JSP Contract Job Trends in Scotland

JavaServer Pages (JSP)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring JSP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 114 141
Rank change year-on-year -5 +27 +30
Contract jobs citing JSP 1 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.062% 0.17% 0.082%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.28% 0.80% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £387 £459
25th Percentile £431 £396 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £420 £471
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -10.88% -4.70%
75th Percentile £444 £434 £477
90th Percentile - £436 £479
UK median daily rate £504 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +11.94% -25.00% +5.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

JSP 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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 359 375 534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.37% 21.09% 21.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 237 364
10th Percentile £358 £354 £385
25th Percentile £418 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -0.52%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £569
90th Percentile £625 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £49.50
25th Percentile £52.50 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - - +43.34%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.47%

JSP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

JSP job vacancy trend in Scotland

JSP
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing JSP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing JSP

JSP
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing JSP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing JSP

JSP
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 November 2025. 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
Edinburgh - 1 £438 - 2
JSP
UK

JSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (100.00%) Apache TomEE
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Ant
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) JSTL
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Security
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Disclosure Scotland