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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 540 521 577
Rank change year-on-year -19 +56 -1
Contract jobs citing JPA 63 40 44
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.11% 0.096%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.77% 0.51% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 24 37
10th Percentile £268 £364 £390
25th Percentile £313 £446 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £543 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +14.21% -10.80%
75th Percentile £540 £709 £588
90th Percentile £566 £790 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £423 £500
% change year-on-year +6.51% -15.50% -

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 8,168 7,912 10,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.82% 21.68% 22.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,420 5,001 7,274
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.75% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 113 190
10th Percentile £29.70 £22.00 £36.19
25th Percentile £42.50 £36.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.12% -14.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.33 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.66% -15.72%

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 20 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 20 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 -11 51 £406 -29.35% 17
UK excluding London -3 32 £450 +6.51% 8
Work from Home +8 24 £475 -19.15% 10
London -21 23 £400 -33.50% 8
Midlands - 13 £500 - 2
West Midlands - 11 £500 - 2
North of England -41 8 £323 -17.83% 2
Scotland +4 5 £438 +4.17%
South East +1 4 £312 -37.70% 3
North West -21 4 £291 -25.99%
Yorkshire - 3 £550 -
South West - 2 £550 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £245 -
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 (12.70%) Confluence
2 4 (6.35%) Camunda
3 3 (4.76%) Drupal
3 3 (4.76%) SAS
3 3 (4.76%) WordPress
4 2 (3.17%) Alfresco
4 2 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.17%) Apache TomEE
5 1 (1.59%) CICS
5 1 (1.59%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.59%) JBoss
5 1 (1.59%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (58.73%) AWS
2 16 (25.40%) Azure
3 8 (12.70%) GitHub
4 7 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (9.52%) Amazon S3
5 6 (9.52%) AWS KMS
5 6 (9.52%) GCP
5 6 (9.52%) Route 53
6 4 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.76%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.17%) Azure AKS
8 2 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.59%) SaaS
9 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (49.21%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (22.22%) Relational Database
3 10 (15.87%) NoSQL
3 10 (15.87%) SQL Server
4 9 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (14.29%) MongoDB
5 8 (12.70%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (12.70%) Oracle Database
6 6 (9.52%) DynamoDB
6 6 (9.52%) MySQL
7 5 (7.94%) Redis
8 4 (6.35%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (4.76%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.59%) DB2
10 1 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 37 (58.73%) JUnit
2 31 (49.21%) Maven
3 30 (47.62%) Git
4 25 (39.68%) Mockito
5 21 (33.33%) Jenkins
6 19 (30.16%) SonarQube
7 16 (25.40%) Cucumber
8 14 (22.22%) JIRA
9 13 (20.63%) Selenium
10 12 (19.05%) GitLab
11 7 (11.11%) Bitbucket
12 6 (9.52%) Postman
12 6 (9.52%) SoapUI
12 6 (9.52%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (7.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (7.94%) REST Assured
13 5 (7.94%) Subversion
13 5 (7.94%) Xcode
13 5 (7.94%) XCTest
14 4 (6.35%) jMock
General
1 19 (30.16%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.81%) Finance
3 8 (12.70%) Banking
3 8 (12.70%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.59%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 46 (73.02%) Developer
2 40 (63.49%) Java Developer
3 15 (23.81%) Full-Stack Developer
3 15 (23.81%) Senior
4 11 (17.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 10 (15.87%) Senior Developer
5 10 (15.87%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (9.52%) Java Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Lead
7 5 (7.94%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 3 (4.76%) AWS Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Backend Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Lead Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Lead Java Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) Principal Developer
9 2 (3.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (88.89%) Spring Boot
2 49 (77.78%) Spring
3 48 (76.19%) Hibernate
4 28 (44.44%) REST
5 24 (38.10%) React
6 23 (36.51%) AngularJS
7 21 (33.33%) HTML
8 17 (26.98%) RESTful
9 14 (22.22%) CSS
9 14 (22.22%) Web Services
10 12 (19.05%) SOAP
11 11 (17.46%) Node.js
11 11 (17.46%) Spring Cloud
12 10 (15.87%) JSON
12 10 (15.87%) Kafka
12 10 (15.87%) Spring Batch
13 9 (14.29%) Bootstrap
13 9 (14.29%) J2EE
13 9 (14.29%) Spring MVC
14 8 (12.70%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.17%) PKI
2 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.59%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.59%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.59%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.59%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.70%) Unix
2 6 (9.52%) Linux
3 2 (3.17%) Windows
4 1 (1.59%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (71.43%) Microservices
2 38 (60.32%) Agile
3 33 (52.38%) TDD
4 24 (38.10%) CI/CD
5 22 (34.92%) DevOps
6 21 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (28.57%) Scrum
8 15 (23.81%) Test Automation
9 13 (20.63%) Unit Testing
10 12 (19.05%) MVC
11 11 (17.46%) Mentoring
11 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (17.46%) SDLC
12 10 (15.87%) Containerisation
12 10 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (15.87%) Software Engineering
13 9 (14.29%) Clean Code
13 9 (14.29%) Code Quality
13 9 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
13 9 (14.29%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 63 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (58.73%) SQL
3 29 (46.03%) JavaScript
4 7 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 5 (7.94%) Groovy
5 5 (7.94%) Shell Script
6 3 (4.76%) C#
6 3 (4.76%) PHP
7 2 (3.17%) Python
8 1 (1.59%) Bash
8 1 (1.59%) C++
8 1 (1.59%) COBOL
8 1 (1.59%) JCL
8 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 16 (25.40%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.17%) OCP
3 2 (3.17%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.59%) Degree
4 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) WCAG
2 4 (6.35%) QA
3 2 (3.17%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (42.86%) Docker
2 4 (6.35%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 24 (38.10%) Kubernetes
2 9 (14.29%) Grafana
3 6 (9.52%) Kibana
4 4 (6.35%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.76%) Terraform
6 1 (1.59%) Ansible
6 1 (1.59%) Control-M
6 1 (1.59%) logstash
Vendors
1 16 (25.40%) Oracle
2 6 (9.52%) Veracode
3 5 (7.94%) CA Agile Central
3 5 (7.94%) Dynatrace
3 5 (7.94%) Splunk
4 4 (6.35%) Atlassian
4 4 (6.35%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (3.17%) Microsoft