JSTL Contracts

JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring JSTL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JSTL over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 588 679
Rank change year-on-year +50 +91 +179
Contract jobs citing JSTL 1 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.005% 0.011%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.014% 0.021% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £551
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.86%
75th Percentile - - £600
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

JSTL 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 7,122 9,314 12,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.73% 21.42% 22.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,822 6,381 9,223
10th Percentile £350 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 280 155
10th Percentile £28.29 £22.50 £28.50
25th Percentile £35.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.51 £74.44 £80.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%

JSTL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JSTL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JSTL in the UK

JSTL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JSTL.

Daily rate trend for JSTL in the UK

JSTL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JSTL.

Hourly rate trend for JSTL in the UK

JSTL
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSTL within the UK over the 6 months to 3 July 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
UK excluding London +30 1 £550 - 1
North of England - 1 £550 -
North West - 1 £550 -
England - 1 £550 - 1

JSTL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Ant
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JavaBeans
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Struts
1 1 (100.00%) Swing
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) WinForms
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree