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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 491 485
Rank change year-on-year -88 -6 +113
Contract jobs citing JPA 106 66 77
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.20% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.89% 0.77% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 49 58
10th Percentile £322 £268 £375
25th Percentile £400 £313 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -27.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £650
90th Percentile £616 £555 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £425 £435
% change year-on-year +13.37% -2.30% -17.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
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 11,905 8,624 9,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.68% 26.09% 24.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,826 5,738 6,104
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 188 187
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £49.50 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -13.04% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.60 £74.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £58.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.84% -9.62% +10.94%

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 1 October 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 14 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 1 October 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
England -73 83 £463 +15.76% 40
UK excluding London -54 77 £482 +13.37% 32
Midlands -30 35 £583 +58.29% 8
West Midlands -14 33 £590 +18.00% 7
London -85 26 £425 +7.59% 15
Work from Home -73 22 £367 -22.84% 18
Scotland -9 17 £322 -28.44% 5
North of England -66 15 £519 +60.78% 10
Yorkshire -33 10 £382 -30.55% 4
South West -32 5 £381 -30.68% 3
North West -47 5 £537 +84.85% 6
South East -57 4 £450 -10.00% 3
East Midlands -21 1 £335 +24.07% 1
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 20 (18.87%) Confluence
2 9 (8.49%) Camunda
3 5 (4.72%) nginx
4 3 (2.83%) Apache
5 1 (0.94%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Finacle
1 1 (0.94%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.94%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 57 (53.77%) AWS
2 18 (16.98%) Azure
2 18 (16.98%) GitHub
3 17 (16.04%) GCP
4 16 (15.09%) Amazon SQS
5 14 (13.21%) OpenShift
6 13 (12.26%) Amazon S3
7 12 (11.32%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (8.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (7.55%) AWS KMS
9 8 (7.55%) Route 53
10 5 (4.72%) Apigee
10 5 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.72%) Cloud Run
10 5 (4.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (4.72%) Kong
10 5 (4.72%) Serverless
11 4 (3.77%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (3.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.94%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (35.85%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (19.81%) Relational Database
3 16 (15.09%) MongoDB
4 13 (12.26%) MySQL
4 13 (12.26%) SQL Server
5 12 (11.32%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (8.49%) DynamoDB
7 8 (7.55%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (5.66%) NoSQL
8 6 (5.66%) RDBMS
8 6 (5.66%) Redis
9 5 (4.72%) Hazelcast
9 5 (4.72%) Oracle Database
10 4 (3.77%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (3.77%) Couchbase
10 4 (3.77%) Data Lake
10 4 (3.77%) Power BI
11 3 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (2.83%) Pinecone
11 3 (2.83%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 68 (64.15%) Maven
2 65 (61.32%) Jenkins
3 62 (58.49%) JUnit
4 60 (56.60%) Git
5 49 (46.23%) Mockito
6 37 (34.91%) GitLab
7 30 (28.30%) SonarQube
8 26 (24.53%) JIRA
9 25 (23.58%) Gradle
10 14 (13.21%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (8.49%) REST Assured
11 9 (8.49%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (7.55%) Cucumber
13 6 (5.66%) DbUnit
14 5 (4.72%) jMock
15 4 (3.77%) Snyk
16 3 (2.83%) Flyway
16 3 (2.83%) IntelliJ
16 3 (2.83%) Selenium
17 2 (1.89%) git-flow
General
1 25 (23.58%) Banking
1 25 (23.58%) Finance
2 24 (22.64%) Public Sector
2 24 (22.64%) Social Skills
3 20 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.89%) Law
6 2 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.94%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.94%) Front Office
7 1 (0.94%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 81 (76.42%) Developer
2 74 (69.81%) Java Developer
3 35 (33.02%) Senior
4 28 (26.42%) Senior Developer
4 28 (26.42%) Senior Java Developer
5 21 (19.81%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (16.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 17 (16.04%) Java Engineer
8 9 (8.49%) Lead
8 9 (8.49%) Lead Developer
8 9 (8.49%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (4.72%) Backend Developer
10 4 (3.77%) Senior Backend Developer
10 4 (3.77%) Senior Java Engineer
11 3 (2.83%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 2 (1.89%) Distributed Systems Developer
12 2 (1.89%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 2 (1.89%) Kafka Developer
12 2 (1.89%) React Developer
12 2 (1.89%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (94.34%) Spring
2 98 (92.45%) Spring Boot
3 57 (53.77%) REST
4 55 (51.89%) Hibernate
5 36 (33.96%) React
6 34 (32.08%) RESTful
7 31 (29.25%) Kafka
8 28 (26.42%) HTML
9 27 (25.47%) AngularJS
10 26 (24.53%) OpenAPI
11 24 (22.64%) CSS
12 23 (21.70%) Spring MVC
13 21 (19.81%) SOAP
13 21 (19.81%) Spring Cloud
13 21 (19.81%) Web Services
14 18 (16.98%) ActiveMQ
14 18 (16.98%) Redux
15 16 (15.09%) OAuth
16 15 (14.15%) Swagger
17 13 (12.26%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.09%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.32%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (10.38%) Data Structures
4 8 (7.55%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (6.60%) Product Ownership
6 6 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.77%) AI Agents
7 4 (3.77%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.89%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.94%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.94%) Derivative
9 1 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.94%) LIMS
9 1 (0.94%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.60%) Linux
2 4 (3.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (69.81%) CI/CD
2 71 (66.98%) Microservices
3 68 (64.15%) Agile
4 63 (59.43%) Scrum
5 44 (41.51%) Test Automation
6 41 (38.68%) TDD
7 35 (33.02%) DevOps
8 27 (25.47%) Containerisation
8 27 (25.47%) Full-Stack Development
9 24 (22.64%) MVC
10 22 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (19.81%) Front End Development
12 19 (17.92%) Kanban
12 19 (17.92%) Software Engineering
12 19 (17.92%) User Stories
13 18 (16.98%) Code Quality
14 17 (16.04%) API Development
14 17 (16.04%) SDLC
14 17 (16.04%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (15.09%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 106 (100.00%) Java
2 61 (57.55%) SQL
3 33 (31.13%) JavaScript
4 19 (17.92%) TypeScript
5 14 (13.21%) Shell Script
6 9 (8.49%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.83%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.83%) Scala
8 2 (1.89%) PromQL
8 2 (1.89%) Python
9 1 (0.94%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 28 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 24 (22.64%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (14.15%) Degree
4 12 (11.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.83%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.94%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.15%) QA
2 8 (7.55%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.89%) WCAG
4 1 (0.94%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.94%) PSD2
System Software
1 46 (43.40%) Docker
2 4 (3.77%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 39 (36.79%) Kubernetes
2 31 (29.25%) Grafana
3 26 (24.53%) Prometheus
4 15 (14.15%) Kibana
5 5 (4.72%) Ansible
5 5 (4.72%) Argo
6 2 (1.89%) Consul
6 2 (1.89%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.94%) Istio
7 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (26.42%) Oracle
2 9 (8.49%) IBM
2 9 (8.49%) Veracode
3 7 (6.60%) Jaspersoft
4 6 (5.66%) Atlassian
4 6 (5.66%) Google
4 6 (5.66%) MuleSoft
5 4 (3.77%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.89%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.89%) Solace
6 2 (1.89%) Splunk
7 1 (0.94%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.94%) Okta
7 1 (0.94%) Temenos
7 1 (0.94%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.94%) webMethods