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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 173 157
Rank change year-on-year +82 -16 +84
Permanent jobs citing JPA 61 22 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.40% 0.52% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.22% 2.03% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile - - £67,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £76,250
% change year-on-year - -11.48% -4.69%

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 376 1,084 695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.79% 25.40% 26.07%
Number of salaries quoted 99 439 562
10th Percentile £40,050 £35,800 £39,025
25th Percentile £49,375 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £79,578 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,140 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,153
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.74% +1.77%

JPA
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing JPA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for JPA 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 19 September 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
Lanarkshire - 18 - -
Glasgow +56 13 - -
Renfrewshire - 4 - -
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian - 2 - -
Fife - 2 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
JPA
UK

JPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 49 (80.33%) Confluence
2 5 (8.20%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 57 (93.44%) AWS
2 52 (85.25%) Azure
2 52 (85.25%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (80.33%) SQL Server
2 7 (11.48%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.20%) Apache Hive
3 5 (8.20%) Big Data
3 5 (8.20%) Hadoop
3 5 (8.20%) HBase
4 3 (4.92%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.92%) MySQL
4 3 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 57 (93.44%) Maven
2 51 (83.61%) GitLab
3 49 (80.33%) Bitbucket
3 49 (80.33%) Cucumber
3 49 (80.33%) JIRA
3 49 (80.33%) Selenium
3 49 (80.33%) SonarQube
3 49 (80.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (13.11%) Gradle
5 4 (6.56%) Git
6 3 (4.92%) Jenkins
7 2 (3.28%) JUnit
7 2 (3.28%) Mockito
General
1 58 (95.08%) Finance
1 58 (95.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 53 (86.89%) Banking
3 9 (14.75%) Law
4 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.20%) Marketing
5 2 (3.28%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (95.08%) Software Engineer
2 9 (14.75%) Java Engineer
2 9 (14.75%) Java Software Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) Developer
3 8 (13.11%) Java Developer
4 5 (8.20%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (8.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 5 (8.20%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) Java Software Developer
4 5 (8.20%) Software Developer
5 2 (3.28%) Senior
5 2 (3.28%) Senior Developer
5 2 (3.28%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (1.64%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (100.00%) Spring
2 56 (91.80%) React
2 56 (91.80%) Spring Boot
3 52 (85.25%) Hibernate
4 51 (83.61%) Kafka
5 49 (80.33%) CSS
5 49 (80.33%) HTML
5 49 (80.33%) Redux
6 6 (9.84%) AngularJS
6 6 (9.84%) REST
7 3 (4.92%) RESTful
8 2 (3.28%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (3.28%) Spring MVC
9 1 (1.64%) JWT
9 1 (1.64%) OAuth
9 1 (1.64%) OAuth2
9 1 (1.64%) PySpark
9 1 (1.64%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 49 (80.33%) Enterprise Software
1 49 (80.33%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.20%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (6.56%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 60 (98.36%) Agile
3 58 (95.08%) Full-Stack Development
3 58 (95.08%) SDLC
3 58 (95.08%) Software Engineering
4 55 (90.16%) Continuous Improvement
5 54 (88.52%) TDD
5 54 (88.52%) Test Automation
6 53 (86.89%) Microservices
7 52 (85.25%) Containerisation
7 52 (85.25%) DevOps
7 52 (85.25%) Front End Development
8 50 (81.97%) Clean Code
9 49 (80.33%) Performance Optimisation
10 9 (14.75%) Operational Stability
11 7 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (8.20%) Artificial Intelligence
12 5 (8.20%) Decision-Making
12 5 (8.20%) Machine Learning
12 5 (8.20%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 61 (100.00%) Java
1 61 (100.00%) SQL
2 49 (80.33%) JavaScript
3 5 (8.20%) PL/SQL
4 4 (6.56%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (85.25%) QA
System Software
1 52 (85.25%) Docker
2 5 (8.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 52 (85.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 49 (80.33%) Solace
2 5 (8.20%) Cloudera
2 5 (8.20%) Databricks