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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 464 490
Rank change year-on-year -119 +26 +101
Contract jobs citing JPA 62 58 97
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.20% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% 0.88% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 39 68
10th Percentile £366 £304 £375
25th Percentile £425 £367 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% -
75th Percentile £563 £538 £576
90th Percentile £630 £550 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -2.63% -7.32% -1.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year - +41.67% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £45.88

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 9,586 6,592 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.59% 22.87% 21.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,298 4,509 6,249
10th Percentile £363 £359 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £536
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -2.85% -2.59%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 117 254
10th Percentile £31.03 £29.18 £21.81
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.75 £65.95
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.15 £74.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.43
% change year-on-year - +34.21% -25.49%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -109 57 £475 -5.00% 12
UK excluding London -88 41 £463 -2.63% 14
Midlands -58 22 £475 +13.10%
West Midlands -52 21 £475 -2.56%
London -78 21 £550 +10.00% 5
Work from Home -48 12 £475 -2.56% 10
North of England - 9 £407 - 5
Yorkshire - 7 - - 1
South East -57 5 £438 -12.50% 2
South West -32 3 £419 -23.86% 1
North West - 2 £407 - 2
Scotland -10 1 - - 4
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 (8.06%) Confluence
2 3 (4.84%) nginx
3 2 (3.23%) Camunda
3 2 (3.23%) Drupal
3 2 (3.23%) WordPress
4 1 (1.61%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 38 (61.29%) AWS
2 30 (48.39%) Amazon SQS
3 25 (40.32%) Amazon S3
4 22 (35.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 22 (35.48%) Route 53
5 19 (30.65%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (29.03%) AWS KMS
7 15 (24.19%) GitHub
8 13 (20.97%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (17.74%) Azure
9 11 (17.74%) GCP
10 7 (11.29%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (9.68%) Serverless
12 5 (8.06%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (6.45%) Amazon MSK
13 4 (6.45%) Apigee
13 4 (6.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (6.45%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) DNS
2 1 (1.61%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (66.13%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (38.71%) DynamoDB
3 23 (37.10%) Amazon Aurora
3 23 (37.10%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (20.97%) MySQL
5 10 (16.13%) Redis
6 9 (14.52%) Relational Database
7 6 (9.68%) MongoDB
7 6 (9.68%) NoSQL
8 5 (8.06%) SQL Server
9 4 (6.45%) DocumentDB
9 4 (6.45%) Hazelcast
9 4 (6.45%) RDBMS
10 3 (4.84%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (4.84%) Couchbase
10 3 (4.84%) Data Lake
10 3 (4.84%) Power BI
11 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.61%) Metadata
11 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 43 (69.35%) Jenkins
2 42 (67.74%) Git
3 36 (58.06%) JUnit
4 31 (50.00%) Maven
5 27 (43.55%) Mockito
6 21 (33.87%) SonarQube
7 19 (30.65%) GitLab
8 14 (22.58%) DbUnit
9 13 (20.97%) jMock
10 12 (19.35%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (14.52%) Gradle
12 7 (11.29%) JIRA
13 4 (6.45%) Snyk
14 3 (4.84%) Flyway
15 2 (3.23%) Cucumber
15 2 (3.23%) git-flow
15 2 (3.23%) Liquibase
16 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket
16 1 (1.61%) REST Assured
16 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (35.48%) Public Sector
2 11 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (17.74%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.52%) Finance
4 8 (12.90%) Banking
5 3 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.23%) Law
7 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (69.35%) Developer
2 40 (64.52%) Java Developer
3 17 (27.42%) Senior
4 14 (22.58%) Senior Developer
4 14 (22.58%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (8.06%) Architect
5 5 (8.06%) Java Architect
5 5 (8.06%) Java Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Lead
6 4 (6.45%) AWS Architect
6 4 (6.45%) Backend Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Lead Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Lead Java Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Senior Backend Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Java Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Java Applications Developer
8 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (95.16%) Spring
2 56 (90.32%) Spring Boot
3 44 (70.97%) Hibernate
4 33 (53.23%) REST
5 30 (48.39%) RESTful
6 25 (40.32%) Spring Cloud
7 23 (37.10%) Web Services
8 22 (35.48%) Spring Batch
9 21 (33.87%) AngularJS
9 21 (33.87%) SOAP
10 20 (32.26%) Spring Integration
11 19 (30.65%) ActiveMQ
12 15 (24.19%) OAuth
13 14 (22.58%) OAuth2
14 13 (20.97%) PowerMock
15 12 (19.35%) Kafka
15 12 (19.35%) Node.js
16 11 (17.74%) Bootstrap
17 10 (16.13%) OpenTelemetry
17 10 (16.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 21 (33.87%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (12.90%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.61%) LIMS
4 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (25.81%) Linux
2 3 (4.84%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (83.87%) Microservices
2 42 (67.74%) CI/CD
3 34 (54.84%) DevOps
4 32 (51.61%) Agile
5 28 (45.16%) TDD
6 25 (40.32%) Scrum
7 23 (37.10%) Containerisation
8 20 (32.26%) Performance Tuning
9 17 (27.42%) BDD
10 16 (25.81%) Design Patterns
10 16 (25.81%) Kanban
10 16 (25.81%) Observability
10 16 (25.81%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (20.97%) BPMN
12 12 (19.35%) Biometrics
12 12 (19.35%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (17.74%) Open Source
14 10 (16.13%) Multithreading
14 10 (16.13%) OWASP
15 9 (14.52%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 62 (100.00%) Java
2 45 (72.58%) SQL
3 10 (16.13%) JavaScript
4 8 (12.90%) TypeScript
5 6 (9.68%) PL/SQL
6 5 (8.06%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.84%) Python
8 2 (3.23%) C#
8 2 (3.23%) Go
8 2 (3.23%) PHP
8 2 (3.23%) PromQL
9 1 (1.61%) Groovy
9 1 (1.61%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 27 (43.55%) Security Cleared
2 24 (38.71%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.06%) AWS Certification
3 5 (8.06%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.45%) Degree
5 3 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) QA
2 4 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.45%) NIST
2 4 (6.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (70.97%) Docker
2 11 (17.74%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 24 (38.71%) Grafana
2 21 (33.87%) Kubernetes
3 12 (19.35%) Terraform
4 11 (17.74%) Prometheus
5 4 (6.45%) Argo
6 3 (4.84%) Ansible
7 2 (3.23%) Consul
7 2 (3.23%) Kibana
7 2 (3.23%) Zipkin
8 1 (1.61%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (27.42%) Jaspersoft
2 14 (22.58%) Atlassian
3 12 (19.35%) Oracle
4 4 (6.45%) Google
5 3 (4.84%) Veracode
6 2 (3.23%) Solace
7 1 (1.61%) IBM
7 1 (1.61%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.61%) Okta
7 1 (1.61%) Salesforce