JPA Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Java Persistence API (JPA)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring JPA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 118 134
Rank change year-on-year +5 +16 +42
Contract jobs citing JPA 5 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.31% 0.16% 0.087%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.33% 0.78% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £420 £320
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +31.25% -32.63%
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 377 385 487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.61% 20.71% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 248 331
10th Percentile £365 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £400 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £461 £480
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -3.81% -1.64%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £549
90th Percentile £621 £685 £625
UK median daily rate £505 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -6.96% -1.32% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £26.07
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £57.72
Median % change year-on-year - -4.70% +40.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £70.07
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £51.44 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -20.86% +13.04% -11.54%

JPA
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

JPA job vacancy trend in Scotland

JPA
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing JPA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing JPA

JPA
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing JPA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing JPA

JPA
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JPA within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Glasgow -14 5 £450 +7.14% 1
JPA
UK

JPA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (60.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (60.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (60.00%) MySQL
3 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) JUnit
2 4 (80.00%) Mockito
3 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (40.00%) Git
3 2 (40.00%) GitLab
3 2 (40.00%) Gradle
3 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (40.00%) Maven
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
1 4 (80.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 5 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (60.00%) React
3 2 (40.00%) J2EE
3 2 (40.00%) Kafka
3 2 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (40.00%) RESTful
3 2 (40.00%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (40.00%) Spring MVC
4 1 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (20.00%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Community of Practice
4 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) MVC
4 2 (40.00%) Operational Stability
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle