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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 487 496
Rank change year-on-year -100 +9 +112
Contract jobs citing JPA 80 67 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.20% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.68% 0.80% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 49 65
10th Percentile £322 £268 £378
25th Percentile £345 £358 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £540
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -25.93% +8.00%
75th Percentile £519 £500 £650
90th Percentile £588 £555 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £430
% change year-on-year +2.78% +4.65% -21.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% - -
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 11,695 8,332 9,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.80% 25.44% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,693 5,628 6,415
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £433 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.37% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 185 196
10th Percentile £29.26 £30.45 £26.30
25th Percentile £45.63 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.75 £79.48 £74.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%

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 1 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 1 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
UK excluding London -66 60 £463 +2.78% 30
England -113 59 £463 +15.63% 41
Midlands -49 21 £575 +56.25% 7
Work from Home -62 20 £331 -21.19% 21
West Midlands -39 19 £575 +15.00% 3
London -88 17 £425 +7.59% 22
Scotland -7 16 £322 -28.44% 5
North of England -61 14 £519 +45.44% 7
Yorkshire -30 9 £450 -18.18% 4
North West -53 5 £537 +100.37% 2
South West -36 4 £463 -15.91% 2
South East -59 4 £450 -10.00% 6
East Midlands -20 1 £335 +24.07% 4
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 11 (13.75%) Confluence
2 8 (10.00%) Camunda
3 5 (6.25%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Finacle
1 1 (1.25%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (1.25%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 39 (48.75%) AWS
2 17 (21.25%) GCP
3 16 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
4 14 (17.50%) GitHub
5 13 (16.25%) Azure
5 13 (16.25%) OpenShift
6 10 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 10 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (11.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (11.25%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (11.25%) AWS KMS
7 9 (11.25%) Route 53
8 5 (6.25%) Apigee
8 5 (6.25%) Cloud Run
8 5 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (6.25%) Kong
9 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.25%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (35.00%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 11 (13.75%) SQL Server
4 10 (12.50%) DynamoDB
4 10 (12.50%) MySQL
5 9 (11.25%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (11.25%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (11.25%) MongoDB
6 7 (8.75%) Redis
7 6 (7.50%) RDBMS
8 5 (6.25%) Hazelcast
8 5 (6.25%) Oracle Database
9 4 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (5.00%) Couchbase
9 4 (5.00%) Data Lake
9 4 (5.00%) Power BI
10 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
11 1 (1.25%) BigQuery
11 1 (1.25%) Cloud Spanner
11 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 53 (66.25%) Jenkins
2 49 (61.25%) Git
3 47 (58.75%) Maven
4 42 (52.50%) JUnit
5 29 (36.25%) Mockito
6 25 (31.25%) GitLab
7 22 (27.50%) SonarQube
8 19 (23.75%) Gradle
9 17 (21.25%) JIRA
10 13 (16.25%) Bitbucket Server
11 7 (8.75%) DbUnit
11 7 (8.75%) REST Assured
11 7 (8.75%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (7.50%) jMock
13 4 (5.00%) IntelliJ
13 4 (5.00%) Snyk
14 3 (3.75%) Cucumber
14 3 (3.75%) Flyway
15 2 (2.50%) git-flow
15 2 (2.50%) JProfiler
General
1 19 (23.75%) Finance
2 18 (22.50%) Banking
2 18 (22.50%) Public Sector
3 13 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (16.25%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.50%) Law
4 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (81.25%) Developer
2 59 (73.75%) Java Developer
3 29 (36.25%) Senior
4 24 (30.00%) Senior Developer
4 24 (30.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 18 (22.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (20.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 9 (11.25%) Java Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Lead
8 6 (7.50%) Lead Developer
8 6 (7.50%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (6.25%) Backend Developer
10 4 (5.00%) Senior Backend Developer
10 4 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
11 2 (2.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 2 (2.50%) Kafka Developer
11 2 (2.50%) React Developer
12 1 (1.25%) GCP Developer
12 1 (1.25%) GCP DevOps
12 1 (1.25%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (93.75%) Spring
2 73 (91.25%) Spring Boot
3 42 (52.50%) REST
4 40 (50.00%) Hibernate
5 31 (38.75%) React
6 24 (30.00%) HTML
6 24 (30.00%) RESTful
7 22 (27.50%) Kafka
8 21 (26.25%) CSS
9 20 (25.00%) AngularJS
10 16 (20.00%) Redux
10 16 (20.00%) Spring MVC
10 16 (20.00%) Web Services
11 15 (18.75%) SOAP
11 15 (18.75%) Spring Cloud
12 14 (17.50%) OpenAPI
13 13 (16.25%) ActiveMQ
13 13 (16.25%) Node.js
14 12 (15.00%) HTML5
14 12 (15.00%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (11.25%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.25%) Data Structures
3 6 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.50%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.25%) LIMS
7 1 (1.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Linux
2 4 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (70.00%) Microservices
2 55 (68.75%) CI/CD
3 47 (58.75%) Agile
4 42 (52.50%) Scrum
5 31 (38.75%) TDD
6 27 (33.75%) DevOps
7 26 (32.50%) Test Automation
8 24 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (21.25%) MVC
10 16 (20.00%) Containerisation
10 16 (20.00%) Design Patterns
11 14 (17.50%) Functional Programming
11 14 (17.50%) Observability
11 14 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (17.50%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (16.25%) Kanban
13 11 (13.75%) BDD
13 11 (13.75%) Front End Development
13 11 (13.75%) OO
13 11 (13.75%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 80 (100.00%) Java
2 54 (67.50%) SQL
3 28 (35.00%) JavaScript
4 12 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 10 (12.50%) Shell Script
6 9 (11.25%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.50%) PromQL
7 2 (2.50%) Python
8 1 (1.25%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 23 (28.75%) Security Cleared
2 19 (23.75%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.50%) Degree
4 9 (11.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (8.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) Accessibility
1 7 (8.75%) QA
2 1 (1.25%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.25%) PSD2
System Software
1 36 (45.00%) Docker
2 5 (6.25%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 30 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 20 (25.00%) Grafana
3 17 (21.25%) Prometheus
4 6 (7.50%) Kibana
5 5 (6.25%) Ansible
5 5 (6.25%) Argo
6 2 (2.50%) Consul
6 2 (2.50%) Zipkin
7 1 (1.25%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.25%) Istio
7 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (28.75%) Oracle
2 8 (10.00%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (8.75%) Atlassian
3 7 (8.75%) IBM
3 7 (8.75%) Veracode
4 6 (7.50%) MuleSoft
5 5 (6.25%) Google
6 2 (2.50%) Solace
7 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.25%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.25%) Okta
7 1 (1.25%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.25%) Splunk
7 1 (1.25%) Temenos