Java Persistence API (JPA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring JPA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited JPA over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 428 806 754
Rank change year-on-year +378 -52 +78
Permanent jobs citing JPA 310 98 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.089% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.19% 0.44% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 42 36 84
10th Percentile £32,750 £51,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -18.75%
75th Percentile £72,875 £77,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £77,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -22.58% +40.91% +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,713 22,074 26,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.35% 20.09% 29.07%
Number of salaries quoted 5,834 16,295 17,588
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,254 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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 13 June 2025.

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 13 June 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
UK excluding London +389 296 £60,000 -22.58% 32
Work from Home +365 274 £60,000 -11.11% 36
England +373 249 £60,000 -14.29% 42
North of England - 114 £60,000 - 3
North West - 110 - -
Midlands - 89 £60,000 - 4
Scotland +114 61 - - 12
East Midlands - 45 £60,000 - 2
West Midlands - 44 £60,000 - 2
South East +105 16 £72,500 +45.00% 10
East of England - 15 - - 1
London +84 12 £68,750 -1.79% 25
South West +119 3 £57,443 -25.88% 2
North East - 3 - - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £60,000 -

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
1 165 (53.23%) Confluence
2 6 (1.94%) Apache
3 5 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.32%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.32%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 293 (94.52%) AWS
2 269 (86.77%) Azure
3 163 (52.58%) GCP
4 17 (5.48%) Amazon SQS
5 15 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (4.52%) Amazon S3
7 13 (4.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (4.19%) SaaS
8 12 (3.87%) AWS KMS
9 11 (3.55%) Route 53
10 2 (0.65%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.32%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 249 (80.32%) SQL Server
2 23 (7.42%) NoSQL
3 21 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (4.19%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (4.19%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (3.55%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.61%) Apache Hive
6 5 (1.61%) Big Data
6 5 (1.61%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.61%) HBase
6 5 (1.61%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.29%) MySQL
8 3 (0.97%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.97%) Redis
Development Applications
1 274 (88.39%) Maven
2 265 (85.48%) SonarQube
3 258 (83.23%) JIRA
4 250 (80.65%) GitLab
5 249 (80.32%) Cucumber
6 248 (80.00%) Bitbucket
6 248 (80.00%) Selenium
6 248 (80.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 35 (11.29%) JUnit
8 32 (10.32%) Mockito
9 22 (7.10%) Git
10 20 (6.45%) Jenkins
11 14 (4.52%) IntelliJ
12 13 (4.19%) Eclipse
12 13 (4.19%) Jasmine
12 13 (4.19%) Karma Test Runner
12 13 (4.19%) Protractor
13 12 (3.87%) Bitbucket Server
13 12 (3.87%) DbUnit
13 12 (3.87%) jMock
General
1 265 (85.48%) Finance
2 260 (83.87%) Banking
3 258 (83.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 93 (30.00%) Investment Banking
5 90 (29.03%) Corporate Banking
5 90 (29.03%) Retail
6 16 (5.16%) Law
7 13 (4.19%) Public Sector
8 10 (3.23%) Social Skills
9 9 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.61%) Marketing
10 5 (1.61%) Police
11 1 (0.32%) Advertising
11 1 (0.32%) Back Office
11 1 (0.32%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 261 (84.19%) Software Engineer
2 52 (16.77%) Developer
3 47 (15.16%) Java Developer
4 16 (5.16%) Backend Developer
5 13 (4.19%) SaaS Developer
6 11 (3.55%) Java Engineer
6 11 (3.55%) Java Software Engineer
7 9 (2.90%) Lead
7 9 (2.90%) Lead Developer
7 9 (2.90%) Lead Java Developer
8 7 (2.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (1.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 5 (1.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 5 (1.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (1.61%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 5 (1.61%) Java Software Developer
10 5 (1.61%) Senior
10 5 (1.61%) Software Developer
11 4 (1.29%) Graduate
11 4 (1.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 291 (93.87%) Spring
2 285 (91.94%) Spring Boot
3 270 (87.10%) React
4 256 (82.58%) Kafka
5 252 (81.29%) HTML
6 251 (80.97%) CSS
7 248 (80.00%) Redux
8 197 (63.55%) Hibernate
9 111 (35.81%) REST
9 111 (35.81%) RESTful
10 93 (30.00%) CSS3
10 93 (30.00%) HTML5
11 91 (29.35%) Jest
12 90 (29.03%) Sass
13 36 (11.61%) AngularJS
14 18 (5.81%) SOAP
15 16 (5.16%) Bootstrap
15 16 (5.16%) Web Services
16 15 (4.84%) RabbitMQ
17 14 (4.52%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 247 (79.68%) Enterprise Software
1 247 (79.68%) Product Ownership
2 19 (6.13%) Algorithms
3 11 (3.55%) Distributed Architecture
4 9 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.94%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.61%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.32%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.00%) Linux
2 8 (2.58%) Unix
3 5 (1.61%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (95.16%) Agile
2 292 (94.19%) Microservices
3 282 (90.97%) Containerisation
4 269 (86.77%) CI/CD
5 267 (86.13%) SDLC
6 261 (84.19%) Software Engineering
7 260 (83.87%) DevOps
7 260 (83.87%) Test Automation
8 258 (83.23%) Full-Stack Development
9 253 (81.61%) Front End Development
10 251 (80.97%) Performance Optimisation
11 181 (58.39%) TDD
12 169 (54.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 162 (52.26%) Clean Code
14 95 (30.65%) Migration
15 93 (30.00%) Mentoring
16 91 (29.35%) User Experience
17 90 (29.03%) Responsive Web Design
17 90 (29.03%) Strategic Thinking
18 19 (6.13%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 310 (100.00%) Java
2 292 (94.19%) SQL
3 252 (81.29%) JavaScript
4 95 (30.65%) TypeScript
5 5 (1.61%) PL/SQL
5 5 (1.61%) Python
6 3 (0.97%) Groovy
6 3 (0.97%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.65%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.32%) Bash
8 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (5.48%) Security Cleared
2 12 (3.87%) SC Cleared
3 6 (1.94%) Degree
4 5 (1.61%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (80.65%) QA
2 90 (29.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 289 (93.23%) Docker
2 5 (1.61%) HDFS
3 4 (1.29%) Postfix
4 1 (0.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 265 (85.48%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.61%) Grafana
3 4 (1.29%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.65%) Terraform
5 1 (0.32%) Argo
5 1 (0.32%) Istio
Vendors
1 247 (79.68%) Solace
2 14 (4.52%) IBM
3 11 (3.55%) Atlassian
4 5 (1.61%) Cloudera
4 5 (1.61%) Databricks
4 5 (1.61%) Jaspersoft
4 5 (1.61%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.29%) Splunk
6 3 (0.97%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (0.97%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.97%) Google
6 3 (0.97%) Oracle
7 1 (0.32%) Veracode