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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 574 466 482
Rank change year-on-year -108 +16 +126
Contract jobs citing JPA 73 66 105
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.22% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.73% 0.95% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 48 74
10th Percentile £329 £270 £375
25th Percentile £423 £362 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -14.35% +2.86%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £650
90th Percentile £630 £550 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £448 £500
% change year-on-year +3.35% -10.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
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 9,973 6,956 9,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.51% 22.77% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,537 4,716 6,375
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 140 282
10th Percentile £30.00 £28.91 £22.53
25th Percentile £51.25 £37.10 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.43 £81.01 £74.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%

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 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 29 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 -104 64 £475 - 10
UK excluding London -88 48 £463 +3.35% 13
London -67 25 £525 +10.53% 5
Midlands -53 24 £475 +13.10% 2
West Midlands -49 23 £475 -2.56% 2
Work from Home -63 15 £450 -5.26% 4
North of England -62 9 £407 -5.79% 2
Yorkshire - 7 - - 1
South East -57 6 £438 -12.50% 1
Scotland -6 5 £321 +18.70% 5
South West -35 3 £419 -23.86%
North West -41 2 £407 +29.87% 1
East of England - 1 - - 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 (6.85%) Confluence
1 5 (6.85%) nginx
2 2 (2.74%) Camunda
2 2 (2.74%) Drupal
2 2 (2.74%) WordPress
3 1 (1.37%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 43 (58.90%) AWS
2 30 (41.10%) Amazon SQS
3 25 (34.25%) Amazon S3
4 22 (30.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 22 (30.14%) Route 53
5 19 (26.03%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (24.66%) AWS KMS
7 15 (20.55%) GitHub
8 13 (17.81%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (16.44%) GCP
10 11 (15.07%) Azure
11 7 (9.59%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (8.22%) Serverless
13 5 (6.85%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (5.48%) Amazon MSK
14 4 (5.48%) Apigee
14 4 (5.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 4 (5.48%) Kong
14 4 (5.48%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.48%) DNS
2 1 (1.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (57.53%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (32.88%) DynamoDB
3 23 (31.51%) Amazon Aurora
3 23 (31.51%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (20.55%) MySQL
5 10 (13.70%) Redis
6 9 (12.33%) Relational Database
7 6 (8.22%) MongoDB
7 6 (8.22%) NoSQL
8 5 (6.85%) SQL Server
9 4 (5.48%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (5.48%) Couchbase
9 4 (5.48%) Data Lake
9 4 (5.48%) DocumentDB
9 4 (5.48%) Hazelcast
9 4 (5.48%) Power BI
9 4 (5.48%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.37%) Metadata
10 1 (1.37%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 50 (68.49%) Git
1 50 (68.49%) Jenkins
2 40 (54.79%) JUnit
3 38 (52.05%) Maven
4 29 (39.73%) Mockito
5 21 (28.77%) GitLab
5 21 (28.77%) SonarQube
6 14 (19.18%) DbUnit
7 13 (17.81%) jMock
8 12 (16.44%) Bitbucket Server
9 11 (15.07%) Gradle
10 8 (10.96%) JIRA
11 4 (5.48%) IntelliJ
11 4 (5.48%) Snyk
12 3 (4.11%) Flyway
13 2 (2.74%) Cucumber
13 2 (2.74%) git-flow
13 2 (2.74%) JProfiler
13 2 (2.74%) Liquibase
14 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
General
1 24 (32.88%) Public Sector
2 13 (17.81%) Social Skills
3 11 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (15.07%) Banking
3 11 (15.07%) Finance
4 3 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.74%) Law
6 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (71.23%) Developer
2 49 (67.12%) Java Developer
3 20 (27.40%) Senior
4 15 (20.55%) Senior Developer
4 15 (20.55%) Senior Java Developer
5 8 (10.96%) Lead
6 7 (9.59%) Lead Developer
6 7 (9.59%) Lead Java Developer
7 6 (8.22%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (8.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (8.22%) Java Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Architect
8 5 (6.85%) Java Architect
9 4 (5.48%) AWS Architect
9 4 (5.48%) Backend Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (5.48%) Senior Backend Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Senior Java Engineer
10 2 (2.74%) Principal Engineer
10 2 (2.74%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (95.89%) Spring
2 65 (89.04%) Spring Boot
3 47 (64.38%) Hibernate
4 38 (52.05%) REST
5 31 (42.47%) RESTful
6 25 (34.25%) Spring Cloud
7 24 (32.88%) Web Services
8 22 (30.14%) Spring Batch
9 21 (28.77%) AngularJS
9 21 (28.77%) SOAP
10 20 (27.40%) Spring Integration
11 19 (26.03%) ActiveMQ
12 16 (21.92%) React
13 15 (20.55%) Node.js
13 15 (20.55%) OAuth
14 14 (19.18%) OAuth2
15 13 (17.81%) PowerMock
15 13 (17.81%) Spring MVC
16 12 (16.44%) Kafka
17 11 (15.07%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.77%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (10.96%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.11%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.37%) LIMS
5 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.92%) Linux
2 4 (5.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (79.45%) Microservices
2 48 (65.75%) CI/CD
3 36 (49.32%) Agile
4 35 (47.95%) DevOps
5 31 (42.47%) Scrum
5 31 (42.47%) TDD
6 25 (34.25%) Containerisation
7 20 (27.40%) Performance Tuning
8 17 (23.29%) BDD
8 17 (23.29%) Design Patterns
9 16 (21.92%) Kanban
9 16 (21.92%) Observability
9 16 (21.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (17.81%) BPMN
10 13 (17.81%) MVC
11 12 (16.44%) Biometrics
11 12 (16.44%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (16.44%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (15.07%) Mentoring
12 11 (15.07%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 73 (100.00%) Java
2 52 (71.23%) SQL
3 17 (23.29%) JavaScript
4 10 (13.70%) TypeScript
5 9 (12.33%) PL/SQL
6 8 (10.96%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.11%) Python
8 2 (2.74%) C#
8 2 (2.74%) Go
8 2 (2.74%) PHP
8 2 (2.74%) PromQL
9 1 (1.37%) Groovy
9 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 31 (42.47%) Security Cleared
2 28 (38.36%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) AWS Certification
3 5 (6.85%) Azure Certification
3 5 (6.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.48%) Degree
5 3 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.07%) QA
2 4 (5.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.48%) NIST
2 4 (5.48%) PCI DSS
3 3 (4.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 46 (63.01%) Docker
2 11 (15.07%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 24 (32.88%) Grafana
1 24 (32.88%) Kubernetes
2 12 (16.44%) Terraform
3 11 (15.07%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.48%) Ansible
4 4 (5.48%) Argo
4 4 (5.48%) Kibana
5 2 (2.74%) Consul
5 2 (2.74%) Zipkin
6 1 (1.37%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (23.29%) Jaspersoft
1 17 (23.29%) Oracle
2 14 (19.18%) Atlassian
3 5 (6.85%) Google
4 3 (4.11%) Veracode
5 2 (2.74%) Solace
6 1 (1.37%) IBM
6 1 (1.37%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.37%) Okta
6 1 (1.37%) Salesforce