JSF Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

JavaServer Faces (JSF)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JSF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 346 -
Rank change year-on-year -93 - -
Contract jobs citing JSF 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.008% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.15% 0.041% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £414 - -
25th Percentile £416 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 - -
75th Percentile £494 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £450 - £380
% change year-on-year - - -10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

JSF 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,013 2,453 3,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.85% 18.65% 15.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,653 1,695 2,188
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £568 £602
90th Percentile £675 £638 £689
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 91 223
10th Percentile £37.55 £33.91 £22.75
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72.25 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.93 £81.01 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
% change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%

JSF
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

JSF job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

JSF
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JSF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JSF

JSF
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JSF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JSF

JSF
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSF within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
North of England - 4 £456 -
North East - 2 £451 -
North West - 2 £456 -
Scotland - 2 - - 5
JSF
UK

JSF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (33.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GoCD
2 1 (16.67%) Gradle
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JProfiler
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Junior
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Spring
2 4 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 4 (66.67%) Struts
2 4 (66.67%) Swagger
3 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (33.33%) Apache Commons
4 2 (33.33%) Guava
4 2 (33.33%) OpenAPI
5 1 (16.67%) FreeMarker
5 1 (16.67%) Jest
5 1 (16.67%) Node.js
5 1 (16.67%) React
5 1 (16.67%) REST
5 1 (16.67%) RESTful
5 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (33.33%) API Development
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) MuleSoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle