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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 517 538
Rank change year-on-year -90 +21 +128
Contract jobs citing JSP 17 8 50
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.038% 0.028% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.18% 0.12% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 33
10th Percentile £430 £443 £461
25th Percentile £436 £506 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.05%
75th Percentile £694 £654 £699
90th Percentile £913 £688 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £358 £463
% change year-on-year +22.77% -22.59% -8.14%
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 9,445 6,593 8,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.25% 22.69% 20.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,291 4,497 6,263
10th Percentile £358 £363 £331
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £498
% change year-on-year +0.91% -0.40% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 98 187
10th Percentile £35.23 £26.25 £20.66
25th Percentile £52.50 £40.19 £37.35
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £71.62 £68.75 £64.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £85.05 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -109 12 £600 +11.63% 2
London -48 7 £675 +22.73% 2
UK excluding London -95 6 £440 +22.77%
Work from Home -29 2 £600 -7.34% 1
North of England -66 2 - -
Scotland - 2 £438 -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South East -53 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 3 (17.65%) nginx
1 3 (17.65%) Tomcat
2 2 (11.76%) Apache
2 2 (11.76%) Apache TomEE
2 2 (11.76%) WebSphere
3 1 (5.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (5.88%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.88%) Figma
2 1 (5.88%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (17.65%) GIS
2 2 (11.76%) RDBMS
2 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) Ingres
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Maven
2 4 (23.53%) Git
3 2 (11.76%) Ant
3 2 (11.76%) Eclipse
3 2 (11.76%) Gradle
3 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.88%) Burp Suite
4 1 (5.88%) jMock
4 1 (5.88%) JUnit
4 1 (5.88%) Mockito
4 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (29.41%) Banking
1 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Developer
1 6 (35.29%) Java Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Consultant
2 3 (17.65%) Security Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Applications Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Applications Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Security Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Java Applications Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Java Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior WebSphere Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) WebSphere Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Spring
2 5 (29.41%) J2EE
3 4 (23.53%) CSS
3 4 (23.53%) HTML
4 3 (17.65%) EJB
4 3 (17.65%) Hibernate
4 3 (17.65%) Java SE
4 3 (17.65%) OpenLayers
4 3 (17.65%) REST
4 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
5 2 (11.76%) JDBC
5 2 (11.76%) JPA
5 2 (11.76%) JSTL
5 2 (11.76%) Servlets
5 2 (11.76%) Spring Security
5 2 (11.76%) Thymeleaf
6 1 (5.88%) jQuery
6 1 (5.88%) ODBC
6 1 (5.88%) SOAP
6 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Security Posture
2 3 (17.65%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Solaris
2 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2019
2 3 (17.65%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 7 (41.18%) Microservices
3 6 (35.29%) Line Management
4 5 (29.41%) Application Security
4 5 (29.41%) Cloud Security
4 5 (29.41%) Due Diligence
4 5 (29.41%) Impact Assessments
4 5 (29.41%) Information Security
4 5 (29.41%) SDLC
4 5 (29.41%) Secure Coding
5 4 (23.53%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 4 (23.53%) Migration
5 4 (23.53%) MVC
5 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
5 4 (23.53%) Scrum
5 4 (23.53%) Static Application Security Testing
5 4 (23.53%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (17.65%) ETL
6 3 (17.65%) Technology Transformation
6 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) PL/SQL
3 3 (17.65%) Python
3 3 (17.65%) RPG
4 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
2 3 (17.65%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) IBM
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle
3 3 (17.65%) VMware
4 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.88%) Actian
5 1 (5.88%) Acunetix
5 1 (5.88%) Adobe
5 1 (5.88%) Checkmarx
5 1 (5.88%) Marketo
5 1 (5.88%) Netsparker
5 1 (5.88%) Veracode