JPA Contracts in the Midlands

Java Persistence API (JPA)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 103 - 166
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Contract jobs citing JPA 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.42% - 0.029%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.51% - 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £269 - -
25th Percentile £270 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - -
75th Percentile £430 - -
90th Percentile £472 - -
England median daily rate £448 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -17.13% +2.86% +10.53%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 319 384 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.67% 13.93% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 272 464
10th Percentile £319 £276 £313
25th Percentile £400 £362 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.06%
75th Percentile £575 £622 £588
90th Percentile £660 £725 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 0
10th Percentile £23.96 £10.90 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £14.13 -
Median hourly rate £30.71 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% - -
75th Percentile £33.91 £40.00 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for JPA in the Midlands

JPA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for JPA in the Midlands

JPA
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for JPA in the Midlands

JPA
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JPA within the Midlands 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
West Midlands - 6 £420 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £269 - 1
JPA
England

JPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (37.50%) AWS KMS
3 3 (37.50%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (50.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) JUnit
1 8 (100.00%) Maven
2 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (75.00%) Mockito
3 5 (62.50%) SonarQube
4 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (37.50%) DbUnit
4 3 (37.50%) Git
4 3 (37.50%) jMock
5 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (25.00%) GitLab
5 2 (25.00%) JIRA
5 2 (25.00%) Selenium
5 2 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
1 7 (87.50%) Java Developer
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 2 (25.00%) Lead Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Lead Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Developer
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (12.50%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
4 1 (12.50%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
4 1 (12.50%) Java Web Developer
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 8 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 6 (75.00%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (75.00%) REST
2 6 (75.00%) SOAP
2 6 (75.00%) Spring
2 6 (75.00%) Web Services
3 5 (62.50%) AngularJS
3 5 (62.50%) Bootstrap
3 5 (62.50%) Spring Batch
3 5 (62.50%) Spring Integration
4 4 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
5 3 (37.50%) PowerMock
5 3 (37.50%) RESTful
6 2 (25.00%) CSS
6 2 (25.00%) HTML
6 2 (25.00%) Jest
6 2 (25.00%) Node.js
6 2 (25.00%) React
6 2 (25.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) Microservices
1 8 (100.00%) TDD
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (37.50%) BDD
4 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
4 3 (37.50%) Kanban
4 3 (37.50%) Open Source
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
2 4 (50.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Grafana
1 4 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (37.50%) Atlassian
3 2 (25.00%) Veracode