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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 498 523
Rank change year-on-year -116 +25 +70
Contract jobs citing Servlets 4 9 18
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.009% 0.033% 0.051%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.047% 0.15% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 14
10th Percentile £422 £371 £480
25th Percentile £423 £380 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £402 £613
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -34.37% +8.84%
75th Percentile £475 £439 £699
90th Percentile - £486 -
UK median daily rate £382 £435 £613
% change year-on-year -12.19% -29.02% +6.52%

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 8,480 6,079 7,492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.86% 22.22% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,555 4,191 5,215
10th Percentile £363 £354 £357
25th Percentile £430 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £801
UK median daily rate £525 £507 £545
% change year-on-year +3.50% -6.93% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 138 240
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.25 £23.98
25th Percentile £50.88 £43.50 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% -1.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.30 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

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 24 July 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 -79 2 £450 -6.98%
Midlands - 1 £442 -
South West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £442 -
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 (75.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Ingres
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) Maven
3 2 (50.00%) IntelliJ
3 2 (50.00%) JProfiler
4 1 (25.00%) GoCD
4 1 (25.00%) Gradle
4 1 (25.00%) JUnit
4 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) React Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) JDBC
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
2 3 (75.00%) FreeMarker
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) JPA
2 3 (75.00%) JSF
2 3 (75.00%) Node.js
2 3 (75.00%) React
2 3 (75.00%) Redux
2 3 (75.00%) REST
2 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) Jakarta EE
3 2 (50.00%) JSP
3 2 (50.00%) Sass
3 2 (50.00%) Spring MVC
4 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (50.00%) MVC
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Web Accessibility
4 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Kanban
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Actian
2 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft