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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 482 470
Rank change year-on-year -112 -12 +120
Contract jobs citing JPA 76 68 91
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.21% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% 0.82% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 49 67
10th Percentile £322 £268 £375
25th Percentile £345 £358 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £540
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -25.93% +8.00%
75th Percentile £519 £500 £631
90th Percentile £588 £550 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £420 £430
% change year-on-year +10.12% -2.33% -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 11,704 8,306 9,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.82% 25.37% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,703 5,615 6,430
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £630 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 183 208
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.35 £23.80
25th Percentile £45.31 £41.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -2.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.88 £79.74 £74.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.73% -12.00% +4.17%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -70 58 £463 +10.12% 18
England -112 55 £463 +15.63% 24
Midlands -61 19 £575 +45.94% 6
Work from Home -75 18 £331 -21.19% 10
West Midlands -39 17 £575 +15.00% 2
Scotland +1 16 £322 -28.44% 3
London -85 15 £425 +7.59% 12
North of England -57 14 £519 +65.65% 3
Yorkshire -31 9 £450 +12.50% 1
North West -36 5 £537 +100.37% 2
South West -40 4 £463 -15.91% 2
South East -64 4 £450 -10.00% 2
East Midlands -24 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 7 (9.21%) Confluence
2 6 (7.89%) Camunda
3 5 (6.58%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 37 (48.68%) AWS
2 16 (21.05%) Amazon SQS
2 16 (21.05%) GCP
3 14 (18.42%) GitHub
4 13 (17.11%) Azure
5 10 (13.16%) Amazon S3
5 10 (13.16%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (13.16%) OpenShift
6 9 (11.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (11.84%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (11.84%) AWS KMS
6 9 (11.84%) Route 53
7 5 (6.58%) Apigee
7 5 (6.58%) Cloud Run
7 5 (6.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (6.58%) Kong
8 4 (5.26%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (35.53%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (18.42%) Relational Database
3 11 (14.47%) MySQL
4 10 (13.16%) DynamoDB
4 10 (13.16%) SQL Server
5 9 (11.84%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (11.84%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (11.84%) MongoDB
6 7 (9.21%) Redis
7 6 (7.89%) RDBMS
8 5 (6.58%) Hazelcast
9 4 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (5.26%) Couchbase
9 4 (5.26%) Data Lake
9 4 (5.26%) Oracle Database
9 4 (5.26%) Power BI
10 3 (3.95%) NoSQL
11 1 (1.32%) BigQuery
11 1 (1.32%) Cloud Spanner
11 1 (1.32%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 50 (65.79%) Jenkins
2 47 (61.84%) Git
3 42 (55.26%) Maven
4 39 (51.32%) JUnit
5 25 (32.89%) Mockito
6 24 (31.58%) GitLab
7 18 (23.68%) SonarQube
8 16 (21.05%) Gradle
9 14 (18.42%) JIRA
10 11 (14.47%) Bitbucket Server
11 7 (9.21%) DbUnit
12 6 (7.89%) jMock
13 5 (6.58%) REST Assured
13 5 (6.58%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (5.26%) IntelliJ
14 4 (5.26%) Snyk
15 3 (3.95%) Cucumber
15 3 (3.95%) Flyway
16 2 (2.63%) git-flow
16 2 (2.63%) GoCD
General
1 19 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 16 (21.05%) Finance
3 15 (19.74%) Banking
4 13 (17.11%) Social Skills
5 10 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.63%) Law
6 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (78.95%) Developer
2 54 (71.05%) Java Developer
3 28 (36.84%) Senior
4 23 (30.26%) Senior Developer
4 23 (30.26%) Senior Java Developer
5 16 (21.05%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (18.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 9 (11.84%) Java Engineer
8 6 (7.89%) Lead
8 6 (7.89%) Lead Developer
8 6 (7.89%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (6.58%) Backend Developer
10 4 (5.26%) Senior Backend Developer
10 4 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
11 2 (2.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 2 (2.63%) Kafka Developer
11 2 (2.63%) React Developer
12 1 (1.32%) GCP Developer
12 1 (1.32%) GCP DevOps
12 1 (1.32%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (93.42%) Spring
2 69 (90.79%) Spring Boot
3 40 (52.63%) REST
4 36 (47.37%) Hibernate
5 30 (39.47%) React
6 23 (30.26%) HTML
7 22 (28.95%) RESTful
8 19 (25.00%) AngularJS
8 19 (25.00%) CSS
8 19 (25.00%) Kafka
9 16 (21.05%) Spring MVC
10 14 (18.42%) OpenAPI
10 14 (18.42%) Redux
10 14 (18.42%) Web Services
11 13 (17.11%) HTML5
11 13 (17.11%) Node.js
11 13 (17.11%) Spring Cloud
12 12 (15.79%) JDBC
12 12 (15.79%) SOAP
12 12 (15.79%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.47%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (9.21%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.21%) Data Structures
3 6 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (7.89%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.95%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.63%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.32%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.32%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.53%) Linux
2 4 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (68.42%) Microservices
2 51 (67.11%) CI/CD
3 43 (56.58%) Agile
4 37 (48.68%) Scrum
5 28 (36.84%) DevOps
5 28 (36.84%) TDD
6 23 (30.26%) Full-Stack Development
7 22 (28.95%) Test Automation
8 17 (22.37%) MVC
9 16 (21.05%) Design Patterns
10 14 (18.42%) Containerisation
10 14 (18.42%) Functional Programming
10 14 (18.42%) Observability
11 13 (17.11%) Technical Leadership
12 12 (15.79%) BDD
13 11 (14.47%) Front End Development
13 11 (14.47%) Kanban
13 11 (14.47%) OO
13 11 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (14.47%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 76 (100.00%) Java
2 51 (67.11%) SQL
3 26 (34.21%) JavaScript
4 11 (14.47%) TypeScript
5 10 (13.16%) Shell Script
6 9 (11.84%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.63%) PromQL
7 2 (2.63%) Python
8 1 (1.32%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 23 (30.26%) Security Cleared
2 19 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (10.53%) Degree
4 7 (9.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.63%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.21%) Accessibility
1 7 (9.21%) QA
System Software
1 35 (46.05%) Docker
2 5 (6.58%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 29 (38.16%) Kubernetes
2 18 (23.68%) Grafana
3 15 (19.74%) Prometheus
4 6 (7.89%) Kibana
5 5 (6.58%) Ansible
5 5 (6.58%) Argo
6 2 (2.63%) Consul
6 2 (2.63%) Zipkin
7 1 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.32%) Istio
7 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (28.95%) Oracle
2 8 (10.53%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (9.21%) Atlassian
4 6 (7.89%) MuleSoft
5 5 (6.58%) Google
5 5 (6.58%) IBM
5 5 (6.58%) Veracode
6 2 (2.63%) Solace
7 1 (1.32%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.32%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.32%) Okta
7 1 (1.32%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.32%) Splunk