JPA Contracts

Java Persistence API (JPA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring JPA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JPA over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 480 603
Rank change year-on-year +1 +123 -22
Contract jobs citing JPA 69 105 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.24% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.95% 1.13% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 73 54
10th Percentile £268 £375 £409
25th Percentile £357 £458 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £534 £650 £635
90th Percentile £550 £800 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -16.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £45.88 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £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 7,230 9,297 12,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 21.47% 22.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,889 6,373 9,354
10th Percentile £350 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £653 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 283 161
10th Percentile £28.60 £22.55 £30.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.30 £74.35 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%

JPA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JPA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JPA in the UK

JPA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JPA.

Daily rate trend for JPA in the UK

JPA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JPA over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JPA in the UK

JPA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JPA.

Hourly rate trend for JPA in the UK

JPA
Top 13 Contract 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 6 July 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 +20 59 £435 -20.91% 57
UK excluding London +47 33 £420 -16.00% 33
London -3 30 £450 -19.28% 37
Work from Home +26 25 £475 -32.14% 38
Midlands - 21 £420 - 5
West Midlands - 14 £488 - 2
East Midlands - 7 £270 - 3
North of England -13 4 £291 -44.67% 9
South West +39 3 £550 +37.50% 3
Scotland -1 3 £270 -37.93% 12
North West -3 3 £268 -48.95% 5
South East - 2 £500 - 2
North East - 1 £550 - 1

JPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (14.49%) Confluence
2 7 (10.14%) Camunda
3 5 (7.25%) Alfresco
4 3 (4.35%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (2.90%) Apache
6 1 (1.45%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (1.45%) CMS
6 1 (1.45%) JBoss
6 1 (1.45%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 47 (68.12%) AWS
2 14 (20.29%) Amazon EC2
2 14 (20.29%) Amazon S3
2 14 (20.29%) Amazon SQS
3 10 (14.49%) AWS KMS
3 10 (14.49%) Azure
3 10 (14.49%) Route 53
4 8 (11.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (8.70%) GitHub
6 4 (5.80%) GCP
6 4 (5.80%) OpenShift
7 3 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (1.45%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.35%) HTTP
1 3 (4.35%) HTTPS
1 3 (4.35%) SSL
2 2 (2.90%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (60.87%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (24.64%) Amazon Aurora
3 15 (21.74%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (21.74%) MongoDB
4 12 (17.39%) Relational Database
5 11 (15.94%) DynamoDB
5 11 (15.94%) MySQL
6 8 (11.59%) SQL Server
7 6 (8.70%) NoSQL
7 6 (8.70%) Oracle Database
8 4 (5.80%) Redis
9 3 (4.35%) RDBMS
10 2 (2.90%) GIS
Development Applications
1 48 (69.57%) JUnit
2 44 (63.77%) Maven
3 35 (50.72%) Jenkins
4 30 (43.48%) SonarQube
5 29 (42.03%) Git
6 28 (40.58%) Mockito
7 14 (20.29%) JIRA
8 13 (18.84%) Bitbucket Server
9 12 (17.39%) Cucumber
10 10 (14.49%) Bitbucket
10 10 (14.49%) GitLab
10 10 (14.49%) Gradle
11 9 (13.04%) Selenium
12 8 (11.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (11.59%) DbUnit
12 8 (11.59%) jMock
12 8 (11.59%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (10.14%) IntelliJ
14 4 (5.80%) Subversion
15 3 (4.35%) Xcode
General
1 21 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 19 (27.54%) Public Sector
3 11 (15.94%) Finance
4 9 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.70%) Banking
6 3 (4.35%) Back Office
7 2 (2.90%) Front Office
8 1 (1.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 56 (81.16%) Developer
2 40 (57.97%) Java Developer
3 16 (23.19%) Senior
4 15 (21.74%) Senior Developer
5 13 (18.84%) Full-Stack Developer
6 12 (17.39%) Lead
7 11 (15.94%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (11.59%) AWS Developer
8 8 (11.59%) Lead Developer
9 7 (10.14%) Lead Java Developer
9 7 (10.14%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (7.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 5 (7.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (4.35%) Architect
11 3 (4.35%) Data Architect
12 2 (2.90%) Java Engineer
12 2 (2.90%) Lead Architect
12 2 (2.90%) Lead Data Architect
12 2 (2.90%) Software Developer
12 2 (2.90%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (91.30%) Spring Boot
2 55 (79.71%) Spring
3 47 (68.12%) Hibernate
4 37 (53.62%) REST
5 31 (44.93%) AngularJS
6 26 (37.68%) HTML
7 23 (33.33%) Web Services
8 22 (31.88%) React
9 20 (28.99%) RESTful
10 19 (27.54%) SOAP
11 16 (23.19%) ActiveMQ
11 16 (23.19%) CSS
11 16 (23.19%) Spring Batch
12 15 (21.74%) Bootstrap
13 14 (20.29%) Spring Cloud
14 13 (18.84%) Kafka
14 13 (18.84%) Node.js
14 13 (18.84%) Spring Integration
15 8 (11.59%) PowerMock
15 8 (11.59%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.94%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (10.14%) PKI
3 3 (4.35%) State Machine
4 2 (2.90%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.45%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.39%) Linux
2 3 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (79.71%) Microservices
2 44 (63.77%) TDD
3 35 (50.72%) Agile
3 35 (50.72%) DevOps
4 25 (36.23%) CI/CD
5 20 (28.99%) Containerisation
5 20 (28.99%) Unit Testing
6 18 (26.09%) Scrum
7 17 (24.64%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (18.84%) Front End Development
8 13 (18.84%) SOLID
9 12 (17.39%) Mentoring
10 11 (15.94%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (15.94%) Observability
10 11 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (14.49%) BDD
11 10 (14.49%) High Availability
11 10 (14.49%) Sprint Review
11 10 (14.49%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (14.49%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 66 (95.65%) Java
2 41 (59.42%) SQL
3 24 (34.78%) JavaScript
4 8 (11.59%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.35%) Groovy
5 3 (4.35%) PL/SQL
5 3 (4.35%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.90%) Python
6 2 (2.90%) Scala
7 1 (1.45%) COBOL
7 1 (1.45%) JCL
7 1 (1.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 26 (37.68%) Security Cleared
2 23 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) QA
2 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 41 (59.42%) Docker
2 9 (13.04%) Postfix
3 2 (2.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 27 (39.13%) Kubernetes
2 12 (17.39%) Grafana
3 11 (15.94%) Prometheus
4 5 (7.25%) Terraform
5 3 (4.35%) Ansible
6 1 (1.45%) Argo
6 1 (1.45%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (14.49%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (11.59%) Atlassian
2 8 (11.59%) Splunk
2 8 (11.59%) Veracode
3 7 (10.14%) Oracle
4 3 (4.35%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 3 (4.35%) Microsoft