JPA Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Java Persistence API (JPA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JPA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 276 657
Rank change year-on-year -287 +381 -1
Permanent jobs citing JPA 19 290 86
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.028% 0.99% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.37% 5.77% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 9 34 7
10th Percentile £41,150 £28,625 £53,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,524 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -22.58% +40.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,015 £78,750
90th Percentile £84,000 £73,750 £79,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,190 5,028 13,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.78% 17.20% 19.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4,077 3,346 10,302
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%

JPA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

JPA job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

JPA
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JPA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JPA

JPA
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing JPA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for JPA in the UK excluding London

JPA
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JPA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
South East -29 9 £83,750 +15.52% 2
North of England -139 4 £49,750 -17.08% 5
South West -56 3 - - 1
Yorkshire -39 2 - - 1
Scotland -51 2 £65,000 -
West Midlands -81 2 £40,750 -32.08%
Midlands -115 2 £40,750 -32.08% 1
North East -41 1 £55,000 - 2
North West -92 1 £44,500 - 2
Wales - 1 £45,000 - 1
JPA
UK

JPA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Azure
3 6 (31.58%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (31.58%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (31.58%) Serverless
4 4 (21.05%) GCP
5 3 (15.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (15.79%) GitHub
5 3 (15.79%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (31.58%) NoSQL
2 6 (31.58%) Relational Database
3 4 (21.05%) MongoDB
3 4 (21.05%) MySQL
4 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Jenkins
2 7 (36.84%) Git
3 6 (31.58%) JUnit
3 6 (31.58%) Mockito
4 4 (21.05%) Maven
5 3 (15.79%) Gradle
6 2 (10.53%) JMeter
7 1 (5.26%) Eclipse
7 1 (5.26%) GitLab
7 1 (5.26%) JIRA
7 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Finance
4 3 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (10.53%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Developer
2 12 (63.16%) Java Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Backend Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Lead
5 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (89.47%) Spring
1 17 (89.47%) Spring Boot
2 14 (73.68%) Hibernate
3 12 (63.16%) RESTful
4 7 (36.84%) React
4 7 (36.84%) Web Services
5 6 (31.58%) REST
6 5 (26.32%) AngularJS
6 5 (26.32%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (26.32%) WireMock
7 4 (21.05%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (21.05%) Java EE
7 4 (21.05%) JMS
8 3 (15.79%) HTML
8 3 (15.79%) Kafka
9 2 (10.53%) ActiveMQ
9 2 (10.53%) Apache Camel
9 2 (10.53%) jQuery
9 2 (10.53%) Mustache
9 2 (10.53%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
3 2 (10.53%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Agile
2 14 (73.68%) DevOps
2 14 (73.68%) Microservices
3 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
3 12 (63.16%) TDD
4 10 (52.63%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (42.11%) Containerisation
6 7 (36.84%) BDD
6 7 (36.84%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (36.84%) Domain-Driven Design
6 7 (36.84%) Scrum
7 6 (31.58%) API Design
7 6 (31.58%) Code Quality
7 6 (31.58%) Kanban
8 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
8 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
9 4 (21.05%) Design Patterns
9 4 (21.05%) Machine Learning
10 3 (15.79%) API Development
10 3 (15.79%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
3 4 (21.05%) PL/SQL
3 4 (21.05%) Python
4 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 13 (68.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (68.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (31.58%) Kibana
3 4 (21.05%) Ansible
3 4 (21.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) AppDynamics
1 4 (21.05%) IBM
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) Salesforce
3 2 (10.53%) Dynatrace
3 2 (10.53%) Splunk
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.26%) Veracode