Java Persistence API (JPA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for JPA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JPA over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 496 595 615
Rank change year-on-year +99 +20 -53
Contract jobs citing JPA 102 124 239
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.21% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.15% 0.89% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 87 174
10th Percentile £375 £431 £388
25th Percentile £416 £451 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +9.38% +1.05%
75th Percentile £589 £600 £608
90th Percentile £699 £662 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £455 £520
% change year-on-year +12.64% -12.50% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £45.88 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.44
90th Percentile - - £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 - £61.63
% change year-on-year - - +54.06%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

JPA is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

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 27 April 2024.

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 10 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 27 April 2024. 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 84 £540 +2.86% 10
London +90 57 £550 -8.33% 10
UK excluding London +52 40 £513 +12.64% 1
Work from Home +110 32 £525 +5.00% 4
North of England +39 23 £525 +17.98%
North West +16 17 £525 +17.98%
Scotland +43 13 £468 -16.89% 1
Yorkshire - 6 £550 -
South West +21 3 £400 -23.81%
East of England +14 1 £395 -21.00%

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 14 (13.73%) Confluence
2 2 (1.96%) Apache
2 2 (1.96%) JBoss
2 2 (1.96%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.96%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 40 (39.22%) AWS
2 7 (6.86%) Amazon MSK
2 7 (6.86%) Amazon S3
2 7 (6.86%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (4.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (1.96%) Azure
5 1 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.98%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.90%) SSH
2 3 (2.94%) HTTP
2 3 (2.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (21.57%) PostgreSQL
1 22 (21.57%) Relational Database
2 18 (17.65%) Oracle Database
3 7 (6.86%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.86%) Apache Cassandra
3 7 (6.86%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.88%) MySQL
5 4 (3.92%) Redis
6 3 (2.94%) CockroachDB
7 2 (1.96%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (30.39%) JUnit
2 30 (29.41%) Git
3 23 (22.55%) JIRA
4 22 (21.57%) Jenkins
5 10 (9.80%) Maven
6 7 (6.86%) Liquibase
7 6 (5.88%) Cucumber
8 5 (4.90%) Mockito
9 4 (3.92%) Gatling
9 4 (3.92%) ScalaTest
10 3 (2.94%) Bitbucket
10 3 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.96%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.96%) GitLab
11 2 (1.96%) Subversion
12 1 (0.98%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.98%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.98%) JMeter
12 1 (0.98%) Selenium
12 1 (0.98%) SoapUI
General
1 26 (25.49%) Public Sector
2 18 (17.65%) Finance
3 12 (11.76%) Banking
3 12 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (7.84%) Social Skills
5 5 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.94%) Front Office
6 3 (2.94%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 86 (84.31%) Developer
2 68 (66.67%) Java Developer
3 13 (12.75%) Oracle Developer
4 12 (11.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 11 (10.78%) DBA
5 11 (10.78%) Oracle DBA
6 10 (9.80%) Full Stack Developer
6 10 (9.80%) SQL Developer
7 9 (8.82%) Java Engineer
8 8 (7.84%) Full Stack Engineer
8 8 (7.84%) Lead
8 8 (7.84%) Lead Developer
8 8 (7.84%) Lead Java Developer
9 7 (6.86%) Junior
9 7 (6.86%) Junior Developer
9 7 (6.86%) Junior Java Developer
9 7 (6.86%) SQL DBA
10 6 (5.88%) Senior
10 6 (5.88%) Senior Developer
11 5 (4.90%) Full Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (88.24%) Spring
2 79 (77.45%) Hibernate
3 76 (74.51%) Spring Boot
4 70 (68.63%) REST
5 27 (26.47%) Spring Security
6 26 (25.49%) React
7 16 (15.69%) AngularJS
8 15 (14.71%) CSS
8 15 (14.71%) HTML
9 9 (8.82%) Web Services
9 9 (8.82%) XML
10 7 (6.86%) JSON
11 6 (5.88%) Spring MVC
12 5 (4.90%) J2EE
12 5 (4.90%) JDBC
12 5 (4.90%) RESTful
12 5 (4.90%) SOAP
13 4 (3.92%) Akka
13 4 (3.92%) Play Framework
13 4 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.71%) Management Information System
2 12 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (10.78%) Public Cloud
4 5 (4.90%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.92%) Credit Derivative
6 3 (2.94%) Derivative
7 2 (1.96%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.96%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.98%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.76%) Linux
2 11 (10.78%) Unix
3 1 (0.98%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (75.49%) Agile
2 57 (55.88%) Microservices
3 48 (47.06%) CI/CD
4 41 (40.20%) Front End Development
5 40 (39.22%) Scrum
6 32 (31.37%) DevOps
6 32 (31.37%) High Availability
6 32 (31.37%) Unit Testing
7 31 (30.39%) SDLC
7 31 (30.39%) Software Engineering
8 27 (26.47%) Mentoring
8 27 (26.47%) Observability
9 20 (19.61%) Full Stack Development
9 20 (19.61%) TDD
10 18 (17.65%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 14 (13.73%) BDD
12 13 (12.75%) Operational Stability
13 12 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
13 12 (11.76%) Software Architecture
14 11 (10.78%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 102 (100.00%) Java
2 36 (35.29%) SQL
3 35 (34.31%) TypeScript
4 6 (5.88%) PL/SQL
5 5 (4.90%) Perl
5 5 (4.90%) Python
6 4 (3.92%) Scala
7 3 (2.94%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.96%) Bash
Qualifications
1 53 (51.96%) SC Cleared
1 53 (51.96%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.65%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.98%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.98%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.90%) QA
2 1 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.98%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (25.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (28.43%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.86%) Grafana
3 4 (3.92%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.94%) Ansible
5 2 (1.96%) Istio
6 1 (0.98%) Kibana
6 1 (0.98%) logstash
Vendors
1 23 (22.55%) Oracle
2 2 (1.96%) IBM
3 1 (0.98%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.98%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.98%) VMware