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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 754 779 825
Rank change year-on-year +25 +46 -148
Permanent jobs citing JPA 142 191 429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.18% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.68% 0.60% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 34 125 117
10th Percentile £51,000 £37,500 £47,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £61,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.80% -12.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £78,563 £86,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £103,750 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £53,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +30.23% +7.50% -13.04%

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 20,974 31,729 61,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.39% 30.32% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,673 19,469 30,328
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,600 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for JPA in the UK

JPA
Top 14 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 27 April 2024. 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 +3 111 £70,000 +30.23% 1
Scotland -3 83 £70,000 +27.27% 1
England +28 52 £72,500 +7.41% 10
London +97 30 £72,500 -17.14% 10
Work from Home +11 12 £71,250 +5.56% 4
North of England +42 8 - -
South West +3 7 £77,500 +29.17%
South East +33 6 £50,000 -42.86%
North West +5 5 - -
Yorkshire +95 3 - -
Northern Ireland +11 3 - -
Wales +13 2 - -
Midlands -34 2 - -
East Midlands -47 2 - -

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 28 (19.72%) JBoss
1 28 (19.72%) Red Hat Fuse
2 21 (14.79%) GemFire
3 16 (11.27%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (11.27%) Apache Spark
4 7 (4.93%) Confluence
5 5 (3.52%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.41%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.41%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 46 (32.39%) AWS
2 21 (14.79%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (4.93%) Amazon MSK
3 7 (4.93%) Datadog
4 5 (3.52%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (2.82%) Serverless
6 3 (2.11%) Azure
7 1 (0.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.11%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.41%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (22.54%) NoSQL
2 22 (15.49%) Apache Cassandra
3 21 (14.79%) CockroachDB
3 21 (14.79%) Hazelcast
4 19 (13.38%) MySQL
5 16 (11.27%) Apache Hive
5 16 (11.27%) Hadoop
5 16 (11.27%) HBase
6 10 (7.04%) MongoDB
7 8 (5.63%) Relational Database
8 5 (3.52%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (2.82%) Oracle Database
10 3 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.11%) Big Data
10 3 (2.11%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.70%) DB2
12 1 (0.70%) GIS
12 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (19.72%) IntelliJ
2 21 (14.79%) Jaeger
3 9 (6.34%) JIRA
4 8 (5.63%) Git
4 8 (5.63%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.23%) Cucumber
5 6 (4.23%) JUnit
6 5 (3.52%) Maven
7 3 (2.11%) JHipster
8 2 (1.41%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.70%) GitLab
9 1 (0.70%) Mockito
9 1 (0.70%) Travis CI
General
1 87 (61.27%) Finance
2 76 (53.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 74 (52.11%) Law
4 34 (23.94%) Banking
4 34 (23.94%) Investment Banking
5 33 (23.24%) Public Sector
6 18 (12.68%) Financial Institution
7 16 (11.27%) Legal
7 16 (11.27%) Marketing
8 9 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.82%) Tech for Good
10 3 (2.11%) Social Skills
11 2 (1.41%) Back Office
11 2 (1.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 107 (75.35%) Software Engineer
2 87 (61.27%) Java Engineer
2 87 (61.27%) Java Software Engineer
3 38 (26.76%) Lead
4 37 (26.06%) Senior
5 35 (24.65%) Lead Software Engineer
6 31 (21.83%) Senior Software Engineer
7 30 (21.13%) Developer
7 30 (21.13%) Senior Java Engineer
7 30 (21.13%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 28 (19.72%) Lead Java Engineer
9 22 (15.49%) Full Stack Engineer
9 22 (15.49%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 22 (15.49%) Java Developer
10 13 (9.15%) Python Engineer
10 13 (9.15%) Python Software Engineer
11 8 (5.63%) Full Stack Developer
12 6 (4.23%) Senior Developer
12 6 (4.23%) Senior Java Developer
13 3 (2.11%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (97.89%) Spring
2 100 (70.42%) REST
3 70 (49.30%) Spring Boot
4 65 (45.77%) Hibernate
5 64 (45.07%) AngularJS
6 48 (33.80%) RESTful
7 40 (28.17%) XML
8 39 (27.46%) React
8 39 (27.46%) SOAP
9 38 (26.76%) Kafka
10 37 (26.06%) Java EE
11 36 (25.35%) Web Services
12 31 (21.83%) JSON
13 28 (19.72%) XSD
14 21 (14.79%) OpenTelemetry
15 19 (13.38%) CSS
16 18 (12.68%) HTML
17 8 (5.63%) JDBC
18 5 (3.52%) J2EE
18 5 (3.52%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.61%) Cloud Native
2 21 (14.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 21 (14.79%) Replication
3 13 (9.15%) Algorithms
3 13 (9.15%) Public Cloud
4 7 (4.93%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (4.93%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.52%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.11%) Kindle
7 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.41%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (16.20%) Unix
2 6 (4.23%) Linux
3 2 (1.41%) AIX
3 2 (1.41%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (83.80%) Agile
2 109 (76.76%) Software Engineering
3 76 (53.52%) Microservices
4 74 (52.11%) Operational Stability
4 74 (52.11%) SDLC
5 70 (49.30%) CI/CD
6 48 (33.80%) Full Stack Development
7 46 (32.39%) Machine Learning
7 46 (32.39%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (31.69%) Artificial Intelligence
8 45 (31.69%) Community of Practice
9 32 (22.54%) Mentoring
10 30 (21.13%) Actionable Insight
11 29 (20.42%) Continuous Delivery
11 29 (20.42%) Decision-Making
11 29 (20.42%) Front End Development
11 29 (20.42%) User Experience
12 28 (19.72%) Collaborative Working
12 28 (19.72%) Data Design
12 28 (19.72%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 142 (100.00%) Java
2 65 (45.77%) SQL
3 25 (17.61%) Python
4 21 (14.79%) Groovy
5 13 (9.15%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.63%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.93%) Scala
8 3 (2.11%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.41%) C#
9 2 (1.41%) Perl
9 2 (1.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (22.54%) SC Cleared
1 32 (22.54%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (8.45%) Degree
3 5 (3.52%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.15%) Accessibility
2 9 (6.34%) QA
3 5 (3.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (11.27%) HDFS
2 13 (9.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (14.79%) Grafana
1 21 (14.79%) HAProxy
1 21 (14.79%) ITRS Geneos
1 21 (14.79%) Kibana
1 21 (14.79%) Prometheus
1 21 (14.79%) Zipkin
2 16 (11.27%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.41%) Ansible
3 2 (1.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (22.54%) Splunk
2 24 (16.90%) Dynatrace
3 22 (15.49%) Oracle
4 16 (11.27%) Cloudera
4 16 (11.27%) Databricks
5 3 (2.11%) Apple
6 2 (1.41%) IBM