JPA Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Java Persistence API (JPA)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring JPA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 52 -
Rank change year-on-year -22 - -
Contract jobs citing JPA 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.15% 0.23% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% 1.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £310 -
Median % change year-on-year +61.29% - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £411 £393 £525
% change year-on-year +4.78% -25.24% +17.98%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 155 72 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 23.48% 16.67% 7.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 52 32
10th Percentile £350 £303 £289
25th Percentile £358 £356 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £398 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -20.45% -
75th Percentile £504 £550 £538
90th Percentile £682 £638 £574
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £71.25 -
25th Percentile £95.75 £73.13 £10.75
Median hourly rate £96.50 £77.50 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.52% +573.91% -
75th Percentile £97.25 £83.13 £12.25
90th Percentile - £85.75 -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £67.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +3.32% +46.71% +2.99%

JPA
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

JPA job vacancy trend in Cheshire

JPA
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing JPA

JPA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) OpenStack
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) React Native
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode