JPA Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Java Persistence API (JPA)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring JPA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 55 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing JPA 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.70% 0.19% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.43% 0.94% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £531 £420 -
% change year-on-year +26.49% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Birmingham

JPA falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 175 106 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 20.44% 20.00% 17.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 69 92
10th Percentile £411 £379 £240
25th Percentile £463 £425 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £469
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% -14.77%
75th Percentile £582 £648 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £673
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% -15.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £25.80 - £21.89
25th Percentile £34.13 - £33.53
Median hourly rate £48.50 - £48.13
75th Percentile £63.13 - £56.25
90th Percentile £71.60 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £39.92
% change year-on-year -1.05% -31.11% -

JPA
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JPA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

JPA job vacancy trend in Birmingham

JPA
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing JPA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing JPA

JPA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 6 (100.00%) Route 53
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 6 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Git
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (100.00%) JUnit
1 6 (100.00%) Maven
1 6 (100.00%) Mockito
1 6 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 4 (66.67%) DbUnit
2 4 (66.67%) jMock
3 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 6 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 6 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 6 (100.00%) Node.js
1 6 (100.00%) REST
1 6 (100.00%) SOAP
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
1 6 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 6 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 6 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
1 6 (100.00%) Spring Integration
1 6 (100.00%) Web Services
2 4 (66.67%) PowerMock
3 2 (33.33%) Bootstrap
3 2 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) BPMN
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
1 6 (100.00%) TDD
2 4 (66.67%) Biometrics
2 4 (66.67%) Kanban
2 4 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) BDD
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Database Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Open Source
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
2 4 (66.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (66.67%) Atlassian