JSF Contract Job Trends

JavaServer Faces (JSF)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs 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 634 523 597
Rank change year-on-year -111 +74 +90
Contract jobs citing JSF 9 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.003% 0.005%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.092% 0.015% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £416 - -
25th Percentile £421 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £380
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.59%
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile £494 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,740 6,702 9,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.61% 22.89% 21.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,401 4,576 6,307
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 121 262
10th Percentile £32.50 £29.25 £22.05
25th Percentile £52.50 £41.60 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.75 £67.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.35 £74.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%

JSF
Job Vacancy Trend

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

JSF job vacancy trend in the UK

JSF
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

JSF
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

JSF
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

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 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
England -121 7 £450 -
UK excluding London -93 6 £456 - 5
North of England - 4 £456 -
Work from Home - 3 £478 - 1
Scotland - 2 - - 5
London - 2 £450 -
North East - 2 £451 -
North West - 2 £456 -

JSF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) Anypoint
2 1 (11.11%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) GoCD
2 2 (22.22%) Gradle
2 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) JProfiler
2 2 (22.22%) Maven
3 1 (11.11%) IntelliJ
3 1 (11.11%) JUnit
3 1 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 6 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Java Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Junior
4 1 (11.11%) Junior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
4 1 (11.11%) React Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) Spring
2 5 (55.56%) Hibernate
2 5 (55.56%) Spring Boot
2 5 (55.56%) Struts
2 5 (55.56%) Swagger
3 3 (33.33%) Apache Commons
3 3 (33.33%) Guava
3 3 (33.33%) REST
4 2 (22.22%) FreeMarker
4 2 (22.22%) Node.js
4 2 (22.22%) OpenAPI
4 2 (22.22%) React
5 1 (11.11%) HTML5
5 1 (11.11%) Java EE
5 1 (11.11%) JPA
5 1 (11.11%) JSON
5 1 (11.11%) Redux
5 1 (11.11%) RESTful
5 1 (11.11%) Sass
5 1 (11.11%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Microservices
2 7 (77.78%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (66.67%) Agile
4 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 4 (44.44%) TDD
4 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
5 3 (33.33%) API Development
5 3 (33.33%) Scrum
6 2 (22.22%) Clean Code
6 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (22.22%) Integration Patterns
6 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Web Accessibility
7 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Engineering
7 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) MuleSoft
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle