JSP Contracts

JavaServer Pages (JSP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring JSP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JSP over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 549 610
Rank change year-on-year +28 +61 +115
Contract jobs citing JSP 15 42 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% 0.097% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% 0.45% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 29 60
10th Percentile £380 £450 £450
25th Percentile £402 £500 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +11.31% +10.05%
75th Percentile £620 £699 £608
90th Percentile £674 £700 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £393 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -12.67% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.85 - -
Median hourly rate £21.90 - -
75th Percentile £22.95 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 7,001 9,253 12,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.72% 21.44% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,746 6,337 9,221
10th Percentile £352 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 282 155
10th Percentile £27.81 £22.53 £28.50
25th Percentile £36.40 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +25.30%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.81 £74.40 £80.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JSP.

Daily rate trend for JSP in the UK

JSP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSP over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JSP in the UK

JSP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JSP.

Hourly rate trend for JSP in the UK

JSP
Top 7 Contract 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 1 July 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 +43 12 £451 -26.37% 30
UK excluding London +36 8 £393 -12.67% 8
Work from Home +31 6 £620 +1.22% 9
North of England +13 6 £393 -23.32% 2
North West - 6 £393 -
London +31 4 £613 - 21
South East +50 2 - - 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 11 (73.33%) Tomcat
2 8 (53.33%) JBoss
3 5 (33.33%) WebSphere
4 4 (26.67%) WebLogic
5 2 (13.33%) Apache
6 1 (6.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
6 1 (6.67%) CMS
6 1 (6.67%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) DB2
2 3 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (20.00%) Neo4j
2 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (13.33%) MySQL
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (6.67%) Big Data
4 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
4 1 (6.67%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Git
2 5 (33.33%) JUnit
3 4 (26.67%) Ant
3 4 (26.67%) Bitbucket
3 4 (26.67%) Gradle
3 4 (26.67%) Maven
4 3 (20.00%) Eclipse
4 3 (20.00%) JIRA
4 3 (20.00%) Selenium
4 3 (20.00%) SonarQube
5 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
6 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
6 1 (6.67%) Hudson
6 1 (6.67%) IntelliJ
6 1 (6.67%) NUnit
6 1 (6.67%) ScalaTest
6 1 (6.67%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Billing
4 1 (6.67%) Military
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
1 7 (46.67%) Lead
2 6 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Lead Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Lead Java Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Scrum Master
4 3 (20.00%) Java Team Leader
4 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Team Leader
4 3 (20.00%) Technical Leader
4 3 (20.00%) Technical Team Leader
5 1 (6.67%) Agile Scrum Master
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Architect
5 1 (6.67%) HTML CSS Developer
5 1 (6.67%) HTML Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Scrum Master
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Systems Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) Spring
1 10 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 9 (60.00%) REST
3 8 (53.33%) HTML
4 7 (46.67%) CSS
4 7 (46.67%) Servlets
5 6 (40.00%) Web Services
6 5 (33.33%) EJB
6 5 (33.33%) J2EE
6 5 (33.33%) SOAP
6 5 (33.33%) Struts
7 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
7 4 (26.67%) RAML
7 4 (26.67%) WSDL
8 3 (20.00%) Ajax
8 3 (20.00%) Hibernate
8 3 (20.00%) jQuery
8 3 (20.00%) LDAP
8 3 (20.00%) Swagger
8 3 (20.00%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Agile
2 10 (66.67%) Scrum
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%) Microservices
4 4 (26.67%) MVC
5 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
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%) Open Source
5 3 (20.00%) Servant Leadership
5 3 (20.00%) Situational Awareness
5 3 (20.00%) User Experience
5 3 (20.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (60.00%) SQL
4 4 (26.67%) PL/SQL
4 4 (26.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.67%) Bash
5 1 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) Python
5 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Adobe
2 1 (6.67%) IBM