JPA Contracts in England

Java Persistence API (JPA)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for JPA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JPA over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 451 537 565
Rank change year-on-year +86 +28 -20
Contract jobs citing JPA 80 103 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.21% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.06% 0.93% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 72 150
10th Percentile £375 £433 £388
25th Percentile £503 £452 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £478
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +9.95% -4.50%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £608
90th Percentile £850 £677 £688
UK median daily rate £533 £523 £488
% change year-on-year +2.01% +7.18% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile - - £61.63
Median hourly rate £45.88 - £63.25
75th Percentile - - £66.50
90th Percentile - - £68.30
UK median hourly rate £45.88 - £63.25
% change year-on-year - - +58.13%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

JPA is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,516 11,029 18,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.63% 22.89% 26.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,339 8,195 14,181
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £570
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -1.75% +14.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 127 212
10th Percentile £22.42 £25.75 £22.75
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.65 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £65.95 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £76.96
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

JPA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing JPA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for JPA in England

JPA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JPA in England.

Daily rate trend for JPA in England

JPA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JPA in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JPA in England

JPA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JPA in England.

Hourly rate trend for JPA in England

JPA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JPA within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +89 53 £550 -8.33% 15
North of England +40 23 £525 +17.98%
North West +22 17 £525 +17.98%
Yorkshire - 6 £550 -
South West +6 3 £400 -23.81%
East of England 0 1 £395 +5.33%
JPA
UK

JPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (23.75%) AWS
2 5 (6.25%) Amazon MSK
2 5 (6.25%) Amazon S3
2 5 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (3.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (1.25%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.75%) SSH
2 3 (3.75%) HTTP
2 3 (3.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (27.50%) PostgreSQL
1 22 (27.50%) Relational Database
2 16 (20.00%) Oracle Database
3 7 (8.75%) Apache Cassandra
3 7 (8.75%) NoSQL
4 6 (7.50%) MySQL
5 5 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (5.00%) Redis
7 3 (3.75%) CockroachDB
8 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (38.75%) JUnit
2 30 (37.50%) Git
3 21 (26.25%) JIRA
4 15 (18.75%) Jenkins
5 8 (10.00%) Cucumber
5 8 (10.00%) Maven
6 7 (8.75%) Liquibase
7 5 (6.25%) Mockito
8 4 (5.00%) Gatling
8 4 (5.00%) ScalaTest
9 3 (3.75%) Bitbucket
9 3 (3.75%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (2.50%) Artifactory
10 2 (2.50%) GitLab
11 1 (1.25%) Gradle
11 1 (1.25%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (1.25%) NeoLoad
11 1 (1.25%) Postman
11 1 (1.25%) Serenity BDD
11 1 (1.25%) SoapUI
General
1 22 (27.50%) Public Sector
2 14 (17.50%) Banking
3 13 (16.25%) Finance
4 7 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.75%) Social Skills
5 5 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.75%) Front Office
6 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 72 (90.00%) Developer
2 57 (71.25%) Java Developer
3 12 (15.00%) Oracle Developer
4 11 (13.75%) DBA
4 11 (13.75%) Oracle DBA
5 10 (12.50%) SQL Developer
6 9 (11.25%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 8 (10.00%) Lead
7 8 (10.00%) Lead Developer
7 8 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
8 7 (8.75%) SQL DBA
9 6 (7.50%) Full Stack Developer
9 6 (7.50%) Junior
9 6 (7.50%) Junior Developer
9 6 (7.50%) Junior Java Developer
10 4 (5.00%) Core Java Developer
10 4 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) MySQL DBA
10 4 (5.00%) MySQL Developer
10 4 (5.00%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (86.25%) Spring
2 68 (85.00%) Hibernate
3 55 (68.75%) Spring Boot
4 51 (63.75%) REST
5 26 (32.50%) React
6 17 (21.25%) Spring Security
7 11 (13.75%) Web Services
8 9 (11.25%) JSON
8 9 (11.25%) XML
9 7 (8.75%) J2EE
9 7 (8.75%) SOAP
10 6 (7.50%) Spring MVC
11 5 (6.25%) JDBC
12 4 (5.00%) Akka
12 4 (5.00%) CSS
12 4 (5.00%) HTML
12 4 (5.00%) Play Framework
12 4 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (5.00%) RESTful
12 4 (5.00%) spray
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 14 (17.50%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (8.75%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (5.00%) Credit Derivative
5 3 (3.75%) Derivative
6 2 (2.50%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.25%) Linux
2 11 (13.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (70.00%) Agile
2 45 (56.25%) Microservices
3 40 (50.00%) Scrum
4 33 (41.25%) Front End Development
5 31 (38.75%) DevOps
6 30 (37.50%) CI/CD
6 30 (37.50%) High Availability
6 30 (37.50%) Unit Testing
7 26 (32.50%) Mentoring
8 22 (27.50%) SDLC
8 22 (27.50%) Software Engineering
8 22 (27.50%) TDD
9 18 (22.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 17 (21.25%) Observability
11 16 (20.00%) BDD
12 14 (17.50%) Software Architecture
13 13 (16.25%) Continuous Integration
13 13 (16.25%) Release Management
14 11 (13.75%) Acceptance Criteria
14 11 (13.75%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 80 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (33.75%) SQL
3 24 (30.00%) TypeScript
4 6 (7.50%) PL/SQL
5 5 (6.25%) Perl
5 5 (6.25%) Python
6 4 (5.00%) Scala
7 3 (3.75%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 45 (56.25%) SC Cleared
1 45 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 18 (22.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) QA
System Software
1 26 (32.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (36.25%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.75%) Grafana
3 4 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.75%) Ansible
5 2 (2.50%) Istio
6 1 (1.25%) Kibana
6 1 (1.25%) logstash
Vendors
1 20 (25.00%) Oracle
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.50%) IBM
4 1 (1.25%) Atlassian