JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for JSTL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JSTL over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 716 832
Rank change year-on-year +127 +116 -151
Contract jobs citing JSTL 2 2 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.003% 0.025%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.023% 0.015% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 17
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +26.32% +2.70%
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £600 £525
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +23.53%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

JSTL 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 8,883 13,752 24,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.59% 23.25% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 10,030 17,634
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 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 153 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +31.31% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%

JSTL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JSTL in the UK

JSTL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JSTL in the UK

JSTL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JSTL.

Hourly rate trend for JSTL in the UK

JSTL
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 JSTL within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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
UK excluding London +67 2 - -
Scotland +41 2 - -
Work from Home +129 1 - -

JSTL
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 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
1 2 (100.00%) JBoss
1 2 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (100.00%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Full Stack Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Java EE
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
1 2 (100.00%) JSP
1 2 (100.00%) Servlets
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) STL
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) OpenJDK
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) AIX
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Case Management
1 2 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) VMware