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

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 337 432
Rank change year-on-year +17 +95 +32
Contract jobs citing JPA 29 68 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.39% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.86% 1.44% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 46 33
10th Percentile £359 £389 £432
25th Percentile £385 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £558 £563
Median % change year-on-year -14.80% -0.89% +18.42%
75th Percentile £538 £728 £638
90th Percentile £550 £850 £650
England median daily rate £475 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +6.60%
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 3,368 4,724 6,717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.28% 26.84% 26.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,350 3,474 5,048
10th Percentile £377 £375 £413
25th Percentile £429 £459 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £710 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £813
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 28 42
10th Percentile - £16.25 £31.18
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £47.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £42.50 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -36.80% +41.58%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.70 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £75.00 £86.20
England median hourly rate £60.00 £58.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.18% -10.54% +23.81%

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 29 June 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 29 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
Central London +20 10 £500 -23.08% 4
South London +1 3 - -
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 3 (10.34%) Camunda
2 2 (6.90%) Confluence
3 1 (3.45%) Alfresco
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 21 (72.41%) AWS
2 7 (24.14%) Azure
3 4 (13.79%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (13.79%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (6.90%) GitHub
5 2 (6.90%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.45%) AWS KMS
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.45%) GCP
6 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.45%) Route 53
6 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (62.07%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (24.14%) MongoDB
3 6 (20.69%) Relational Database
4 5 (17.24%) MySQL
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (10.34%) Oracle Database
6 3 (10.34%) Redis
7 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
7 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
7 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (72.41%) Maven
2 18 (62.07%) JUnit
3 14 (48.28%) Jenkins
4 12 (41.38%) SonarQube
5 11 (37.93%) Git
6 8 (27.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (27.59%) Mockito
7 7 (24.14%) Gradle
7 7 (24.14%) IntelliJ
8 6 (20.69%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (17.24%) JIRA
10 3 (10.34%) Postman
10 3 (10.34%) REST Assured
10 3 (10.34%) SoapUI
10 3 (10.34%) Subversion
10 3 (10.34%) Xcode
10 3 (10.34%) XCTest
11 2 (6.90%) Artifactory
11 2 (6.90%) Cucumber
11 2 (6.90%) Eclipse
General
1 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 9 (31.03%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 4 (13.79%) Banking
5 3 (10.34%) Back Office
6 2 (6.90%) Front Office
7 1 (3.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (68.97%) Developer
2 11 (37.93%) Java Developer
3 8 (27.59%) Lead
3 8 (27.59%) Senior
4 7 (24.14%) Senior Developer
5 5 (17.24%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (13.79%) Lead Developer
7 3 (10.34%) Architect
7 3 (10.34%) Data Architect
7 3 (10.34%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Lead Architect
8 2 (6.90%) Lead Data Architect
8 2 (6.90%) UI Developer
9 1 (3.45%) Angular Developer
9 1 (3.45%) COBOL Developer
9 1 (3.45%) Consultant
9 1 (3.45%) Mainframe Developer
9 1 (3.45%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 1 (3.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (93.10%) Spring
2 24 (82.76%) Spring Boot
3 15 (51.72%) Hibernate
4 12 (41.38%) REST
5 11 (37.93%) AngularJS
6 10 (34.48%) HTML
7 7 (24.14%) SOAP
7 7 (24.14%) Web Services
8 6 (20.69%) Bootstrap
8 6 (20.69%) Kafka
8 6 (20.69%) Spring Cloud
9 5 (17.24%) CSS
9 5 (17.24%) JMS
9 5 (17.24%) React
9 5 (17.24%) RESTful
10 4 (13.79%) ActiveMQ
11 3 (10.34%) CSS3
11 3 (10.34%) J2EE
11 3 (10.34%) Node.js
11 3 (10.34%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (13.79%) PKI
2 2 (6.90%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.45%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Unix
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) Microservices
2 14 (48.28%) TDD
3 13 (44.83%) Unit Testing
4 12 (41.38%) Agile
5 10 (34.48%) CI/CD
6 8 (27.59%) DevOps
7 7 (24.14%) Mentoring
8 6 (20.69%) Software Architecture
8 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (17.24%) Front End Development
9 5 (17.24%) High Availability
9 5 (17.24%) Observability
9 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (17.24%) SOLID
10 4 (13.79%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (13.79%) Containerisation
10 4 (13.79%) End-to-End Testing
10 4 (13.79%) Event-Driven
10 4 (13.79%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 26 (89.66%) Java
2 11 (37.93%) SQL
3 9 (31.03%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.34%) Groovy
4 3 (10.34%) Shell Script
4 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.45%) COBOL
5 1 (3.45%) JCL
5 1 (3.45%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 7 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.45%) GDPR
1 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 15 (51.72%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 12 (41.38%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.79%) Grafana
3 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.90%) Ansible
4 2 (6.90%) Terraform
5 1 (3.45%) Argo
5 1 (3.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Splunk
2 3 (10.34%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (10.34%) Dynatrace
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.45%) Jaspersoft