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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 797 778 827
Rank change year-on-year -19 +49 -140
Permanent jobs citing JPA 110 170 467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.18% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.51% 0.62% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 35 85 111
10th Percentile £51,000 £38,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -16.13% +14.81%
75th Percentile £77,750 £88,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £103,750 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +40.91% +10.00% -9.09%

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 21,541 27,618 70,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.52% 29.18% 41.54%
Number of salaries quoted 16,014 17,838 29,844
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 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +4.65% +17.27%
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 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for JPA in the UK

JPA
Top 7 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 1 June 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 -55 82 £77,500 +40.91% 5
Scotland -15 74 £73,750 +34.09% 1
England -38 36 £70,000 - 17
London +81 29 £70,000 -17.65% 13
Work from Home -55 11 £71,250 +9.62% 6
South East -6 4 £50,000 -42.86%
South West -27 4 £77,500 +29.17% 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 (19.09%) GemFire
2 14 (12.73%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (12.73%) Apache Spark
3 7 (6.36%) Confluence
4 5 (4.55%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.82%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.82%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 43 (39.09%) AWS
2 19 (17.27%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (6.36%) Amazon MSK
3 7 (6.36%) Datadog
4 5 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (3.64%) Serverless
6 3 (2.73%) Azure
7 1 (0.91%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.73%) Bluetooth
1 3 (2.73%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (28.18%) NoSQL
2 22 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 21 (19.09%) CockroachDB
3 21 (19.09%) Hazelcast
4 18 (16.36%) MySQL
5 14 (12.73%) Apache Hive
5 14 (12.73%) Hadoop
5 14 (12.73%) HBase
6 10 (9.09%) Relational Database
7 8 (7.27%) MongoDB
8 5 (4.55%) Big Data
9 4 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.73%) Oracle Database
10 3 (2.73%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.91%) GIS
Development Applications
1 21 (19.09%) Jaeger
2 10 (9.09%) JIRA
3 7 (6.36%) Cucumber
3 7 (6.36%) Git
3 7 (6.36%) JUnit
4 5 (4.55%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.73%) JHipster
5 3 (2.73%) Maven
6 2 (1.82%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.91%) Mockito
General
1 81 (73.64%) Finance
2 72 (65.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 70 (63.64%) Law
4 33 (30.00%) Banking
4 33 (30.00%) Investment Banking
5 14 (12.73%) Financial Institution
5 14 (12.73%) Legal
5 14 (12.73%) Marketing
6 10 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.64%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.64%) Social Skills
8 3 (2.73%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.82%) Police
10 1 (0.91%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 77 (70.00%) Software Engineer
2 55 (50.00%) Java Engineer
2 55 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 38 (34.55%) Lead
4 35 (31.82%) Lead Software Engineer
5 28 (25.45%) Developer
5 28 (25.45%) Lead Java Engineer
6 20 (18.18%) Full Stack Engineer
6 20 (18.18%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 20 (18.18%) Java Developer
7 13 (11.82%) Senior
8 11 (10.00%) Python Engineer
8 11 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
9 9 (8.18%) Full Stack Developer
10 8 (7.27%) Senior Developer
10 8 (7.27%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (2.73%) Architect
12 3 (2.73%) Lead Developer
12 3 (2.73%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (98.18%) Spring
2 68 (61.82%) REST
2 68 (61.82%) Spring Boot
3 39 (35.45%) Kafka
4 36 (32.73%) React
5 35 (31.82%) Hibernate
6 31 (28.18%) AngularJS
7 21 (19.09%) OpenTelemetry
8 19 (17.27%) RESTful
9 17 (15.45%) CSS
10 16 (14.55%) HTML
11 13 (11.82%) XML
12 12 (10.91%) SOAP
13 9 (8.18%) Java EE
13 9 (8.18%) Web Services
14 8 (7.27%) JDBC
15 6 (5.45%) gRPC
15 6 (5.45%) J2EE
16 5 (4.55%) Flutter
16 5 (4.55%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 25 (22.73%) Cloud Native
2 21 (19.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 21 (19.09%) Replication
3 14 (12.73%) Algorithms
4 11 (10.00%) Public Cloud
5 7 (6.36%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (6.36%) Virtual Team
6 5 (4.55%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.73%) Kindle
7 3 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.00%) Unix
2 5 (4.55%) Linux
3 2 (1.82%) AIX
3 2 (1.82%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (80.91%) Agile
2 79 (71.82%) Software Engineering
3 73 (66.36%) Microservices
4 72 (65.45%) SDLC
5 70 (63.64%) Operational Stability
6 64 (58.18%) CI/CD
7 47 (42.73%) Full Stack Development
8 45 (40.91%) Community of Practice
9 42 (38.18%) Machine Learning
10 41 (37.27%) Artificial Intelligence
11 29 (26.36%) Continuous Delivery
12 27 (24.55%) Architectural Design
13 25 (22.73%) Decision-Making
14 24 (21.82%) Information Architecture
15 21 (19.09%) Content Management
15 21 (19.09%) Data Modelling
16 20 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
17 18 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
18 16 (14.55%) Coaching
19 14 (12.73%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 110 (100.00%) Java
2 60 (54.55%) SQL
3 24 (21.82%) Python
4 21 (19.09%) Groovy
5 11 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 7 (6.36%) Scala
7 6 (5.45%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.73%) Perl
9 2 (1.82%) C#
9 2 (1.82%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.82%) Ruby
10 1 (0.91%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 10 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (9.09%) Degree
2 5 (4.55%) Postgraduate
3 4 (3.64%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 10 (9.09%) QA
3 5 (4.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (15.45%) Docker
2 14 (12.73%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (19.09%) Grafana
1 21 (19.09%) HAProxy
1 21 (19.09%) ITRS Geneos
1 21 (19.09%) Kibana
1 21 (19.09%) Prometheus
1 21 (19.09%) Zipkin
2 17 (15.45%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.82%) Ansible
3 2 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (29.09%) Splunk
2 24 (21.82%) Dynatrace
3 21 (19.09%) Oracle
4 14 (12.73%) Cloudera
4 14 (12.73%) Databricks
5 3 (2.73%) Apple
6 2 (1.82%) IBM