JPA Contracts in the UK excluding London

Java Persistence API (JPA)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 356 395 448
Rank change year-on-year +39 +53 -63
Contract jobs citing JPA 40 52 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.22% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.23% 1.21% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 37 40
10th Percentile £375 £431 £362
25th Percentile £403 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £455 £520
Median % change year-on-year +12.64% -12.50% +9.47%
75th Percentile £547 £538 £568
90th Percentile £650 £575 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £480
% change year-on-year - +9.38% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate £45.88 - £63.25
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £66.55
UK median hourly rate £45.88 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +50.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London 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 3,239 4,303 6,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 18.34% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,122 3,217 4,324
10th Percentile £324 £359 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £689 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 92 136
10th Percentile £21.63 £22.26 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.95 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% +31.63% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £63.95
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.07 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%

JPA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing JPA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JPA in the UK excluding London

JPA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JPA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for JPA in the UK excluding London

JPA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JPA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JPA in the UK excluding London

JPA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JPA in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JPA in the UK excluding London

JPA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JPA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
North of England +35 23 £525 +17.98%
North West +15 17 £525 +17.98%
Scotland +51 13 £468 -16.89% 1
Yorkshire - 6 £550 -
South West +14 3 £400 -23.81%
East of England +5 1 £395 -
JPA
UK

JPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (5.00%) Apache
1 2 (5.00%) Confluence
1 2 (5.00%) JBoss
1 2 (5.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (5.00%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 19 (47.50%) AWS
2 1 (2.50%) Azure
2 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) HTTP
1 3 (7.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (30.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (7.50%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (7.50%) CockroachDB
2 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
2 3 (7.50%) Oracle Database
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 14 (35.00%) JUnit
2 12 (30.00%) Git
3 11 (27.50%) Jenkins
4 6 (15.00%) JIRA
5 3 (7.50%) Bitbucket
5 3 (7.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (5.00%) Maven
6 2 (5.00%) Subversion
General
1 14 (35.00%) Public Sector
2 12 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (2.50%) Banking
4 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (67.50%) Developer
1 27 (67.50%) Java Developer
2 9 (22.50%) Java Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Full Stack Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 5 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Junior
5 4 (10.00%) Junior Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Junior Java Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Lead
5 4 (10.00%) Lead Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Angular Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Software Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (100.00%) Spring
2 35 (87.50%) REST
2 35 (87.50%) Spring Boot
3 22 (55.00%) Hibernate
4 14 (35.00%) AngularJS
5 13 (32.50%) React
6 12 (30.00%) CSS
6 12 (30.00%) HTML
7 8 (20.00%) Spring Security
8 3 (7.50%) JDBC
8 3 (7.50%) JWT
8 3 (7.50%) WebSockets
9 2 (5.00%) Java EE
9 2 (5.00%) JSP
9 2 (5.00%) JSTL
9 2 (5.00%) Servlets
9 2 (5.00%) STL
9 2 (5.00%) XML
9 2 (5.00%) XSLT
10 1 (2.50%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 11 (27.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Unix
2 1 (2.50%) AIX
2 1 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) Agile
2 28 (70.00%) Microservices
3 22 (55.00%) CI/CD
4 20 (50.00%) Front End Development
5 18 (45.00%) Software Engineering
6 16 (40.00%) DevOps
7 14 (35.00%) Full Stack Development
7 14 (35.00%) SDLC
7 14 (35.00%) Unit Testing
8 13 (32.50%) Mentoring
8 13 (32.50%) Operational Stability
8 13 (32.50%) Scrum
9 12 (30.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 12 (30.00%) High Availability
10 10 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
10 10 (25.00%) Machine Learning
11 9 (22.50%) Decision-Making
12 8 (20.00%) Observability
13 4 (10.00%) Coaching
14 3 (7.50%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) Java
2 24 (60.00%) TypeScript
3 15 (37.50%) SQL
4 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (57.50%) SC Cleared
1 23 (57.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (30.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (2.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Oracle
2 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.50%) IBM
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.50%) VMware