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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 495 481
Rank change year-on-year -73 -14 +113
Contract jobs citing JPA 104 64 78
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.20% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.88% 0.75% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 49 59
10th Percentile £322 £268 £375
25th Percentile £400 £313 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -27.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £650
90th Percentile £616 £555 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £425 £435
% change year-on-year +13.37% -2.30% -17.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 - -

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 11,754 8,517 9,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.61% 25.95% 24.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,733 5,676 6,164
10th Percentile £375 £353 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 187 189
10th Percentile £28.64 £31.25 £25.56
25th Percentile £49.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.83% -12.48% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.80 £74.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £58.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.84% -9.62% +10.11%

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 28 September 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 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 28 September 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 -90 83 £463 +15.76% 38
UK excluding London -48 76 £482 +13.37% 28
Midlands -24 35 £583 +58.29% 9
West Midlands -21 33 £590 +18.00% 9
London -81 26 £425 +7.59% 16
Work from Home -63 22 £367 -22.84% 15
Scotland -13 16 £322 -28.44% 5
North of England -61 15 £519 +60.78% 8
Yorkshire -33 10 £382 -30.55% 4
South West -34 5 £381 -30.68% 2
North West -54 5 £537 +84.85% 4
South East -57 4 £450 -10.00% 2
East Midlands -21 1 £335 +24.07%
East of England - 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 20 (19.23%) Confluence
2 9 (8.65%) Camunda
3 5 (4.81%) nginx
4 3 (2.88%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Finacle
1 1 (0.96%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.96%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 56 (53.85%) AWS
2 18 (17.31%) GitHub
3 16 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
3 16 (15.38%) Azure
3 16 (15.38%) GCP
4 14 (13.46%) OpenShift
5 13 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 12 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (8.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (7.69%) AWS KMS
8 8 (7.69%) Route 53
9 5 (4.81%) Apigee
9 5 (4.81%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.81%) Cloud Run
9 5 (4.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (4.81%) Kong
9 5 (4.81%) Serverless
10 4 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (3.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.96%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (36.54%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (20.19%) Relational Database
3 16 (15.38%) MongoDB
4 13 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 12 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (11.54%) MySQL
6 9 (8.65%) DynamoDB
7 8 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (5.77%) NoSQL
8 6 (5.77%) RDBMS
8 6 (5.77%) Redis
9 5 (4.81%) Hazelcast
9 5 (4.81%) Oracle Database
10 4 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (3.85%) Couchbase
10 4 (3.85%) Data Lake
10 4 (3.85%) Power BI
11 3 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (2.88%) Pinecone
11 3 (2.88%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 68 (65.38%) Maven
2 65 (62.50%) Jenkins
3 60 (57.69%) Git
3 60 (57.69%) JUnit
4 48 (46.15%) Mockito
5 37 (35.58%) GitLab
6 30 (28.85%) SonarQube
7 26 (25.00%) JIRA
8 24 (23.08%) Gradle
9 14 (13.46%) Bitbucket Server
10 9 (8.65%) REST Assured
10 9 (8.65%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (7.69%) Cucumber
12 6 (5.77%) DbUnit
13 5 (4.81%) jMock
14 4 (3.85%) Snyk
15 3 (2.88%) Flyway
15 3 (2.88%) IntelliJ
15 3 (2.88%) Selenium
16 2 (1.92%) git-flow
General
1 25 (24.04%) Banking
2 24 (23.08%) Finance
2 24 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 24 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 20 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.92%) Law
6 2 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.96%) Front Office
7 1 (0.96%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (75.96%) Developer
2 72 (69.23%) Java Developer
3 35 (33.65%) Senior
4 28 (26.92%) Senior Developer
4 28 (26.92%) Senior Java Developer
5 20 (19.23%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (16.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 17 (16.35%) Java Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Lead
7 8 (7.69%) Lead Developer
7 8 (7.69%) Lead Java Developer
8 5 (4.81%) Backend Developer
9 4 (3.85%) Senior Backend Developer
9 4 (3.85%) Senior Java Engineer
10 3 (2.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems Developer
11 2 (1.92%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 2 (1.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 2 (1.92%) React Developer
11 2 (1.92%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (94.23%) Spring
2 96 (92.31%) Spring Boot
3 55 (52.88%) REST
4 54 (51.92%) Hibernate
5 35 (33.65%) React
6 34 (32.69%) RESTful
7 30 (28.85%) Kafka
8 28 (26.92%) HTML
9 26 (25.00%) AngularJS
9 26 (25.00%) OpenAPI
10 24 (23.08%) CSS
11 23 (22.12%) Spring MVC
12 21 (20.19%) Spring Cloud
13 20 (19.23%) SOAP
13 20 (19.23%) Web Services
14 18 (17.31%) ActiveMQ
14 18 (17.31%) Redux
15 15 (14.42%) OAuth
15 15 (14.42%) Swagger
16 13 (12.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (10.58%) Data Structures
4 8 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (6.73%) Product Ownership
6 6 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.85%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.88%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.92%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.96%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.96%) Derivative
10 1 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.96%) LIMS
10 1 (0.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.73%) Linux
2 4 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (70.19%) CI/CD
2 71 (68.27%) Microservices
3 66 (63.46%) Agile
4 63 (60.58%) Scrum
5 44 (42.31%) Test Automation
6 41 (39.42%) TDD
7 35 (33.65%) DevOps
8 27 (25.96%) Containerisation
9 26 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (23.08%) MVC
11 22 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (20.19%) Front End Development
13 19 (18.27%) Kanban
13 19 (18.27%) Software Engineering
13 19 (18.27%) User Stories
14 18 (17.31%) Code Quality
15 17 (16.35%) API Development
15 17 (16.35%) SDLC
15 17 (16.35%) Technical Leadership
16 16 (15.38%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 104 (100.00%) Java
2 60 (57.69%) SQL
3 33 (31.73%) JavaScript
4 19 (18.27%) TypeScript
5 14 (13.46%) Shell Script
6 9 (8.65%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.88%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.88%) Scala
8 2 (1.92%) PromQL
8 2 (1.92%) Python
9 1 (0.96%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 28 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 24 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (14.42%) Degree
4 12 (11.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.88%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (1.92%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.96%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.46%) QA
2 8 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.92%) WCAG
4 1 (0.96%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.96%) PSD2
System Software
1 46 (44.23%) Docker
2 4 (3.85%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 38 (36.54%) Kubernetes
2 31 (29.81%) Grafana
3 26 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 15 (14.42%) Kibana
5 5 (4.81%) Ansible
5 5 (4.81%) Argo
6 2 (1.92%) Consul
6 2 (1.92%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.96%) Istio
7 1 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (26.92%) Oracle
2 9 (8.65%) IBM
2 9 (8.65%) Veracode
3 7 (6.73%) Jaspersoft
4 6 (5.77%) Atlassian
4 6 (5.77%) Google
4 6 (5.77%) MuleSoft
5 4 (3.85%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.92%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.92%) Solace
6 2 (1.92%) Splunk
7 1 (0.96%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.96%) Okta
7 1 (0.96%) Temenos
7 1 (0.96%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.96%) webMethods