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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 482 484
Rank change year-on-year -106 +2 +109
Contract jobs citing JPA 74 71 106
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.72% 0.97% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 53 72
10th Percentile £328 £268 £375
25th Percentile £420 £358 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £420 £545
Median % change year-on-year +11.61% -22.94% +3.81%
75th Percentile £525 £530 £650
90th Percentile £588 £550 £797
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £420 £500
% change year-on-year +10.12% -16.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
Median hourly rate £35.00 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +41.67% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 - £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 10,322 7,330 9,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.52% 22.59% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,766 4,948 6,332
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £761 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 159 280
10th Percentile £30.00 £29.21 £22.73
25th Percentile £50.00 £38.52 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% +0.67% -14.42%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.20 £74.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -104 61 £469 +11.61% 12
UK excluding London -80 54 £463 +10.12% 14
Midlands -55 24 £475 +13.10% 2
West Midlands -56 23 £475 -2.56% 1
London -65 20 £475 +14.73% 7
Work from Home -64 15 £450 -2.70% 4
Scotland -1 9 £321 +18.70% 6
North of England -68 9 £407 +39.93% 2
Yorkshire - 7 - - 1
South East -58 6 £438 -12.50% 2
South West -32 5 £419 -23.86%
North West -52 2 £407 +51.68% 1
East of England - 1 - - 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 5 (6.76%) Confluence
1 5 (6.76%) nginx
2 2 (2.70%) Camunda
2 2 (2.70%) Drupal
2 2 (2.70%) WordPress
3 1 (1.35%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 41 (55.41%) AWS
2 26 (35.14%) Amazon SQS
3 21 (28.38%) Amazon S3
4 19 (25.68%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (24.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 18 (24.32%) AWS KMS
5 18 (24.32%) Route 53
6 14 (18.92%) GCP
7 13 (17.57%) Azure
8 11 (14.86%) GitHub
9 9 (12.16%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (5.41%) Apigee
10 4 (5.41%) Cloud Run
10 4 (5.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (5.41%) Kong
10 4 (5.41%) OpenShift
10 4 (5.41%) Power Platform
11 3 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (27.03%) DynamoDB
3 19 (25.68%) Amazon Aurora
3 19 (25.68%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (14.86%) MySQL
5 9 (12.16%) Relational Database
6 6 (8.11%) MongoDB
6 6 (8.11%) Redis
7 5 (6.76%) SQL Server
8 4 (5.41%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (5.41%) Couchbase
8 4 (5.41%) Data Lake
8 4 (5.41%) Hazelcast
8 4 (5.41%) Power BI
8 4 (5.41%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.70%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.35%) Metadata
10 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (68.92%) Git
2 47 (63.51%) Jenkins
3 43 (58.11%) JUnit
4 39 (52.70%) Maven
5 29 (39.19%) Mockito
6 21 (28.38%) SonarQube
7 17 (22.97%) GitLab
8 14 (18.92%) DbUnit
9 13 (17.57%) jMock
10 12 (16.22%) Bitbucket Server
10 12 (16.22%) Gradle
11 8 (10.81%) JIRA
12 4 (5.41%) IntelliJ
12 4 (5.41%) Snyk
13 3 (4.05%) Flyway
14 2 (2.70%) Cucumber
14 2 (2.70%) git-flow
14 2 (2.70%) GoCD
14 2 (2.70%) JProfiler
14 2 (2.70%) Liquibase
General
1 24 (32.43%) Public Sector
2 13 (17.57%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.22%) Finance
4 11 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (14.86%) Banking
5 3 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.70%) Law
7 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (78.38%) Developer
2 54 (72.97%) Java Developer
3 21 (28.38%) Senior
4 16 (21.62%) Senior Developer
4 16 (21.62%) Senior Java Developer
5 11 (14.86%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (13.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 9 (12.16%) Lead
8 8 (10.81%) Lead Developer
8 8 (10.81%) Lead Java Developer
9 6 (8.11%) Java Engineer
10 4 (5.41%) Backend Developer
10 4 (5.41%) Senior Backend Developer
10 4 (5.41%) Senior Java Engineer
11 2 (2.70%) Applications Developer
11 2 (2.70%) Java Applications Developer
11 2 (2.70%) Principal Engineer
11 2 (2.70%) React Developer
11 2 (2.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 1 (1.35%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (95.95%) Spring
2 66 (89.19%) Spring Boot
3 43 (58.11%) Hibernate
4 40 (54.05%) REST
5 26 (35.14%) RESTful
6 24 (32.43%) Web Services
7 23 (31.08%) AngularJS
8 22 (29.73%) Spring Batch
9 21 (28.38%) SOAP
9 21 (28.38%) Spring Cloud
10 20 (27.03%) Spring Integration
11 19 (25.68%) ActiveMQ
11 19 (25.68%) React
12 16 (21.62%) Node.js
13 13 (17.57%) PowerMock
13 13 (17.57%) Spring MVC
14 12 (16.22%) HTML
15 11 (14.86%) Bootstrap
16 10 (13.51%) OAuth
17 9 (12.16%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.97%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.41%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.05%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.70%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.35%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.35%) LIMS
5 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.62%) Linux
2 4 (5.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (72.97%) Microservices
2 46 (62.16%) CI/CD
3 39 (52.70%) Agile
4 32 (43.24%) Scrum
4 32 (43.24%) TDD
5 31 (41.89%) DevOps
6 24 (32.43%) Containerisation
7 17 (22.97%) BDD
7 17 (22.97%) Full-Stack Development
8 16 (21.62%) Kanban
9 15 (20.27%) Performance Tuning
10 14 (18.92%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (17.57%) BPMN
11 13 (17.57%) Design Patterns
11 13 (17.57%) MVC
12 12 (16.22%) Biometrics
12 12 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (14.86%) Mentoring
13 11 (14.86%) Multithreading
13 11 (14.86%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 74 (100.00%) Java
2 51 (68.92%) SQL
3 18 (24.32%) JavaScript
4 10 (13.51%) TypeScript
5 9 (12.16%) PL/SQL
6 8 (10.81%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.70%) C#
7 2 (2.70%) Go
7 2 (2.70%) PHP
7 2 (2.70%) PromQL
7 2 (2.70%) Python
8 1 (1.35%) Groovy
8 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 32 (43.24%) Security Cleared
2 28 (37.84%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.76%) AWS Certification
3 5 (6.76%) Azure Certification
3 5 (6.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.41%) Degree
5 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.46%) QA
2 3 (4.05%) Accessibility
System Software
1 41 (55.41%) Docker
2 11 (14.86%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 25 (33.78%) Kubernetes
2 24 (32.43%) Grafana
3 11 (14.86%) Prometheus
4 7 (9.46%) Terraform
5 5 (6.76%) Ansible
6 4 (5.41%) Argo
6 4 (5.41%) Kibana
7 2 (2.70%) Consul
7 2 (2.70%) Zipkin
8 1 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (24.32%) Oracle
2 17 (22.97%) Jaspersoft
3 14 (18.92%) Atlassian
4 5 (6.76%) Google
5 3 (4.05%) Veracode
6 2 (2.70%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.70%) Solace
7 1 (1.35%) IBM
7 1 (1.35%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.35%) Okta
7 1 (1.35%) Salesforce