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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 673 679
Rank change year-on-year +29 +6 +254
Permanent jobs citing JSP 3 31 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.005% 0.057% 0.049%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.043% 0.27% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2 22 14
10th Percentile £67,125 £47,603 £62,250
25th Percentile £68,438 £55,938 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.94% -5.88% +26.80%
75th Percentile £73,438 £82,500 £121,927
90th Percentile £74,375 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £80,000 £105,823
% change year-on-year -15.63% -24.40% +84.04%

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 7,027 11,623 13,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.83% 21.44% 24.96%
Number of salaries quoted 5,236 6,847 10,747
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 6 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 6 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +45 3 £71,250 -10.94% 5
London +49 2 £75,000 -9.09% 3
UK excluding London +15 1 £67,500 -15.63% 2
Midlands - 1 £67,500 -
West Midlands - 1 £67,500 -
Work from Home - 1 £67,500 - 2

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 (33.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) JBoss
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Pipelines
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) React
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) CSS3
3 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) Java EE
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) OSGi
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (33.33%) Spring MVC
3 1 (33.33%) Swing
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) UX Design
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe
1 1 (33.33%) Marketo