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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 573 526 536
Rank change year-on-year -47 +10 +167
Contract jobs citing JSP 13 9 67
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.035% 0.027% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.12% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 30
10th Percentile £431 £401 £466
25th Percentile £450 £412 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £445 £600
Median % change year-on-year +17.98% -25.83% +5.45%
75th Percentile £563 £461 £678
90th Percentile £588 £508 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £425 £483
% change year-on-year +16.18% -11.92% -35.67%

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 8,225 7,446 9,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.39% 21.93% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,450 4,726 6,854
10th Percentile £354 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 93 173
10th Percentile £30.75 £21.40 £32.60
25th Percentile £43.00 £35.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £58.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.97 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.25 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -2.69% +25.26% -20.17%

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 21 December 2025.

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 8 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 21 December 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 -26 10 £540 +20.00% 3
London -2 7 £504 +1.77% 2
UK excluding London -30 4 £494 +16.18% 1
Work from Home -7 3 £575 +30.68% 1
Scotland +4 2 £438 +4.17%
South East -16 1 £575 +27.78%
North of England - 1 £550 - 1
North West - 1 £550 - 1

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 (23.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Apache TomEE
3 1 (7.69%) Apache
3 1 (7.69%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (7.69%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Figma
2 2 (15.38%) Adobe Analytics
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) MinIO
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Relational Database
2 2 (15.38%) MySQL
2 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.69%) GIS
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
1 5 (38.46%) Maven
2 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
3 3 (23.08%) Ant
3 3 (23.08%) Eclipse
4 2 (15.38%) Gradle
4 2 (15.38%) JUnit
5 1 (7.69%) IntelliJ
5 1 (7.69%) jMock
5 1 (7.69%) Mockito
5 1 (7.69%) NUnit
General
1 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Developer
2 8 (61.54%) Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Hybris Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Hybris Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Applications Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Principal Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Principal Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) SAP Architect
4 1 (7.69%) SAP Commerce Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.69%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) HTML
2 8 (61.54%) Spring
3 7 (53.85%) CSS
4 4 (30.77%) Hibernate
4 4 (30.77%) HTML5
5 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
5 3 (23.08%) CSS3
5 3 (23.08%) GraphQL
5 3 (23.08%) Java EE
5 3 (23.08%) JSTL
5 3 (23.08%) OSGi
5 3 (23.08%) React
5 3 (23.08%) Spring Boot
6 2 (15.38%) EJB
6 2 (15.38%) J2EE
6 2 (15.38%) JPA
6 2 (15.38%) Servlets
6 2 (15.38%) Spring Security
6 2 (15.38%) Thymeleaf
6 2 (15.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Agile
1 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
1 5 (38.46%) Migration
1 5 (38.46%) MVC
2 3 (23.08%) Analytics
2 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (23.08%) Microservices
2 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (23.08%) Scrum
2 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Code Quality
3 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
3 2 (15.38%) Integration Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) User Experience
3 2 (15.38%) Web Development
4 1 (7.69%) AI
4 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
3 5 (38.46%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Python
5 1 (7.69%) C#
5 1 (7.69%) Groovy
5 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Data Guard
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Adobe
2 2 (15.38%) Marketo
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) SAP
3 1 (7.69%) VMware