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

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 756 803
Rank change year-on-year +315 +47 +6
Permanent jobs citing JPA 296 122 172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.12% 0.58% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 39 30 104
10th Percentile £30,500 £51,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £71,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +9.62% -13.33%
75th Percentile £62,843 £76,938 £86,250
90th Percentile £73,150 £81,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £77,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year -22.58% +49.04% +4.00%

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 9,497 21,024 30,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.24% 21.23% 30.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,223 15,725 18,834
10th Percentile £37,733 £36,250 £40,775
25th Percentile £50,300 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £87,500 £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 14 May 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 14 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
UK excluding London +348 288 £60,000 -22.58% 35
Work from Home +349 282 £60,000 -15.79% 31
England +339 244 £60,000 -15.79% 39
North of England +158 113 £60,000 - 4
North West +100 109 - - 1
Midlands +150 90 £60,000 - 6
Scotland +90 52 - - 6
East Midlands +80 49 £60,000 - 1
West Midlands - 41 £60,000 - 5
South East +113 17 £60,000 +20.00% 14
East of England - 15 - -
London +96 8 £65,000 -7.14% 15
South West +105 3 £57,443 -25.88% 4
North East - 3 - - 2
Yorkshire +75 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
1 159 (53.72%) Confluence
2 2 (0.68%) Apache
3 1 (0.34%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.34%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 286 (96.62%) AWS
2 277 (93.58%) Azure
3 163 (55.07%) GCP
4 22 (7.43%) SaaS
5 8 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (2.36%) AWS KMS
7 6 (2.03%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (1.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.34%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (83.45%) SQL Server
2 26 (8.78%) NoSQL
3 15 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (2.36%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (1.69%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.35%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.35%) MySQL
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 262 (88.51%) Maven
2 258 (87.16%) SonarQube
3 251 (84.80%) JIRA
4 249 (84.12%) GitLab
5 248 (83.78%) Cucumber
6 247 (83.45%) Bitbucket
6 247 (83.45%) Selenium
6 247 (83.45%) Sonatype Nexus
7 37 (12.50%) JUnit
8 34 (11.49%) Mockito
9 23 (7.77%) IntelliJ
10 22 (7.43%) Eclipse
10 22 (7.43%) Jasmine
10 22 (7.43%) Karma Test Runner
10 22 (7.43%) Protractor
11 15 (5.07%) Git
12 14 (4.73%) Jenkins
13 7 (2.36%) DbUnit
13 7 (2.36%) jMock
14 6 (2.03%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 253 (85.47%) Banking
1 253 (85.47%) Finance
2 247 (83.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 91 (30.74%) Investment Banking
4 90 (30.41%) Corporate Banking
4 90 (30.41%) Retail
5 8 (2.70%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.69%) Law
6 5 (1.69%) Police
7 4 (1.35%) Social Skills
8 3 (1.01%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.34%) Back Office
9 1 (0.34%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 250 (84.46%) Software Engineer
2 44 (14.86%) Developer
2 44 (14.86%) Java Developer
3 19 (6.42%) SaaS Developer
4 17 (5.74%) Backend Developer
5 4 (1.35%) Graduate
5 4 (1.35%) Graduate Developer
5 4 (1.35%) Graduate Java Developer
5 4 (1.35%) Lead
5 4 (1.35%) Lead Developer
5 4 (1.35%) Lead Java Developer
5 4 (1.35%) Senior
5 4 (1.35%) Senior Developer
5 4 (1.35%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (1.01%) Java Software Developer
7 2 (0.68%) AWS Developer
7 2 (0.68%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 1 (0.34%) Angular Developer
8 1 (0.34%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (0.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 273 (92.23%) React
2 269 (90.88%) Spring
3 266 (89.86%) Spring Boot
4 251 (84.80%) Kafka
5 250 (84.46%) HTML
6 249 (84.12%) CSS
7 247 (83.45%) Redux
8 195 (65.88%) Hibernate
9 105 (35.47%) REST
10 102 (34.46%) RESTful
11 92 (31.08%) CSS3
11 92 (31.08%) HTML5
12 90 (30.41%) Jest
12 90 (30.41%) Sass
13 34 (11.49%) AngularJS
14 24 (8.11%) RabbitMQ
15 12 (4.05%) SOAP
16 10 (3.38%) Web Services
17 9 (3.04%) ActiveMQ
17 9 (3.04%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 247 (83.45%) Enterprise Software
1 247 (83.45%) Product Ownership
2 22 (7.43%) Algorithms
3 7 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (1.69%) Mobile App
5 2 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.34%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.49%) Linux
2 5 (1.69%) Rocky
3 2 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (96.96%) Agile
1 287 (96.96%) Microservices
2 281 (94.93%) Containerisation
3 255 (86.15%) SDLC
4 254 (85.81%) DevOps
5 253 (85.47%) CI/CD
6 252 (85.14%) Front End Development
7 250 (84.46%) Software Engineering
8 249 (84.12%) Test Automation
9 248 (83.78%) Full-Stack Development
10 247 (83.45%) Performance Optimisation
11 169 (57.09%) TDD
12 163 (55.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 158 (53.38%) Clean Code
14 92 (31.08%) Mentoring
14 92 (31.08%) Migration
15 91 (30.74%) User Experience
16 90 (30.41%) Responsive Web Design
16 90 (30.41%) Strategic Thinking
17 27 (9.12%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 296 (100.00%) Java
2 287 (96.96%) SQL
3 250 (84.46%) JavaScript
4 90 (30.41%) TypeScript
5 2 (0.68%) Groovy
5 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.34%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (3.72%) Security Cleared
2 6 (2.03%) SC Cleared
3 5 (1.69%) Degree
3 5 (1.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (84.46%) QA
2 90 (30.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 287 (96.96%) Docker
2 4 (1.35%) Postfix
3 1 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 258 (87.16%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.35%) Grafana
3 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.34%) Argo
4 1 (0.34%) Istio
Vendors
1 247 (83.45%) Solace
2 23 (7.77%) IBM
3 5 (1.69%) Atlassian
3 5 (1.69%) Red Hat
4 4 (1.35%) Jaspersoft
5 3 (1.01%) Google
5 3 (1.01%) Splunk
6 2 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (0.68%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle