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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 468 483
Rank change year-on-year -116 +15 +125
Contract jobs citing JPA 71 68 104
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.22% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.71% 0.96% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 50 73
10th Percentile £328 £268 £375
25th Percentile £420 £358 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £435 £540
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -19.44% +2.86%
75th Percentile £525 £536 £650
90th Percentile £588 £550 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £420 £500
% change year-on-year +10.12% -16.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 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 10,030 7,048 9,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.49% 22.76% 21.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,577 4,774 6,384
10th Percentile £363 £352 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £765 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 144 279
10th Percentile £30.00 £27.97 £22.70
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 £74.45 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.71 £74.44
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 2 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 2 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
England -114 60 £469 +4.17% 17
UK excluding London -101 50 £463 +10.12% 16
Midlands -46 24 £475 +13.10% 3
West Midlands -49 23 £475 -2.56% 3
London -79 21 £475 - 8
Work from Home -63 15 £450 -5.26% 7
North of England -69 9 £407 +39.93% 4
Scotland -4 7 £321 +18.70% 5
Yorkshire - 7 - - 1
South East -54 6 £438 -12.50% 1
South West -33 3 £419 -23.86%
North West -51 2 £407 +51.68% 2
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 (7.04%) Confluence
1 5 (7.04%) nginx
2 2 (2.82%) Camunda
2 2 (2.82%) Drupal
2 2 (2.82%) WordPress
3 1 (1.41%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 39 (54.93%) AWS
2 27 (38.03%) Amazon SQS
3 22 (30.99%) Amazon S3
4 19 (26.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 19 (26.76%) Amazon EC2
4 19 (26.76%) Route 53
5 18 (25.35%) AWS KMS
6 12 (16.90%) GCP
6 12 (16.90%) GitHub
7 11 (15.49%) Azure
8 10 (14.08%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.63%) Apigee
9 4 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.63%) Cloud Run
9 4 (5.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (5.63%) Kong
9 4 (5.63%) OpenShift
9 4 (5.63%) Power Platform
10 3 (4.23%) Serverless
11 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) DNS
1 1 (1.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (53.52%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (29.58%) DynamoDB
3 20 (28.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 20 (28.17%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (16.90%) MySQL
5 9 (12.68%) Relational Database
6 7 (9.86%) Redis
7 6 (8.45%) MongoDB
8 5 (7.04%) SQL Server
9 4 (5.63%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (5.63%) Couchbase
9 4 (5.63%) Data Lake
9 4 (5.63%) Hazelcast
9 4 (5.63%) Power BI
9 4 (5.63%) RDBMS
10 3 (4.23%) NoSQL
11 1 (1.41%) DocumentDB
11 1 (1.41%) Metadata
11 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
11 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 50 (70.42%) Git
2 47 (66.20%) Jenkins
3 40 (56.34%) JUnit
4 38 (53.52%) Maven
5 29 (40.85%) Mockito
6 21 (29.58%) SonarQube
7 18 (25.35%) GitLab
8 14 (19.72%) DbUnit
9 13 (18.31%) jMock
10 12 (16.90%) Bitbucket Server
11 11 (15.49%) Gradle
12 8 (11.27%) JIRA
13 4 (5.63%) IntelliJ
13 4 (5.63%) Snyk
14 3 (4.23%) Flyway
15 2 (2.82%) Cucumber
15 2 (2.82%) git-flow
15 2 (2.82%) JProfiler
15 2 (2.82%) Liquibase
16 1 (1.41%) REST Assured
General
1 24 (33.80%) Public Sector
2 13 (18.31%) Social Skills
3 11 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (15.49%) Finance
4 10 (14.08%) Banking
5 3 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.82%) Law
7 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (76.06%) Developer
2 51 (71.83%) Java Developer
3 20 (28.17%) Senior
4 15 (21.13%) Senior Developer
4 15 (21.13%) Senior Java Developer
5 8 (11.27%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (11.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 8 (11.27%) Lead
6 7 (9.86%) Lead Developer
6 7 (9.86%) Lead Java Developer
7 6 (8.45%) Java Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Backend Developer
8 4 (5.63%) Senior Backend Developer
8 4 (5.63%) Senior Java Engineer
9 2 (2.82%) Applications Developer
9 2 (2.82%) Java Applications Developer
9 2 (2.82%) Java Architect
9 2 (2.82%) Principal Engineer
9 2 (2.82%) React Developer
9 2 (2.82%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (95.77%) Spring
2 63 (88.73%) Spring Boot
3 43 (60.56%) Hibernate
4 37 (52.11%) REST
5 27 (38.03%) RESTful
6 24 (33.80%) Web Services
7 22 (30.99%) Spring Batch
7 22 (30.99%) Spring Cloud
8 21 (29.58%) AngularJS
8 21 (29.58%) SOAP
9 20 (28.17%) Spring Integration
10 19 (26.76%) ActiveMQ
11 16 (22.54%) React
12 15 (21.13%) Node.js
13 13 (18.31%) PowerMock
13 13 (18.31%) Spring MVC
14 11 (15.49%) Bootstrap
14 11 (15.49%) HTML
14 11 (15.49%) OAuth
15 10 (14.08%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.35%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.04%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.23%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.41%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.41%) LIMS
5 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (22.54%) Linux
2 4 (5.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (76.06%) Microservices
2 44 (61.97%) CI/CD
3 36 (50.70%) Agile
4 32 (45.07%) DevOps
5 31 (43.66%) Scrum
5 31 (43.66%) TDD
6 24 (33.80%) Containerisation
7 17 (23.94%) BDD
8 16 (22.54%) Kanban
8 16 (22.54%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (19.72%) Design Patterns
9 14 (19.72%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (18.31%) BPMN
10 13 (18.31%) MVC
10 13 (18.31%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (16.90%) Biometrics
11 12 (16.90%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (16.90%) Observability
12 11 (15.49%) Mentoring
12 11 (15.49%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 71 (100.00%) Java
2 49 (69.01%) SQL
3 17 (23.94%) JavaScript
4 10 (14.08%) TypeScript
5 9 (12.68%) PL/SQL
6 8 (11.27%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.82%) C#
7 2 (2.82%) Go
7 2 (2.82%) PHP
7 2 (2.82%) PromQL
7 2 (2.82%) Python
8 1 (1.41%) Groovy
8 1 (1.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 31 (43.66%) Security Cleared
2 28 (39.44%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.04%) AWS Certification
3 5 (7.04%) Azure Certification
3 5 (7.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.63%) Degree
5 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.27%) QA
2 3 (4.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.41%) NIST
3 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (59.15%) Docker
2 11 (15.49%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 24 (33.80%) Grafana
2 23 (32.39%) Kubernetes
3 11 (15.49%) Prometheus
4 8 (11.27%) Terraform
5 4 (5.63%) Ansible
5 4 (5.63%) Argo
5 4 (5.63%) Kibana
6 2 (2.82%) Consul
6 2 (2.82%) Zipkin
7 1 (1.41%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (23.94%) Jaspersoft
1 17 (23.94%) Oracle
2 14 (19.72%) Atlassian
3 5 (7.04%) Google
4 3 (4.23%) Veracode
5 2 (2.82%) Solace
6 1 (1.41%) IBM
6 1 (1.41%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.41%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.41%) Okta
6 1 (1.41%) Salesforce