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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 748 627 946
Rank change year-on-year -121 +319 -109
Permanent jobs citing JPA 30 137 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.23% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% 0.86% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 18 45 131
10th Percentile £52,125 £48,800 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,375 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -18.75% +23.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +13.64% -8.33%

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 14,339 15,963 49,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.95% 26.85% 35.25%
Number of salaries quoted 8,546 12,331 25,735
10th Percentile £39,070 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,603 £50,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,351 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% +0.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,750
% change year-on-year -4.35% +3.14% +11.50%

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 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for JPA in the UK

JPA
Top 8 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 23 October 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
England -99 23 £70,000 +7.69% 7
UK excluding London -120 18 £56,250 -10.00% 6
London -18 13 £70,000 +7.69% 1
South West -7 9 - -
Northern Ireland +14 5 £57,500 -9.80%
Work from Home -16 2 - - 33
South East -23 2 £55,000 -32.31% 1
Scotland -26 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 1 (3.33%) JBoss
1 1 (3.33%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 14 (46.67%) AWS
2 4 (13.33%) Azure
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (3.33%) AWS KMS
4 1 (3.33%) Datadog
4 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (23.33%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 10 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (30.00%) RDBMS
4 3 (10.00%) Big Data
5 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.33%) MySQL
6 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (46.67%) JUnit
2 13 (43.33%) Maven
3 11 (36.67%) Jenkins
4 10 (33.33%) Git
5 9 (30.00%) Mockito
6 8 (26.67%) DbUnit
7 2 (6.67%) Bitbucket
8 1 (3.33%) Ant
8 1 (3.33%) Apache Ivy
8 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
8 1 (3.33%) JIRA
8 1 (3.33%) jMock
8 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
8 1 (3.33%) TestNG
General
1 6 (20.00%) Banking
2 4 (13.33%) Finance
2 4 (13.33%) Tech for Good
3 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.67%) Law
3 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Front Office
4 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (73.33%) Developer
1 22 (73.33%) Java Developer
2 10 (33.33%) Senior
3 6 (20.00%) IAM Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Lead
6 2 (6.67%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Lead Java Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) React Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Lead Software Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (96.67%) Spring
2 25 (83.33%) Spring Boot
3 16 (53.33%) REST
3 16 (53.33%) RESTful
4 15 (50.00%) Hibernate
5 10 (33.33%) Kafka
6 9 (30.00%) Web Services
6 9 (30.00%) XML
7 8 (26.67%) PowerMock
8 7 (23.33%) Java EE
8 7 (23.33%) LDAP
8 7 (23.33%) OAuth
8 7 (23.33%) OAuth2
8 7 (23.33%) OpenID
8 7 (23.33%) SAML
9 4 (13.33%) CSS
9 4 (13.33%) JSF
10 3 (10.00%) Apache Wicket
10 3 (10.00%) Spring MVC
10 3 (10.00%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Agile
2 12 (40.00%) Microservices
3 11 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (36.67%) TDD
4 9 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (26.67%) Code Quality
5 8 (26.67%) Software Engineering
6 7 (23.33%) E-Commerce
6 7 (23.33%) Fintech
6 7 (23.33%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (20.00%) OOP
8 5 (16.67%) Migration
8 5 (16.67%) OO
8 5 (16.67%) SDLC
9 4 (13.33%) BDD
9 4 (13.33%) Continuous Delivery
9 4 (13.33%) Sprint Retrospective
10 3 (10.00%) Product Roadmap
10 3 (10.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (60.00%) SQL
3 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (13.33%) Kotlin
4 4 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 3 (10.00%) Python
6 2 (6.67%) Bash
6 2 (6.67%) Go
7 1 (3.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) Degree
4 2 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 10 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) Ansible
2 2 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle
2 2 (6.67%) Splunk