Servlets Contract Job Trends in England

Java Servlet
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Servlets skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 637 505 506
Rank change year-on-year -132 +1 +65
Contract jobs citing Servlets 3 9 17
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.007% 0.032% 0.051%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.030% 0.13% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 14
10th Percentile - £371 £480
25th Percentile £425 £380 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £402 £613
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -34.37% +6.52%
75th Percentile £475 £439 £699
90th Percentile - £486 -
UK median daily rate £322 £435 £613
% change year-on-year -25.93% -29.02% +2.08%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Servlets 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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,865 6,895 8,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.49% 24.86% 24.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,497 4,739 5,609
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 166 193
10th Percentile £30.10 £31.25 £25.72
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.94 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +18.32% -10.82% -5.23%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £76.85 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.43
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.10% -2.49%

Servlets
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Servlets relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Servlets job vacancy trend in England

Servlets
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Servlets.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Servlets

Servlets
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Servlets.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Servlets

Servlets
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Servlets within the England region over the 6 months to 23 August 2026. 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
London -90 2 £450 -6.98%
South West - 1 - -
Servlets
UK

Servlets
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
2 2 (66.67%) IntelliJ
2 2 (66.67%) JProfiler
3 1 (33.33%) GoCD
3 1 (33.33%) Gradle
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (66.67%) React Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) FreeMarker
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
1 3 (100.00%) JDBC
1 3 (100.00%) JPA
1 3 (100.00%) JSF
1 3 (100.00%) Node.js
1 3 (100.00%) React
1 3 (100.00%) Redux
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) Jakarta EE
2 2 (66.67%) Sass
2 2 (66.67%) Spring MVC
3 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) Web Accessibility
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle