JPA Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Java Persistence API (JPA)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring JPA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JPA 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 0.74% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
South West median daily rate £381 £550 -
% change year-on-year -30.68% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 39 25 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 14.44% 24.04% 27.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 14
10th Percentile £300 £270 £406
25th Percentile £325 £321 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £438 £550 £519
90th Percentile £635 - £567
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%

JPA
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

JPA job vacancy trend in Dorset

JPA
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing JPA

JPA
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JPA within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 28 September 2026. 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
Bournemouth - 2 £300 - 1
JPA
South West

JPA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 (50.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Flink
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) EDI
2 1 (50.00%) EDIFACT
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Database Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) webMethods