JPA Contracts in the UK excluding London

Java Persistence API (JPA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 323 359 409
Rank change year-on-year +36 +50 +40
Contract jobs citing JPA 13 40 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.19% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.55% 1.21% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 30 39
10th Percentile £270 £375 £417
25th Percentile £305 £403 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £513 £455
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% +12.64% -11.65%
75th Percentile £497 £547 £538
90th Percentile £504 £650 £575
UK median daily rate £420 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -20.00% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £45.88 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £45.88 -
% change year-on-year +41.67% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK 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 UK excluding London

Job postings citing JPA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JPA in the UK excluding London

JPA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JPA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for JPA in the UK excluding London

JPA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for JPA in the UK excluding London

JPA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JPA in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JPA in the UK excluding London

JPA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
Midlands - 8 £420 - 3
West Midlands - 6 £420 - 2
North of England -2 2 £445 -15.33% 2
East Midlands - 2 £269 - 1
South West +44 1 £525 +31.25% 3
Yorkshire +3 1 £414 -24.73% 1
North West +1 1 £475 -9.52%
Scotland +1 1 £270 -42.25% 4
South East - 1 £500 - 8
JPA
UK

JPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon S3
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (30.77%) AWS KMS
4 4 (30.77%) Route 53
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (53.85%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (38.46%) DynamoDB
4 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
5 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
5 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
6 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
6 1 (7.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Jenkins
1 9 (69.23%) JUnit
1 9 (69.23%) Maven
2 7 (53.85%) Git
2 7 (53.85%) Mockito
3 6 (46.15%) SonarQube
4 4 (30.77%) Bitbucket Server
4 4 (30.77%) DbUnit
4 4 (30.77%) jMock
5 3 (23.08%) Bitbucket
5 3 (23.08%) Cucumber
5 3 (23.08%) Selenium
6 2 (15.38%) GitLab
6 2 (15.38%) JIRA
6 2 (15.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (7.69%) Mercurial
7 1 (7.69%) Subversion
General
1 8 (61.54%) Public Sector
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Developer
2 10 (76.92%) Java Developer
3 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 2 (15.38%) Lead Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (7.69%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
5 1 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Java Web Developer
5 1 (7.69%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Junior
5 1 (7.69%) Junior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) SQL Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (84.62%) Spring
2 10 (76.92%) Hibernate
2 10 (76.92%) Spring Boot
3 9 (69.23%) REST
4 8 (61.54%) Web Services
5 7 (53.85%) ActiveMQ
5 7 (53.85%) SOAP
6 6 (46.15%) AngularJS
6 6 (46.15%) Bootstrap
6 6 (46.15%) RESTful
6 6 (46.15%) Spring Batch
6 6 (46.15%) Spring Integration
7 5 (38.46%) Spring Cloud
8 4 (30.77%) PowerMock
9 3 (23.08%) React
10 2 (15.38%) CSS
10 2 (15.38%) HTML
10 2 (15.38%) Jest
10 2 (15.38%) Node.js
10 2 (15.38%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Microservices
2 11 (84.62%) Agile
3 9 (69.23%) TDD
4 8 (61.54%) DevOps
5 7 (53.85%) Scrum
6 5 (38.46%) Risk Management
7 4 (30.77%) BDD
7 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
7 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
7 4 (30.77%) Kanban
7 4 (30.77%) Open Source
7 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
8 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
9 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
9 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering
9 1 (7.69%) Software Testing
9 1 (7.69%) Test Scripting
9 1 (7.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (84.62%) SQL
3 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Docker
2 5 (38.46%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Grafana
1 5 (38.46%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (30.77%) Atlassian
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) Veracode
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft