JPA Contracts in London

Java Persistence API (JPA)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 333 334 425
Rank change year-on-year +1 +91 +42
Contract jobs citing JPA 20 57 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.32% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.61% 1.28% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 38 47
10th Percentile £359 £395 £453
25th Percentile £383 £508 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £539 £650 £641
90th Percentile £550 £858 £700
England median daily rate £448 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -17.13% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £45.88 -
% change year-on-year +41.67% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

JPA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for JPA in London

JPA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for JPA in London

JPA
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for JPA in London

JPA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for JPA in London

JPA
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JPA within the London 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
Central London +10 8 £540 -18.49% 1
JPA
England

JPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (5.00%) Alfresco
1 1 (5.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) Sentry
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (35.00%) MongoDB
3 6 (30.00%) Relational Database
4 5 (25.00%) MySQL
5 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database
5 2 (10.00%) Redis
6 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (70.00%) Maven
2 13 (65.00%) JUnit
3 7 (35.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 7 (35.00%) Gradle
3 7 (35.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (35.00%) SonarQube
4 5 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (25.00%) IntelliJ
5 4 (20.00%) Mockito
6 2 (10.00%) CircleCI
6 2 (10.00%) Git
6 2 (10.00%) JIRA
6 2 (10.00%) Postman
6 2 (10.00%) REST Assured
6 2 (10.00%) SoapUI
6 2 (10.00%) Subversion
6 2 (10.00%) Xcode
6 2 (10.00%) XCTest
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Back Office
4 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (10.00%) Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (75.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) Java Developer
2 7 (35.00%) Senior
2 7 (35.00%) Senior Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Lead
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Data Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Data Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Angular Developer
6 1 (5.00%) COBOL Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Mainframe Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (90.00%) Spring
2 15 (75.00%) Spring Boot
3 12 (60.00%) Hibernate
4 9 (45.00%) HTML
5 7 (35.00%) AngularJS
6 6 (30.00%) REST
7 5 (25.00%) JMS
8 4 (20.00%) CSS
8 4 (20.00%) Kafka
8 4 (20.00%) Node.js
9 2 (10.00%) Bootstrap
9 2 (10.00%) CSS3
9 2 (10.00%) HTML5
9 2 (10.00%) J2EE
9 2 (10.00%) Mongoose
9 2 (10.00%) React
9 2 (10.00%) SOAP
9 2 (10.00%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (10.00%) Swagger
9 2 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) PKI
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Unit Testing
2 11 (55.00%) Microservices
3 9 (45.00%) TDD
4 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (30.00%) Mentoring
6 5 (25.00%) DevOps
6 5 (25.00%) Front End Development
6 5 (25.00%) High Availability
6 5 (25.00%) Observability
6 5 (25.00%) SOLID
7 4 (20.00%) Agile
7 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 4 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (20.00%) Line Management
7 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 4 (20.00%) Sprint Review
8 3 (15.00%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 17 (85.00%) Java
2 8 (40.00%) SQL
3 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (10.00%) Groovy
5 2 (10.00%) Kotlin
5 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.00%) COBOL
6 1 (5.00%) JCL
6 1 (5.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Argo
3 1 (5.00%) Grafana
3 1 (5.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Splunk
2 2 (10.00%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle