Java Persistence API (JPA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for JPA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited JPA over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 604 870 875
Rank change year-on-year +266 +5 -234
Permanent jobs citing JPA 137 206 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.17% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.98% 0.51% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 40 163 140
10th Percentile £54,425 £37,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £43,750 £47,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £88,125 £86,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

JPA is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14,018 40,128 49,552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.33% 32.38% 38.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10,969 24,275 32,022
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,258 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.00%

JPA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JPA in the UK

JPA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JPA.

Salary trend for JPA in the UK

JPA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JPA over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for JPA in the UK

JPA
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JPA within the UK over the 6 months to 4 December 2023. 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
UK excluding London +225 100 £65,000 +18.18% 15
England +246 92 £75,000 - 15
London +220 35 £85,000 -5.56% 3
North of England +162 23 £80,000 +18.52% 2
Scotland +67 22 £58,000 +10.48% 2
Work from Home +196 20 £80,000 +14.29% 13
North West +112 14 - - 1
South West +88 14 £62,500 -10.71% 8
Northern Ireland +42 12 £77,500 +40.91%
South East +159 11 £81,250 +10.17% 2
Midlands +75 9 £57,750 +5.00%
East Midlands +2 9 £57,750 +7.44%
Yorkshire - 9 £80,000 - 1
Wales +26 7 - - 1
East of England +122 4 £80,000 -

JPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 88 (64.23%) JBoss
2 86 (62.77%) Red Hat Fuse
3 2 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.46%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.46%) Jetty
3 2 (1.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.46%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 43 (31.39%) AWS
2 12 (8.76%) Azure
3 7 (5.11%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (3.65%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (3.65%) Serverless
5 3 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (2.19%) AWS KMS
5 3 (2.19%) npm
5 3 (2.19%) SaaS
5 3 (2.19%) Yarn
6 2 (1.46%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.73%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.19%) ATM
2 2 (1.46%) AMQP
2 2 (1.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.76%) MongoDB
2 11 (8.03%) NoSQL
3 10 (7.30%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.38%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.65%) MySQL
7 3 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.19%) Hazelcast
7 3 (2.19%) Redis
8 2 (1.46%) Apache Hive
8 2 (1.46%) DB2
8 2 (1.46%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.46%) HBase
8 2 (1.46%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.46%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.73%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 92 (67.15%) IntelliJ
2 28 (20.44%) Jenkins
3 22 (16.06%) Git
4 21 (15.33%) Maven
5 14 (10.22%) JUnit
6 9 (6.57%) Mockito
7 6 (4.38%) Eclipse
7 6 (4.38%) Jasmine
7 6 (4.38%) Karma Test Runner
7 6 (4.38%) Protractor
8 4 (2.92%) Travis CI
9 3 (2.19%) DbUnit
9 3 (2.19%) jMock
9 3 (2.19%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.46%) GitLab
10 2 (1.46%) Gradle
10 2 (1.46%) Subversion
11 1 (0.73%) Cucumber
General
1 93 (67.88%) Public Sector
2 23 (16.79%) Finance
3 14 (10.22%) Back Office
4 10 (7.30%) Financial Institution
5 8 (5.84%) Banking
5 8 (5.84%) Tech for Good
6 6 (4.38%) Law
7 5 (3.65%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.19%) Front Office
9 3 (2.19%) Retail
9 3 (2.19%) Social Skills
10 2 (1.46%) Legal
10 2 (1.46%) Marketing
11 1 (0.73%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 91 (66.42%) Senior
2 69 (50.36%) Software Engineer
3 68 (49.64%) Java Engineer
3 68 (49.64%) Java Software Engineer
4 65 (47.45%) Developer
5 64 (46.72%) Senior Java Engineer
5 64 (46.72%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 64 (46.72%) Senior Software Engineer
6 62 (45.26%) Java Developer
7 27 (19.71%) Senior Developer
8 24 (17.52%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (2.92%) Java Software Developer
10 3 (2.19%) Investment Banking Java Developer
10 3 (2.19%) Senior Software Developer
10 3 (2.19%) Software Developer
11 2 (1.46%) Lead
11 2 (1.46%) Python Engineer
11 2 (1.46%) Python Software Engineer
11 2 (1.46%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 2 (1.46%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (98.54%) Spring
2 127 (92.70%) Hibernate
3 111 (81.02%) AngularJS
4 104 (75.91%) REST
5 94 (68.61%) Web Services
6 91 (66.42%) SOAP
7 88 (64.23%) XML
8 86 (62.77%) JSON
8 86 (62.77%) XSD
9 78 (56.93%) Java EE
10 75 (54.74%) RESTful
11 38 (27.74%) Spring Boot
12 18 (13.14%) Kafka
13 14 (10.22%) React
14 13 (9.49%) RabbitMQ
15 12 (8.76%) Apache Camel
16 7 (5.11%) JMS
17 4 (2.92%) CSS
17 4 (2.92%) HTML
17 4 (2.92%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.03%) Reference Data
2 7 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.19%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.46%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.46%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.46%) RIA
5 1 (0.73%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.87%) Linux
2 2 (1.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (77.37%) Agile
2 94 (68.61%) Software Engineering
3 88 (64.23%) Front End Development
4 87 (63.50%) User Experience
5 86 (62.77%) Actionable Insight
5 86 (62.77%) Collaborative Working
5 86 (62.77%) Data Design
5 86 (62.77%) Mentoring
5 86 (62.77%) UX Design
6 80 (58.39%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (34.31%) Microservices
8 24 (17.52%) SOA
9 22 (16.06%) DevOps
10 18 (13.14%) CI/CD
11 13 (9.49%) Computer Science
12 12 (8.76%) TDD
12 12 (8.76%) Unit Testing
13 11 (8.03%) Continuous Integration
14 10 (7.30%) SDLC
15 9 (6.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 137 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (20.44%) SQL
3 17 (12.41%) JavaScript
4 5 (3.65%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.19%) C#
6 2 (1.46%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.46%) Python
Qualifications
1 91 (66.42%) SC Cleared
1 91 (66.42%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (6.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.46%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (10.22%) Docker
2 2 (1.46%) HDFS
2 2 (1.46%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 17 (12.41%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.65%) Ansible
2 5 (3.65%) Terraform
3 1 (0.73%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (3.65%) Oracle
2 2 (1.46%) Cloudera
2 2 (1.46%) Databricks
3 1 (0.73%) AppDynamics
3 1 (0.73%) IBM