Servlets Contract Job Trends in London

Java Servlet
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Servlets skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 356 375
Rank change year-on-year -90 +19 +61
Contract jobs citing Servlets 3 3 15
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.015% 0.023% 0.094%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.057% 0.078% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 13
10th Percentile £345 £463 £481
25th Percentile £375 £469 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £484 £613
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -21.02% +6.52%
75th Percentile £475 £494 £699
90th Percentile - £498 -
England median daily rate £368 £402 £613
% change year-on-year -8.46% -34.37% +6.52%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,275 3,870 4,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.29% 29.29% 30.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,520 2,683 3,447
10th Percentile £400 £369 £384
25th Percentile £455 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £659 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £825 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 20
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £33.54
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +15.49% -32.84%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.50
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +24.94% -14.19% +0.28%

Servlets
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Servlets job vacancy trend in London

Servlets
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Servlets

Servlets
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Servlets

Servlets
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Servlets within the London region over the 6 months to 4 September 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
Central London - 1 £350 - 1
Servlets
England

Servlets
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Asterisk PBX
1 1 (33.33%) RTCP
1 1 (33.33%) RTP
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
1 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) IntelliJ
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JProfiler
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
1 2 (66.67%) React Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Engineering Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) FreeMarker
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) HTML5
1 2 (66.67%) Jakarta EE
1 2 (66.67%) JDBC
1 2 (66.67%) JPA
1 2 (66.67%) JSF
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) Redux
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) Sass
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
1 2 (66.67%) Spring MVC
2 1 (33.33%) FreeSWITCH
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Web Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Conversational AI
2 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 1 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Metaswitch
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle