JSP Contract Job Trends

JavaServer Pages (JSP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring JSP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 522 566
Rank change year-on-year -20 +44 +171
Contract jobs citing JSP 15 39 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.10% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% 0.46% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 29 56
10th Percentile £382 £423 £450
25th Percentile £402 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% -1.71% +11.43%
75th Percentile £586 £699 £625
90th Percentile £620 £699 £669
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £450 £562
% change year-on-year -10.67% -19.86% +1.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,340 8,544 11,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.62% 22.40% 22.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,878 5,592 8,032
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 186 178
10th Percentile £31.15 £25.60 £35.52
25th Percentile £41.25 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £52.50 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.77% +2.67% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £73.70
90th Percentile £70.40 £74.68 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £59.52
% change year-on-year -15.38% +9.22% -4.78%

JSP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JSP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JSP in the UK

JSP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

JSP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSP over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JSP in the UK

JSP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

JSP
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 September 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
England -2 11 £468 -23.67% 1
UK excluding London -4 6 £402 -10.67%
London +5 5 £520 -15.10% 1
North of England -15 5 £402 -21.56%
North West - 5 £402 -
Work from Home +20 4 £620 +1.22%
South East +21 1 - -

JSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (40.00%) Tomcat
2 4 (26.67%) JBoss
2 4 (26.67%) WebLogic
2 4 (26.67%) WebSphere
3 2 (13.33%) nginx
4 1 (6.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Apache
4 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (6.67%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Figma
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
2 1 (6.67%) MinIO
2 1 (6.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) DB2
2 2 (13.33%) MySQL
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (6.67%) Big Data
3 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (6.67%) GIS
3 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.67%) MariaDB
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Git
2 4 (26.67%) Ant
2 4 (26.67%) Bitbucket
2 4 (26.67%) Gradle
2 4 (26.67%) Maven
3 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (13.33%) Eclipse
4 2 (13.33%) JUnit
5 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (6.67%) IntelliJ
5 1 (6.67%) NUnit
5 1 (6.67%) ScalaTest
5 1 (6.67%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Lead
3 4 (26.67%) Scrum Master
4 3 (20.00%) Java Team Leader
4 3 (20.00%) Team Leader
4 3 (20.00%) Technical Leader
4 3 (20.00%) Technical Team Leader
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Applications Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Consultant
6 1 (6.67%) Java Web Developer
6 1 (6.67%) JSP Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Lead Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Oracle Applications Developer
6 1 (6.67%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (73.33%) Spring
2 9 (60.00%) HTML
3 8 (53.33%) Servlets
4 7 (46.67%) CSS
4 7 (46.67%) Spring Boot
5 6 (40.00%) EJB
5 6 (40.00%) J2EE
6 5 (33.33%) REST
6 5 (33.33%) Web Services
7 4 (26.67%) RAML
7 4 (26.67%) SOAP
7 4 (26.67%) WSDL
8 3 (20.00%) Java EE
8 3 (20.00%) Thymeleaf
9 2 (13.33%) Ajax
9 2 (13.33%) Hibernate
9 2 (13.33%) HTML5
9 2 (13.33%) JDBC
9 2 (13.33%) jQuery
9 2 (13.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Private Cloud
1 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) Scrum
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) SDLC
4 4 (26.67%) API Development
4 4 (26.67%) Backlog Management
4 4 (26.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 4 (26.67%) Budget Control
4 4 (26.67%) MVC
5 3 (20.00%) Conflict Resolution
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (20.00%) Servant Leadership
5 3 (20.00%) Situational Awareness
6 2 (13.33%) Integration Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Open Source
6 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (86.67%) JavaScript
3 9 (60.00%) SQL
4 4 (26.67%) TypeScript
5 3 (20.00%) Python
6 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
7 1 (6.67%) Bash
7 1 (6.67%) C#
7 1 (6.67%) Groovy
7 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Data Guard
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Adobe
3 1 (6.67%) IBM
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) VMware