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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 654 550 535
Rank change year-on-year -104 -15 +25
Contract jobs citing JSP 26 15 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.048% 0.046% 0.081%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.22% 0.18% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 23
10th Percentile £318 £382 £415
25th Percentile £322 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.17% +4.00% -14.53%
75th Percentile £653 £586 £619
90th Percentile £913 £620 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £322 £402 £450
% change year-on-year -19.90% -10.67% -19.86%

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 11,740 8,473 9,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.60% 25.94% 24.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,723 5,664 6,299
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £734 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 186 190
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% -1.44%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.25 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +8.33%

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 September 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 9 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 September 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 -110 18 £530 +13.26% 36
UK excluding London -99 12 £322 -19.90% 12
London -78 11 £550 +5.77% 21
Work from Home -59 8 £322 -48.06% 3
Scotland - 6 £322 -
East of England - 3 £509 - 6
North of England -70 2 - - 3
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South West - 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 (15.38%) nginx
1 4 (15.38%) Tomcat
1 4 (15.38%) WebLogic
2 2 (7.69%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (3.85%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) HTTP
2 1 (3.85%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 3 (11.54%) Oracle Database
4 2 (7.69%) GIS
Development Applications
1 12 (46.15%) Git
2 11 (42.31%) Maven
3 8 (30.77%) Jenkins
4 6 (23.08%) Gradle
5 5 (19.23%) JIRA
6 2 (7.69%) GoCD
6 2 (7.69%) JUnit
7 1 (3.85%) IntelliJ
7 1 (3.85%) Subversion
General
1 10 (38.46%) Finance
2 7 (26.92%) Banking
3 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Senior
2 11 (42.31%) Developer
3 10 (38.46%) Java Developer
4 7 (26.92%) Senior Developer
4 7 (26.92%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (15.38%) Architect
5 4 (15.38%) Security Architect
6 3 (11.54%) Java Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Applications Architect
7 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Information Architect
7 2 (7.69%) Information Security Architect
7 2 (7.69%) Java Applications Architect
7 2 (7.69%) Java Architect
7 2 (7.69%) Lead
7 2 (7.69%) Lead Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Support Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (50.00%) REST
1 13 (50.00%) Spring
2 12 (46.15%) Spring Boot
3 11 (42.31%) JSF
4 10 (38.46%) JDBC
5 8 (30.77%) React
6 7 (26.92%) HTML
6 7 (26.92%) HTML5
6 7 (26.92%) Jakarta EE
6 7 (26.92%) JPA
6 7 (26.92%) Servlets
7 6 (23.08%) FreeMarker
7 6 (23.08%) Node.js
7 6 (23.08%) Redux
8 5 (19.23%) CSS
8 5 (19.23%) CSS3
8 5 (19.23%) EJB
8 5 (19.23%) Sass
8 5 (19.23%) Spring MVC
8 5 (19.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 4 (15.38%) Client/Server
2 4 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (15.38%) Security Posture
3 3 (11.54%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.85%) Equities
5 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Linux
2 4 (15.38%) Unix
3 3 (11.54%) Solaris
4 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (7.69%) Windows
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 14 (53.85%) Agile
3 12 (46.15%) Test Automation
4 10 (38.46%) Microservices
4 10 (38.46%) Scrum
5 7 (26.92%) TDD
6 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 6 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (23.08%) DevOps
6 6 (23.08%) Front End Development
6 6 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
6 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (19.23%) Computer Science
7 5 (19.23%) MVC
7 5 (19.23%) Unit Testing
8 4 (15.38%) Change Management
8 4 (15.38%) Document Management
8 4 (15.38%) Information Security
8 4 (15.38%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (38.46%) SQL
3 8 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 4 (15.38%) PL/SQL
5 2 (7.69%) Python
6 1 (3.85%) Perl
6 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 5 (19.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) Accessibility
1 5 (19.23%) QA
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Docker
2 2 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (3.85%) Kibana
2 1 (3.85%) logstash
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Oracle
2 6 (23.08%) MuleSoft
3 4 (15.38%) PTC
4 3 (11.54%) IBM
4 3 (11.54%) VMware
5 2 (7.69%) Red Hat