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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 531 558
Rank change year-on-year -46 +27 +115
Contract jobs citing JSP 16 3 36
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.041% 0.010% 0.080%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.19% 0.043% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 20
10th Percentile £430 £447 £466
25th Percentile £436 £458 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £483 £570
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% -15.35% +0.18%
75th Percentile £578 £513 £624
90th Percentile £645 £528 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 - £471
% change year-on-year - - -37.17%

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 8,605 6,915 9,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.22% 22.40% 20.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,731 4,372 6,611
10th Percentile £358 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £537 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +0.61% -7.13%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £767 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 87 190
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.34 £25.48
25th Percentile £50.00 £38.88 £45.96
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £69.38
90th Percentile £82.10 £77.70 £76.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%

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 3 February 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 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 3 February 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 -65 10 £533 +10.36% 5
London -19 7 £540 +11.92% 4
UK excluding London - 4 £440 - 4
Work from Home -10 2 £600 +36.36% 3
Scotland - 2 £438 -
Midlands - 1 £442 - 1
South East - 1 £575 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £442 - 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 4 (25.00%) nginx
2 3 (18.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Apache
2 3 (18.75%) Tomcat
3 2 (12.50%) Apache TomEE
4 1 (6.25%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
1 3 (18.75%) Figma
2 2 (12.50%) Adobe Analytics
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) MinIO
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (25.00%) GIS
2 3 (18.75%) RDBMS
2 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.25%) Ingres
4 1 (6.25%) MySQL
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
1 5 (31.25%) Maven
2 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 2 (12.50%) Ant
3 2 (12.50%) Eclipse
3 2 (12.50%) Gradle
4 1 (6.25%) Burp Suite
4 1 (6.25%) jMock
4 1 (6.25%) JUnit
4 1 (6.25%) Mockito
4 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
4 1 (6.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Developer
1 7 (43.75%) Java Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Applications Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Security Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Applications Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Principal Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Principal Java Developer
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) Spring
2 6 (37.50%) CSS
2 6 (37.50%) HTML
3 4 (25.00%) EJB
3 4 (25.00%) Java SE
3 4 (25.00%) OpenLayers
4 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
4 3 (18.75%) CSS3
4 3 (18.75%) GraphQL
4 3 (18.75%) Hibernate
4 3 (18.75%) HTML5
4 3 (18.75%) J2EE
4 3 (18.75%) OSGi
4 3 (18.75%) React
4 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
5 2 (12.50%) Java EE
5 2 (12.50%) JDBC
5 2 (12.50%) JSTL
5 2 (12.50%) Servlets
5 2 (12.50%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (18.75%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Solaris
2 4 (25.00%) Windows
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (18.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 6 (37.50%) Microservices
2 6 (37.50%) Migration
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (25.00%) ETL
3 4 (25.00%) Line Management
3 4 (25.00%) MVC
3 4 (25.00%) Scrum
3 4 (25.00%) SDLC
3 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Application Security
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
4 3 (18.75%) Due Diligence
4 3 (18.75%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (18.75%) Impact Assessments
4 3 (18.75%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (18.75%) Static Application Security Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (37.50%) SQL
3 5 (31.25%) Python
4 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (25.00%) PL/SQL
5 3 (18.75%) RPG
6 1 (6.25%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
2 3 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Data Guard
2 1 (6.25%) HP Fortify
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle
2 4 (25.00%) IBM
2 4 (25.00%) VMware
3 3 (18.75%) Adobe
3 3 (18.75%) Red Hat
4 2 (12.50%) Marketo
5 1 (6.25%) Actian
5 1 (6.25%) Acunetix
5 1 (6.25%) Checkmarx
5 1 (6.25%) Netsparker
5 1 (6.25%) Veracode