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 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 607 575
Rank change year-on-year +122 -32 +10
Contract jobs citing JPA 99 90 279
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.16% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.07% 0.71% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 58 203
10th Percentile £375 £421 £388
25th Percentile £425 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £498
Median % change year-on-year - +5.53% -0.50%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £605
90th Percentile £660 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.38% +1.94% +5.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate £45.88 - £63.25
75th Percentile - - £68.38
90th Percentile - - £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +62.50%

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 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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 17 June 2024.

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 10 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 17 June 2024. 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 +91 85 £535 +1.90% 14
London +86 58 £545 -6.24% 12
UK excluding London +39 39 £513 -2.38% 4
Work from Home +112 27 £525 +5.00% 7
North of England +36 23 £525 -22.79% 1
North West +28 17 £525 -22.79%
Scotland +58 12 £468 -16.89% 1
Yorkshire - 6 £550 - 1
South West +1 3 £400 -23.81%
East of England +1 1 £395 +5.33%

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 12 (12.12%) Confluence
2 3 (3.03%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.02%) Apache
3 2 (2.02%) JBoss
3 2 (2.02%) WildFly
4 1 (1.01%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.01%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 31 (31.31%) AWS
2 4 (4.04%) Amazon MSK
2 4 (4.04%) Amazon S3
2 4 (4.04%) Amazon SQS
2 4 (4.04%) Azure
3 3 (3.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.01%) GCP
4 1 (1.01%) npm
4 1 (1.01%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.09%) SSH
2 3 (3.03%) HTTP
2 3 (3.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
1 22 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 17 (17.17%) Oracle Database
3 10 (10.10%) NoSQL
4 7 (7.07%) Apache Cassandra
4 7 (7.07%) MySQL
5 4 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.04%) Redis
6 3 (3.03%) CockroachDB
6 3 (3.03%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.02%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (1.01%) DB2
8 1 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (36.36%) JUnit
2 34 (34.34%) Git
3 28 (28.28%) JIRA
4 20 (20.20%) Jenkins
5 14 (14.14%) Maven
6 10 (10.10%) Cucumber
7 6 (6.06%) Mockito
8 5 (5.05%) Liquibase
9 4 (4.04%) Gatling
9 4 (4.04%) ScalaTest
10 3 (3.03%) Bitbucket
10 3 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (3.03%) Subversion
11 2 (2.02%) Artifactory
11 2 (2.02%) Eclipse
11 2 (2.02%) GitLab
11 2 (2.02%) Gradle
11 2 (2.02%) IntelliJ
11 2 (2.02%) JMeter
12 1 (1.01%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (24.24%) Public Sector
2 21 (21.21%) Banking
2 21 (21.21%) Finance
3 11 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (10.10%) Investment Banking
5 9 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.08%) Social Skills
7 4 (4.04%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 80 (80.81%) Developer
2 66 (66.67%) Java Developer
3 12 (12.12%) Oracle Developer
4 11 (11.11%) DBA
4 11 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
5 9 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
5 9 (9.09%) Java Engineer
5 9 (9.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 9 (9.09%) SQL Developer
6 8 (8.08%) Lead
6 8 (8.08%) Lead Developer
6 8 (8.08%) Lead Java Developer
7 7 (7.07%) Full Stack Engineer
7 7 (7.07%) SQL DBA
8 6 (6.06%) Junior
8 6 (6.06%) Junior Developer
8 6 (6.06%) Junior Java Developer
9 5 (5.05%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 5 (5.05%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (88.89%) Spring
2 71 (71.72%) Hibernate
3 69 (69.70%) Spring Boot
4 68 (68.69%) REST
5 27 (27.27%) React
6 19 (19.19%) Spring Security
7 16 (16.16%) AngularJS
8 15 (15.15%) CSS
8 15 (15.15%) HTML
9 14 (14.14%) Web Services
9 14 (14.14%) XML
10 12 (12.12%) JSON
11 10 (10.10%) J2EE
12 9 (9.09%) SOAP
13 7 (7.07%) Spring MVC
14 6 (6.06%) RESTful
15 5 (5.05%) JDBC
15 5 (5.05%) STL
16 4 (4.04%) Akka
16 4 (4.04%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.16%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (15.15%) Management Information System
3 10 (10.10%) Public Cloud
4 9 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (7.07%) Algorithms
6 4 (4.04%) Credit Derivative
6 4 (4.04%) Data Structures
6 4 (4.04%) Derivative
7 2 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 20 (20.20%) Linux
2 17 (17.17%) Unix
3 1 (1.01%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (73.74%) Agile
2 58 (58.59%) Microservices
3 45 (45.45%) Scrum
4 44 (44.44%) CI/CD
5 34 (34.34%) Front End Development
6 33 (33.33%) DevOps
6 33 (33.33%) SDLC
7 32 (32.32%) Unit Testing
8 30 (30.30%) High Availability
8 30 (30.30%) Software Engineering
9 26 (26.26%) Mentoring
10 23 (23.23%) Full Stack Development
10 23 (23.23%) TDD
11 18 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 18 (18.18%) Observability
12 17 (17.17%) BDD
13 16 (16.16%) Continuous Integration
13 16 (16.16%) Software Architecture
14 15 (15.15%) Release Management
15 13 (13.13%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 99 (100.00%) Java
2 39 (39.39%) SQL
3 35 (35.35%) TypeScript
4 7 (7.07%) Perl
4 7 (7.07%) Python
5 5 (5.05%) PL/SQL
5 5 (5.05%) Scala
6 4 (4.04%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.03%) C++
8 2 (2.02%) Bash
Qualifications
1 43 (43.43%) SC Cleared
1 43 (43.43%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.01%) NCSC
System Software
1 28 (28.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (29.29%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.07%) Grafana
3 4 (4.04%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.03%) Ansible
5 2 (2.02%) Istio
6 1 (1.01%) Kibana
6 1 (1.01%) logstash
Vendors
1 22 (22.22%) Oracle
2 4 (4.04%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.02%) IBM
4 1 (1.01%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.01%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.01%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.01%) Tradeweb
4 1 (1.01%) VMware