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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 532 544
Rank change year-on-year -109 +12 +43
Contract jobs citing JSP 20 18 45
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.038% 0.055% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% 0.24% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 32
10th Percentile £320 £380 £428
25th Percentile £423 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% -6.38% +1.29%
75th Percentile £913 £620 £699
90th Percentile - £661 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £322 £393 £450
% change year-on-year -18.07% -12.67% -10.00%
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 10,242 7,414 8,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.40% 22.60% 21.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,688 5,005 6,121
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% -1.82%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £660
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +5.80% -5.49% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 154 265
10th Percentile £29.91 £30.08 £22.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £38.16 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -1.24%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -108 12 £875 +80.88%
UK excluding London -113 9 £322 -18.07% 2
London -69 6 £875 +59.09%
North of England -78 4 - -
Yorkshire - 4 - -
Work from Home -49 3 £411 -33.71% 2
Scotland - 3 £316 - 2
Midlands - 1 £442 -
South West - 1 - -
West 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 6 (30.00%) nginx
1 6 (30.00%) Tomcat
2 4 (20.00%) Apache
2 4 (20.00%) WebLogic
3 2 (10.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) HTTP
2 1 (5.00%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (20.00%) GIS
3 3 (15.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.00%) Ingres
4 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Git
2 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (20.00%) Maven
4 2 (10.00%) GoCD
4 2 (10.00%) Gradle
4 2 (10.00%) JIRA
4 2 (10.00%) JUnit
5 1 (5.00%) IntelliJ
5 1 (5.00%) Subversion
5 1 (5.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (35.00%) Banking
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Senior
2 7 (35.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Architect
3 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Support Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Applications Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Information Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Information Security Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Java Applications Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Java Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (45.00%) JDBC
2 8 (40.00%) REST
3 7 (35.00%) EJB
3 7 (35.00%) Jakarta EE
3 7 (35.00%) Spring
4 6 (30.00%) Java SE
4 6 (30.00%) Servlets
5 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
6 4 (20.00%) HTML
6 4 (20.00%) HTML5
6 4 (20.00%) JPA
6 4 (20.00%) JSF
6 4 (20.00%) ODBC
6 4 (20.00%) OpenLayers
6 4 (20.00%) React
7 3 (15.00%) FreeMarker
7 3 (15.00%) Node.js
7 3 (15.00%) Redux
8 2 (10.00%) CSS3
8 2 (10.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
1 5 (25.00%) Solaris
2 4 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (45.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (35.00%) Microservices
3 6 (30.00%) Line Management
4 5 (25.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) ETL
4 5 (25.00%) Refactoring
4 5 (25.00%) Scrum
4 5 (25.00%) TDD
5 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 4 (20.00%) Due Diligence
5 4 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
5 4 (20.00%) Information Security
5 4 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 4 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (20.00%) SDLC
5 4 (20.00%) Secure Coding
5 4 (20.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (45.00%) SQL
3 6 (30.00%) PL/SQL
4 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (20.00%) Python
5 1 (5.00%) Perl
5 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
2 4 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Ansible
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (5.00%) Kibana
2 1 (5.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Oracle
2 7 (35.00%) IBM
3 5 (25.00%) VMware
4 3 (15.00%) MuleSoft
4 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.00%) Actian