JPA Contract Job Trends

Java Persistence API (JPA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring JPA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 482 478
Rank change year-on-year -110 -4 +116
Contract jobs citing JPA 74 70 94
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.21% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.73% 0.94% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 52 69
10th Percentile £319 £268 £375
25th Percentile £329 £359 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £417 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.41% -24.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £488 £503 £650
90th Percentile £526 £540 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £420 £430
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.33% -18.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,138 7,471 8,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.01% 22.53% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,600 5,028 5,801
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.50% -6.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 171 241
10th Percentile £28.00 £30.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.25 £41.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year +13.04% -2.39% +0.16%

JPA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

JPA job vacancy trend in the UK

JPA
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

JPA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JPA over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JPA in the UK

JPA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

JPA
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 August 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
UK excluding London -70 57 £450 +7.14% 14
England -115 53 £450 +8.70% 23
Midlands -44 23 £525 +25.00% 5
West Midlands -40 22 £525 +7.69% 3
Work from Home -53 19 £367 -18.56% 5
Scotland +3 16 £322 -28.44% 3
London -98 16 £425 +3.03% 15
North of England -57 9 £382 +21.88% 1
Yorkshire -34 8 £450 +12.50% 1
South West -41 4 £463 -15.91%
South East -69 4 £450 -10.00% 4
North West -44 1 £313 +16.79%
East of England - 1 - -

JPA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (6.76%) nginx
2 4 (5.41%) Confluence
3 3 (4.05%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 38 (51.35%) AWS
2 22 (29.73%) Amazon SQS
3 17 (22.97%) Amazon S3
4 16 (21.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 16 (21.62%) Amazon EC2
4 16 (21.62%) AWS KMS
4 16 (21.62%) Route 53
5 15 (20.27%) Azure
6 14 (18.92%) GCP
7 12 (16.22%) GitHub
8 8 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (8.11%) OpenShift
10 4 (5.41%) Apigee
10 4 (5.41%) Cloud Run
10 4 (5.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (5.41%) Kong
10 4 (5.41%) Power Platform
11 3 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (45.95%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (22.97%) DynamoDB
3 16 (21.62%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (21.62%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (14.86%) MySQL
5 10 (13.51%) Relational Database
6 8 (10.81%) MongoDB
7 6 (8.11%) Redis
7 6 (8.11%) SQL Server
8 4 (5.41%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (5.41%) Couchbase
8 4 (5.41%) Data Lake
8 4 (5.41%) Hazelcast
8 4 (5.41%) Power BI
8 4 (5.41%) RDBMS
9 3 (4.05%) Oracle Database
10 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
11 1 (1.35%) BigQuery
11 1 (1.35%) Cloud Spanner
11 1 (1.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 51 (68.92%) Git
1 51 (68.92%) Jenkins
2 40 (54.05%) Maven
3 39 (52.70%) JUnit
4 26 (35.14%) Mockito
5 20 (27.03%) SonarQube
6 15 (20.27%) GitLab
7 13 (17.57%) Bitbucket Server
8 12 (16.22%) DbUnit
9 11 (14.86%) Gradle
9 11 (14.86%) JIRA
9 11 (14.86%) jMock
10 4 (5.41%) IntelliJ
10 4 (5.41%) Snyk
11 3 (4.05%) Cucumber
11 3 (4.05%) Flyway
12 2 (2.70%) git-flow
12 2 (2.70%) JProfiler
12 2 (2.70%) Liquibase
12 2 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (35.14%) Public Sector
2 13 (17.57%) Finance
3 12 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (16.22%) Banking
3 12 (16.22%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.70%) Law
6 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (83.78%) Developer
2 59 (79.73%) Java Developer
3 28 (37.84%) Senior
4 23 (31.08%) Senior Developer
4 23 (31.08%) Senior Java Developer
5 16 (21.62%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (18.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 7 (9.46%) Lead
7 7 (9.46%) Lead Developer
7 7 (9.46%) Lead Java Developer
8 6 (8.11%) Java Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Backend Developer
9 4 (5.41%) Senior Backend Developer
9 4 (5.41%) Senior Java Engineer
10 2 (2.70%) React Developer
10 2 (2.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 1 (1.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 1 (1.35%) Java Architect
11 1 (1.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 1 (1.35%) Senior Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (97.30%) Spring
2 67 (90.54%) Spring Boot
3 47 (63.51%) REST
4 39 (52.70%) Hibernate
5 25 (33.78%) AngularJS
5 25 (33.78%) React
6 23 (31.08%) RESTful
7 21 (28.38%) Web Services
8 20 (27.03%) SOAP
8 20 (27.03%) Spring Batch
8 20 (27.03%) Spring Cloud
9 19 (25.68%) Node.js
10 18 (24.32%) ActiveMQ
10 18 (24.32%) HTML
10 18 (24.32%) Spring Integration
11 15 (20.27%) CSS
11 15 (20.27%) Spring MVC
12 14 (18.92%) Kafka
13 12 (16.22%) HTML5
13 12 (16.22%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.62%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.76%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (6.76%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.41%) Data Structures
5 3 (4.05%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.70%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.35%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.35%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.57%) Linux
2 4 (5.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (72.97%) Microservices
2 49 (66.22%) CI/CD
3 43 (58.11%) Agile
4 37 (50.00%) Scrum
5 32 (43.24%) TDD
6 29 (39.19%) DevOps
7 22 (29.73%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (25.68%) Containerisation
9 16 (21.62%) Kanban
9 16 (21.62%) MVC
9 16 (21.62%) Test Automation
10 15 (20.27%) BDD
10 15 (20.27%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (17.57%) Design Patterns
11 13 (17.57%) Functional Programming
11 13 (17.57%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (17.57%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (14.86%) BPMN
12 11 (14.86%) Observability
12 11 (14.86%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 74 (100.00%) Java
2 49 (66.22%) SQL
3 21 (28.38%) JavaScript
4 11 (14.86%) TypeScript
5 9 (12.16%) PL/SQL
6 7 (9.46%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.70%) PromQL
7 2 (2.70%) Python
8 1 (1.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 27 (36.49%) Security Cleared
2 23 (31.08%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (6.76%) Degree
5 4 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.05%) AWS Certification
6 3 (4.05%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.46%) Accessibility
1 7 (9.46%) QA
System Software
1 39 (52.70%) Docker
2 9 (12.16%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 26 (35.14%) Kubernetes
2 24 (32.43%) Grafana
3 14 (18.92%) Prometheus
4 6 (8.11%) Terraform
5 5 (6.76%) Ansible
6 4 (5.41%) Argo
7 3 (4.05%) Kibana
8 2 (2.70%) Consul
8 2 (2.70%) Zipkin
9 1 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.35%) Istio
9 1 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (25.68%) Oracle
2 15 (20.27%) Jaspersoft
3 12 (16.22%) Atlassian
4 6 (8.11%) MuleSoft
5 5 (6.76%) Google
6 2 (2.70%) IBM
6 2 (2.70%) Solace
6 2 (2.70%) Veracode
7 1 (1.35%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.35%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.35%) Okta
7 1 (1.35%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.35%) Splunk