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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 473 475
Rank change year-on-year -112 +2 +124
Contract jobs citing JPA 76 71 99
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.75% 0.96% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 52 71
10th Percentile £318 £268 £375
25th Percentile £338 £358 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £413 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% -24.86% +10.00%
75th Percentile £488 £517 £650
90th Percentile £500 £549 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £420 £430
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.33% -12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
Median hourly rate £35.00 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +41.67% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 - £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 10,100 7,404 8,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.22% 22.56% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,594 5,003 5,902
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 160 247
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.23 £23.38
25th Percentile £44.38 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £74.07 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.03 £80.10 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +13.04% -1.37% -0.42%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -75 58 £450 +7.14% 16
England -117 56 £450 +8.89% 16
Midlands -55 24 £475 +13.10% 4
West Midlands -49 23 £475 -2.56% 3
Work from Home -73 18 £414 -8.11% 5
London -76 16 £425 +3.03% 6
Scotland -5 14 £322 - 4
North of England -69 9 £382 +21.88% 4
Yorkshire -37 8 £450 +12.50% 1
South East -62 6 £438 -12.50% 4
South West -37 4 £463 -15.91%
North West -51 1 £313 +16.79% 3
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 6 (7.89%) Confluence
2 5 (6.58%) nginx
3 3 (3.95%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 41 (53.95%) AWS
2 26 (34.21%) Amazon SQS
3 21 (27.63%) Amazon S3
4 19 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (23.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 18 (23.68%) AWS KMS
5 18 (23.68%) Route 53
6 17 (22.37%) Azure
7 14 (18.42%) GCP
8 12 (15.79%) GitHub
9 8 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (7.89%) OpenShift
11 4 (5.26%) Apigee
11 4 (5.26%) Cloud Run
11 4 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (5.26%) Kong
11 4 (5.26%) Power Platform
12 3 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (26.32%) DynamoDB
3 19 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 19 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (14.47%) MySQL
5 10 (13.16%) Relational Database
6 8 (10.53%) MongoDB
7 6 (7.89%) Redis
7 6 (7.89%) SQL Server
8 4 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (5.26%) Couchbase
8 4 (5.26%) Data Lake
8 4 (5.26%) Hazelcast
8 4 (5.26%) Power BI
8 4 (5.26%) RDBMS
9 3 (3.95%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.95%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.32%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.32%) Cloud Spanner
10 1 (1.32%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 53 (69.74%) Git
2 52 (68.42%) Jenkins
3 41 (53.95%) JUnit
3 41 (53.95%) Maven
4 28 (36.84%) Mockito
5 22 (28.95%) SonarQube
6 14 (18.42%) DbUnit
6 14 (18.42%) GitLab
7 13 (17.11%) Bitbucket Server
7 13 (17.11%) jMock
8 12 (15.79%) Gradle
9 11 (14.47%) JIRA
10 4 (5.26%) IntelliJ
10 4 (5.26%) Snyk
11 3 (3.95%) Cucumber
11 3 (3.95%) Flyway
12 2 (2.63%) git-flow
12 2 (2.63%) GoCD
12 2 (2.63%) Liquibase
12 2 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (36.84%) Public Sector
2 15 (19.74%) Social Skills
3 13 (17.11%) Finance
4 12 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (15.79%) Banking
5 3 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.63%) Law
7 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (84.21%) Developer
2 61 (80.26%) Java Developer
3 26 (34.21%) Senior
4 21 (27.63%) Senior Developer
4 21 (27.63%) Senior Java Developer
5 16 (21.05%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (18.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 8 (10.53%) Lead
8 7 (9.21%) Lead Developer
8 7 (9.21%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (6.58%) Java Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) Backend Developer
10 4 (5.26%) Senior Backend Developer
10 4 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
11 2 (2.63%) React Developer
11 2 (2.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 1 (1.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 1 (1.32%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 1 (1.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 1 (1.32%) Senior Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (97.37%) Spring
2 69 (90.79%) Spring Boot
3 48 (63.16%) REST
4 43 (56.58%) Hibernate
5 27 (35.53%) AngularJS
6 24 (31.58%) React
6 24 (31.58%) RESTful
6 24 (31.58%) Web Services
7 23 (30.26%) SOAP
7 23 (30.26%) Spring Cloud
8 22 (28.95%) Spring Batch
9 21 (27.63%) ActiveMQ
10 20 (26.32%) Spring Integration
11 19 (25.00%) Node.js
12 16 (21.05%) HTML
13 14 (18.42%) Kafka
14 13 (17.11%) CSS
14 13 (17.11%) PowerMock
14 13 (17.11%) Spring MVC
15 11 (14.47%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.68%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (7.89%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.58%) Data Structures
3 5 (6.58%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.95%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.63%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.32%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.32%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.05%) Linux
2 4 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (75.00%) Microservices
2 50 (65.79%) CI/CD
3 45 (59.21%) Agile
4 37 (48.68%) Scrum
5 33 (43.42%) TDD
6 32 (42.11%) DevOps
7 23 (30.26%) Full-Stack Development
8 21 (27.63%) Containerisation
9 18 (23.68%) Kanban
10 17 (22.37%) BDD
11 15 (19.74%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (19.74%) Performance Tuning
12 14 (18.42%) Design Patterns
12 14 (18.42%) MVC
12 14 (18.42%) Test Automation
13 13 (17.11%) BPMN
13 13 (17.11%) Functional Programming
14 12 (15.79%) Biometrics
14 12 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
14 12 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 76 (100.00%) Java
2 49 (64.47%) SQL
3 20 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 12 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 9 (11.84%) PL/SQL
6 6 (7.89%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.63%) PromQL
7 2 (2.63%) Python
8 1 (1.32%) Groovy
8 1 (1.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 30 (39.47%) Security Cleared
2 26 (34.21%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.58%) AWS Certification
3 5 (6.58%) Azure Certification
3 5 (6.58%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (6.58%) Degree
4 4 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.21%) QA
2 5 (6.58%) Accessibility
System Software
1 42 (55.26%) Docker
2 11 (14.47%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 27 (35.53%) Grafana
2 26 (34.21%) Kubernetes
3 15 (19.74%) Prometheus
4 6 (7.89%) Terraform
5 5 (6.58%) Ansible
6 4 (5.26%) Argo
7 2 (2.63%) Consul
7 2 (2.63%) Kibana
7 2 (2.63%) Zipkin
8 1 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.32%) Istio
8 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (25.00%) Oracle
2 17 (22.37%) Jaspersoft
3 14 (18.42%) Atlassian
4 5 (6.58%) Google
5 4 (5.26%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.63%) IBM
6 2 (2.63%) Solace
6 2 (2.63%) Veracode
7 1 (1.32%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.32%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.32%) Okta
7 1 (1.32%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.32%) Splunk