JPA Contracts in Scotland

Java Persistence API (JPA)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for JPA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JPA over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 160 166
Rank change year-on-year +45 +6 -25
Contract jobs citing JPA 13 3 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.59% 0.10% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.77% 0.43% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 12
10th Percentile £415 £521 £325
25th Percentile £418 £534 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £563 £513
Median % change year-on-year -16.89% +9.76% +20.59%
75th Percentile £500 £584 £560
90th Percentile - £594 £586
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £480
% change year-on-year - +9.38% +1.05%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

JPA is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 469 691 720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.13% 24.14% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 527 486
10th Percentile £330 £406 £360
25th Percentile £410 £438 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £549 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile £33.58 £49.99 £37.73
25th Percentile £44.94 £53.38 £41.89
Median hourly rate £53.75 £59.03 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +24.93% +15.24%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.52 £49.34
90th Percentile - £67.81 £56.75
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

JPA
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing JPA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for JPA in Scotland

JPA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for JPA in Scotland

JPA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for JPA in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JPA within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Glasgow - 11 £468 - 1
Edinburgh +40 2 - -
JPA
UK

JPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (15.38%) Apache
1 2 (15.38%) Confluence
1 2 (15.38%) JBoss
1 2 (15.38%) Tomcat
1 2 (15.38%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
1 2 (15.38%) JUnit
1 2 (15.38%) Maven
1 2 (15.38%) Subversion
General
1 9 (69.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (46.15%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Full Stack Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Java Engineer
3 5 (38.46%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (38.46%) Developer
3 5 (38.46%) Java Developer
4 4 (30.77%) Full Stack Developer
4 4 (30.77%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Angular Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Software Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) HTML CSS Developer
6 1 (7.69%) HTML Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 13 (100.00%) Spring
2 11 (84.62%) CSS
2 11 (84.62%) HTML
2 11 (84.62%) REST
2 11 (84.62%) Spring Boot
3 2 (15.38%) Hibernate
3 2 (15.38%) Java EE
3 2 (15.38%) JSP
3 2 (15.38%) JSTL
3 2 (15.38%) Servlets
3 2 (15.38%) STL
3 2 (15.38%) XML
3 2 (15.38%) XSLT
4 1 (7.69%) OpenJDK
4 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (84.62%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
2 1 (7.69%) AIX
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Agile
1 13 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 11 (84.62%) SDLC
3 10 (76.92%) Artificial Intelligence
3 10 (76.92%) Machine Learning
3 10 (76.92%) Microservices
3 10 (76.92%) Operational Stability
4 9 (69.23%) Decision-Making
4 9 (69.23%) Software Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Case Management
5 2 (15.38%) UML
5 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
6 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (7.69%) DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) Migration
6 1 (7.69%) Security Patching
6 1 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (84.62%) SQL
2 11 (84.62%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (7.69%) NCSC
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) VMware