JPA Contract Job Trends in the North West

Java Persistence API (JPA)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring JPA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 122 123
Rank change year-on-year -33 +1 +32
Contract jobs citing JPA 2 2 12
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.072% 0.097% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.33% 0.50% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile £328 £325 £486
25th Percentile £352 £348 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £393 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% -25.24% +17.98%
75th Percentile £477 £443 £538
90th Percentile £506 £470 -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £45.88
England median hourly rate - - £45.88
% change year-on-year - - -35.61%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 610 397 545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 21.99% 19.28% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 278 421
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £388 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 4 28
10th Percentile £52.50 - £43.40
25th Percentile £53.75 £65.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.75 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +3.32% +46.71% +2.99%
75th Percentile £77.50 £74.38 £72.03
90th Percentile £94.00 £82.25 £79.43
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year +4.00% +19.74% -19.70%

JPA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JPA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

JPA job vacancy trend in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

JPA
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JPA in the North West over the 6 months to 21 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JPA in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 21 February 2026. 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
Cheshire -22 1 £500 +61.29% 1
Manchester - 1 £323 -
JPA
England

JPA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) React Native
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) API Design
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) Veracode