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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 648 754 802
Rank change year-on-year +106 +48 -5
Permanent jobs citing JPA 44 142 187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.14% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.52% 0.67% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 35 34 121
10th Percentile £29,000 £51,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £54,599 £56,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £71,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +14.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £62,500 £78,563 £86,250
90th Percentile £67,275 £90,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +33.33% +5.00%

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 8,460 21,099 31,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.26% 21.42% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,443 15,769 19,367
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £51,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for JPA in the UK

JPA
Top 12 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 1 May 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
England +163 41 £60,000 -17.24% 23
UK excluding London +135 37 £60,000 -14.29% 19
Work from Home +216 33 £60,000 -15.79% 28
Midlands +103 23 £60,000 - 2
West Midlands - 13 £60,000 - 1
London +91 11 £65,000 -10.34% 8
East Midlands +58 10 £60,000 - 1
South East +110 7 £60,000 +20.00% 8
South West +103 3 £57,443 -25.88% 3
Scotland +53 3 - - 4
North of England +78 1 £60,000 - 2
Yorkshire +74 1 £60,000 - 1

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 2 (4.55%) Apache
2 1 (2.27%) Alfresco
2 1 (2.27%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 35 (79.55%) AWS
2 30 (68.18%) Azure
3 22 (50.00%) SaaS
4 6 (13.64%) GCP
5 5 (11.36%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (11.36%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (11.36%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (56.82%) NoSQL
2 11 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (11.36%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 4 (9.09%) MySQL
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (75.00%) JUnit
2 31 (70.45%) Mockito
3 23 (52.27%) IntelliJ
4 22 (50.00%) Eclipse
4 22 (50.00%) Jasmine
4 22 (50.00%) Karma Test Runner
4 22 (50.00%) Protractor
5 12 (27.27%) Git
6 11 (25.00%) Maven
7 10 (22.73%) Jenkins
8 8 (18.18%) SonarQube
9 5 (11.36%) DbUnit
9 5 (11.36%) jMock
10 4 (9.09%) Gradle
11 3 (6.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (4.55%) GitLab
12 2 (4.55%) JIRA
12 2 (4.55%) SoapUI
12 2 (4.55%) Subversion
12 2 (4.55%) Xcode
General
1 6 (13.64%) Banking
1 6 (13.64%) Finance
2 5 (11.36%) Law
2 5 (11.36%) Police
2 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Back Office
4 1 (2.27%) Front Office
4 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (88.64%) Developer
1 39 (88.64%) Java Developer
2 19 (43.18%) SaaS Developer
3 17 (38.64%) Backend Developer
4 4 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 4 (9.09%) Graduate
4 4 (9.09%) Graduate Developer
4 4 (9.09%) Graduate Java Developer
5 3 (6.82%) Java Software Developer
5 3 (6.82%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Senior
6 2 (4.55%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (2.27%) Angular Developer
7 1 (2.27%) AWS Developer
7 1 (2.27%) Junior
7 1 (2.27%) Junior Developer
7 1 (2.27%) Junior Java Developer
7 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (79.55%) Hibernate
2 27 (61.36%) AngularJS
3 26 (59.09%) React
4 24 (54.55%) RabbitMQ
5 17 (38.64%) Spring
6 13 (29.55%) REST
7 11 (25.00%) Spring Boot
8 9 (20.45%) RESTful
9 8 (18.18%) SOAP
9 8 (18.18%) Spring Cloud
10 7 (15.91%) J2EE
10 7 (15.91%) Web Services
11 6 (13.64%) Middleware
12 5 (11.36%) ActiveMQ
12 5 (11.36%) GWT
12 5 (11.36%) PowerMock
12 5 (11.36%) Vaadin
13 4 (9.09%) Kafka
13 4 (9.09%) Spring MVC
14 3 (6.82%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 7 (15.91%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (11.36%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.27%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 29 (65.91%) Linux
2 5 (11.36%) Rocky
3 2 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (79.55%) Agile
1 35 (79.55%) Microservices
2 28 (63.64%) Containerisation
3 26 (59.09%) Unit Testing
4 8 (18.18%) SDLC
5 7 (15.91%) Scrum
5 7 (15.91%) TDD
6 5 (11.36%) BDD
6 5 (11.36%) BPMN
6 5 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (11.36%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (11.36%) Front End Development
6 5 (11.36%) Kanban
6 5 (11.36%) Migration
6 5 (11.36%) Open Source
6 5 (11.36%) Requirements Analysis
7 4 (9.09%) CI/CD
7 4 (9.09%) DevOps
7 4 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 44 (100.00%) Java
2 38 (86.36%) SQL
3 3 (6.82%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.55%) Groovy
4 2 (4.55%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.27%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.36%) Degree
2 5 (11.36%) DV Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) QA
System Software
1 32 (72.73%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Postfix
3 1 (2.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 10 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.27%) Argo
2 1 (2.27%) Grafana
2 1 (2.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 23 (52.27%) IBM
2 5 (11.36%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.82%) Google
3 3 (6.82%) Splunk
4 2 (4.55%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (4.55%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.55%) Oracle