JPA Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Java Persistence API (JPA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 313 424
Rank change year-on-year +15 +111 +92
Contract jobs citing JPA 6 32 53
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.23% 0.87% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 23 37
10th Percentile £316 £397 £409
25th Percentile £363 £403 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -27.14% +5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £409 £850 £538
90th Percentile £451 £875 £663
UK median daily rate £420 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -20.00% - +9.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

JPA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing JPA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

JPA trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing JPA.

JPA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

JPA
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing JPA over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

JPA daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

JPA
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing JPA.

JPA hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

JPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 2 (33.33%) Redis
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) MySQL
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JUnit
2 3 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 3 (50.00%) Maven
2 3 (50.00%) Mockito
2 3 (50.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (33.33%) Postman
3 2 (33.33%) REST Assured
3 2 (33.33%) SoapUI
3 2 (33.33%) Subversion
3 2 (33.33%) Xcode
3 2 (33.33%) XCTest
4 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
4 1 (16.67%) GitLab
4 1 (16.67%) Selenium
4 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Backend Developer
3 1 (16.67%) COBOL Developer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (16.67%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
3 1 (16.67%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Hibernate
2 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 4 (66.67%) Spring
2 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (50.00%) CSS
3 3 (50.00%) Kafka
3 3 (50.00%) REST
3 3 (50.00%) Spring MVC
3 3 (50.00%) Swagger
4 2 (33.33%) Bootstrap
4 2 (33.33%) CSS3
4 2 (33.33%) HTML5
4 2 (33.33%) J2EE
4 2 (33.33%) Material-UI
4 2 (33.33%) React
4 2 (33.33%) SOAP
4 2 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (33.33%) Web Services
5 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Microservices
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 2 (33.33%) Concurrent Programming
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) Software Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Groovy
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (16.67%) COBOL
4 1 (16.67%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 2 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) Veracode