Content Repository API for Java (JCR) (JSR 170)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for JSR 170 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JSR 170 over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 703 833
Rank change year-on-year +126 +130 -159
Contract jobs citing JSR 170 5 9 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.015% 0.025%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.056% 0.064% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 17
10th Percentile £378 - £480
25th Percentile £383 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -33.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £433 - -
90th Percentile £434 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.81
Median hourly rate - - £63.62
75th Percentile - - £65.42
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £63.62

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

JSR 170 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 8,945 14,054 24,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.36% 27.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,227 10,256 17,811
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 £656
90th Percentile £765 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +15.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 154 245
10th Percentile £20.77 £30.23 £21.40
25th Percentile £37.63 £46.56 £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 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.78 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%

JSR 170
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JSR 170 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JSR 170 in the UK

JSR 170
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JSR 170.

Daily rate trend for JSR 170 in the UK

JSR 170
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSR 170 within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
England +122 4 £410 +2.50%
London +101 4 £410 +2.50%
Work from Home +117 1 - -

JSR 170
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (20.00%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Jackrabbit
General
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) OSGi
2 4 (80.00%) Apache Felix
2 4 (80.00%) Apache Sling
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (20.00%) B2B
2 1 (20.00%) Content Management
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Content Management
2 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft