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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 520 589
Rank change year-on-year +16 +69 -1
Contract jobs citing JPA 68 41 47
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.11% 0.099%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.88% 0.51% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 25 39
10th Percentile £268 £366 £395
25th Percentile £358 £458 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £535 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.89% +12.63% -10.80%
75th Percentile £540 £700 £588
90th Percentile £568 £787 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £420 £475
% change year-on-year +13.10% -11.58% -5.00%

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 7,755 8,047 10,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 23.03% 21.99% 22.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,127 5,092 7,634
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% -1.32% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £672
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 135 192
10th Percentile £30.03 £25.21 £36.38
25th Percentile £41.25 £42.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.78
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +16.53% -14.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -15.38%

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 27 October 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 27 October 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 0 54 £431 -25.00% 12
UK excluding London +3 34 £475 +13.10% 9
Work from Home +39 28 £475 -32.14% 6
London -8 26 £400 -30.43% 2
Midlands - 18 £488 - 2
West Midlands - 13 £500 - 1
North of England -25 8 £323 +4.03% 1
Scotland -2 5 £450 +7.14% 1
East Midlands - 5 £313 - 1
North West -18 4 £291 -6.29%
Yorkshire - 3 £550 - 1
South West - 2 £550 -
South East +4 1 - - 5
North East - 1 £550 -

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 (11.76%) Confluence
2 6 (8.82%) Camunda
3 4 (5.88%) Alfresco
4 3 (4.41%) Drupal
4 3 (4.41%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (4.41%) SAS
4 3 (4.41%) WordPress
5 2 (2.94%) Apache
5 2 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (1.47%) CICS
6 1 (1.47%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (1.47%) CMS
6 1 (1.47%) JBoss
6 1 (1.47%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 41 (60.29%) AWS
2 17 (25.00%) Azure
3 9 (13.24%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (13.24%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (11.76%) Amazon S3
5 6 (8.82%) AWS KMS
5 6 (8.82%) GCP
5 6 (8.82%) Route 53
6 5 (7.35%) GitHub
7 4 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (4.41%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.94%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.47%) SaaS
10 1 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.41%) HTTP
1 3 (4.41%) HTTPS
1 3 (4.41%) SSL
2 2 (2.94%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (51.47%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (19.12%) MongoDB
3 12 (17.65%) NoSQL
3 12 (17.65%) Oracle Database
4 10 (14.71%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (14.71%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (14.71%) SQL Server
5 9 (13.24%) MySQL
5 9 (13.24%) Relational Database
6 7 (10.29%) Redis
7 6 (8.82%) DynamoDB
8 4 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.94%) GIS
9 2 (2.94%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.47%) DB2
10 1 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 43 (63.24%) JUnit
2 37 (54.41%) Git
3 35 (51.47%) Maven
4 31 (45.59%) Mockito
5 28 (41.18%) Jenkins
6 22 (32.35%) SonarQube
7 16 (23.53%) Cucumber
8 15 (22.06%) JIRA
9 14 (20.59%) GitLab
10 12 (17.65%) Selenium
11 7 (10.29%) Bitbucket
11 7 (10.29%) Postman
11 7 (10.29%) SoapUI
12 6 (8.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (8.82%) REST Assured
12 6 (8.82%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (8.82%) Subversion
12 6 (8.82%) Xcode
12 6 (8.82%) XCTest
13 5 (7.35%) Gradle
General
1 25 (36.76%) Social Skills
2 15 (22.06%) Finance
3 9 (13.24%) Banking
3 9 (13.24%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.94%) Front Office
4 2 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 50 (73.53%) Developer
2 41 (60.29%) Java Developer
3 18 (26.47%) Senior
4 14 (20.59%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (19.12%) Senior Developer
6 12 (17.65%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (11.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 7 (10.29%) Lead
9 6 (8.82%) Java Engineer
10 5 (7.35%) AWS Developer
10 5 (7.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (7.35%) Lead Developer
10 5 (7.35%) Lead Java Developer
11 4 (5.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 4 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (4.41%) Backend Developer
12 3 (4.41%) Principal Engineer
12 3 (4.41%) Senior Java Engineer
13 2 (2.94%) Principal Java Developer
13 2 (2.94%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (94.12%) Spring Boot
2 54 (79.41%) Spring
3 48 (70.59%) Hibernate
4 35 (51.47%) REST
5 29 (42.65%) AngularJS
6 28 (41.18%) React
7 27 (39.71%) HTML
8 19 (27.94%) RESTful
8 19 (27.94%) Web Services
9 18 (26.47%) CSS
10 15 (22.06%) Kafka
10 15 (22.06%) SOAP
11 14 (20.59%) Spring Cloud
12 13 (19.12%) Spring Batch
13 12 (17.65%) Bootstrap
14 11 (16.18%) Node.js
15 10 (14.71%) ActiveMQ
15 10 (14.71%) J2EE
15 10 (14.71%) Spring MVC
15 10 (14.71%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.71%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.41%) State Machine
3 2 (2.94%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.94%) PKI
3 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.47%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.47%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.47%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.24%) Unix
2 8 (11.76%) Linux
3 2 (2.94%) Windows
4 1 (1.47%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (77.94%) Microservices
2 40 (58.82%) Agile
3 38 (55.88%) TDD
4 28 (41.18%) DevOps
5 26 (38.24%) CI/CD
6 20 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (27.94%) Containerisation
8 18 (26.47%) Scrum
9 17 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (23.53%) Unit Testing
11 14 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (20.59%) Test Automation
12 13 (19.12%) Mentoring
13 12 (17.65%) Front End Development
14 11 (16.18%) Clean Code
14 11 (16.18%) MVC
14 11 (16.18%) SDLC
14 11 (16.18%) Software Architecture
15 10 (14.71%) Multithreading
15 10 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (100.00%) Java
2 41 (60.29%) SQL
3 33 (48.53%) JavaScript
4 8 (11.76%) TypeScript
5 6 (8.82%) Groovy
5 6 (8.82%) Shell Script
6 4 (5.88%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.41%) C#
7 3 (4.41%) PHP
8 2 (2.94%) Python
9 1 (1.47%) Bash
9 1 (1.47%) C++
9 1 (1.47%) COBOL
9 1 (1.47%) JCL
9 1 (1.47%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (30.88%) Security Cleared
2 19 (27.94%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.47%) Degree
3 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) QA
2 5 (7.35%) WCAG
3 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 36 (52.94%) Docker
2 4 (5.88%) Postfix
3 2 (2.94%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 31 (45.59%) Kubernetes
2 11 (16.18%) Grafana
3 6 (8.82%) Kibana
3 6 (8.82%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.88%) Terraform
5 2 (2.94%) Ansible
6 1 (1.47%) Control-M
6 1 (1.47%) logstash
Vendors
1 19 (27.94%) Oracle
2 6 (8.82%) CA Agile Central
2 6 (8.82%) Dynatrace
2 6 (8.82%) Splunk
2 6 (8.82%) Veracode
3 4 (5.88%) Atlassian
3 4 (5.88%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft