JPA Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Java Persistence API (JPA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JPA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 340 384
Rank change year-on-year -39 +44 +8
Contract jobs citing JPA 19 8 21
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.055% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.57% 0.31% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 17
10th Percentile £307 £353 £368
25th Percentile £313 £396 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £420 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -20.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £560 £463 £588
90th Percentile £565 £493 -
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £506
% change year-on-year -11.11% -11.11% -3.57%

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 3,328 2,608 3,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.17% 17.92% 17.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,191 1,628 2,319
10th Percentile £345 £340 £325
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £680
UK median daily rate £508 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.93% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 58 135
10th Percentile £33.00 £21.44 £38.53
25th Percentile £46.25 £26.81 £46.18
Median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.57 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%

JPA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

JPA job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

JPA
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JPA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JPA

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 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JPA in the UK excluding London

JPA
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JPA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JPA

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 January 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
Midlands - 6 £540 - 2
West Midlands - 6 £540 - 2
Scotland +12 5 £438 +4.17%
South East -8 4 £312 -37.70% 3
North of England -53 4 £400 -3.38% 2
Yorkshire -50 3 £550 +32.85%
North West -27 1 £323 -17.83% 1
JPA
UK

JPA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (10.53%) Apache TomEE
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) GitHub
3 3 (15.79%) Azure
4 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
4 2 (10.53%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) Relational Database
2 4 (21.05%) NoSQL
3 3 (15.79%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (15.79%) Oracle Database
3 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
4 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (5.26%) MySQL
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) JUnit
2 8 (42.11%) Cucumber
2 8 (42.11%) Maven
2 8 (42.11%) Mockito
3 6 (31.58%) Git
3 6 (31.58%) GitLab
3 6 (31.58%) Selenium
4 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
5 2 (10.53%) Ant
5 2 (10.53%) Eclipse
6 1 (5.26%) Gatling
6 1 (5.26%) Gradle
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Finance
3 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (78.95%) Developer
2 14 (73.68%) Java Developer
3 7 (36.84%) Senior
4 6 (31.58%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (26.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (21.05%) Senior Developer
6 4 (21.05%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (15.79%) Java Engineer
8 2 (10.53%) Senior Java Engineer
9 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
9 1 (5.26%) Digital Developer
9 1 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 1 (5.26%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
9 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 1 (5.26%) Java Software Engineer
9 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
9 1 (5.26%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (94.74%) Spring
2 14 (73.68%) Spring Boot
3 11 (57.89%) Hibernate
3 11 (57.89%) React
4 7 (36.84%) AngularJS
5 6 (31.58%) JSON
6 5 (26.32%) Gherkin
6 5 (26.32%) GraalVM
6 5 (26.32%) HTML
6 5 (26.32%) JDBC
6 5 (26.32%) OAuth
6 5 (26.32%) OAuth2
6 5 (26.32%) OpenID
6 5 (26.32%) Playwright
6 5 (26.32%) RESTful
7 4 (21.05%) J2EE
7 4 (21.05%) REST
7 4 (21.05%) Spring MVC
8 2 (10.53%) JSTL
8 2 (10.53%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Unix
2 1 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Mac OS X
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Microservices
2 12 (63.16%) Agile
2 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
3 10 (52.63%) Scrum
4 8 (42.11%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (42.11%) Software Engineering
5 6 (31.58%) Coaching
5 6 (31.58%) MVC
6 5 (26.32%) OO
6 5 (26.32%) OOD
6 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (21.05%) API Development
7 4 (21.05%) Clean Code
7 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
7 4 (21.05%) Migration
8 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
8 3 (15.79%) SDLC
8 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
9 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
9 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (42.11%) SQL
3 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.26%) C++
4 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) OCP
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) WCAG
2 2 (10.53%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (52.63%) Kubernetes
2 6 (31.58%) Kibana
3 5 (26.32%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft