Servlets Contracts

Java Servlet
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Servlets skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Servlets over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 534 693
Rank change year-on-year +24 +159 +87
Contract jobs citing Servlets 10 48 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.11% 0.042%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.15% 0.54% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 33 19
10th Percentile £340 £500 £560
25th Percentile £380 £570 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year -34.37% +6.52% -4.17%
75th Percentile £547 £699 £619
90th Percentile £563 £730 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £384 - £613
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Servlets 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 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Servlets
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Servlets in the UK

Servlets
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Servlets in the UK

Servlets
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Servlets over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Servlets in the UK

Servlets
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Servlets in the UK

Servlets
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Servlets within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +35 7 £384 -37.43% 6
UK excluding London +65 5 £384 - 8
North of England +23 5 £384 - 4
North West - 5 £384 - 3
Work from Home +21 3 £550 -10.20% 6
London +15 2 £338 -45.12% 1

Servlets
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (60.00%) Tomcat
2 5 (50.00%) JBoss
2 5 (50.00%) WebSphere
3 4 (40.00%) WebLogic
4 1 (10.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Apache
4 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (10.00%) CMS
4 1 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
2 3 (30.00%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) DB2
2 3 (30.00%) Metadata
2 3 (30.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (10.00%) Big Data
3 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (10.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (40.00%) Bitbucket
2 4 (40.00%) Git
3 3 (30.00%) GitLab
4 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (10.00%) Hudson
4 1 (10.00%) JUnit
4 1 (10.00%) ScalaTest
4 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Lead
1 4 (40.00%) Scrum Master
2 3 (30.00%) Java Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Lead Java Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Java Scrum Master
4 1 (10.00%) Junior
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) REST
1 9 (90.00%) Spring
2 7 (70.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (60.00%) JSP
4 5 (50.00%) SOAP
4 5 (50.00%) Web Services
5 4 (40.00%) EJB
5 4 (40.00%) J2EE
5 4 (40.00%) RAML
5 4 (40.00%) WSDL
6 3 (30.00%) GWT
6 3 (30.00%) JWT
6 3 (30.00%) OAuth
6 3 (30.00%) Spring Security
7 2 (20.00%) CSS
7 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
7 2 (20.00%) HTML
7 2 (20.00%) jQuery
8 1 (10.00%) JMS
8 1 (10.00%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Private Cloud
2 4 (40.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) SDLC
2 4 (40.00%) API Development
2 4 (40.00%) Backlog Management
2 4 (40.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 4 (40.00%) Budget Control
2 4 (40.00%) Fintech
2 4 (40.00%) Microservices
2 4 (40.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) API Design
3 3 (30.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (30.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (30.00%) Data Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) OWASP
3 3 (30.00%) Servant Leadership
3 3 (30.00%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (50.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) C
4 1 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) Scala
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) Google
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Adobe
4 1 (10.00%) IBM