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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 564 486 486
Rank change year-on-year -78 0 +106
Contract jobs citing JPA 106 66 74
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% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 49 55
10th Percentile £322 £268 £375
25th Percentile £401 £313 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £413 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% -25.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £650
90th Percentile £620 £555 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £425 £468
% change year-on-year +17.65% -9.09% -10.95%
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 11,904 8,573 9,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.68% 25.97% 24.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,819 5,684 6,029
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £440 £413 £430
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% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 187 186
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.05 £26.05
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.49 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.70% -15.38% +10.53%

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 7 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 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 7 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 -85 83 £482 +20.45% 43
UK excluding London -64 76 £500 +17.65% 32
Midlands -27 34 £583 +58.29% 9
West Midlands -25 32 £590 +18.00% 8
London -78 27 £425 +6.25% 18
Work from Home -75 22 £367 -22.84% 17
Scotland -10 17 £322 -28.44% 5
North of England -60 16 £520 +61.24% 9
Yorkshire -27 10 £382 -30.55% 4
North West -37 6 £537 +84.85% 5
South West -39 5 £381 -30.68% 1
South East -62 4 £450 -10.00% 5
East Midlands -23 1 £335 +24.07% 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 10 (9.43%) 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
3 17 (16.04%) GCP
3 17 (16.04%) GitHub
4 15 (14.15%) Amazon SQS
4 15 (14.15%) OpenShift
5 13 (12.26%) Amazon S3
6 11 (10.38%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (10.38%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (7.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (6.60%) AWS KMS
8 7 (6.60%) Route 53
9 6 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (5.66%) Serverless
10 5 (4.72%) Apigee
10 5 (4.72%) Cloud Run
10 5 (4.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (4.72%) Kong
11 4 (3.77%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (3.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.94%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (34.91%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (19.81%) Relational Database
3 16 (15.09%) MongoDB
4 15 (14.15%) SQL Server
5 12 (11.32%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (11.32%) MySQL
6 8 (7.55%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (7.55%) DynamoDB
7 6 (5.66%) NoSQL
7 6 (5.66%) RDBMS
8 5 (4.72%) Hazelcast
8 5 (4.72%) Oracle Database
8 5 (4.72%) Redis
9 4 (3.77%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (3.77%) Couchbase
9 4 (3.77%) Data Lake
9 4 (3.77%) Power BI
10 3 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.83%) Flink
10 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 36 (33.96%) GitLab
7 29 (27.36%) SonarQube
8 27 (25.47%) JIRA
9 26 (24.53%) Gradle
10 13 (12.26%) Bitbucket Server
11 10 (9.43%) REST Assured
12 9 (8.49%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (7.55%) Cucumber
14 5 (4.72%) DbUnit
15 4 (3.77%) 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%) JProfiler
General
1 26 (24.53%) Banking
1 26 (24.53%) Finance
2 25 (23.58%) Social Skills
3 23 (21.70%) Public Sector
4 20 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.89%) Law
7 2 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Back Office
8 1 (0.94%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.94%) Front Office
8 1 (0.94%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.94%) Retail Banking
8 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
6 18 (16.98%) Java Engineer
7 9 (8.49%) Lead
7 9 (8.49%) Lead Developer
7 9 (8.49%) Lead Java Developer
8 5 (4.72%) Backend Developer
9 4 (3.77%) Senior Backend Developer
9 4 (3.77%) Senior Java Engineer
10 3 (2.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (2.83%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 2 (1.89%) Distributed Systems Developer
11 2 (1.89%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 2 (1.89%) Kafka Developer
11 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 56 (52.83%) REST
4 55 (51.89%) Hibernate
5 37 (34.91%) React
6 33 (31.13%) RESTful
7 31 (29.25%) Kafka
8 29 (27.36%) HTML
9 27 (25.47%) AngularJS
10 25 (23.58%) CSS
10 25 (23.58%) OpenAPI
11 23 (21.70%) Spring MVC
12 20 (18.87%) SOAP
12 20 (18.87%) Spring Cloud
12 20 (18.87%) Web Services
13 19 (17.92%) Redux
14 17 (16.04%) ActiveMQ
15 15 (14.15%) OAuth
16 14 (13.21%) Swagger
17 13 (12.26%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.09%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.32%) Data Structures
3 11 (10.38%) Distributed Systems
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 3 (2.83%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.89%) Derivative
10 1 (0.94%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.94%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.94%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.66%) Linux
2 4 (3.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (70.75%) CI/CD
2 71 (66.98%) Microservices
3 69 (65.09%) Agile
4 64 (60.38%) Scrum
5 46 (43.40%) Test Automation
6 41 (38.68%) TDD
7 34 (32.08%) DevOps
8 28 (26.42%) Full-Stack Development
9 27 (25.47%) Containerisation
10 24 (22.64%) MVC
11 22 (20.75%) Front End Development
11 22 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (18.87%) User Stories
13 18 (16.98%) Clean Code
13 18 (16.98%) Code Quality
13 18 (16.98%) Kanban
13 18 (16.98%) Software Engineering
14 17 (16.04%) Observability
14 17 (16.04%) SDLC
14 17 (16.04%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 106 (100.00%) Java
2 61 (57.55%) SQL
3 35 (33.02%) 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
9 1 (0.94%) Groovy
9 1 (0.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 27 (25.47%) Security Cleared
2 23 (21.70%) 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 45 (42.45%) Docker
2 3 (2.83%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 39 (36.79%) Kubernetes
2 30 (28.30%) Grafana
3 25 (23.58%) 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 6 (5.66%) Google
3 6 (5.66%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (5.66%) MuleSoft
4 5 (4.72%) Atlassian
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