
1 8 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Gatling
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Mockito
1 1 (10.00%) ScalaTest
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
1 9 (90.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Scala Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) RESTful
2 9 (90.00%) Akka
3 2 (20.00%) Web Services
4 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (10.00%) JPA
4 1 (10.00%) Node.js
4 1 (10.00%) React
4 1 (10.00%) spray
4 1 (10.00%) Spring
4 1 (10.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Blockchain
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (90.00%) Clean Code
2 9 (90.00%) Microservices
3 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (80.00%) Functional Programming
3 8 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (10.00%) Extreme Programming
5 1 (10.00%) Kanban
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) MVC
5 1 (10.00%) Pair Programming
5 1 (10.00%) Release Management
5 1 (10.00%) Scrum
5 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) SOA
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Scala
2 2 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Prometheus