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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 469 550
Rank change year-on-year +38 +81 +8
Contract jobs citing JPA 49 82 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.22% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.90% 1.07% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 60 58
10th Percentile £335 £375 £438
25th Percentile £378 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.71% +1.71% +9.95%
75th Percentile £538 £603 £635
90th Percentile £550 £715 £686
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +7.14%
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 5,431 7,669 10,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.54% 20.78% 22.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,764 5,415 8,026
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £659 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £521 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -3.07% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 242 130
10th Percentile £31.28 £22.53 £30.68
25th Percentile £43.70 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +22.64%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.94 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.95 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +23.81%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +17 27 £500 -7.41% 27
Midlands - 18 £420 - 54
West Midlands - 13 £475 - 31
East Midlands - 5 £313 - 19
South West +41 3 £550 +37.50% 28
South East - 2 £500 - 61
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 3 (6.12%) Alfresco
1 3 (6.12%) Camunda
1 3 (6.12%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (4.08%) Confluence
3 1 (2.04%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 36 (73.47%) AWS
2 13 (26.53%) Amazon S3
3 12 (24.49%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (24.49%) Amazon SQS
4 9 (18.37%) AWS KMS
4 9 (18.37%) Route 53
5 8 (16.33%) Azure
6 7 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (10.20%) GitHub
8 3 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (6.12%) OpenShift
9 2 (4.08%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (4.08%) GCP
9 2 (4.08%) Sentry
10 1 (2.04%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.12%) HTTP
1 3 (6.12%) HTTPS
1 3 (6.12%) SSL
2 2 (4.08%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (63.27%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
3 12 (24.49%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (20.41%) DynamoDB
4 10 (20.41%) MongoDB
5 9 (18.37%) Relational Database
6 7 (14.29%) MySQL
7 6 (12.24%) Oracle Database
8 3 (6.12%) Redis
9 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
9 2 (4.08%) RDBMS
9 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (67.35%) Maven
2 32 (65.31%) JUnit
3 28 (57.14%) Jenkins
4 21 (42.86%) SonarQube
5 20 (40.82%) Git
6 17 (34.69%) Mockito
7 12 (24.49%) Bitbucket Server
8 8 (16.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (14.29%) DbUnit
9 7 (14.29%) Gradle
9 7 (14.29%) IntelliJ
9 7 (14.29%) jMock
10 5 (10.20%) JIRA
11 4 (8.16%) Cucumber
12 3 (6.12%) Bitbucket
12 3 (6.12%) Postman
12 3 (6.12%) REST Assured
12 3 (6.12%) SoapUI
12 3 (6.12%) Subversion
12 3 (6.12%) Xcode
General
1 18 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 16 (32.65%) Public Sector
3 9 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (18.37%) Finance
4 3 (6.12%) Back Office
4 3 (6.12%) Banking
4 3 (6.12%) Military
5 2 (4.08%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 40 (81.63%) Developer
2 28 (57.14%) Java Developer
3 14 (28.57%) Senior
4 13 (26.53%) Senior Developer
5 11 (22.45%) Lead
6 9 (18.37%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (16.33%) Lead Developer
8 7 (14.29%) Lead Java Developer
9 6 (12.24%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (10.20%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (8.16%) AWS Developer
12 3 (6.12%) Architect
12 3 (6.12%) Data Architect
13 2 (4.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 2 (4.08%) Lead Architect
13 2 (4.08%) Lead Data Architect
13 2 (4.08%) Software Developer
13 2 (4.08%) UI Developer
14 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (87.76%) Spring
2 42 (85.71%) Spring Boot
3 30 (61.22%) Hibernate
4 27 (55.10%) REST
5 24 (48.98%) AngularJS
6 20 (40.82%) Web Services
7 19 (38.78%) HTML
8 17 (34.69%) SOAP
9 15 (30.61%) RESTful
10 14 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
10 14 (28.57%) Bootstrap
10 14 (28.57%) Spring Batch
11 13 (26.53%) Spring Cloud
12 12 (24.49%) CSS
13 11 (22.45%) Spring Integration
14 9 (18.37%) React
15 8 (16.33%) Kafka
16 7 (14.29%) Node.js
16 7 (14.29%) PowerMock
17 5 (10.20%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (12.24%) PKI
3 3 (6.12%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.12%) State Machine
4 2 (4.08%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.04%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.33%) Linux
2 3 (6.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (73.47%) Microservices
2 29 (59.18%) TDD
3 24 (48.98%) Agile
4 19 (38.78%) DevOps
5 16 (32.65%) CI/CD
6 15 (30.61%) Containerisation
6 15 (30.61%) Unit Testing
7 14 (28.57%) Scrum
8 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (18.37%) BDD
9 9 (18.37%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (18.37%) Mentoring
9 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (16.33%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (16.33%) Risk Management
11 7 (14.29%) Front End Development
11 7 (14.29%) High Availability
11 7 (14.29%) Kanban
11 7 (14.29%) Observability
11 7 (14.29%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 46 (93.88%) Java
2 27 (55.10%) SQL
3 14 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.20%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.12%) Groovy
5 3 (6.12%) Kotlin
5 3 (6.12%) PL/SQL
5 3 (6.12%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.08%) Scala
7 1 (2.04%) COBOL
7 1 (2.04%) JCL
Qualifications
1 19 (38.78%) Security Cleared
2 17 (34.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.04%) Degree
3 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.08%) QA
3 1 (2.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 33 (67.35%) Docker
2 8 (16.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 20 (40.82%) Kubernetes
2 11 (22.45%) Grafana
3 10 (20.41%) Prometheus
4 5 (10.20%) Terraform
5 3 (6.12%) Ansible
6 1 (2.04%) Argo
6 1 (2.04%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (2.04%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (18.37%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (16.33%) Splunk
3 7 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 7 (14.29%) Oracle
4 3 (6.12%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (6.12%) Dynatrace
5 2 (4.08%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.08%) Veracode