JSP Contract Job Trends

JavaServer Pages (JSP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring JSP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 515 525
Rank change year-on-year -91 +10 +140
Contract jobs citing JSP 21 12 57
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.045% 0.041% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.22% 0.18% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 39
10th Percentile £431 £402 £475
25th Percentile £445 £451 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +5.45%
75th Percentile £913 £620 £699
90th Percentile - £688 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £402 £463
% change year-on-year +9.33% -13.08% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.90 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £21.90 -

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 9,420 6,684 8,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.20% 22.65% 20.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,262 4,580 6,229
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £780 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 110 213
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.09 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.27 £37.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.06 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -25.78%

JSP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

JSP job vacancy trend 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 25 April 2026.

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 10 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 25 April 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 -91 16 £625 +21.95% 2
London -61 9 £875 +59.09% 1
UK excluding London -85 8 £440 +9.33% 2
North of England -68 4 - -
Yorkshire - 4 - -
Scotland - 2 £438 - 1
Work from Home -26 1 £575 -7.26% 2
South East -64 1 £575 -
West Midlands - 1 £442 -
Midlands - 1 £442 -

JSP
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 4 (19.05%) nginx
1 4 (19.05%) Tomcat
2 2 (9.52%) Apache
2 2 (9.52%) Apache TomEE
2 2 (9.52%) WebSphere
3 1 (4.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (4.76%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (4.76%) Figma
3 1 (4.76%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) HTTP
2 1 (4.76%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (14.29%) GIS
3 2 (9.52%) RDBMS
3 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.76%) Ingres
4 1 (4.76%) MySQL
4 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Maven
2 3 (14.29%) Git
3 2 (9.52%) Ant
3 2 (9.52%) Eclipse
3 2 (9.52%) Gradle
3 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.76%) Burp Suite
4 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.76%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (33.33%) Banking
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
3 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Architect
1 5 (23.81%) Developer
1 5 (23.81%) Java Developer
1 5 (23.81%) Security Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Applications Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Consultant
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Applications Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Information Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Information Security Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Java Applications Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Java Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Security Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) J2EE
2 5 (23.81%) Spring
3 4 (19.05%) EJB
3 4 (19.05%) REST
4 3 (14.29%) CSS
4 3 (14.29%) Hibernate
4 3 (14.29%) HTML
4 3 (14.29%) Java SE
4 3 (14.29%) OpenLayers
5 2 (9.52%) JDBC
5 2 (9.52%) JPA
5 2 (9.52%) JSTL
5 2 (9.52%) Servlets
5 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
5 2 (9.52%) Spring Security
5 2 (9.52%) Thymeleaf
6 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
6 1 (4.76%) CSS3
6 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 4 (19.05%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (19.05%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (19.05%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
1 4 (19.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (19.05%) Solaris
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
1 4 (19.05%) Windows Server
1 4 (19.05%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (19.05%) Windows Server 2016
1 4 (19.05%) Windows Server 2019
2 3 (14.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 9 (42.86%) Microservices
3 8 (38.10%) Line Management
4 7 (33.33%) Application Security
4 7 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 7 (33.33%) Due Diligence
4 7 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
4 7 (33.33%) Information Security
4 7 (33.33%) SDLC
4 7 (33.33%) Secure Coding
5 6 (28.57%) Risk Management
6 5 (23.81%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 5 (23.81%) Static Application Security Testing
6 5 (23.81%) Threat Modelling
7 4 (19.05%) Migration
7 4 (19.05%) MVC
7 4 (19.05%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (19.05%) Scrum
7 4 (19.05%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (23.81%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 3 (14.29%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) RPG
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
1 4 (19.05%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (4.76%) HP Fortify
2 1 (4.76%) Kibana
2 1 (4.76%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) IBM
2 5 (23.81%) Oracle
3 4 (19.05%) VMware
4 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.76%) Actian
5 1 (4.76%) Acunetix
5 1 (4.76%) Adobe
5 1 (4.76%) Checkmarx
5 1 (4.76%) Marketo
5 1 (4.76%) Netsparker
5 1 (4.76%) Veracode