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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 512 539
Rank change year-on-year -99 +27 +129
Contract jobs citing JSP 19 11 56
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.042% 0.038% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% 0.17% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 38
10th Percentile £431 £398 £473
25th Percentile £445 £427 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £538 £606
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -11.34% +6.55%
75th Percentile £913 £620 £699
90th Percentile - £688 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £402 £463
% change year-on-year +9.33% -13.08% -4.64%
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 9,511 6,623 8,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.78% 22.66% 20.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,333 4,544 6,234
10th Percentile £358 £363 £334
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 £729 £775 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +1.11% -1.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 101 178
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £19.43
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.50 £32.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +38.59% -28.95%
75th Percentile £71.62 £68.75 £62.85
90th Percentile £81.00 £84.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.00%

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 11 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 11 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 -94 14 £650 +26.83% 2
London -69 9 £875 +59.09% 2
UK excluding London -96 6 £440 +9.33%
Work from Home -36 2 £600 -3.23% 1
North of England -67 2 - -
Scotland - 2 £438 -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South East -54 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 (15.79%) nginx
1 3 (15.79%) Tomcat
2 2 (10.53%) Apache
2 2 (10.53%) Apache TomEE
2 2 (10.53%) WebSphere
3 1 (5.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (5.26%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) AWS
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.26%) Figma
2 1 (5.26%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (15.79%) GIS
2 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
2 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.26%) Ingres
3 1 (5.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Maven
2 4 (21.05%) Git
3 2 (10.53%) Ant
3 2 (10.53%) Eclipse
3 2 (10.53%) Gradle
3 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.26%) Burp Suite
4 1 (5.26%) jMock
4 1 (5.26%) JUnit
4 1 (5.26%) Mockito
4 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.26%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (36.84%) Banking
2 6 (31.58%) Finance
3 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Developer
1 6 (31.58%) Java Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Architect
2 5 (26.32%) Security Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Applications Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Applications Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Information Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Information Security Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Java Applications Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Java Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Security Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Security Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) WebSphere Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) J2EE
2 6 (31.58%) Spring
3 4 (21.05%) CSS
3 4 (21.05%) HTML
4 3 (15.79%) EJB
4 3 (15.79%) Hibernate
4 3 (15.79%) Java SE
4 3 (15.79%) OpenLayers
4 3 (15.79%) REST
4 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
5 2 (10.53%) JDBC
5 2 (10.53%) JPA
5 2 (10.53%) JSTL
5 2 (10.53%) Servlets
5 2 (10.53%) Spring Security
5 2 (10.53%) Thymeleaf
6 1 (5.26%) ODBC
6 1 (5.26%) SOAP
6 1 (5.26%) Spring MVC
6 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Security Posture
2 4 (21.05%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
3 3 (15.79%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Solaris
2 3 (15.79%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Windows Server
2 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2019
2 3 (15.79%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
2 9 (47.37%) Microservices
3 8 (42.11%) Line Management
4 7 (36.84%) Application Security
4 7 (36.84%) Cloud Security
4 7 (36.84%) Due Diligence
4 7 (36.84%) Impact Assessments
4 7 (36.84%) Information Security
4 7 (36.84%) SDLC
4 7 (36.84%) Secure Coding
5 6 (31.58%) Risk Management
6 5 (26.32%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 5 (26.32%) Static Application Security Testing
6 5 (26.32%) Threat Modelling
7 4 (21.05%) Migration
7 4 (21.05%) MVC
7 4 (21.05%) Scrum
7 4 (21.05%) Security Architecture
8 3 (15.79%) Agile
8 3 (15.79%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (26.32%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) PL/SQL
3 3 (15.79%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) RPG
4 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
2 3 (15.79%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) IBM
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle
3 3 (15.79%) VMware
4 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.26%) Actian
5 1 (5.26%) Acunetix
5 1 (5.26%) Adobe
5 1 (5.26%) Checkmarx
5 1 (5.26%) Marketo
5 1 (5.26%) Netsparker
5 1 (5.26%) Veracode