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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 510 574
Rank change year-on-year +4 +64 +14
Contract jobs citing JPA 66 40 48
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.11% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.83% 0.51% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 24 41
10th Percentile £268 £364 £400
25th Percentile £313 £446 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £543 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +14.21% -12.04%
75th Percentile £540 £709 £588
90th Percentile £566 £790 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £420 £465
% change year-on-year +10.12% -9.68% -7.00%

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 7,922 7,875 10,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.87% 21.73% 22.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,268 4,973 7,499
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £660
90th Percentile £725 £775 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.75% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 111 191
10th Percentile £29.00 £22.00 £36.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £36.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -3.85% +19.13% -16.06%

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 November 2025.

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 10 November 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
England +3 55 £400 -30.43% 17
UK excluding London -3 34 £463 +10.12% 13
Work from Home +19 27 £475 -32.14% 6
London +4 26 £400 -32.00% 5
Midlands - 15 £500 - 1
West Midlands - 13 £500 - 1
North of England -24 8 £323 +4.03% 4
South East +6 5 £312 -37.70% 6
Scotland -1 4 £444 +5.65% 2
North West -7 4 £291 -6.29% 2
Yorkshire - 3 £550 -
East Midlands - 2 £245 -
South West - 2 £550 -
North East - 1 £550 - 2

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 8 (12.12%) Confluence
2 4 (6.06%) Camunda
3 3 (4.55%) Drupal
3 3 (4.55%) SAS
3 3 (4.55%) WordPress
4 2 (3.03%) Alfresco
4 2 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.52%) Apache TomEE
5 1 (1.52%) CICS
5 1 (1.52%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.52%) CMS
5 1 (1.52%) JBoss
5 1 (1.52%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 39 (59.09%) AWS
2 17 (25.76%) Azure
3 9 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (13.64%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (12.12%) Amazon S3
4 8 (12.12%) GitHub
5 6 (9.09%) AWS KMS
5 6 (9.09%) GCP
5 6 (9.09%) Route 53
6 4 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.55%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.03%) Azure AKS
8 2 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.52%) SaaS
9 1 (1.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (51.52%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (21.21%) Relational Database
3 11 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (15.15%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (15.15%) NoSQL
4 10 (15.15%) SQL Server
5 9 (13.64%) MongoDB
5 9 (13.64%) Oracle Database
6 6 (9.09%) DynamoDB
6 6 (9.09%) MySQL
6 6 (9.09%) Redis
7 4 (6.06%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (4.55%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.52%) DB2
9 1 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 40 (60.61%) JUnit
2 33 (50.00%) Git
2 33 (50.00%) Maven
3 28 (42.42%) Mockito
4 23 (34.85%) Jenkins
5 22 (33.33%) SonarQube
6 16 (24.24%) Cucumber
7 15 (22.73%) JIRA
8 13 (19.70%) Selenium
9 12 (18.18%) GitLab
10 7 (10.61%) Bitbucket
10 7 (10.61%) Postman
10 7 (10.61%) SoapUI
11 6 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (9.09%) REST Assured
11 6 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (9.09%) Subversion
11 6 (9.09%) Xcode
11 6 (9.09%) XCTest
12 4 (6.06%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 20 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.24%) Finance
3 9 (13.64%) Banking
3 9 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.52%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 48 (72.73%) Developer
2 42 (63.64%) Java Developer
3 15 (22.73%) Full-Stack Developer
3 15 (22.73%) Senior
4 11 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 10 (15.15%) Senior Developer
5 10 (15.15%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (10.61%) Lead
7 6 (9.09%) Java Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Lead Developer
8 5 (7.58%) Lead Java Developer
8 5 (7.58%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 3 (4.55%) AWS Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Backend Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Senior Java Engineer
10 2 (3.03%) Angular Developer
10 2 (3.03%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (90.91%) Spring Boot
2 52 (78.79%) Spring
3 49 (74.24%) Hibernate
4 31 (46.97%) REST
5 26 (39.39%) AngularJS
6 25 (37.88%) React
7 22 (33.33%) HTML
8 17 (25.76%) RESTful
9 15 (22.73%) CSS
9 15 (22.73%) SOAP
9 15 (22.73%) Web Services
10 14 (21.21%) Spring Cloud
11 12 (18.18%) Bootstrap
11 12 (18.18%) Kafka
12 11 (16.67%) Node.js
12 11 (16.67%) Spring MVC
13 10 (15.15%) ActiveMQ
13 10 (15.15%) J2EE
13 10 (15.15%) JSON
13 10 (15.15%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.03%) PKI
2 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.52%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.52%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.52%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.64%) Unix
2 6 (9.09%) Linux
3 2 (3.03%) Windows
4 1 (1.52%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (74.24%) Microservices
2 41 (62.12%) Agile
3 36 (54.55%) TDD
4 25 (37.88%) CI/CD
5 24 (36.36%) DevOps
6 21 (31.82%) Full-Stack Development
7 20 (30.30%) Scrum
8 15 (22.73%) Test Automation
9 14 (21.21%) Unit Testing
10 13 (19.70%) MVC
10 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (18.18%) Containerisation
11 12 (18.18%) Mentoring
11 12 (18.18%) SDLC
12 11 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (15.15%) Code Quality
13 10 (15.15%) Multithreading
13 10 (15.15%) Software Architecture
13 10 (15.15%) Software Engineering
14 9 (13.64%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 66 (100.00%) Java
2 39 (59.09%) SQL
3 30 (45.45%) JavaScript
4 7 (10.61%) TypeScript
5 6 (9.09%) Groovy
5 6 (9.09%) Shell Script
6 3 (4.55%) C#
6 3 (4.55%) PHP
7 2 (3.03%) Python
8 1 (1.52%) Bash
8 1 (1.52%) C++
8 1 (1.52%) COBOL
8 1 (1.52%) JCL
8 1 (1.52%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 18 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.03%) OCP
3 2 (3.03%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.52%) Degree
4 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.58%) WCAG
2 4 (6.06%) QA
3 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 30 (45.45%) Docker
2 4 (6.06%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 25 (37.88%) Kubernetes
2 11 (16.67%) Grafana
3 6 (9.09%) Kibana
3 6 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.55%) Terraform
5 1 (1.52%) Ansible
5 1 (1.52%) Control-M
5 1 (1.52%) logstash
Vendors
1 17 (25.76%) Oracle
2 6 (9.09%) CA Agile Central
2 6 (9.09%) Dynatrace
2 6 (9.09%) Splunk
2 6 (9.09%) Veracode
3 4 (6.06%) Atlassian
3 4 (6.06%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (3.03%) Microsoft