JSR 170 Contract Job Trends in London

Content Repository API for Java (JCR) (JSR 170)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring JSR 170 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 - 394
Rank change year-on-year - - +130
Contract jobs citing JSR 170 3 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.020% - 0.022%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.076% - 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £378
25th Percentile - - £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 - £410
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.50%
75th Percentile - - £433
90th Percentile - - £434
England median daily rate £565 - £410
% change year-on-year - - +2.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

JSR 170 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,942 3,554 4,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.05% 26.31% 24.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,658 2,336 3,424
10th Percentile £363 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £664 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 21 29
10th Percentile £27.75 £35.00 £28.18
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.50 £35.63
Median hourly rate £47.00 £52.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +10.53% -26.92%
75th Percentile £63.00 £65.00 £66.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £73.92
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

JSR 170
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JSR 170 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

JSR 170 job vacancy trend in London

JSR 170
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JSR 170.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JSR 170

JSR 170
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (100.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) WebDriver
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) TestNG
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Gherkin
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) API Testing
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) B2B
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Adobe