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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 575 549 555
Rank change year-on-year -26 +6 +162
Contract jobs citing JSP 11 15 76
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.031% 0.041% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.14% 0.19% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 41
10th Percentile £444 £404 £456
25th Percentile £450 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -25.00% +5.45%
75th Percentile £556 - £625
90th Percentile £594 £479 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +9.72% -25.00% -14.29%

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 8,083 7,920 10,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.89% 21.65% 22.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,370 5,006 7,501
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 115 190
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.00 £35.59
25th Percentile £42.50 £36.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -3.08% +19.13% -16.06%

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 16 November 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 16 November 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 -21 9 £540 +20.00% 4
London -3 7 £504 +7.75% 2
UK excluding London -34 3 £494 +9.72% 4
Work from Home +15 2 £546 +24.15% 6
South East -2 1 - - 1
Scotland -5 1 £438 +4.17% 2
North of England -35 1 £550 +22.22%
North West - 1 £550 -

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 (27.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
2 1 (9.09%) Apache TomEE
2 1 (9.09%) nginx
2 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (9.09%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Figma
2 2 (18.18%) Adobe Analytics
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) MinIO
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MySQL
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) GIS
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
2 3 (27.27%) Eclipse
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) Maven
3 2 (18.18%) Ant
3 2 (18.18%) JUnit
4 1 (9.09%) Gradle
4 1 (9.09%) IntelliJ
4 1 (9.09%) jMock
4 1 (9.09%) Mockito
4 1 (9.09%) NUnit
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) HTML CSS Developer
4 1 (9.09%) HTML Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Hybris Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Hybris Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Java Web Developer
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (9.09%) JSP Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Applications Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Principal Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Principal Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Architect
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Commerce Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) HTML
2 6 (54.55%) CSS
3 5 (45.45%) Spring
4 4 (36.36%) HTML5
5 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
5 3 (27.27%) CSS3
5 3 (27.27%) GraphQL
5 3 (27.27%) Java EE
5 3 (27.27%) OSGi
5 3 (27.27%) React
5 3 (27.27%) Servlets
6 2 (18.18%) Ajax
6 2 (18.18%) EJB
6 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
6 2 (18.18%) J2EE
6 2 (18.18%) JDBC
6 2 (18.18%) jQuery
6 2 (18.18%) JSON
6 2 (18.18%) JSTL
6 2 (18.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Agile
1 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (36.36%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Analytics
2 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Unit Testing
2 3 (27.27%) Web Development
3 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
3 2 (18.18%) Integration Testing
3 2 (18.18%) MVC
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
4 1 (9.09%) Microservices
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (9.09%) SDLC
4 1 (9.09%) Secure Coding
4 1 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (72.73%) JavaScript
3 5 (45.45%) SQL
4 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
4 2 (18.18%) Python
5 1 (9.09%) C#
5 1 (9.09%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Data Guard
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Adobe
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Marketo
3 1 (9.09%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) VMware