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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 - 154
Rank change year-on-year - - +75
Permanent jobs citing JPA 9 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.32% - 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.43% - 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £40,700
25th Percentile - - £43,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £51,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.86%
75th Percentile - - £60,500
90th Percentile - - £64,700
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% -18.75%

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 370 664 613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.29% 20.31% 25.41%
Number of salaries quoted 100 374 506
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,938 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,750 £58,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.64% -7.20% +8.70%
75th Percentile £78,790 £70,000 £73,938
90th Percentile £85,830 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%

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 8 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow - 9 - - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (55.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Apache Hive
1 5 (55.56%) Big Data
1 5 (55.56%) Hadoop
1 5 (55.56%) HBase
2 4 (44.44%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Gradle
1 5 (55.56%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 9 (100.00%) Finance
1 9 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 9 (100.00%) Law
2 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Marketing
3 4 (44.44%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Full-Stack Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Java Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Java Software Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) Spring
2 5 (55.56%) React
2 5 (55.56%) REST
3 4 (44.44%) AngularJS
3 4 (44.44%) Spring Boot
4 1 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (44.44%) Algorithms
2 4 (44.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 9 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 9 (100.00%) SDLC
1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) AI
2 5 (55.56%) Decision-Making
2 5 (55.56%) Machine Learning
2 5 (55.56%) Open Source
2 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) TDD
2 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
3 4 (44.44%) Community of Practice
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (44.44%) Visualisation
4 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
4 1 (11.11%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (55.56%) PL/SQL
3 4 (44.44%) TypeScript
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) HDFS
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Cloudera
1 5 (55.56%) Databricks