JPA Job Trends in Scotland

Java Persistence API (JPA)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring JPA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 - 200
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Permanent jobs citing JPA 2 0 64
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.064% - 1.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.55% - 3.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile - - £43,625
25th Percentile - - £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £66,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.19%
75th Percentile - - £70,938
90th Percentile - - £75,625
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -4.17% -12.73% +14.58%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

JPA falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 366 426 1,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.73% 21.30% 33.94%
Number of salaries quoted 153 315 613
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £79,648 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,474 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

JPA
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JPA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

JPA job vacancy trend in Scotland

JPA
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing JPA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing JPA

JPA
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JPA within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 24 March 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow - 2 £65,000 -
JPA
UK

JPA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes