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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 485 495
Rank change year-on-year -94 +10 +85
Contract jobs citing JPA 52 34 96
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.12% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.55% 0.51% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 24 66
10th Percentile £313 £270 £394
25th Percentile £353 £364 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £417 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.91% -20.57% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £584
90th Percentile £630 £547 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £417 £500
% change year-on-year -10.07% -16.60% +6.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year - +41.67% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £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 9,401 6,689 8,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.23% 22.64% 20.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,243 4,578 6,228
10th Percentile £358 £363 £334
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £726 £775 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 109 212
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.08 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.06 £37.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.17 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -25.78%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -85 45 £475 +13.10% 1
UK excluding London -61 35 £375 -10.07% 1
West Midlands -43 19 £475 +13.10%
Midlands -45 19 £475 +37.68%
London -71 16 £550 +10.00%
Work from Home -27 8 £475 +24.18% 1
South East - 6 £313 -
North of England -65 4 £407 -8.55% 1
Scotland +11 3 £438 +62.04%
South West -31 2 £375 -28.57%
North West -36 2 £407 -14.42%
Yorkshire -50 2 - -
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 4 (7.69%) Confluence
2 2 (3.85%) Apache TomEE
2 2 (3.85%) Drupal
2 2 (3.85%) WordPress
3 1 (1.92%) Camunda
3 1 (1.92%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 38 (73.08%) AWS
2 22 (42.31%) Amazon SQS
3 20 (38.46%) Amazon S3
4 18 (34.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 18 (34.62%) Route 53
5 15 (28.85%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (26.92%) AWS KMS
7 13 (25.00%) Azure
7 13 (25.00%) GitHub
8 10 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (15.38%) GCP
10 6 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (9.62%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (9.62%) Serverless
12 4 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 4 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (7.69%) Amazon MSK
12 4 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (1.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (67.31%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (38.46%) Amazon Aurora
3 19 (36.54%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (36.54%) DynamoDB
4 12 (23.08%) MySQL
4 12 (23.08%) Relational Database
5 7 (13.46%) Redis
6 6 (11.54%) NoSQL
7 4 (7.69%) DocumentDB
8 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
9 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
9 2 (3.85%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.92%) Hazelcast
10 1 (1.92%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 29 (55.77%) Jenkins
2 28 (53.85%) Git
3 27 (51.92%) JUnit
4 26 (50.00%) Maven
5 21 (40.38%) Mockito
6 16 (30.77%) SonarQube
7 15 (28.85%) GitLab
8 11 (21.15%) DbUnit
8 11 (21.15%) jMock
9 9 (17.31%) Bitbucket Server
10 6 (11.54%) Gradle
10 6 (11.54%) JIRA
11 2 (3.85%) Ant
11 2 (3.85%) Eclipse
12 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
12 1 (1.92%) Gatling
12 1 (1.92%) IntelliJ
12 1 (1.92%) Selenium
12 1 (1.92%) Snyk
General
1 20 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 10 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.77%) Finance
4 2 (3.85%) Banking
4 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (73.08%) Developer
2 36 (69.23%) Java Developer
3 7 (13.46%) Senior
3 7 (13.46%) Senior Developer
3 7 (13.46%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (9.62%) Architect
4 5 (9.62%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (9.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 5 (9.62%) Java Architect
4 5 (9.62%) Lead
5 4 (7.69%) AWS Architect
5 4 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (7.69%) Lead Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Lead Java Developer
5 4 (7.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Applications Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Java Applications Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (1.92%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (96.15%) Spring
2 47 (90.38%) Spring Boot
3 43 (82.69%) Hibernate
4 31 (59.62%) RESTful
5 28 (53.85%) REST
6 22 (42.31%) AngularJS
7 21 (40.38%) Spring Cloud
8 19 (36.54%) Web Services
9 17 (32.69%) SOAP
10 16 (30.77%) Spring Batch
10 16 (30.77%) Spring Integration
11 15 (28.85%) ActiveMQ
12 11 (21.15%) PowerMock
13 10 (19.23%) Node.js
13 10 (19.23%) React
14 9 (17.31%) Bootstrap
14 9 (17.31%) OAuth
14 9 (17.31%) OAuth2
15 8 (15.38%) Kafka
16 6 (11.54%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 17 (32.69%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (11.54%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.92%) LIMS
4 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (23.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (78.85%) Microservices
2 35 (67.31%) CI/CD
3 29 (55.77%) Agile
4 23 (44.23%) DevOps
4 23 (44.23%) Scrum
5 21 (40.38%) TDD
6 20 (38.46%) Containerisation
7 15 (28.85%) Performance Tuning
8 14 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (23.08%) Kanban
10 11 (21.15%) BDD
10 11 (21.15%) BPMN
10 11 (21.15%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (19.23%) Biometrics
11 10 (19.23%) Design Patterns
11 10 (19.23%) Observability
12 9 (17.31%) API Development
12 9 (17.31%) Open Source
13 8 (15.38%) MVC
13 8 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 52 (100.00%) Java
2 32 (61.54%) SQL
3 5 (9.62%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.77%) Shell Script
4 3 (5.77%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.85%) C#
5 2 (3.85%) Go
5 2 (3.85%) PHP
5 2 (3.85%) Python
6 1 (1.92%) Groovy
6 1 (1.92%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 20 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 19 (36.54%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 4 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.77%) OCP
4 3 (5.77%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.92%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) QA
2 4 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.69%) NIST
2 4 (7.69%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 33 (63.46%) Docker
2 10 (19.23%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 16 (30.77%) Grafana
1 16 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 8 (15.38%) Terraform
3 6 (11.54%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.77%) Kibana
5 1 (1.92%) Argo
Vendors
1 14 (26.92%) Jaspersoft
2 11 (21.15%) Atlassian
3 6 (11.54%) Oracle
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.85%) Veracode
5 1 (1.92%) Google
5 1 (1.92%) Okta
5 1 (1.92%) Salesforce