JPA Contracts in the North of England

Java Persistence API (JPA)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 152 197
Rank change year-on-year -27 +45 +52
DemandTrendContract jobs citing JPA 6 12 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.15% 0.28% 0.019%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.75% 1.59% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £268 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.09% - -
75th Percentile £400 £650 -
90th Percentile £505 - -
England median daily rate £400 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 805 754 1,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.05% 17.91% 19.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 515 785
10th Percentile £338 £361 £363
25th Percentile £382 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% -3.43% -
75th Percentile £538 £610 £619
90th Percentile £621 £740 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 23
10th Percentile £27.60 £14.14 £45.88
25th Percentile £30.00 £36.00 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.58% - -34.03%
75th Percentile £88.75 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £94.63 £70.95 £64.75
England median hourly rate £54.88 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -11.49% -0.80% +4.17%

JPA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for JPA in the North of England

JPA
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing JPA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing JPA

JPA
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JPA in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JPA in the North of England

JPA
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing JPA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing JPA

JPA
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -10 3 £268 -51.27%
Yorkshire -15 2 £400 -27.27% 6
North East - 1 £550 -
JPA
England

JPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
1 3 (50.00%) JUnit
1 3 (50.00%) Maven
1 3 (50.00%) Mockito
1 3 (50.00%) Selenium
1 3 (50.00%) SonarQube
1 3 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Spring Boot
2 4 (66.67%) React
3 3 (50.00%) CSS
3 3 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 3 (50.00%) HTML
3 3 (50.00%) Jest
3 3 (50.00%) Node.js
3 3 (50.00%) Redux
4 2 (33.33%) Spring
5 1 (16.67%) .NET
5 1 (16.67%) J2EE
5 1 (16.67%) jQuery
5 1 (16.67%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (16.67%) Next.js
5 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
5 1 (16.67%) REST
5 1 (16.67%) RESTful
5 1 (16.67%) Spring MVC
5 1 (16.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Microservices
1 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) API Development
4 1 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Product Requirements
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) SOLID
4 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
4 1 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (66.67%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) C++
4 1 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Veracode
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle