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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 775 805 811
Rank change year-on-year +30 +6 -120
Permanent jobs citing JPA 121 170 451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.17% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.58% 0.56% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 30 102 122
10th Percentile £51,000 £37,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% -13.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £76,938 £85,938 £100,000
90th Percentile £81,000 £103,750 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +49.04% +4.00% -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 21,036 30,236 65,356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.24% 30.13% 40.89%
Number of salaries quoted 15,734 18,665 30,089
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +6.30% +15.45%
75th Percentile £78,750 £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 14 May 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 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -20 96 £77,500 +49.04%
Scotland +4 80 £73,750 +34.09%
England 0 38 £71,250 +5.56% 10
London +87 25 £70,000 -17.65% 9
Work from Home -9 11 £71,250 +5.56% 4
South East +9 5 £50,000 -42.86%
South West -22 5 £77,500 +29.17%
North of England +21 3 - -
North West -5 2 - -
Yorkshire +88 1 - -
Wales +13 1 - -
Northern Ireland +6 1 - -
Midlands -23 1 - -
East Midlands -37 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 21 (17.36%) GemFire
2 16 (13.22%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (13.22%) Apache Spark
3 12 (9.92%) JBoss
3 12 (9.92%) Red Hat Fuse
4 7 (5.79%) Confluence
5 5 (4.13%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.65%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.65%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 43 (35.54%) AWS
2 21 (17.36%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (5.79%) Amazon MSK
3 7 (5.79%) Datadog
4 5 (4.13%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (3.31%) Serverless
6 3 (2.48%) Azure
7 1 (0.83%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.48%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.65%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (25.62%) NoSQL
2 22 (18.18%) Apache Cassandra
3 21 (17.36%) CockroachDB
3 21 (17.36%) Hazelcast
4 18 (14.88%) MySQL
5 16 (13.22%) Apache Hive
5 16 (13.22%) Hadoop
5 16 (13.22%) HBase
6 8 (6.61%) MongoDB
6 8 (6.61%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.48%) Big Data
8 3 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.48%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.48%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.65%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.83%) GIS
Development Applications
1 21 (17.36%) Jaeger
2 12 (9.92%) IntelliJ
3 9 (7.44%) JIRA
4 7 (5.79%) Git
5 6 (4.96%) Cucumber
5 6 (4.96%) JUnit
6 5 (4.13%) Jenkins
7 3 (2.48%) JHipster
7 3 (2.48%) Maven
8 2 (1.65%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.83%) Mockito
General
1 84 (69.42%) Finance
2 76 (62.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 74 (61.16%) Law
4 34 (28.10%) Banking
4 34 (28.10%) Investment Banking
5 16 (13.22%) Financial Institution
5 16 (13.22%) Legal
5 16 (13.22%) Marketing
5 16 (13.22%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.48%) Social Skills
8 2 (1.65%) Police
8 2 (1.65%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 92 (76.03%) Software Engineer
2 71 (58.68%) Java Engineer
2 71 (58.68%) Java Software Engineer
3 38 (31.40%) Lead
4 35 (28.93%) Lead Software Engineer
5 28 (23.14%) Lead Java Engineer
6 24 (19.83%) Developer
7 22 (18.18%) Full Stack Engineer
7 22 (18.18%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 22 (18.18%) Senior
8 16 (13.22%) Java Developer
8 16 (13.22%) Senior Software Engineer
9 14 (11.57%) Senior Java Engineer
9 14 (11.57%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 13 (10.74%) Python Engineer
10 13 (10.74%) Python Software Engineer
11 8 (6.61%) Full Stack Developer
12 6 (4.96%) Senior Developer
12 6 (4.96%) Senior Java Developer
13 3 (2.48%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (98.35%) Spring
2 83 (68.60%) REST
3 66 (54.55%) Spring Boot
4 45 (37.19%) AngularJS
5 43 (35.54%) Hibernate
6 38 (31.40%) React
7 37 (30.58%) Kafka
8 29 (23.97%) RESTful
9 24 (19.83%) XML
10 23 (19.01%) SOAP
11 21 (17.36%) Java EE
11 21 (17.36%) OpenTelemetry
12 20 (16.53%) Web Services
13 19 (15.70%) CSS
14 18 (14.88%) HTML
15 15 (12.40%) JSON
16 12 (9.92%) XSD
17 8 (6.61%) JDBC
18 5 (4.13%) J2EE
18 5 (4.13%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.66%) Cloud Native
2 21 (17.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 21 (17.36%) Replication
3 13 (10.74%) Algorithms
3 13 (10.74%) Public Cloud
4 7 (5.79%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (5.79%) Virtual Team
5 5 (4.13%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.48%) Kindle
7 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (19.01%) Unix
2 4 (3.31%) Linux
3 2 (1.65%) AIX
3 2 (1.65%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (84.30%) Agile
2 94 (77.69%) Software Engineering
3 74 (61.16%) Operational Stability
4 73 (60.33%) Microservices
4 73 (60.33%) SDLC
5 68 (56.20%) CI/CD
6 48 (39.67%) Full Stack Development
7 46 (38.02%) Machine Learning
8 45 (37.19%) Artificial Intelligence
8 45 (37.19%) Community of Practice
9 29 (23.97%) Continuous Delivery
9 29 (23.97%) Decision-Making
10 27 (22.31%) Architectural Design
10 27 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (19.83%) Information Architecture
12 21 (17.36%) Content Management
12 21 (17.36%) Data Modelling
13 20 (16.53%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (14.88%) Coaching
15 16 (13.22%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 121 (100.00%) Java
2 61 (50.41%) SQL
3 25 (20.66%) Python
4 21 (17.36%) Groovy
5 13 (10.74%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.79%) Scala
7 6 (4.96%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.65%) C#
8 2 (1.65%) Perl
8 2 (1.65%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (13.22%) SC Cleared
1 16 (13.22%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (8.26%) Degree
3 5 (4.13%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.74%) Accessibility
2 9 (7.44%) QA
3 5 (4.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (13.22%) HDFS
2 14 (11.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (17.36%) Grafana
1 21 (17.36%) HAProxy
1 21 (17.36%) ITRS Geneos
1 21 (17.36%) Kibana
1 21 (17.36%) Prometheus
1 21 (17.36%) Zipkin
2 15 (12.40%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.65%) Ansible
3 2 (1.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (26.45%) Splunk
2 24 (19.83%) Dynatrace
3 21 (17.36%) Oracle
4 16 (13.22%) Cloudera
4 16 (13.22%) Databricks
5 3 (2.48%) Apple
6 2 (1.65%) IBM