JPA Contracts in England

Java Persistence API (JPA)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring JPA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JPA over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 458 545
Rank change year-on-year +6 +87 +42
Contract jobs citing JPA 33 84 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.23% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.61% 1.12% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 61 77
10th Percentile £296 £375 £443
25th Percentile £384 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.13% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £620
90th Percentile £547 £850 £680
UK median daily rate £420 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -20.00% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £45.88 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £45.88 -
% change year-on-year +41.67% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

JPA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for JPA in England

JPA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for JPA in England

JPA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JPA in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JPA in England

JPA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for JPA in England

JPA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JPA within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +1 20 £500 -9.09% 9
Midlands - 8 £420 - 2
West Midlands - 6 £420 - 1
North of England -2 2 £445 -15.33% 2
East Midlands - 2 £269 - 1
South West +44 1 £525 +31.25% 3
Yorkshire +3 1 £414 -24.73% 1
North West +1 1 £475 -9.52%
South East - 1 £500 - 8
JPA
UK

JPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (6.06%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Alfresco
2 1 (3.03%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 24 (72.73%) AWS
2 6 (18.18%) Amazon S3
2 6 (18.18%) Azure
3 5 (15.15%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (15.15%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (12.12%) AWS KMS
4 4 (12.12%) GitHub
4 4 (12.12%) Route 53
5 3 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (6.06%) Sentry
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.03%) GCP
7 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (63.64%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (24.24%) MongoDB
3 7 (21.21%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (21.21%) Relational Database
4 6 (18.18%) MySQL
5 5 (15.15%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (15.15%) DynamoDB
6 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
7 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
7 2 (6.06%) RDBMS
7 2 (6.06%) Redis
8 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (69.70%) Maven
2 22 (66.67%) JUnit
3 16 (48.48%) Jenkins
4 13 (39.39%) SonarQube
5 11 (33.33%) Mockito
6 9 (27.27%) Bitbucket Server
7 8 (24.24%) Git
8 7 (21.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (21.21%) Gradle
9 5 (15.15%) IntelliJ
10 4 (12.12%) DbUnit
10 4 (12.12%) JIRA
10 4 (12.12%) jMock
11 3 (9.09%) Bitbucket
11 3 (9.09%) CircleCI
12 2 (6.06%) GitLab
12 2 (6.06%) Postman
12 2 (6.06%) REST Assured
12 2 (6.06%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (6.06%) XCTest
General
1 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 12 (36.36%) Public Sector
3 8 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (24.24%) Finance
4 3 (9.09%) Back Office
4 3 (9.09%) Military
5 2 (6.06%) Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (78.79%) Developer
2 16 (48.48%) Java Developer
3 10 (30.30%) Senior
3 10 (30.30%) Senior Developer
4 6 (18.18%) Lead
4 6 (18.18%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Lead Developer
5 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Data Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Lead Java Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Lead Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Lead Data Architect
8 1 (3.03%) Angular Developer
8 1 (3.03%) DevOps Developer
8 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (84.85%) Spring
2 25 (75.76%) Spring Boot
3 22 (66.67%) Hibernate
4 14 (42.42%) REST
5 13 (39.39%) AngularJS
6 12 (36.36%) HTML
7 9 (27.27%) SOAP
7 9 (27.27%) Web Services
8 8 (24.24%) Bootstrap
9 7 (21.21%) ActiveMQ
9 7 (21.21%) CSS
9 7 (21.21%) Node.js
9 7 (21.21%) Spring Cloud
10 6 (18.18%) Spring Batch
10 6 (18.18%) Spring Integration
11 5 (15.15%) JMS
11 5 (15.15%) React
11 5 (15.15%) RESTful
12 4 (12.12%) Kafka
12 4 (12.12%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (12.12%) PKI
3 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) Microservices
2 18 (54.55%) TDD
3 15 (45.45%) Agile
4 13 (39.39%) DevOps
4 13 (39.39%) Unit Testing
5 12 (36.36%) CI/CD
6 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
6 7 (21.21%) Front End Development
6 7 (21.21%) Scrum
7 6 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
8 5 (15.15%) End-to-End Testing
8 5 (15.15%) High Availability
8 5 (15.15%) Observability
8 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (15.15%) Risk Management
8 5 (15.15%) Software Engineering
8 5 (15.15%) SOLID
8 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 30 (90.91%) Java
2 18 (54.55%) SQL
3 10 (30.30%) JavaScript
4 5 (15.15%) TypeScript
5 3 (9.09%) Kotlin
6 2 (6.06%) Groovy
6 2 (6.06%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.03%) COBOL
7 1 (3.03%) JCL
7 1 (3.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 10 (30.30%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 19 (57.58%) Docker
2 5 (15.15%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 14 (42.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (18.18%) Grafana
3 5 (15.15%) Prometheus
3 5 (15.15%) Terraform
4 1 (3.03%) Ansible
4 1 (3.03%) Argo
4 1 (3.03%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (3.03%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Splunk
2 6 (18.18%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (12.12%) Atlassian
3 4 (12.12%) Oracle
4 2 (6.06%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (6.06%) Dynatrace
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.06%) Veracode