Servlets Contract Job Trends

Java Servlet
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Servlets skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 519 574
Rank change year-on-year -73 +55 +107
Contract jobs citing Servlets 3 1 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.003% 0.070%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.035% 0.014% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 18
10th Percentile £427 - £535
25th Percentile £437 - £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £175 £572
Median % change year-on-year +176.14% -69.38% -5.54%
75th Percentile £537 - £678
90th Percentile £552 - £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £442 - £493
% change year-on-year - - -34.33%

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 8,621 7,054 9,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.30% 22.43% 20.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,738 4,472 6,586
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £765 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 90 192
10th Percentile £35.00 £24.78 £25.78
25th Percentile £49.06 £38.31 £46.11
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.44 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.95 £77.32 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%

Servlets
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Servlets relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Servlets job vacancy trend in the UK

Servlets
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Servlets.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Servlets

Servlets
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Servlets.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Servlets

Servlets
Top 5 Contract Job 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 30 January 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 -68 2 £483 +176.14% 1
London -27 1 £525 +200.00%
Midlands - 1 £442 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £442 - 1
UK excluding London - 1 £442 - 1

Servlets
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 1 (33.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
1 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) GIS
1 1 (33.33%) Ingres
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) gulp
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (33.33%) webpack
General
1 1 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JDBC
1 2 (66.67%) JSP
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) Bootstrap
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3
2 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) Java EE
2 1 (33.33%) Java SE
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) ODBC
2 1 (33.33%) OpenLayers
2 1 (33.33%) OSGi
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) SAML
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (33.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Solaris
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Build Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Innovative Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Protective Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
2 1 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Actian
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) VMware