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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 488 538
Rank change year-on-year -68 +50 +91
Contract jobs citing Servlets 2 1 18
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.006% 0.004% 0.048%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.027% 0.017% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 10
10th Percentile £427 - £542
25th Percentile £437 - £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £175 £663
Median % change year-on-year +176.14% -73.58% +8.61%
75th Percentile £537 - £697
90th Percentile £552 - £758
UK median daily rate £483 £175 £572
% change year-on-year +176.14% -69.38% -5.54%

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 7,296 5,937 7,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.09% 22.34% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,887 3,773 5,640
10th Percentile £357 £363 £356
25th Percentile £415 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £660
90th Percentile £738 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 77 183
10th Percentile £34.60 £26.25 £25.96
25th Percentile £46.25 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £75.80 £77.31
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

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 30 January 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 -27 1 £525 +200.00%
Midlands - 1 £442 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £442 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Ingres
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) gulp
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (50.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (50.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Ajax
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) JDBC
1 1 (50.00%) JSP
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OSGi
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
2 1 (50.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Model Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Actian
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle