Java Persistence API (JPA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring JPA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 710 377 813
Rank change year-on-year -333 +436 -21
Permanent jobs citing JPA 29 310 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.031% 0.70% 0.093%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.31% 3.55% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 15 42 36
10th Percentile £42,500 £32,750 £51,000
25th Percentile £46,125 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,250 £73,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% -22.58% +40.91%

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 9,475 8,737 21,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.23% 19.74% 19.95%
Number of salaries quoted 7,044 5,718 16,250
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,150 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

JPA
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JPA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

JPA job vacancy trend in the UK

JPA
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JPA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JPA

JPA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JPA over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

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 12 June 2026. 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 -269 23 £57,500 -4.17% 7
UK excluding London -293 23 £57,500 -4.17% 9
South East -33 9 £83,750 +15.52% 2
Work from Home -218 7 £57,500 -4.17% 6
London -32 5 £48,000 -30.18% 3
North of England -135 5 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Scotland -47 3 £65,000 - 1
South West -62 3 - - 1
Wales - 3 £57,500 - 2
Yorkshire -37 2 - -
West Midlands -66 2 £40,750 -32.08% 2
North West -84 2 £51,000 - 1
Midlands -104 2 £40,750 -32.08% 2
North East -41 1 £55,000 -

JPA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.90%) Apache
1 2 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (58.62%) AWS
2 11 (37.93%) Azure
3 8 (27.59%) Serverless
4 7 (24.14%) GCP
5 6 (20.69%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (20.69%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (13.79%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (13.79%) GitHub
6 4 (13.79%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (10.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (37.93%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (27.59%) NoSQL
3 7 (24.14%) Relational Database
4 5 (17.24%) MySQL
5 4 (13.79%) MongoDB
6 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
7 1 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (37.93%) Git
1 11 (37.93%) Jenkins
2 9 (31.03%) JUnit
3 7 (24.14%) Mockito
4 5 (17.24%) Maven
5 3 (10.34%) Gradle
5 3 (10.34%) JIRA
6 2 (6.90%) GitLab
6 2 (6.90%) IntelliJ
6 2 (6.90%) JMeter
7 1 (3.45%) Eclipse
7 1 (3.45%) git-flow
7 1 (3.45%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (3.45%) Postman
7 1 (3.45%) Selenium
7 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
7 1 (3.45%) Subversion
General
1 7 (24.14%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.90%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Law
5 1 (3.45%) Games
5 1 (3.45%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 22 (75.86%) Developer
2 17 (58.62%) Java Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Backend Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Lead
4 4 (13.79%) Senior
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Java Software Developer
7 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (93.10%) Spring
2 26 (89.66%) Spring Boot
3 21 (72.41%) Hibernate
4 18 (62.07%) RESTful
5 9 (31.03%) Kafka
5 9 (31.03%) React
5 9 (31.03%) REST
6 8 (27.59%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (24.14%) Web Services
8 6 (20.69%) AngularJS
8 6 (20.69%) Java EE
9 5 (17.24%) HTML
9 5 (17.24%) WireMock
10 4 (13.79%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (13.79%) JMS
10 4 (13.79%) OpenAPI
10 4 (13.79%) Swagger
11 3 (10.34%) HTML5
11 3 (10.34%) Spring MVC
12 2 (6.90%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Cloud Native
2 5 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (13.79%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (13.79%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.45%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (72.41%) DevOps
2 20 (68.97%) CI/CD
2 20 (68.97%) Microservices
3 19 (65.52%) Agile
4 16 (55.17%) TDD
5 12 (41.38%) Containerisation
6 11 (37.93%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (31.03%) Scrum
8 8 (27.59%) BDD
8 8 (27.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (27.59%) Mentoring
8 8 (27.59%) Test Automation
9 7 (24.14%) API Design
9 7 (24.14%) Domain-Driven Design
10 6 (20.69%) Code Quality
10 6 (20.69%) Design Patterns
10 6 (20.69%) Kanban
11 5 (17.24%) Event-Driven
12 4 (13.79%) Clean Code
12 4 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (31.03%) SQL
3 7 (24.14%) JavaScript
4 6 (20.69%) Python
5 4 (13.79%) PL/SQL
6 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.45%) Groovy
7 1 (3.45%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.45%) Ruby
7 1 (3.45%) Scala
7 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 20 (68.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (68.97%) Kubernetes
2 6 (20.69%) Kibana
3 5 (17.24%) Terraform
4 4 (13.79%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) AppDynamics
1 4 (13.79%) IBM
1 4 (13.79%) Oracle
2 3 (10.34%) Dynatrace
2 3 (10.34%) Salesforce
2 3 (10.34%) Splunk
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Veracode