JSP Job Trends

JavaServer Pages (JSP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring JSP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 668 669 777
Rank change year-on-year +1 +108 +162
Permanent jobs citing JSP 2 26 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.052% 0.036%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.027% 0.23% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1 16 16
10th Percentile - £46,302 £48,625
25th Percentile - £51,276 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £73,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -4.84% +13.70%
75th Percentile - £82,500 £121,927
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £73,750 £100,412
% change year-on-year - -26.55% +64.13%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,474 11,066 17,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.38% 22.13% 23.46%
Number of salaries quoted 5,505 6,559 14,349
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £61,551
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +7.23% -8.81%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

JSP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

JSP job vacancy trend in the UK

JSP
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JSP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JSP

JSP
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JSP within the UK over the 6 months to 10 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +32 2 £75,000 +5.26% 3
England +31 2 £75,000 -6.25% 4

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 1 (50.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Pipelines
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) ADO
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Java EE
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) OSGi
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Swing
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) UX Design
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Marketo