Java Persistence API (JPA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 606 599
Rank change year-on-year +121 -7 -18
Contract jobs citing JPA 95 108 265
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.19% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.06% 0.83% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 72 190
10th Percentile £375 £415 £388
25th Percentile £423 £449 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% +7.14% +3.16%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £603
90th Percentile £745 £677 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £455 £515
% change year-on-year +12.64% -11.65% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate £45.88 - £63.25
75th Percentile - - £67.25
90th Percentile - - £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 - £64.13
% change year-on-year - - +60.31%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,928 13,073 23,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.92% 23.04% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,209 9,522 17,312
10th Percentile £345 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 147 225
10th Percentile £21.63 £28.30 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.60 £80.55 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £54.63
% change year-on-year -25.49% +18.99% +21.39%

JPA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JPA in the UK

JPA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JPA in the UK

JPA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JPA over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JPA in the UK

JPA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for JPA in the UK

JPA
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 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
England +94 81 £535 +1.90% 16
London +91 54 £545 -9.17% 15
UK excluding London +56 40 £513 +12.64% 7
Work from Home +102 26 £550 +10.00% 5
North of England +46 23 £525 +19.32%
North West +32 17 £525 +19.32%
Scotland +43 13 £468 -16.89%
Yorkshire - 6 £550 -
South West +9 3 £400 -23.81% 1
East of England +8 1 £395 +5.33%

JPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (12.63%) Confluence
2 2 (2.11%) Apache
2 2 (2.11%) JBoss
2 2 (2.11%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.11%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 30 (31.58%) AWS
2 4 (4.21%) Amazon MSK
2 4 (4.21%) Amazon S3
2 4 (4.21%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (3.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (2.11%) Azure
5 1 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.05%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.47%) SSH
2 3 (3.16%) HTTP
2 3 (3.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (23.16%) PostgreSQL
1 22 (23.16%) Relational Database
2 18 (18.95%) Oracle Database
3 7 (7.37%) Apache Cassandra
3 7 (7.37%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.32%) MySQL
5 4 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.21%) Redis
6 3 (3.16%) CockroachDB
7 2 (2.11%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (36.84%) JUnit
2 30 (31.58%) Git
3 25 (26.32%) JIRA
4 16 (16.84%) Jenkins
5 10 (10.53%) Cucumber
5 10 (10.53%) Maven
6 5 (5.26%) Liquibase
6 5 (5.26%) Mockito
7 4 (4.21%) Gatling
7 4 (4.21%) ScalaTest
8 3 (3.16%) Bitbucket
8 3 (3.16%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.11%) Artifactory
9 2 (2.11%) GitLab
9 2 (2.11%) Subversion
10 1 (1.05%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (1.05%) NeoLoad
10 1 (1.05%) Postman
10 1 (1.05%) Selenium
10 1 (1.05%) Serenity BDD
General
1 24 (25.26%) Public Sector
2 21 (22.11%) Finance
3 16 (16.84%) Banking
4 12 (12.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.42%) Social Skills
7 7 (7.37%) Investment Banking
8 4 (4.21%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 79 (83.16%) Developer
2 65 (68.42%) Java Developer
3 12 (12.63%) Oracle Developer
4 11 (11.58%) DBA
4 11 (11.58%) Oracle DBA
5 10 (10.53%) SQL Developer
6 9 (9.47%) Full Stack Developer
6 9 (9.47%) Java Engineer
6 9 (9.47%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 8 (8.42%) Full Stack Engineer
7 8 (8.42%) Lead
7 8 (8.42%) Lead Developer
7 8 (8.42%) Lead Java Developer
8 7 (7.37%) SQL DBA
9 6 (6.32%) Junior
9 6 (6.32%) Junior Developer
9 6 (6.32%) Junior Java Developer
10 5 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Full Stack Java Developer
11 4 (4.21%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (88.42%) Spring
2 71 (74.74%) Hibernate
3 65 (68.42%) REST
3 65 (68.42%) Spring Boot
4 26 (27.37%) React
5 18 (18.95%) Spring Security
6 16 (16.84%) AngularJS
7 15 (15.79%) CSS
7 15 (15.79%) HTML
8 13 (13.68%) Web Services
8 13 (13.68%) XML
9 11 (11.58%) JSON
10 9 (9.47%) J2EE
10 9 (9.47%) SOAP
11 7 (7.37%) Spring MVC
12 5 (5.26%) JDBC
12 5 (5.26%) RESTful
13 4 (4.21%) Akka
13 4 (4.21%) Play Framework
13 4 (4.21%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.84%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (15.79%) Management Information System
3 11 (11.58%) Public Cloud
4 9 (9.47%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.21%) Credit Derivative
5 4 (4.21%) Derivative
6 3 (3.16%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.16%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.05%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.84%) Linux
1 16 (16.84%) Unix
2 1 (1.05%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (75.79%) Agile
2 53 (55.79%) Microservices
3 42 (44.21%) Scrum
4 40 (42.11%) CI/CD
5 35 (36.84%) SDLC
6 34 (35.79%) Front End Development
7 32 (33.68%) DevOps
8 31 (32.63%) Software Engineering
8 31 (32.63%) Unit Testing
9 30 (31.58%) High Availability
10 26 (27.37%) Mentoring
11 23 (24.21%) TDD
12 20 (21.05%) Full Stack Development
13 18 (18.95%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 18 (18.95%) Observability
14 17 (17.89%) BDD
15 16 (16.84%) Continuous Integration
15 16 (16.84%) Software Architecture
16 15 (15.79%) Release Management
17 13 (13.68%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 95 (100.00%) Java
2 41 (43.16%) SQL
3 35 (36.84%) TypeScript
4 7 (7.37%) Perl
4 7 (7.37%) Python
5 6 (6.32%) PL/SQL
6 5 (5.26%) Scala
7 3 (3.16%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 43 (45.26%) SC Cleared
1 43 (45.26%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.95%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.47%) QA
2 1 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.05%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (27.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (28.42%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.37%) Grafana
3 4 (4.21%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.16%) Ansible
5 2 (2.11%) Istio
6 1 (1.05%) Kibana
6 1 (1.05%) logstash
Vendors
1 22 (23.16%) Oracle
2 4 (4.21%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.11%) IBM
4 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.05%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.05%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.05%) Tradeweb
4 1 (1.05%) VMware