JPA Contracts

Java Persistence API (JPA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring JPA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JPA over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 498 589
Rank change year-on-year +15 +91 +29
Contract jobs citing JPA 36 102 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.23% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.54% 1.14% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 72 87
10th Percentile £270 £375 £431
25th Percentile £369 £416 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £538 £589 £600
90th Percentile £545 £699 £662
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £513 £455
% change year-on-year -18.05% +12.64% -11.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £45.88 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

JPA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JPA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JPA in the UK

JPA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JPA.

Daily rate trend for JPA in the UK

JPA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JPA over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JPA in the UK

JPA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JPA.

Hourly rate trend for JPA in the UK

JPA
Top 13 Contract 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 30 April 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 +12 33 £448 -17.13% 19
London -2 20 £500 -9.09% 5
UK excluding London +27 13 £420 -18.05% 15
Midlands - 8 £420 - 2
Work from Home +24 6 £383 -27.14% 25
West Midlands - 6 £420 - 1
North of England +7 2 £445 -15.33% 2
East Midlands - 2 £269 - 1
South West +43 1 £525 +31.25% 2
Yorkshire +10 1 £414 -24.73% 1
Scotland -3 1 £270 -42.25% 4
North West -5 1 £475 -9.52%
South East - 1 £500 - 5

JPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) Alfresco
2 1 (2.78%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 26 (72.22%) AWS
2 6 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 6 (16.67%) Azure
3 5 (13.89%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (13.89%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (11.11%) AWS KMS
4 4 (11.11%) GitHub
4 4 (11.11%) Route 53
5 3 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (5.56%) Sentry
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.78%) GCP
7 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (61.11%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (27.78%) Relational Database
3 8 (22.22%) MongoDB
4 7 (19.44%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (16.67%) MySQL
6 5 (13.89%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (13.89%) DynamoDB
7 3 (8.33%) RDBMS
7 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
8 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
8 2 (5.56%) Redis
9 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (66.67%) JUnit
2 23 (63.89%) Maven
3 17 (47.22%) Jenkins
4 13 (36.11%) SonarQube
5 11 (30.56%) Mockito
6 9 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
6 9 (25.00%) Git
7 7 (19.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 7 (19.44%) Gradle
8 5 (13.89%) IntelliJ
9 4 (11.11%) DbUnit
9 4 (11.11%) JIRA
9 4 (11.11%) jMock
10 3 (8.33%) Bitbucket
10 3 (8.33%) CircleCI
10 3 (8.33%) Cucumber
10 3 (8.33%) Selenium
10 3 (8.33%) Subversion
11 2 (5.56%) GitLab
11 2 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (38.89%) Public Sector
1 14 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.00%) Finance
3 8 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Back Office
4 3 (8.33%) Military
5 2 (5.56%) Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (80.56%) Developer
2 17 (47.22%) Java Developer
3 11 (30.56%) Senior
3 11 (30.56%) Senior Developer
4 6 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (16.67%) Lead
4 6 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Lead Developer
5 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Architect
6 3 (8.33%) AWS Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Data Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Lead Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Lead Data Architect
8 1 (2.78%) COBOL Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 1 (2.78%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
8 1 (2.78%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (83.33%) Spring
2 27 (75.00%) Spring Boot
3 24 (66.67%) Hibernate
4 17 (47.22%) REST
5 14 (38.89%) AngularJS
6 13 (36.11%) HTML
7 10 (27.78%) Web Services
8 9 (25.00%) SOAP
9 8 (22.22%) Bootstrap
10 7 (19.44%) ActiveMQ
10 7 (19.44%) CSS
10 7 (19.44%) Node.js
10 7 (19.44%) Spring Cloud
11 6 (16.67%) RESTful
11 6 (16.67%) Spring Batch
11 6 (16.67%) Spring Integration
12 5 (13.89%) JMS
12 5 (13.89%) Kafka
12 5 (13.89%) React
13 4 (11.11%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (13.89%) PKI
3 3 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.78%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (69.44%) Microservices
2 20 (55.56%) TDD
3 16 (44.44%) Agile
4 15 (41.67%) DevOps
5 13 (36.11%) CI/CD
5 13 (36.11%) Unit Testing
6 9 (25.00%) Front End Development
7 8 (22.22%) Containerisation
7 8 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (19.44%) End-to-End Testing
8 7 (19.44%) Mentoring
8 7 (19.44%) Observability
8 7 (19.44%) Scrum
8 7 (19.44%) SOLID
9 6 (16.67%) High Availability
9 6 (16.67%) Sprint Review
10 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (13.89%) Risk Management
10 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
10 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (91.67%) Java
2 19 (52.78%) SQL
3 12 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 5 (13.89%) TypeScript
5 3 (8.33%) Kotlin
6 2 (5.56%) Groovy
6 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.78%) COBOL
7 1 (2.78%) JCL
7 1 (2.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 12 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.78%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 21 (58.33%) Docker
2 5 (13.89%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 16 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 6 (16.67%) Grafana
2 6 (16.67%) Terraform
3 5 (13.89%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.78%) Ansible
4 1 (2.78%) Argo
4 1 (2.78%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (2.78%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Splunk
2 6 (16.67%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (11.11%) Atlassian
3 4 (11.11%) Oracle
4 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.56%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (5.56%) Dynatrace
5 2 (5.56%) Veracode