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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 480 485
Rank change year-on-year -114 +5 +116
Contract jobs citing JPA 89 68 85
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.21% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.76% 0.83% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 50 64
10th Percentile £322 £268 £377
25th Percentile £369 £358 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £406 £545
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% -25.46% +9.00%
75th Percentile £500 £509 £650
90th Percentile £588 £553 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £430
% change year-on-year +2.78% +4.65% -18.10%
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 11,706 8,223 9,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.82% 25.45% 24.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,704 5,544 6,349
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £435 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £636 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 182 191
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.80 £25.60
25th Percentile £46.39 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.83 £52.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.30% -15.32% -0.80%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £74.75 £74.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +9.22%

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 4 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 4 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 -100 68 £460 +15.00% 42
UK excluding London -58 67 £463 +2.78% 36
Midlands -37 27 £575 +56.25% 9
West Midlands -31 25 £575 +15.00% 5
Work from Home -69 22 £331 -21.19% 23
London -98 21 £425 +6.25% 20
Scotland -8 16 £322 -28.44% 7
North of England -67 15 £500 +40.25% 7
Yorkshire -34 10 £415 -24.55% 5
North West -44 5 £537 +100.37% 1
South West -43 4 £463 -15.91% 2
South East -69 4 £450 -10.00% 6
East Midlands -27 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 16 (17.98%) Confluence
2 9 (10.11%) Camunda
3 5 (5.62%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Finacle
1 1 (1.12%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (1.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 46 (51.69%) AWS
2 17 (19.10%) GCP
3 16 (17.98%) Amazon SQS
4 15 (16.85%) GitHub
5 14 (15.73%) Azure
5 14 (15.73%) OpenShift
6 11 (12.36%) Amazon S3
6 11 (12.36%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (11.24%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (10.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (10.11%) AWS KMS
8 9 (10.11%) Route 53
9 5 (5.62%) Apigee
9 5 (5.62%) Cloud Run
9 5 (5.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (5.62%) Kong
10 4 (4.49%) Power Platform
11 3 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (2.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (2.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (37.08%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (22.47%) Relational Database
3 12 (13.48%) SQL Server
4 11 (12.36%) MongoDB
5 10 (11.24%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (11.24%) DynamoDB
5 10 (11.24%) MySQL
6 9 (10.11%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (7.87%) Redis
8 6 (6.74%) RDBMS
9 5 (5.62%) Hazelcast
9 5 (5.62%) Oracle Database
10 4 (4.49%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (4.49%) Couchbase
10 4 (4.49%) Data Lake
10 4 (4.49%) NoSQL
10 4 (4.49%) Power BI
11 1 (1.12%) Cloud Spanner
11 1 (1.12%) Metadata
11 1 (1.12%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 59 (66.29%) Jenkins
2 56 (62.92%) Git
3 55 (61.80%) Maven
4 50 (56.18%) JUnit
5 37 (41.57%) Mockito
6 29 (32.58%) GitLab
7 27 (30.34%) SonarQube
8 22 (24.72%) JIRA
9 21 (23.60%) Gradle
10 14 (15.73%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (8.99%) REST Assured
11 8 (8.99%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (7.87%) DbUnit
13 6 (6.74%) Cucumber
13 6 (6.74%) jMock
14 4 (4.49%) IntelliJ
14 4 (4.49%) Snyk
15 3 (3.37%) Flyway
15 3 (3.37%) Selenium
16 2 (2.25%) Liquibase
General
1 22 (24.72%) Public Sector
2 20 (22.47%) Finance
2 20 (22.47%) Social Skills
3 19 (21.35%) Banking
4 17 (19.10%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.25%) Law
7 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.12%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (79.78%) Developer
2 65 (73.03%) Java Developer
3 34 (38.20%) Senior
4 27 (30.34%) Senior Developer
4 27 (30.34%) Senior Java Developer
5 19 (21.35%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (19.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 10 (11.24%) Java Engineer
8 9 (10.11%) Lead
8 9 (10.11%) Lead Developer
8 9 (10.11%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (5.62%) Backend Developer
10 4 (4.49%) Senior Backend Developer
10 4 (4.49%) Senior Java Engineer
11 2 (2.25%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 2 (2.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 2 (2.25%) Kafka Developer
11 2 (2.25%) React Developer
11 2 (2.25%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 1 (1.12%) GCP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (94.38%) Spring
2 82 (92.13%) Spring Boot
3 48 (53.93%) REST
4 47 (52.81%) Hibernate
5 34 (38.20%) React
6 29 (32.58%) RESTful
7 27 (30.34%) HTML
8 25 (28.09%) Kafka
9 24 (26.97%) AngularJS
10 22 (24.72%) CSS
11 20 (22.47%) Spring Cloud
11 20 (22.47%) Web Services
12 19 (21.35%) SOAP
13 18 (20.22%) Spring MVC
14 17 (19.10%) ActiveMQ
14 17 (19.10%) OpenAPI
14 17 (19.10%) Redux
15 14 (15.73%) JDBC
16 13 (14.61%) Node.js
17 12 (13.48%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.61%) Cloud Native
2 12 (13.48%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (11.24%) Data Structures
4 6 (6.74%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (6.74%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.37%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.25%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.25%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.12%) LIMS
8 1 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.99%) Linux
2 4 (4.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (71.91%) Microservices
2 62 (69.66%) CI/CD
3 55 (61.80%) Agile
4 50 (56.18%) Scrum
5 37 (41.57%) TDD
6 33 (37.08%) Test Automation
7 29 (32.58%) DevOps
8 25 (28.09%) Full-Stack Development
9 21 (23.60%) Containerisation
10 19 (21.35%) MVC
11 18 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (19.10%) Design Patterns
12 17 (19.10%) Kanban
13 16 (17.98%) Front End Development
14 15 (16.85%) Observability
14 15 (16.85%) Technical Leadership
15 14 (15.73%) API Development
15 14 (15.73%) Functional Programming
15 14 (15.73%) Software Engineering
15 14 (15.73%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 89 (100.00%) Java
2 55 (61.80%) SQL
3 31 (34.83%) JavaScript
4 16 (17.98%) TypeScript
5 10 (11.24%) Shell Script
6 9 (10.11%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.25%) PromQL
7 2 (2.25%) Python
8 1 (1.12%) Groovy
8 1 (1.12%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (28.09%) Security Cleared
2 21 (23.60%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.48%) Degree
4 11 (12.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (10.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.25%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.11%) QA
2 8 (8.99%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.25%) WCAG
4 1 (1.12%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 41 (46.07%) Docker
2 5 (5.62%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 33 (37.08%) Kubernetes
2 27 (30.34%) Grafana
3 22 (24.72%) Prometheus
4 8 (8.99%) Kibana
5 5 (5.62%) Ansible
5 5 (5.62%) Argo
6 2 (2.25%) Consul
6 2 (2.25%) Zipkin
7 1 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.12%) Istio
7 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (28.09%) Oracle
2 8 (8.99%) IBM
2 8 (8.99%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (8.99%) Veracode
3 7 (7.87%) Atlassian
4 6 (6.74%) MuleSoft
5 5 (5.62%) Google
6 2 (2.25%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.25%) Solace
7 1 (1.12%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.12%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.12%) Okta
7 1 (1.12%) Splunk
7 1 (1.12%) Temenos