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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 591 490 482
Rank change year-on-year -101 -8 +96
Contract jobs citing JPA 98 67 80
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.82% 0.79% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 50 59
10th Percentile £322 £268 £375
25th Percentile £375 £324 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £406 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% -26.14% +10.00%
75th Percentile £537 £509 £650
90th Percentile £614 £553 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £425 £435
% change year-on-year +8.82% -2.30% -17.14%
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 11,886 8,520 9,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.67% 25.86% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,817 5,696 6,345
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £437 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £635 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £734 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.37% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 187 189
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +18.83% -11.20% -1.44%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.20 £74.57
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +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 19 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 19 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 -99 78 £460 +15.00% 52
UK excluding London -70 73 £463 +8.82% 40
Midlands -33 32 £583 +58.29% 11
West Midlands -28 30 £590 +18.00% 8
London -83 24 £413 +1.54% 22
Work from Home -72 23 £331 -26.44% 22
Scotland -5 16 £322 -28.44% 10
North of England -65 15 £500 +55.04% 11
Yorkshire -31 10 £415 -24.55% 6
South West -32 5 £381 -30.68% 3
North West -54 5 £537 +84.85% 4
South East -57 4 £450 -10.00% 5
East Midlands -20 1 £335 +24.07% 3
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 19 (19.39%) Confluence
2 9 (9.18%) Camunda
3 5 (5.10%) nginx
4 1 (1.02%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Finacle
1 1 (1.02%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (1.02%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 56 (57.14%) AWS
2 17 (17.35%) Amazon SQS
2 17 (17.35%) GCP
3 16 (16.33%) GitHub
4 15 (15.31%) Azure
5 14 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 14 (14.29%) OpenShift
6 13 (13.27%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (10.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (9.18%) AWS KMS
9 9 (9.18%) Route 53
10 6 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (5.10%) Apigee
11 5 (5.10%) Cloud Run
11 5 (5.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (5.10%) Kong
11 5 (5.10%) Serverless
12 4 (4.08%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (4.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (40.82%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (23.47%) Relational Database
3 14 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 14 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 13 (13.27%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (12.24%) MySQL
6 10 (10.20%) DynamoDB
7 9 (9.18%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (7.14%) Redis
9 6 (6.12%) NoSQL
9 6 (6.12%) RDBMS
10 5 (5.10%) Hazelcast
10 5 (5.10%) Oracle Database
11 4 (4.08%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (4.08%) Couchbase
11 4 (4.08%) Data Lake
11 4 (4.08%) Power BI
12 3 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (3.06%) Pinecone
12 3 (3.06%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 65 (66.33%) Jenkins
1 65 (66.33%) Maven
2 62 (63.27%) Git
3 58 (59.18%) JUnit
4 45 (45.92%) Mockito
5 34 (34.69%) GitLab
6 30 (30.61%) SonarQube
7 26 (26.53%) JIRA
8 23 (23.47%) Gradle
9 14 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
10 8 (8.16%) Cucumber
10 8 (8.16%) REST Assured
10 8 (8.16%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (7.14%) DbUnit
12 6 (6.12%) jMock
13 4 (4.08%) IntelliJ
13 4 (4.08%) Snyk
14 3 (3.06%) Flyway
14 3 (3.06%) Selenium
15 2 (2.04%) git-flow
General
1 24 (24.49%) Public Sector
1 24 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 23 (23.47%) Finance
3 21 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (21.43%) Banking
4 6 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.04%) Law
6 2 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.02%) Front Office
7 1 (1.02%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (77.55%) Developer
2 70 (71.43%) Java Developer
3 34 (34.69%) Senior
4 27 (27.55%) Senior Developer
4 27 (27.55%) Senior Java Developer
5 21 (21.43%) Full-Stack Developer
6 19 (19.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 14 (14.29%) Java Engineer
8 9 (9.18%) Lead
8 9 (9.18%) Lead Developer
8 9 (9.18%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (5.10%) Backend Developer
10 4 (4.08%) Senior Backend Developer
10 4 (4.08%) Senior Java Engineer
11 3 (3.06%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 2 (2.04%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 2 (2.04%) Kafka Developer
12 2 (2.04%) React Developer
12 2 (2.04%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 2 (2.04%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (94.90%) Spring
2 90 (91.84%) Spring Boot
3 54 (55.10%) REST
4 52 (53.06%) Hibernate
5 36 (36.73%) React
6 34 (34.69%) RESTful
7 29 (29.59%) AngularJS
8 28 (28.57%) HTML
8 28 (28.57%) Kafka
9 23 (23.47%) CSS
10 22 (22.45%) OpenAPI
10 22 (22.45%) Spring Cloud
10 22 (22.45%) Spring MVC
11 21 (21.43%) SOAP
11 21 (21.43%) Web Services
12 19 (19.39%) ActiveMQ
13 17 (17.35%) Redux
14 13 (13.27%) HTML5
14 13 (13.27%) Node.js
14 13 (13.27%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 12 (12.24%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (10.20%) Data Structures
4 8 (8.16%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (7.14%) Product Ownership
6 6 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (4.08%) AI Agents
8 3 (3.06%) Public Cloud
9 2 (2.04%) Algorithms
10 1 (1.02%) Credit Risk
10 1 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.02%) Derivative
10 1 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.02%) LIMS
10 1 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.16%) Linux
2 4 (4.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 68 (69.39%) Microservices
3 63 (64.29%) Agile
4 60 (61.22%) Scrum
5 42 (42.86%) TDD
6 37 (37.76%) Test Automation
7 34 (34.69%) DevOps
8 27 (27.55%) Containerisation
8 27 (27.55%) Full-Stack Development
9 23 (23.47%) MVC
10 22 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (20.41%) Front End Development
11 20 (20.41%) Kanban
12 17 (17.35%) Code Quality
12 17 (17.35%) Observability
12 17 (17.35%) Software Engineering
12 17 (17.35%) User Stories
13 16 (16.33%) API Development
13 16 (16.33%) Technical Leadership
14 15 (15.31%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 98 (100.00%) Java
2 58 (59.18%) SQL
3 32 (32.65%) JavaScript
4 20 (20.41%) TypeScript
5 12 (12.24%) Shell Script
6 9 (9.18%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.06%) Kotlin
7 3 (3.06%) Scala
8 2 (2.04%) PromQL
8 2 (2.04%) Python
9 1 (1.02%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 29 (29.59%) Security Cleared
2 25 (25.51%) SC Cleared
3 15 (15.31%) Degree
4 14 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (11.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.06%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (2.04%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.27%) QA
2 8 (8.16%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.04%) WCAG
4 1 (1.02%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.02%) PSD2
System Software
1 47 (47.96%) Docker
2 5 (5.10%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 36 (36.73%) Kubernetes
2 32 (32.65%) Grafana
3 27 (27.55%) Prometheus
4 12 (12.24%) Kibana
5 5 (5.10%) Ansible
5 5 (5.10%) Argo
6 2 (2.04%) Consul
6 2 (2.04%) Zipkin
7 1 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.02%) Istio
7 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (29.59%) Oracle
2 8 (8.16%) IBM
2 8 (8.16%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (8.16%) Veracode
3 7 (7.14%) Atlassian
4 6 (6.12%) Google
4 6 (6.12%) MuleSoft
5 4 (4.08%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.04%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.04%) Solace
6 2 (2.04%) Splunk
7 1 (1.02%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.02%) Okta
7 1 (1.02%) Temenos
7 1 (1.02%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.02%) webMethods