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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 654 671
Rank change year-on-year +85 +17 -60
Contract jobs citing Play Framework 15 43 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.077% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.34% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 36 127
10th Percentile £365 £500 £382
25th Percentile - £587 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £475 - £638
90th Percentile £600 £642 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £595 £540
% change year-on-year -24.37% +10.19% +16.13%

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 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +100 12 £450 -25.00%
England +67 5 £350 -41.18% 3
London +73 4 £330 -45.23% 2
UK excluding London +21 1 £450 -24.37% 1
North of England +17 1 £450 -10.00%
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 (6.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 10 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (26.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
2 4 (26.67%) Redis
3 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Gatling
1 4 (26.67%) Git
1 4 (26.67%) Mockito
1 4 (26.67%) ScalaTest
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Developer
1 14 (93.33%) Scala Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Scala Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (100.00%) RESTful
2 14 (93.33%) Akka
3 5 (33.33%) Web Services
4 4 (26.67%) Hibernate
4 4 (26.67%) JPA
4 4 (26.67%) spray
4 4 (26.67%) Spring
4 4 (26.67%) Spring MVC
5 1 (6.67%) Node.js
5 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (26.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
1 4 (26.67%) Unix
2 1 (6.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Agile
2 14 (93.33%) Microservices
3 11 (73.33%) Clean Code
4 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 10 (66.67%) Functional Programming
4 10 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (33.33%) Design Patterns
5 5 (33.33%) Unit Testing
6 4 (26.67%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (26.67%) BDD
6 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (26.67%) Extreme Programming
6 4 (26.67%) High Availability
6 4 (26.67%) Kanban
6 4 (26.67%) MVC
6 4 (26.67%) Non-Functional Testing
6 4 (26.67%) Pair Programming
6 4 (26.67%) Scrum
6 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery
6 4 (26.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Scala
2 5 (33.33%) Java
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Grafana
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (26.67%) Prometheus