JSP Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

JavaServer Pages (JSP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 389 355 385
Rank change year-on-year -34 +30 +105
Contract jobs citing JSP 3 9 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% 0.054% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.091% 0.31% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 14
10th Percentile £443 £399 £450
25th Percentile £461 £411 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.72% -25.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £523 - £625
90th Percentile £539 £460 £643
UK median daily rate £504 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +11.94% -25.00% +5.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,279 2,873 3,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.94% 17.27% 17.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,167 1,759 2,609
10th Percentile £325 £331 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £653 £685 £678
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 85 145
10th Percentile £31.25 £22.00 £45.11
25th Percentile £43.00 £40.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +19.13% -16.06%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.40 £73.90 £77.50
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 the UK excluding London

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

JSP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

JSP
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

JSP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JSP in the UK excluding London

JSP
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

JSP
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 JSP within the UK excluding London 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
South East -2 1 - - 1
Scotland -5 1 £438 +4.17% 2
North of England -35 1 £550 +22.22%
North West - 1 £550 -
JSP
UK

JSP
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 1 (33.33%) Apache TomEE
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (66.67%) Ant
2 2 (66.67%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) Gradle
3 1 (33.33%) IntelliJ
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) NUnit
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) HTML CSS Developer
2 1 (33.33%) HTML Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Web Developer
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (33.33%) JSP Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Ajax
1 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) JDBC
1 2 (66.67%) JSTL
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) EJB
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
2 1 (33.33%) JavaBeans
2 1 (33.33%) JMS
2 1 (33.33%) Servlets
2 1 (33.33%) Struts
2 1 (33.33%) Swing
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) WinForms
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Application Security
1 1 (33.33%) Build Automation
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) OOD
1 1 (33.33%) Open Source
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle