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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 556 542 555
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 +147
Contract jobs citing JSP 12 18 79
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.036% 0.048% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.22% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 47
10th Percentile £380 £410 £450
25th Percentile £450 £419 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £450 £585
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -23.08% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £485 £625
90th Percentile £624 £588 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £384 £450 £600
% change year-on-year -14.67% -25.00% -0.41%

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 7,661 8,293 10,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 23.01% 22.13% 22.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,033 5,269 7,743
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.97% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £672
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 162 205
10th Percentile £30.18 £25.42 £37.63
25th Percentile £41.25 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £51.97 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.05% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.56
% change year-on-year -15.38% +16.99% -14.52%

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 17 October 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 7 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 17 October 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 -1 10 £504 +11.94% 2
London +7 6 £540 +15.51% 2
UK excluding London -21 4 £384 -14.67%
Work from Home +12 3 £620 +22.17%
North of England -25 3 £384 -25.07%
North West - 3 £384 -
South East +8 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 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (16.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (16.67%) JBoss
2 2 (16.67%) WebLogic
2 2 (16.67%) WebSphere
3 1 (8.33%) Apache
3 1 (8.33%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (8.33%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Figma
3 1 (8.33%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) MinIO
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) DB2
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (8.33%) GIS
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) Maven
3 2 (16.67%) Ant
3 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 2 (16.67%) Eclipse
3 2 (16.67%) Gradle
3 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (16.67%) JUnit
4 1 (8.33%) IntelliJ
4 1 (8.33%) jMock
4 1 (8.33%) Mockito
4 1 (8.33%) NUnit
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Scrum Master
4 1 (8.33%) HTML CSS Developer
4 1 (8.33%) HTML Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Hybris Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Hybris Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Java Team Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Applications Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud Architect
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Team Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) HTML
2 7 (58.33%) Spring
3 6 (50.00%) CSS
4 5 (41.67%) Servlets
5 4 (33.33%) EJB
5 4 (33.33%) J2EE
5 4 (33.33%) Spring Boot
6 3 (25.00%) HTML5
6 3 (25.00%) Java EE
6 3 (25.00%) REST
6 3 (25.00%) SOAP
6 3 (25.00%) Web Services
7 2 (16.67%) Ajax
7 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
7 2 (16.67%) CSS3
7 2 (16.67%) jQuery
7 2 (16.67%) JSON
7 2 (16.67%) OSGi
7 2 (16.67%) React
7 2 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Private Cloud
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Scrum
2 3 (25.00%) SDLC
3 2 (16.67%) API Development
3 2 (16.67%) Backlog Management
3 2 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (16.67%) Budget Control
3 2 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) MVC
3 2 (16.67%) Servant Leadership
3 2 (16.67%) Situational Awareness
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 7 (58.33%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 2 (16.67%) Python
5 1 (8.33%) C#
5 1 (8.33%) Groovy
5 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Data Guard
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Adobe
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) Marketo
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) VMware